By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israel’s government has an edge in the Knesset, but it’s only four seats. And there is substantial opposition to what its extreme members are proposing to do with the judiciary. One option is for a Knesset majority able to override the Supreme Court’s opposition to a Knesset law or […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Opinion, USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — There’s way too much hysteria from the left wing over proposed legislation in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Where do world leaders like Secretary of State Antony Blinken and French President Emmanuel Macron get the chutzpah to lecture Israel’s elected representatives? It’s bad enough that the leaders of Israel’s
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Israel, Opinion, Steve Kramer, USA
Daniel Kohanski, A God of Our Invention, How Religion Shaped the Western World (Hannacroix, NY: Apocryphile Press, 2023) 285 pages, $26.00 By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Daniel Kohanski graduated from Colgate with a degree in philosophy and received an MS in computer science from Rutgers. He spent many years as a computer programmer
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel, Jewish Religion, Oliver Pollak, USA
By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — The Museum Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, was originally built as the Union Terminal train station in 1933. As travel by train declined, the building received its last passengers in 1972, later re-opening as an Amtrak station in 1991 and then being refurbished as the Museum Center in 2018.
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Eric George Tauber, Holocaust, Opinion, USA
Craven now has been “cancelled” by the unforgiving academic community. The irony of this is that were it not for Bill Craven, Cal State San Marcos would not have existed in the first place. He fought the uphill legislative battle to win approval for the construction of that campus. Opponents noted that San Diego County already had San Diego State University, whereas other parts of the state didn’t have even one state university campus, much less two, in addition to a campus of the University of California. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
The visit of First Lady Dr. Jill Biden to San Diego on Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4 highlighted three members of the American Jewish community: Sara Jacobs, Gabrielle Giffords, and Steven A. Cohen. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USAHouse Republicans did not do a favor for Israel nor the American Jewish community when they kicked Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota, off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Instead, they turned her into a political martyr, thereby magnifying her importance among progressives and potentially fueling antisemitism. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Opinion, USA
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — Kosher-observant San Diegans are perpetually starved for kosher restaurants. Joey Aron decided to bring the restaurants to them. La Jolla native Aron, 24, who graduated from Yeshiva University’s (YU) Sy Syms School of Business and is now working at Citibank in New York, launched and now operates a
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Business & Finance, California, Jacob Kamaras, San Diego County
By Laurie Baron (Melody: Matchmaker, Matchmaker) SAN DIEGO — Documents, documents Scattered around. Some still hidden. Others were found. Documents, documents. Secret ones too. Which DOJ must impound. Documents, documents. Trump just refused. Joe had some too. Pence wasn’t excused. Documents, documents. Which don’t belong to them Mistakes or power abused? For Donald He thinks
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Published by Reuters By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Thursday ousted Democrat Ilhan Omar from a high-profile committee over remarks widely condemned as antisemitic, two years after Democrats removed two Republicans from committee assignments. The deeply divided House voted 218-211 along party lines to remove Omar from
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USA
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — Coming on the heels of a major milestone for the school’s Jewish community as well as amid the rising tide of antisemitism on campus and nationwide, International Holocaust Remembrance Day was even more poignant than usual at UCSD this year. Marking the first large-scale event at the Beverly
LA JOLLA, California — On January 24, 2023, San Diegans attended a “Zionism on Campus” event in La Jolla, hosted by Jewish National Fund-USA San Diego Vice President Liat Cohen-Reeis, where they heard from local students and a university professor who recently attended one of Jewish National Fund-USA’s various educational programs in Israel. “There is
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Israel, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Press Release) —Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) will award renowned writer and public health advocate Dr. Chelsea Clinton an honorary doctorate at the University’s Board of Governors Meeting in May 2023, BGU President Prof. Daniel Chamovitz has announced. “Dr. Chelsea Clinton is a world-renowned activist, author and ardent supporter of gender
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Israel, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
(Press Release) To begin the new year of 2023, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan gifted copies of the recently published Book of Jewish Knowledge to all ambassadors at the United Nations. In a body where Israel regularly faces negative headwinds, Erdan aimed to utilize the Book of Jewish Knowledge’s concise exploration of
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Israel