Published by Mirror By Mataeo Smith The grandmother of the boy who was shot in the head at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s megachurch earlier this month has lost a portion of his frontal lobe while undergoing treatment at the hospital. Walli Carranza made a Facebook post three days after the shooting, saying her seven-year-old grandson […]
I completed a fantasy piece about the songs of the Jewish people a few days before their tragedy broke on the day of their great and joyous holiday, the Joy of Torah. I titled the piece I Hear a Scream. On the “Black Sabbath” of October 7, I heard the screams of Jews, victims of a pogrom that happened where there could have been no pogrom – in the territory of the Jewish state. [Boris Levenberg]
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The San Diego County Bar Foundation has notified Mary Lundberg that her late husband, former California Assemblyman Howard Wayne (D-San Diego) will be memorialized with a permanent plaque bearing his likeness in the Hall of Justice of the San Diego Superior Court. [SDJW staff]
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I will be hosting the program, and my special guest will be Aimee Ginsburg Bikel, who was Theodore Bikel’s wife during the last years of his life and founder and director of the Theodore Bikel Legacy Project. The songs were selected to illustrate Bikel’s vast range and the large number of his recordings in our Astor Judaica Library. [Eileen Wingard]
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He learned from the FBI that those threats against him were because he was “too close to the Jews.” What was Governor Barnes’s connection to Jews that incurred the wrath of some Georgia racists? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Beginning with the Kant and Moses Mendelssohn dispute, the German-speaking world debated the question of whether Judaism was a religion of reason. Cohen believed that Germany was the only country in which reason and religious feeling could easily be combined because of its philosophical idealism. [Alex Gordon]
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Meyer helped to found Barnard College for women in 1889 across the street from Columbia. Barnard became one of the Seven Sisters of women’s colleges in America. Meyer became an associate editor of Broadway Magazine and also edited Women’s Work in America. She also authored such works as Robert Annys: A Poor Priest (1901); The Dominant Sex (1911); The Dreamer: A Play in Three Acts (1912); Black Souls (1932) which dealt with lynchings in the South; Barnard Beginnings (1935) and It’s Been Fun: An Autobiography. (1951) –SDJW staff
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Published by Mirror By Imy Brighty-Potts Masked neo-Nazis have been captured in shocking footage marching through traditionally black neighbourhoods yesterday before raising their swastika flags at the State capitol building. Shock spread across the city of Nashville, Tennessee, as dozens of uniformed extremists descended, performing Hitler salutes as they marched down Nashville’s ‘Honky Tonk Highway’.
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If Steve Garvey didn’t exist, Adam Schiff would have to invent him – and, indeed, the congressman is busy doing just that. As the recent debate among the candidates for California’s open U.S. Senate seat made clear, Garvey is a precious asset for Schiff. [Jim Newton, CalMatters]
Published by DPA International Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Galant says Palestinian extremist organization Hamas in Gaza has lost its fighting spirit after more than four months of war. “Two hundred fighters surrendered [in Khan Younis] in the Nasser hospital, dozens more in the Amal hospital,” Galant told army commanders on Sunday. “This shows that they
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Published by ANI News Washington, DC [US], February 18 (ANI): The United States on Saturday warned of exercising its veto power at the UN Security Council against a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, CNN reported. According to the report, the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield warned that if the
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Published by DPA International Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on the Israeli authorities to allow the population crammed into the south of the Gaza Strip to return to their homes further north, speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday. At the annual gathering of top political and defence officials in southern
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Published by DPA Israel’s government has rejected a permanent peace settlement with the Palestinians imposed by “international diktats,” with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet unanimously approving a declaration to this effect on Sunday. “A settlement, if it is to be reached, will come about solely through direct negotiations between the parties, without preconditions,” the declaration
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Recent court decisions have fined Donald Trump nearly half a billion dollars. To raise this much cash, Trump is selling personal possessions and starting new businesses. Here’s some of them … (Laurie Baron, Ph.D)
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