Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – Joe Biden entered the White House hoping to avoid entanglement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But, like US presidents before him, a crisis is dragging him in sooner than he would have liked. The flare-up in violence is putting Biden on a tightrope not only diplomatically but at home where […]
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Published by Reuters By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group that runs Gaza escalated on Tuesday as each side attacked the other with aerial bombardments that recalled their last major conflict in 2014. A 13-story residential block in Gaza collapsed after one of several dozen
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Middle East
18 Under 18 was created so that outstanding Jewish teens in San Diego could be recognized for the incredible things that they were doing. They have exhibited leadership in teen youth groups and have been creative and passionate in jump-starting new offerings to their peers. [Allie Donahoo]
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San Diego County
Regardless of how the current and future violent conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians in Jerusalem will end, there will be no Israeli-Palestinian peace unless East Jerusalem becomes the capital of a Palestinian state while the city remains united. [Alon Ben-Meir]
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East
Published by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ATLANTA — Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff introduced a bill Monday to prohibit states like Georgia from banning volunteers from distributing food and water to voters waiting in line. The legislation is a response to Georgia’s new voting law, which makes it a crime for volunteers and organizations to give
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USA
Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – A US vessel fired warning shots at more than a dozen Iranian fast attack boats which buzzed close to a US Navy submarine and escort ships in the narrow Strait of Hormuz on Monday, the Pentagon said. In the second such incident in two weeks, 13 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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Middle East, USA
Published by Reuters By Jeffrey Heller and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – Violent clashes over Jerusalem escalated dramatically on Monday with Gaza health officials saying at least 20 people, including nine children, were killed by Israeli air strikes launched after Palestinian militant groups fired rockets close to Jerusalem Israel’s military said it carried out strikes
Allie Donahoo has always valued connecting with younger audiences. “I had been working at a Jewish summer camp for over 13 years and loved who I was there the most, and it dawned on me – why not be a part of that world all the time,” she said. [JD Krebs]
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Middle East, San Diego County
Tucker Carlson’s outlandish conspiracy theories have earned him the highest ratings for a cable news commentator. After he heard about Medina Spirit’s disqualification from winning the Kentucky Derby for using the drug betamethasone, here’s what we imagine could be the advance text of his editorial on this matter. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Rabbi Mendel Jacobs of the Lubavitch of Scotland is known for what action that related to traditional Scottish culture? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
Jewish Trivia Quiz: Scotland Read More »
International, Jewish Religion, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
The 28th Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, Jfest 2021, promises to be sparkling with more stars from all corners of the globe than ever before, thanks to the virtual platform for all but one of the 15 offerings. [Eileen Wingard]
Lipinsky Family S.D. Jewish Arts Festival Schedule Announced Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Bibi seems to be finished. But he’s still trying, now to complicate the task of those with the President’s mandate. One can imagine that President Reuven Rivlin intended this to happen; that he gave Bibi Netanyahu the first chance to form a government, with the intention or hope that he would fail. [Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Published by DPA The situation in Jerusalem’s Old City came to a dangerous head over the weekend, with medics saying around 300 Palestinians have been injured in violent clashes with Israeli security forces since Friday evening. The violent clashes continued into Sunday. An Israeli police spokesman said Sunday morning that confrontations took place at the
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Middle East
The current observance of Shavuot has no relationship to its biblical ancestor and doesn’t even occur at the same time. Very few people know the truth about this day. Most Jews think Shavuot recalls the day the Torah was revealed to the Israelites during the days of Moses. This is not true. This significance was given to the holiday in the middle ages when the holiday had lost one of its original purposes; the sacrifice prescribed for the day was discontinued when the second Temple was destroyed in 70 CE. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion