By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Perhaps John T. Earnest might have been stopped by our new gun safety law from murdering Lori Gilbert Kaye in Poway, but it seems that the law would not have prevented Al Aliwi Al-Issa from massacring 10 people in Boulder. Even Democratic leaders and the news media are heralding […]
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, San Diego County, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Israeli Olympian, 2017 World Baseball Classic champion, and Major League Baseball star athlete Ian Kinsler, has been named the manager of Team Israel for the 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC). Kinsler, who is currently an advisor in the front office for the San Diego Padres, received his Israeli citizenship in
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions, USA
By Israel Kasnett (JNS) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in a live speech from Kyiv last Thursday, expressing frustration that Israel is not doing more to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian invasion. The speech was broadcast on the university’s social media channels and followed by a short question and
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International, Middle East
By Mike Wagenheim (JNS) Monday’s closed consultations at the United Nations Security Council meant that the usual fireworks surrounding the monthly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were quieted. Both Israeli and Palestinian Authority representatives were absent from the meeting. The United States gave a largely balanced statement, with Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Richard Mills
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International, Middle East, USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Michal and I recently enjoyed a day trip organized by ESRA, the English Speaking Residents Association. ESRA provides numerous social activities for Israelis who are comfortable speaking English while funding diverse charitable projects for all Israelis. While not my usual hike with ESRA, this tour, nicely coordinated by
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. The parasha this week begins with a deep psychological insight into leadership with the words, “Vayikach Korach,” “and Korach took.” He was a taker, not a giver. Contrast this to Moshe who responded to Korach’s rebellion against him by “falling on his face.” A taker? No. Moshe demonstrated the inner
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
By Laurie Baron I started writing my Humoring the Headlines columns back in 2013. Today is the 600th one I’ve posted. Here’s some of my favorite observations from 2013: Anthony Wiener is reportedly considering withdrawing from the New York’s mayoral race. He has been negotiating with Oskar Mayer to become the chauffeur of their trademark vehicle. He’s
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Sabine Fröhlich grew up a Catholic in Breslau, Germany, but her ancestry was Jewish. Along with her parents and her older brother Andreas, she was declared to be a Jew according to the Nazis’ bizarre racial classifications. Like self-identified Jews in Germany, she was systematically excluded from normal life—even the Catholic school which she had attended. Her parents wisely decided to send her to England, but after they made it across the border to the Netherlands, the family reunited. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Jewish History
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — I recall having a conversation a dozen years ago with my partner Eliezer Goldberg, inquiring when the hideous Supersol building – so-called in honor of the city’s first supermarket, situated underneath the famous structure – will be razed and replaced with a new building. He responded that there were rumblings
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Gedaliah Borvick, Lifestyles, Middle East
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Where’s the Israeli government? What happened? Was it more or less inevitable? It began with a government composed of eight parties: Yesh Atid (There is a Future), Blue and White, Israel Our Home, New Hope, Yamina (Right), Labor, Meretz, and Joint List (Arab). Except for Labor, Meretz, and the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — A movie has just been released called Elvis, starring Austin Butler as Elvis Presley and Tom Hanks as Elvis’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker. It’s long been known that Elvis served as a Shabbos goy for Rabbi Alfred Fruchter and his family, who lived upstairs from the Presleys. A Shabbos goy
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron (Melody: God Bless America) They dissed America, land where I dwell. They defeat us for a fetus, To make unwanted pregnancies hell. For the rapists, right-wing Papists For incesters who prey on their kin. Now in America, conception is when life begins. Justice deceivers, lying when they were confirmed. Thus declaring, bible
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Rabbi Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Whatever one believes, it is widely agreed upon that God did not divide the Bible into sentences, paragraphs, and chapters. So what happened to make the reading and understanding of the Bible easier? Masorites The division between sentences and paragraphs as well as punctuation signs were initiated
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
If he were so inclined, Greg Smith could have a lot to brag about. Over a period of 25 years, he won seven elections to serve as the San Diego County Assessor as well as the county’s recorder and clerk. He headed a staff of between 400 and 500 county workers in the combined operations of assessor-recorder-clerk. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, California, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food