“We found that species such as the European seabass shifting their geographical range more rapidly towards the poles are in fact more likely to lose their abundance,” Chaikin adds. [Press Release]
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In spiritual terms, Amalek embodies the constant battle within us and the world. Their actions represent the darkness that seeks to extinguish the divine light within humanity. Though physically gone, the “spirit of Amalek” persists in ideologies that oppose good. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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God expects people to use their intelligence, learn how the laws of nature work and help themselves, to improve themselves, society, and the world generally. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Portnoy’s Complaint was Roth’s fourth novel and most controversial because of its frank treatment of sexual subjects, including masturbation. Roth became more prolific thereafter, knocking out 26 additional works through 2010, the most notable of which was the 1997 novel American Pastoral, which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It told of a star athlete whose daughter becomes a domestic terrorist during the late 1960s. [SDJW staff]
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Published by AlterNet Donald Trump is attacking Jews who vote Democratic, barely days after the criminally-indicted ex-president threatened there would be a “bloodbath” if voters do not put him back in the Oval Office. His remarks, which include claiming Jews Democrats “hate” Israel and their own religion, were quickly labeled antisemitic. “I actually think they
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – US President Joe Biden said Monday he had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a team to Washington to discuss how to avoid an all-out assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. The move is one of the clearest attempts yet by Biden to rein in
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Published by The Western Journal Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is facing calls to step down after it was reported his wife owns millions of dollars in stocks for tech companies he is tasked with regulating. In a letter last week, members of the New York Young
Vladimir Putin won 87.3 % of the votes cast in the Russian presidential election. But there are telltale signs that the Russian election was rigged. [Laurie Baron]
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Another Purim Katan celebration is Purim Vinz, which is celebrated with the reading of the Vincent Megillah. What does that holiday commemorate? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Literary success came to Zweig in 1915, when he was awarded the Heinrich Kleist Prize for his drama Ritual Murder in Hungary (1914), about a blood libel against Jews in the town of Tiszaeslar in 1882. [Alex Gordon]
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She wrote Denying the Holocaust in 1994, later defending herself successfully against a libel suit by author David Irving that brought her name to public attention. She won the 1994 National Jewish Book Award and an appointment by President Bill Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. [SDJW staff]
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Published by The Western Journal It took an 11-year-boy’s discovery in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel to remind everybody of who the historical inhabitants of the Jewish state were. According to the Jerusalem Post, an 11-year-old boy who usually lives on a kibbutz found a coin from the Hasmonean Dynasty,
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Published by DPA International German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, openly questioned Israel’s military actions during the Gaza war in light of the high number of casualties during his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. At a joint press conference, Scholz stressed that Israel has the right to defend itself against the Palestinian Islamist Hamas group
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When he first got the part in the Yiddish “Fiddler,” Skybell had studied Yiddish but he “certainly wasn’t fluent.” And at the start, only three of the 26 members of the cast spoke Yiddish. So getting ready for the show was a mammoth task, with most of the actors learning the language phonetically from tapes. [Joel H. Cohen]
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