Published by Miami Herald No, Gov. Ron DeSantis, it’s no coincidence that, only days apart, antisemitic flyers were hurled out of a passing car in Miami Beach while in Central Florida neo-Nazis staged rallies last weekend. At not one, but two gatherings in public spaces — an Orange County highway overpass and in an Orlando […]
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Holocaust, Opinion
(JNS) ABC News president Kim Godwin announced on Tuesday that Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of the morning talk show “The View,” would be suspended for two weeks after her controversial remarks during a Jan. 31 episode of the program. During the episode, which focused on the recent Tennessee school board decision to ban Maus, a Pulitzer
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Holocaust, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Whoopi Goldberg was wrong but as far as I’m concerned, the folks at ABC and The View were too harsh when they suspended her for two weeks. Let me explain. In a discussion of the Holocaust on The View television show, Goldberg commented that the Holocaust wasn’t racist
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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Opinion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) Lawmakers and pro-Israel political groups from across the political spectrum are slamming what they consider a biased report released on Tuesday by the international human-rights organization Amnesty International UK. It is Amnesty International’s 208th report on Israel since the 1970s, which goes as far as rejecting the establishment of modern-day Israel
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International, Middle East, USA
Published by Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States said it is sending fighter jets to assist the United Arab Emirates following missile attacks on the Gulf state launched by Yemen’s Houthi movement, including a foiled attack aimed at a base hosting U.S. forces. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also told Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed
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USA
Published by Reuters UK LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom will begin seeking an improved trade deal with Israel this week when trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan travels to meet her Israeli counterpart Orna Barbivai. Britain is looking to build new trade ties around the world having left the European Union, targeting fast-growing economies with wealthy
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International
By Laurie Baron Putin: Hello, Donald. I’ve been trying to reach you using the red phone and keep on getting Biden. So I went on Twitter, but I don’t see any of your Tweets either. Strange, since I consider you the legitimate President of the United States and I’ve heard you agree. Trump: Vladimir, I
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Vibe Israel, experts in branding and marketing Israel to the next generation, has published its annual survey on global perceptions of Israel among the next generation. The survey focused on the potential change in perception of Israel by millennials, ages 25-44, following the three significant events of the past year
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Travel and Food
By Teresa Konopka SAN DIEGO — When reading tales of our ancestors in the Torah, it can seem more like fiction than fact. The characters are distant peoples from faraway lands whose personal lives we can only speculate about. As the same parshas are read year after year, it is easy to be desensitized to
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Jewish Religion, Opinion, Teresa_Konopka
“Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz,” by Alwin Meyer; English version Polity Press (c) 2022; ISBN 13:978-1-5095-4550-6; 496 pages. By Sandra Scheller CHULA VISTA, California — In 1971, 21-year-old Alwin Meyer made his first trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp, not as a relative of a survivor but as a German observer. He
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Sandra Scheller
Author Wayne Hoffman regales us with two concurrent non-fiction stories. His search to learn the identity of the person who murdered his great-grandmother as she lay sleeping in her bed, with an infant child at her side, occurred at the same time that his mother, Susan, was having increasing problems with her memory as Alzheimer’s progressively took a worsening toll. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
This charming book tells in rhyming couplets the story of a Passover celebration from the viewpoint of young children in a multiracial Jewish family. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Scientist and public health advocate Adam Schindler announced on January 12 that he is running for U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 50th Congressional District. Schindler, a San Diego resident and father, is challenging incumbent Scott Peters because Peters receives campaign contributions from corporations and opposed legislation that would have
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San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS), one of San Diego’s largest and most impactful nonprofit agencies, has received the 2022 Kaleidoscope Award for Good Governance by The Nonprofit Institute at the University of San Diego, in the large organization category – reserved for nonprofits with an annual budget of