Published by The Detroit News DETROIT — The destroyer named for the late U.S. Sen. Carl Levin was christened at a port in Maine on Saturday morning by the ship’s sponsors, Levin’s three daughters. The ceremony came two months after Levin’s death at age 87 in late July. Levin, a Detroit Democrat, was Michigan’s longest-serving […]
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Published by InsideHook By Tobias Carroll For fans of observational comedy and slap bass, October 1 looked to be a milestone. Why? That’s when the beloved series Seinfeld became available to watch on the streaming service — also the home of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. That’s the good news. But soon after
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer attended the Women’s March in New York on Saturday (02.10.21). The 31-year-old actress – who is pregnant with her first child with husband Cooke Maroney – and the ‘Trainwreck’ star took part in the rally for abortion justice outside the US Supreme Court in the
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Published by DPA Israel’s government is increasing the pressure on people who have been vaccinated twice against Covid-19 amid high infection numbers. From Sunday onwards, the so-called Green Pass, which facilitates access to public life, will only be valid for up to six months after the second vaccination. After this period, a third shot is
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Published by Al-Araby A plane branded with the logo of national Egyptian carrier Egyptair landed in Israel for the first time on Sunday. Egypt was the first Arab nation to establish ties with Israel in a 1979 deal, and direct flights between the countries followed that accord. But the Egyptian flights to Israel had previously
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A century ago, on 16 December 1920 a detailed report on the Pogroms in the Ukraine, a Memorandum on the Massacres of Jews in the Ukraine, was submitted to the League of Nations (now The United Nations) detailing the massacre of Jews in more than 400 pogroms. The memorandum was submitted by The Committee of Jewish Delegations, representing the Jewish populations of 22 countries, appealing to the League of Nations to obtain justice for the most terrible crimes that history had, until that time, ever witnessed,
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Lesson 1: The Biblical Origins of Racial Hierarchy
Adam and Eve were White. The mark of Cain was that he was turned Black for killing his brother Abel. The son of Noah was Ham. His son was Black and immigrated to Ethiopia. From that time on the only thing Africa exported was nubile temptresses like the Queen of Sheba. Jesus was White and his followers founded a new religion to dissociate themselves from their other Jewish contemporaries who had become so tanned from the bright Middle Eastern sun that they identified with Blacks and still do until today. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Published by DPA The Youth Forum of the German-Israeli Society has accused some Union Berlin fans of anti-Semitism during the Europa Conference League game with Maccabi Haifa on Thursday. “In the mixed block, we were threatened by Union fans, pelted with beer and insulted as ‘shitty Jews’,” the group said on Twitter. Union won 3-0.
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Published by PopCrush The lawsuit between Disney and Scarlett Johansson over the release of Black Widow is over. The two sides have reportedly settled their dispute, which threatened to affect the way A-list stars were compensated over their blockbuster roles. The suit stemmed from the way Disney released Johansson’s Black Widow. Her complaint alleged that
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Published by OK Magazine Donald Trump’s daughter was reportedly not very well-received in the White House. Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner served as senior advisers to the ex-President during his one-term tenure as commander-in-chief. Although the duo had the full support of Donald, staffers didn’t have much respect for them. “We had all
Published by Reuters By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. health officials are hoping data on Israeli military personnel can help clarify the risk of heart muscle inflammation in younger people who have received Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 booster shots – a potential factor for U.S. regulators as they consider granting full approval of these boosters. A
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This is a collection of 20 short stories about the upcoming December holidays. Three of the stories have distinctly Jewish angles, whereas others either are Christmas oriented or so general they might be told at any time of the year. Some may well be stories left over from Bernstein’s last book, Miserable Love Stories. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving a La Mesa, California, family’s 20-year effort to reclaim a French Impressionist painting looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust and now hanging in a Spanish museum. Camille Pissarro’s 1897 work, “Rue Saint-Honoré, Afternoon Effect,” is worth by
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By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Many Jews feel that biblical time frames and dating were never meant to be taken literally. The Bible is not a history book. It is designed to teach about the existence of God and proper behavior. The world may have been created over a very long