El Al Merges With Frontier and Spirit, Forming World’s Most-Hated Airline

By Jacob “#DontFlyFrontier” Kamaras El Al Israel Airlines has announced a trilateral merger that countless travelers in the U.S. and Israel are describing as a “transaction from hell,” joining forces with the low-budget American carriers Frontier and Spirit. Surrendering to the harsh financial realities in the airline industry on both sides of the Atlantic — […]

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Trivia, Humor & Satire

Jacob Kamaras Sells San Diego Jewish World for $2, Doubling Initial Investment

By Ken “Megillah Writer” Stone San Diego Jewish World (SDJW) owner Jacob Kamaras today announced his sale of the website to the San Diego Union-Tribune for $2, doubling his initial investment in the media property. The Union-Tribune said in a statement, “Why not? What can we lose? If Jews constitute approximately 2% of the U.S.

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Trivia, Humor & Satire

Supply Chain Issues Relegate Global Hamantash Inventory to Prune

By Lizzie “Challah Billz Correspondent” Rubin Supply chain issues have affected products we rely on daily: furniture, cars, cream cheese. Now, hamantaschen have become the newest victim. Many beloved flavors of hamantaschen, including raspberry, apricot, and cherry, are slashed and not expected to make an appearance on grocery shelves this Purim. The only flavor that

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Trivia, Humor & Satire

San Diego Bars Overflow With Customers for Purim-St. Patrick’s Day Mashup

By Jacob “Jewish Leprechaun” Kamaras With the Purim and St. Patrick’s Day holidays overlapping this year, bars in San Diego’s lively downtown Gaslamp Quarter experienced a notable uptick in business on Thursday. The Purim-St. Patrick’s Day convergence marked arguably the most significant holiday mashup since “Thanksgivukkah.” (On November 28, 2013, for the first time in

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Trivia, Humor & Satire

Rep. Jacobs Calls Zelensky’s Address to Congress ‘Heart-Wrenching and Inspiring’

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — U.S. Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-CA-53), who is Jewish and whose district is in San Diego County, on Wednesday released the following statement in reaction to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to Congress via video from Kyiv: “President Zelensky’s speech this morning to Congress, in the middle of an unjustified attack

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International, San Diego County, USA

A Double Standard for Free Speech at Vanderbilt

By Richard L. Cravatts (JNS) Vanderbilt’s Chabad hosted a speaking event on Feb. 23 by Rudy Rochman, who describes himself as a “Jewish and Israel rights activist” who has “the intention,” as Chabad put it, “of creating a productive conversation around the issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the history of Judaism and anti-Semitism.” Rochman, a

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Middle East, Opinion, Richard L. Cravatts, USA

Barrett Holman Leak Seeks to Bring Tikkun Olam to San Diego’s Diverse Working-Class Congressional District

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Barrett Holman Leak is running for the U.S. House of Representatives in central San Diego as a diverse, working-class candidate. “We need and deserve better representation than we see in Congress. We need and deserve representatives who will not accept money from foreign lobbyists, profit in office from stocks in

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San Diego County

Scroll of Esther Honors Another Esther, Terror Victim Esther Horgen

By Toby Klein Greenwald It is always amazing to me how there are families who react to unbearable tragedy by creating something deeply meaningful and beautiful for the Jewish people and, indeed, for the world. This is what the family of Esther Horgen has done. Esther, 52, was brutally murdered by a terrorist on December

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Toby Klein Greenwald

Purim is Practiced Today Differently Than the Biblical Requirement

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The current practice is that Purim is celebrated as a one-day holiday. Cities that were walled at the time of Joshua’s conquest of Israel – most notably Jerusalem – celebrate Purim on Adar 15, as a commemoration of the end of hostilities in the walled city

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Federation Raising Awareness, Developing New Solutions to Fight Poverty in the San Diego Jewish Community

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jewish Federation of San Diego County (Federation), which works to mobilize community resources, leaders, and organizations to address the community’s most critical needs, today highlighted urgent efforts to respond to poverty in the San Diego Jewish Community. “With 16-20 percent of Jewish households earning less than $30,000 annually, many Jewish

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San Diego County