A public library system in Philadelphia is promising to make operational changes after drawing criticism for what some community members are considering an effort to indoctrinate children and parents against Israel through books, videos and resource links that show a biased pro-Palestinian agenda. [JNS.org]
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Middle East, USA
. Every year, during the month of Elul, we ask each other and ourselves-where are we? Where are we morally, emotionally, spiritually, and what have we learned? How have we grown? [Heidi Gantwerk]
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
Published by BANG Showbiz English Monica Lewinsky is pleased to see people apologising for the way women like Britney Spears were treated in the past. The 47-year-old activist and television personality has admitted she relates to the ‘Toxic’ hitmaker because they were both treated negatively by the public in the past due to the way
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Jewish Celebrities
The Jewish New Year presents us with an opportunity to renew ourselves and our world and to look forward to a brighter year ahead. As we gather with friends and family to celebrate the advent of 5782, it is a good moment to take stock of the year that’s passed and to reflect on what we as a people and a society might do to improve our world and ourselves in the year to come. [Esta Epstein and Jonathan Greenblatt]
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International, Middle East, USA
Erez Raz, who studied Landscape Architecture at the Technion, has assembled some of the projects he has worked on in recent years, presenting them in an exhibition displaying his varied talents and original approach to combining interior and exterior spaces in public life. The projects presented depict his approach to different stages of urban life, ranging from childhood play through adolescence and sport to adult activities such as shopping and driving. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Lifestyles, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
A terrorist who went unarmed into a Countdown supermarket in the Auckland suburb of New Lynn on Friday afternoon grabbed a knife off a shelf and attacked and injured six shoppers before he was shot and killed by two armed police. The officers were part of a Special Tactics Squad (STS) who have had him under surveillance since 2016 when he was listed as a high security risk for his beliefs. [John Bernard McCormick]
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International, John McCormick
To the melody of “Deep in the Heart of Texas” By Laurie Baron My neighbor spies, he’ll moralize When I get my abortion. He’ll report me, so legally For a ten grand extortion. Those who abet will soon regret They helped me commit a crime. Six weeks just flew before I knew A fetus lived
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — First, remember our troops, living and dead, who served the United States in Afghanistan since 2001. They are owed our gratitude for their steadfast presence in a difficult country and our help as they and their families, and the families of the dead, navigate the emotionally terrible terrain of a
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Shoshana Bryen, USA
This week’s Torah reading is Nitzavim (Deuteronomy 29:9-30:20); Haftorah is Isaiah 61:10-63:9 By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California — These strong poetic verses extracted from the Book of Isaiah are again from Isaiah III. They constitute the seventh and last Haftorah of Consolation, preceding Rosh Hashonah. Again, it has no connection to
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
By Yossef Ben-Meir, Ph.D MARRAKECH, Morocco — Twenty-seven years ago, I lived in a village called Amsouzerte in the Tifnoute Valley, the south side of the High Atlas Mountains, closeby to the burial location of the Moroccan-Hebrew saint David-Ou-Mouche. The Tifnoute community and its region long desired for the building of a fruit tree nursery
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Middle East, Yossef Ben-Meir
By Moshe Phillips PHILADELPHIA — The news media had a field day recently with the man-bites-dog story of the self-proclaimed atheist who was recently named chief chaplain at Harvard University. After nearly 400 years of having chief chaplains who believe in G-d, Harvard has gone in a surprising new direction. Not only that, but the
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) have agreed to form a partnership aimed at combating the alarming rise in antisemitic rhetoric and violence through education and advocacy. This partnership will make ADL’s expertise and tools readily accessible to almost 600 USCJ-affiliated synagogues through the
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USA
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — On August 29, Jane Fantel of Carmel Valley posted a heartfelt message on Facebook to mark one year since an “amazing young woman came into my life” — referring to Klil Amar, The Jewish Agency for Israel’s ShinShinit (service year emissary) at the KAVOD Charter School, Congregation Beth
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Jacob Kamaras, San Diego County
These are the Developments of the Human by Ethan Daniel Davidson; self-published 2021; ISBN 1978057-883010; 459 pages; price not listed. By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Ethan Daniel Davidson’s These are the Developments of the Human is a collection of poetic commentaries on thoughts drawn from the Pentateuch. His background is
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi