I’m really not going anywhere, but it is time for me to say thanks for your support as readers and for the memories during my tenure as the founding editor and publisher of San Diego Jewish World. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
Published by The Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The superintendent of a rural Northern California high school said a group of students seen posing in a photo with swastikas and other Nazi symbols drawn on their bodies have been disciplined, but that specific details cannot be shared for legal reasons. The administrator also said she
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USA
Published by The Spun By Hunter Hodies Alabama is gunning for its second-straight National Championship after beating Ohio State last year. First up for this year, the Crimson Tide get the Cincinnati Bearcats as the latter went undefeated in the AAC this season. ESPN’s Paul Finebaum appeared on the SEC Network and touched on what
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Jewish Celebrities, Sports & Competitions
After the University of Southern California was included in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Global Anti-Semitism 2021 Top Ten list, the school responded on Wednesday by condemning both anti-Semitism in all its forms and the threatening tweets by a student leader that led to the distinction. [JNS.org]
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Published by DPA Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian armed with a knife who ran towards soldiers and civilians at a bus stop in the West Bank, according to the Israeli Army on Friday. The man had got out of a Palestinian vehicle, which then drove on. A search for the car is under way.
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Middle East
These prophetic passages, partly poetic but mainly prose, come from the writings of the controversial prophet Ezekiel, known previously to us for hallucinatory flights of fancy. These are dated c. 587 BCE, months before the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem. [Irv Jacobs, M.D.]
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
Over the course of six years the author toiled to trace the movements, ideas and political currents underlying two seminal terms in modern international law: ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity.’ In this undertaking he has interwoven the history and fate of his own family in Galicia (Poland and Ukraine), as well as that of a number of incidental characters, who were involved directly or indirectly in the rescue of some of his family members and the failure to save others. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History
The French government has ordered a mosque to close for six months for “inciting hatred” and “violence” against Christians, Jews and homosexuals, EuroNews reported. [JNS.org]
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International
Two Holocaust survivors were among the 135 Canadians recently appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest civilian honors. [JNS.org]
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International, Jewish History
atellite imagery of the Syrian commercial Mediterranean port at Latakia shows the aftermath of an alleged Israeli strike on Tuesday, and of “astonishingly precise” attacks, The War Zone reported on Wednesday. [JNS.org]
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Middle East
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday appointed IDF Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Edri as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. [JNS.org]
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Middle East
n Israeli civilian who entered Lebanon weeks ago on his own accord was returned on Thursday in a special operation conducted by the Israel Defense Forces, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and other security officials. [JNS.org]
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Middle East
A few Hamas leaders fully expect Israel’s downfall, yet Israel may not want to dislodge Hamas from its perch in Gaza. That is due to the equally firm expectation Hamas will be replaced by something worse. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, Middle East
Published by NJArts.net The cover of Norman Seldin’s autobiography, “You Don’t Know Me.” When President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Norman Seldin was 16 years old and already a working musician. He was also, in fact, promoting his own shows. And on that November night, he had booked a “Cavalcade of Stars” show at the