By Laurie Baron Putin: Hello, Donald. I’ve been trying to reach you using the red phone and keep on getting Biden. So I went on Twitter, but I don’t see any of your Tweets either. Strange, since I consider you the legitimate President of the United States and I’ve heard you agree. Trump: Vladimir, I […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Vibe Israel, experts in branding and marketing Israel to the next generation, has published its annual survey on global perceptions of Israel among the next generation. The survey focused on the potential change in perception of Israel by millennials, ages 25-44, following the three significant events of the past year
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Travel and Food
By Teresa Konopka SAN DIEGO — When reading tales of our ancestors in the Torah, it can seem more like fiction than fact. The characters are distant peoples from faraway lands whose personal lives we can only speculate about. As the same parshas are read year after year, it is easy to be desensitized to
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Jewish Religion, Opinion, Teresa_Konopka
“Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz,” by Alwin Meyer; English version Polity Press (c) 2022; ISBN 13:978-1-5095-4550-6; 496 pages. By Sandra Scheller CHULA VISTA, California — In 1971, 21-year-old Alwin Meyer made his first trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp, not as a relative of a survivor but as a German observer. He
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Sandra Scheller
Author Wayne Hoffman regales us with two concurrent non-fiction stories. His search to learn the identity of the person who murdered his great-grandmother as she lay sleeping in her bed, with an infant child at her side, occurred at the same time that his mother, Susan, was having increasing problems with her memory as Alzheimer’s progressively took a worsening toll. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
This charming book tells in rhyming couplets the story of a Passover celebration from the viewpoint of young children in a multiracial Jewish family. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Scientist and public health advocate Adam Schindler announced on January 12 that he is running for U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 50th Congressional District. Schindler, a San Diego resident and father, is challenging incumbent Scott Peters because Peters receives campaign contributions from corporations and opposed legislation that would have
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San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS), one of San Diego’s largest and most impactful nonprofit agencies, has received the 2022 Kaleidoscope Award for Good Governance by The Nonprofit Institute at the University of San Diego, in the large organization category – reserved for nonprofits with an annual budget of
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Bart Denton Ehrman, born on 10/5/55, a PhD American New Testament scholar and author or editor of several dozen very popular, fascinating, and informative books, began life as a fundamentalist Christian, became a minister, and preached in churches. But he gave up Christianity and became an
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — The East Coast was hit with up to 2-1/2 feet of snow as part of a “bombogenesis” snowstorm. A bombogenesis is a storm that intensifies rapidly, yielding blizzard-like conditions. In simple terms, bombogenesis describes a storm bursting into existence like a bomb! The term evokes the Jewish
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
(c) By Edwin Black Amnesty International is attempting to bomb the world’s airwaves, news sites, and printing presses with yet another fake Israeli apartheid report. Last week, in an extraordinary move of attempted media synchrony, Amnesty actually pre-positioned an embargoed press release emblazoned with a bright red instruction to editors “Under Strict Embargo until 1
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Edwin Black, International, Middle East, Opinion
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandleblit is coming to the end of his term. And he’s finishing it with a number of plea bargains. One has been with Ariyeh Deri. He’s pleading guilty to tax fraud, paying a fine of 180,000 shekels ($56,615) resigning from the Knesset, but avoiding a
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion
HAIFA (Press Release) — A new study by a team of researchers from Israel and Ghana has brought the first evidence of nonrandom mutation in human genes, challenging a core assumption at the heart of evolutionary theory by showing a long-term directional mutational response to environmental pressure. Using a novel method, researchers led by Professor
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
“The Foundation of Judaism,” by Akiva Aaronson (originally published by Targum Press, Inc. 1997, 2000); Feldheim Publishers, 2021; ISBN: 978-1680254815; 216 pages. By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — I just finished composing my weekly D’var Torah on parashat Terumah, focusing on gifts, and a surprise parcel arrived at my front door. A delightful
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell