Jewish Federation of San Diego Weighs in on Israeli Judicial Reform

On Tuesday, leaders of the Jewish Federation of San Diego issued the following statement regarding the much-discussed issue of Israeli judicial reform: Dear Friends, Our relationship with and love for the land and the people of Israel is and will always be integral to Federation’s DNA. From long before the birth of the state of […]

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The Red Band of Courage (or Cowardice) and Other Jewish Superstitions

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Pooh, Pooh, Pooh, I’m not superstitious, ken ayin ha’ra (no evil eye). But why take chances? So, of course, I observe the secular warnings: Avoid black cats and don’t walk under ladders — and, honoring the Druids, I knock on wood so as not to invoke bad karma

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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Jewish Family Service-Operated Asylum Reception Thriving in San Diego

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – San Diego has proven that humane, viable and cost-effective processes to welcome people seeking asylum in the U.S. is possible. (JFSSD), has been providing such services along the border region since 2018, following the cancellation of “safe release” by the Trump administration. “Safe release” was the long-held travel protocol to

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Film on Ethiopian Jewry’s ‘Yearning’ to be Screened in San Diego

By Sam Litvin SAN DIEGO — “They love our work, but they do not love us” says an elderly man in the high mountains of Ethiopia. He is a Jew. His family has been Jewish as far back as they can remember, and they can remember all the way to the days of Queen Sheeba

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Israel, Middle East, Sam Litvin, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Reflections on Jimmy Carter

By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — When I read the news that former President Jimmy Carter had gone into hospice, I began reflecting on his life and career. While I greatly admire his post-executive humanitarian work, Carter’s relationship with Israel and the American Jewish community is a bit more complicated. Hungry for Honesty In

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Eric George Tauber, International, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USA

Dame Helen Mirren Likens Golda Meir to Queen Elizabeth I

Published by BANG Showbiz English Dame Helen Mirren found playing Golda Meir similar to portraying Queen Elizabeth I. The Oscar-winning actress stars as the former Israeli Prime Minister in ‘Golda’ and compared the politician’s “maternal” instinct to that of the Tudor monarch, who she played in the 2005 TV miniseries ‘Elizabeth I’. Helen, 77, told

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International

US Supreme Court Spurns Challenge to Arkansas Law Against Contractors Boycotting Israel

Published by Reuters By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive a newspaper’s challenge on free speech grounds to an Arkansas law requiring state government contractors to pledge not to boycott Israel, a policy the publication’s lawyers called a threat to a constitutionally protected form of collective protest. The

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Two Mysteries for Price of One in ‘Trouble’

Hella Mauzer is a fictional former policewoman in Helsinki, who now works as a private investigator.  She is asked by her old colleagues to do a background check on a man who is under consideration to head the homicide bureau.  She agrees upon the condition that she might also review the records from 1942 in which members of her own family were killed by a hit and run truck driver. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Jewish Trivia Quiz: Jimmy Carter

By Mark D. Zimmerman The Carter Center issued a statement that following recent hospital stays by President Jimmy Carter, the 98-year-old former president “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention.” Among President Carter’s greatest accomplishments was the 1978 Camp David Accords, agreements

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Protests Continue in Israel. What’s Next?

By Ira Sharkansky   JERUSALEM — For the seventh consecutive week, as Sabbath ended, hundreds of thousands of Israelis protested what the government is proposing on judicial reform. Seeing it as politicians taking over the judicial process by increasing their control over nominations to the Supreme Court, and limiting the Court from overturning Knesset enactments.

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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion

Victory, Not Stalemate

By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Israel has not achieved a clear cut victory over its existential antagonist, the Palestinian Arabs. That’s right, NO EXISTENTIAL VICTORY yet. In fact, the last clear battlefield victory against the Palestinian Arabs was more than twenty years ago. Why existential? Because our enemy wants to erase the Jewish

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Israel, Opinion, Steve Kramer

Protesters ‘Fight for Israel’s Soul’ as Parliament Readies Judicial Overhaul

Published by Reuters By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli opposition vowed to “fight for the soul of the nation” with fresh protests as parliament prepared to hold a first reading on Monday of judicial changes promoted by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist government. Wielding 64 of the Knesset’s 120 seats, Netanyahu looked likely to

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