By Sam Glaser LOS ANGELES — As a yeshiva student in the Old City of Jerusalem in my 20s, I learned that the month of Elul was a big deal, a 29-day period to buckle down on preparation for the imminent High Holidays. I remember the rabbis telling us that “the King is in the […]
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Jewish Religion, Sam Glaser, Travel and Food
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — This week’s Torah portion Nitzavim, with its majestic and simultaneously chilling tone, is always read on the Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah. That’s right, it’s only a few days away. It asks us where we stand as we enter the new year. The parasha teaches that Hashem tells us, “I
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — During his 1968 presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy proposed sending 50 military planes to Israel. Two decades later, Sirhan B. Sirhan revealed that RFK’s support of Israel motivated him to fatally shoot RFK in the pantry of a Los Angeles hotel on June 5, 1968. Five months from now,
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Bruce Ticker, USA
By Liam Aron JERUSALEM — The Yamim Noraim (Days of Awe) — including Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — are some of the most intense, if not the most intense, days on the Jewish calendar. Days when we look back on the year that passed us by, both the moments we are proud of and
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Jewish Religion
I can’t get no Ivermectin, I can’t get no Ivermectin.
‘Cause I search and I search and I search and I search.
I can’t get no, I can’t get no … [Satire by Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Khaled Al Jalahma, the first-ever Bahraini ambassador to Israel, kicked off his tenure on Tuesday with a trilingual social-media post. “I am honored to announce that I will be arriving in Tel Aviv today to begin my post as #Bahrain’s first Ambassador to #Israel,” Al Jalahma tweeted in Hebrew, Arabic and English. [JNS.org]
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Middle East
Former U.S. ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro has been hired by the U.S. State Department to assist with the indirect negotiations between the United States and Iran in the Biden administration’s attempt to reenter the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. [JNS.org]
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Middle East, USA
Israel is going to lend the Palestinian Authority more than $150 million after Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday in Ramallah, Israeli officials said on Monday. [JNS.org]
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Business & Finance, Middle East
Two suspects of the 1994 bombing at the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) Jewish community center in Buenos Aires were confirmed by Iran’s parliament to take on new positions in the cabinet, Reuters reported. [JNS.org]
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International
Published by Radar Online Gene Simmons has tested positive for COVID-19. According to TMZ, KISS announced Tuesday that the band is choosing to postpone their next 4 tour dates as Simmons recovers. The band and rest of the crew will reportedly remain at home and isolate for the next 10 days. “Doctors have indicated the
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Jewish Celebrities
After a year’s absence, Western States Jewish History, a half-century-old journal, has made its reappearance in a new format. No longer a quarterly, the journal will be published semi-annually by Texas Tech University Press, under the editorship of Jonathan L. Friedmann, professor of Jewish Music History at the Academy for Jewish Religion-California in Los Angeles. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak
Published by Loudwire Death metal grandma and holocaust escapee Inge Ginsberg has died at 99. Ginsberg became a beloved figure on the metal world when she discovered metal music in her 90s and formed a metal band called Inge & the TritoneKings. Inge & the TritoneKings exploded onto the metal scene when Ginsberg was 93.
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Jewish Celebrities
We support the Forgotten People Fund of Netanya, which has Israel’s largest Ethiopian Israeli population. Our grass roots fund, composed solely of volunteers, attempts to fill the gaps left by the city’s social services department. The ultimate mission is to help our local Ethiopian Israeli community members to better themselves. FPF depends on donations to carry on the important undertakings like assisting the community to obtain professional qualifications, such as managers, teachers, lawyers, nurses, and engineers. See the website at: http://www.fpf.org.il. [Steve Kramer]
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Middle East, Steve Kramer
This is a biography of two Dutch Jewish sisters who survived much of World War II living under assumed identities in a country villa located on a high knoll in the middle of the woods near Amsterdam. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History