Published by Al-Araby A plane branded with the logo of national Egyptian carrier Egyptair landed in Israel for the first time on Sunday. Egypt was the first Arab nation to establish ties with Israel in a 1979 deal, and direct flights between the countries followed that accord. But the Egyptian flights to Israel had previously […]
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A century ago, on 16 December 1920 a detailed report on the Pogroms in the Ukraine, a Memorandum on the Massacres of Jews in the Ukraine, was submitted to the League of Nations (now The United Nations) detailing the massacre of Jews in more than 400 pogroms. The memorandum was submitted by The Committee of Jewish Delegations, representing the Jewish populations of 22 countries, appealing to the League of Nations to obtain justice for the most terrible crimes that history had, until that time, ever witnessed,
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA
Lesson 1: The Biblical Origins of Racial Hierarchy
Adam and Eve were White. The mark of Cain was that he was turned Black for killing his brother Abel. The son of Noah was Ham. His son was Black and immigrated to Ethiopia. From that time on the only thing Africa exported was nubile temptresses like the Queen of Sheba. Jesus was White and his followers founded a new religion to dissociate themselves from their other Jewish contemporaries who had become so tanned from the bright Middle Eastern sun that they identified with Blacks and still do until today. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Published by DPA The Youth Forum of the German-Israeli Society has accused some Union Berlin fans of anti-Semitism during the Europa Conference League game with Maccabi Haifa on Thursday. “In the mixed block, we were threatened by Union fans, pelted with beer and insulted as ‘shitty Jews’,” the group said on Twitter. Union won 3-0.
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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food
Published by PopCrush The lawsuit between Disney and Scarlett Johansson over the release of Black Widow is over. The two sides have reportedly settled their dispute, which threatened to affect the way A-list stars were compensated over their blockbuster roles. The suit stemmed from the way Disney released Johansson’s Black Widow. Her complaint alleged that
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Jewish Celebrities
Published by OK Magazine Donald Trump’s daughter was reportedly not very well-received in the White House. Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner served as senior advisers to the ex-President during his one-term tenure as commander-in-chief. Although the duo had the full support of Donald, staffers didn’t have much respect for them. “We had all
Published by Reuters By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. health officials are hoping data on Israeli military personnel can help clarify the risk of heart muscle inflammation in younger people who have received Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 booster shots – a potential factor for U.S. regulators as they consider granting full approval of these boosters. A
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
This is a collection of 20 short stories about the upcoming December holidays. Three of the stories have distinctly Jewish angles, whereas others either are Christmas oriented or so general they might be told at any time of the year. Some may well be stories left over from Bernstein’s last book, Miserable Love Stories. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving a La Mesa, California, family’s 20-year effort to reclaim a French Impressionist painting looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust and now hanging in a Spanish museum. Camille Pissarro’s 1897 work, “Rue Saint-Honoré, Afternoon Effect,” is worth by
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San Diego County
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Many Jews feel that biblical time frames and dating were never meant to be taken literally. The Bible is not a history book. It is designed to teach about the existence of God and proper behavior. The world may have been created over a very long
By Yaakov Lappin (JNS) When Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid recently floated his new two-stage plan for developing the Gaza Strip earlier this month, a clause in the plan sounded all too familiar to Asaf Ashar, an emeritus research professor at the National Ports and Waterways Institute USA with 40 years of worldwide experience in
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Middle East
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Why are Jews funny? Better stated, why do we love humor and why do we make it such a major part of our personalities? In 1978, Time magazine claimed that 80 percent of all stand-up comedians in the United States were Jewish. There are plenty of theories to explain why
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San Diego County
Published by DPA Army ground troops have begun a military manoeuvre in north-western Iran, despite criticism from neighbouring Azerbaijan. According to the Tasnim news agency on Friday, several military exercises are to be completed. The exact location of the manoeuvre was not officially named at first. In the past few days, there had been reports
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Before the expected sentence was handed down, family members of the murdered victim looked directly at the confessed shooter on Thursday, Sept. 30, and poured out their hearts. “What has your racist, entitled rage offered you in the end?” demanded Hannah Kaye of the defendant who had acknowledged murdering her mother, Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, in the lobby of Chabad of Poway on April 27, 2019, the last day of Passover. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County