Comic-Con 2023 Panels Indicate Bleak Entertainment Future

With writers and actors on strike and prohibited by SAG/AFTRA and WGA from promoting upcoming productions, this year’s Comic-Con was without many  people who normally would have participated on panels.  What was left at times seemed slapdash and makeshift, leaving most attendees wanting more, a harbinger of the content-cold year that the strikes will mean for fans around the world. [Shor M. Masori]

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Protests Rage as Israel Passes Contested Curbs on Some Supreme Court Powers

Published by Reuters By Ari Rabinovitch and Henriette Chacar JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s parliament on Monday ratified the first bill of a judicial overhaul sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after last-gasp compromise efforts collapsed and failed to ease a constitutional crisis convulsing the country for months. The amendment limiting the Supreme Court’s powers to void

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Should You See ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ at PowPac? It’s No Mystery

By Eva Trieger POWAY, California — Thank you PowPac Theatre for bringing us Witness for the Prosecution, the edgy murder mystery penned in 1925 by Dame Agatha Christie. While I am not quite certain the author would recognize her play with PowPac’s treatment and influence, I do think she would have loved the performance I

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Jewish Trivia Quiz: Tony Bennett, RIP

By Mark D. Zimmerman Singer ‍Tony ‍Bennett ‍passed ‍away ‍just ‍two ‍weeks ‍shy ‍of ‍his ‍97th ‍birthday. ‍In ‍2014, ‍Bennett ‍performed ‍in ‍Tel ‍Aviv’s ‍Mann ‍Auditorium, ‍one ‍night ‍after ‍a ‍surprise ‍guest ‍appearance ‍at ‍a ‍Lady ‍Gaga ‍performance ‍in ‍Hayarkon ‍Park. ‍As ‍a ‍United ‍States ‍soldier ‍in ‍World ‍War ‍II, ‍Bennett ‍was ‍among ‍the ‍troops

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Jewish Scientist Who Inherited Jonas Salk’s Office Unlocks Secrets of Hormones

Evans works in a laboratory bequeathed to him by his colleague and mentor, the late discoverer of the polio vaccine, Jonas Salk. In one research project, Evans and his team studied the impact of exercise on a body’s genetic makeup. They found that exercise will activate a cascade of genes that prompt the body to produce a chemical form of energy known at ATP (adenosine triphosphate). [Donald H. Harrison]

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Satire: Truth Justice, Donald Trump’s Reality TV Streaming Service

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Donald Trump received a letter from Jack Smith informing him that he is a target of the federal investigation into election inference in the 2020 presidential election.  He is also facing a probable indictment from Fani Willis in Georgia later in the summer.  Ever the savvy businessman, Trump is

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In Meeting With Israel’s Herzog, Biden Cites ‘Hard Work’ Ahead for Peace

Published by Reuters (This July 18 story has been corrected to say Tlaib is the first Palestinian American woman in Congress in paragraph 14) By Patricia Zengerle and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and Israeli President Isaac Herzog stressed their countries’ close ties on Tuesday at a White House meeting despite U.S.

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Meir Shalev’s ‘My Wild Garden’ Brings to Light Israel’s Ethos, History, and Development

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — From time to time I like to test my ability to read a literary text in Hebrew (the daily newspaper can hardly be called “literary”) by reading a book in that language. After all, I have been living in Israel for almost 60 years and have had to

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Glenda Sacks Retires after Serving San Diego’s Jewish Community for 36 Years

Retirement date was June 30th and almost immediately, the South African native traveled to a retreat center at Kfar Blum, Israel, for a family reunion that brought together relatives from various parts of the English-speaking world. Having just returned to San Diego, her most immediate task is training her Hillel successor, Danielle Botvin, but beyond that she is looking forward to “learning how to chill – I’m not good at that.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Israel’s Herzog to Congress: Criticism of Israel Must Not Drift Into Antisemitism

Published by Reuters By Patricia Zengerle, Rami Ayyub and Josephine Walker WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Israeli President Isaac Herzog told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday he welcomed criticism, especially from American friends, but said it must not cross the line into negation of Israel’s right to exist. That, he said, was antisemitism. Herzog, whose position is largely ceremonial,

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