Jewish-Interest License Plate: Tora
Marcia Tatz Wollner found this license plate, which indicates that even Snoopy takes joy in the Tora.
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Marcia Tatz Wollner, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Poignant Dramas of Border Crossers
The current offering at La Jolla Playhouse attempts to provide unity and solidarity for those Latinos disenfranchised by politics and economics. Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) celebrates the “joyous, inclusive spirit” that coexists along with the divisiveness and inequity facing immigrants. Through music and dance, audiences are let into the challenging and often harsh realities immigrants of so many Latin American countries have faced, while trying to gain access to America. [Eva Trieger]
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & BroadcastParashat Ki Tavo: Creating Genuine Happiness
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Couldn’t we all use some genuine happiness about now? This week’s parasha may be just the thing that can help us create it. We are offered these days of Elul to be an ais ratzon, a space filled with the love and desire between us and Hashem.
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Jewish Religion, Michael MantellJewish-Interest License Plate: LCHAYIM
SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven Melanie Rubin spotted her latest gem on Monday morning. Cheers to that!
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Melanie Rubin, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & SatireJewish Trivia Quiz: Queen Elizabeth II, RIP
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth died at the age of 96, having reigned for 70 years. She is being mourned around the world, including by members of the British Jewish community. According to Ephraim Mirvis, the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, “Her affection for the Jewish people
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireTerror, the Queen, and the deadline for Parties to Run in Israel’s Election
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — They seem to be on an upswing, but Palestinian attacks against Israelis are a continuous phenomenon. For a summary of attacks since May 2016 and through July 2022, provided by the Israeli government, in English, you can look here. A graphic display appears below. The first graph shows the
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Ira Sharkansky, Israel, Middle East, OpinionThe World is Constantly Changing, As Is Everything and Everyone Around Us
By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Some people seem to be wired to like variety, novelty, change from routine. Others seem to prefer the status quo, the predictable, the familiar. To some extent, this is genetic, but it is also influenced by the multitude of experiences we have been subjected to in
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Lifestyles, Natasha JosefowitzThe Semi-Fascist MAGA Menace: The Truth is Funnier (and Scarier) Than Satirical Fiction
By Laurie Baron President Biden received scathing criticism for labeling MAGA Republicans “semi-fascists.” I selected some quotations from MAGA leaders to test the validity of his characterization. “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church. That is not how our Founding Fathers intended it. I’m tired
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Authoritarian Personality and Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — If nothing else, the Republican Party has steadily removed any doubt that it has embraced an extremism that threatens the future of American Democracy. We can clearly perceive the imminent danger that the Party poses in several crucial ways, perhaps the most salient being the refusal of candidates to
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Opinion, Sam Ben-Meir, USAWho Are the War Criminals?
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — We must wonder what Lina Abu Akleh refers to when she charges: “We don’t expect war criminals to investigate their own crimes.” Or when Nabil Abu Rdeneh claims all evidence proves that “Israel is the culprit, that it killed Shireen, and it must be held responsible for its crime.”
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Opinion‘My Mother’s Sabbath Days:’ An Eye-Opening Story by Yiddish Writer Chaim Grade
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — My Mother’s Sabbath Days is a beautiful, fascinating, and eye-opening story by the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade (1910-1982). His name is pronounced gra, as in open your mouth and say ah, and de at the end pronounced as in eh, the word said in surprise. Grade
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionIsrael, Germany Tied by Remembrance, President Herzog Says
Published by Reuters UK By Nette Noestlinger (Reuters) – Israel and Germany are tied together by the obligation to remember the Holocaust, Israeli President Isaac Herzog told the German parliament on Tuesday during a three-day visit to the country. At the start of his speech in the Bundestag, Herzog led a prayer to commemorate the
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InternationalU.S. Says it Will Press Israel on Rules of Engagement After Al Jazeera Journalist’s Killing
Published by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington will press Israel to review its policies and practices on rules of engagement after the Israel Defense Forces concluded that Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was likely shot by an Israeli soldier, State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said on Tuesday. “We will continue to press Israel
Muzzling Free Speech at Berkeley Law School
By Richard L. Cravatts (JNS) The suppression of any speech that does not conform to hegemonic ideologies is not an uncommon occurrence at today’s universities. What is now labeled “cancel culture” is dedicated to the purging of thoughts and ideas that conflict with liberal notions or the radical ravings of social justice warriors. This unfortunate
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