Editor’s Note: In celebration of Israel’s 73rd birthday today, Nicky Blackburn of Israel21c.org compiled 73 fun facts about Israel:
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By Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday named a liaison to Asian Americans, who are contending with rising violence, after facing pressure to ensure greater diversity among top administration officials. Biden picked onetime congressional aide Erika Moritsugu to spearhead outreach to the increasingly politically significant Asian American
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This laconic, short, prose, exaggerated sequence of events is attributed to the time of Aram’s attack on the Northern Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) during the brief rule of Israelite King Joram (851-842 BCE). A key figure was the prophet Elisha. [Irv Jacobs, MD]
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
Arab nations invaded the new state of Israel before I was born, at a time when the world was still shaken by the fury of World War II. Arab leaders urged their people to flee Israel in advance of the fighting and return once they drove the Jews into the sea. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, International, Middle East, USA
Washington (AFP) – US Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday she will visit Mexico and Guatemala as part of her mission to address the “root causes” of an influx in migrants at the southern border. Speaking with reporters in Washington, Harris did not say if she planned to visit the border herself, where she said
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Washington (AFP) – A US congressional panel debates Wednesday whether to consider federal slavery reparation payments to African Americans, ahead of a historic first vote on an issue gaining momentum during the nation’s racial reckoning. The House Judiciary Committee launches its first-ever markup — the process by which committees debate and amend legislation — of
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By Makini Brice and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hate crime legislation intended to combat violence against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic advanced in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, easily overcoming the Senate procedural tool known as the filibuster. Senators on Wednesday took a procedural vote on whether to limit debate on the overall bill.
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Moving beyond remembrance to action is one of the goals of Senator Henry Stern’s (D Los Angeles) SB 693. the Never Again Education Act of 2021 which cleared the Senate Education Committee Wednesday, April 14, on a unanimous 7-0 vote. {News Release from California State Sen. Henry Stern]
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International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Economist Alan Nevin will analyze the San Diego economy with particular emphasis on the real estate market at a 7 p.m., Wednesday, April 21, Zoom meeting of the Beth Israel Men’s Club. [Beth Israel Men’s Club news release]
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Business & Finance, San Diego County
We learn in this week’s reading to see the potential for extending our own community to include those ill in body, mind, or spirit, and are charged with fully welcoming them back after whatever diagnosis and treatment they receive for the “disease,” that does not, after all, alter their essential humanity. The Torah directs us to welcome and comfort the afflicted instead of solely expelling them. [Michael R. Mantell, PhD]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
ATLANTA — The late Hall of Fame baseball star Hank Aaron will soon have an Atlanta high school named after him. The Atlanta Board of Education on Monday voted unanimously to change the name of Forrest Hill Academy, an alternative high school in southwest Atlanta. When students return to the school in August, the new
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On April 6, after an Iranian ship was attacked in the Red Sea, The New York Times reported that “the Israelis had notified the United States that its forces had struck the vessel at about 7:30 a.m. local time,” citing an American official “who spoke on condition of anonymity to share private intelligence communications.” “Private intelligence communications.” That’s Israel’s intelligence. [Shoshana Bryen]
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
An Israeli-operated ship was attacked Tuesday off the UAE opposite the Iranian coast, Israeli media said, in the latest apparent escalation between the Jewish state and the Islamic republic. Security sources, quoted by Israel’s Channel 12 television, said the vessel Hyperion Ray was “lightly damaged” near the Emirati port of Fujairah, with Iran suspected of
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Middle East
Following the killings of six Asian Americans in Georgia, Rep. Andy Kim flew to Atlanta to meet with a community already traumatized by the uptick in hate crimes during the coronavirus pandemic. “One question kept coming, which is, ‘What are you going to do about this?’” Kim, D-3rd Dist., said Tuesday. “That is the demand