By Teresa Konopka SAN DIEGO — Recently I went to a Jewish young professionals event where the discussion centered around taboo topics. When abortion came up, several people gave their views on the matter. True to the adage “two Jews, three opinions,” there were comments from both sides of the argument. From pro-life to pro-choice, […]
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Jewish Religion, Teresa_Konopka
SEATTLE (Press Release) — StandWithUs on Tuesday strongly condemned numerous antisemitic social media posts made by Dave Reilly, a candidate for school board in Post Falls School District, Idaho. The Israel education organization also condemned the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee’s (KCRCC) endorsement of Reilly, and refusal to acknowledge his hateful comments. Reilly has recently
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Marshall Weiss The Dayton Jewish Observer DAYTON, Ohio — How do you respond when a dear friend spews hate? When someone who has championed you — who has held up your spirits in your darkest hours — publicly ignites vile judgments against people who are continually denigrated and othered? Where do you begin? This,
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A reunion of people who, like my husband, were born in 1940, i.e. now aged 80, might sound over-optimistic, but these were no ordinary people. These were men and women who were born and brought up in Kiryat Haim, a settlement situated on the coast slightly north of
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Lifestyles
By Sam Glaser LOS ANGELES — I love to watch our quiet street come alive when I daven Shacharit on our front porch, bound in my tefillin and enveloped in my tallit. Our next-door neighbors have two adorable kids, the oldest a loquacious blonde with a favorite game. I watch him try, often successfully, to
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Lifestyles, Sam Glaser
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — One of the most lamentable recent events was the death of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, who was born in 1948 and died on November 7, 2020. He was a British Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, theologian, award-winning author, international religious leader, respected moral voice, and public figure. He
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
Published by DPA Anti-Semitism is “rife” across social media, with young people being introduced to hateful content via platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, new research says. A report by campaign group Hope Not Hate found that anti-Semitism is commonly and widely spread through conspiracy theories online, with a major spike during the pandemic. It
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Published by AFP Washington (AFP) – The top diplomats from Israel and the United Arab Emirates are set to hold three-way talks in Washington Wednesday as President Joe Biden’s administration embraces and looks to expand a normalization drive. Concerns about Iran — the specter of which helped bring together Israel and Gulf states when they
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Middle East
Published by Knewz By alang.consultant Los Angeles (Knewz) — Las Vegas local media are having fun with a different kind of story — Gene Simmons, artiste. The KISS frontman has his first-ever art show set for The Venetian’s Animazing Gallery. Simmons will be on hand Oct. 22-23 to help kick off the exhibit with a
San Diego’s eminent Israeli folk dancer teacher, Yoni Carr, will be going back to Israel as a returning citizen, a toshav hozer. After 37 years of teaching Israeli Dance in San Diego, Yoni was feted by two events…. (Eileen Wingard)
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Eileen Wingard, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
La Jolla Institute for Immunology, the Jewish Community Foundation, and invited guests celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 14, a generous gift of undisclosed amount from philanthropist Sylvia Liwerant. [Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego]
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
Every step we take in life carries with it magnificent opportunities, but when we are promised that we will be made into a great nation, that we will be blessed, that we will become a blessing, what would make us hesitate to take that step? Abraham, following his Divine calling more than 3700 years ago, took a step that changed the world. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Joshua Angrist was awarded the 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel on Monday for his “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships.” [JNS.org]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
A yeshivah student in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., home to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, was shot with a BB gun pellet on Monday night. [JNS.org]
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