Education Beat: Hillel sponsors a college fair; Jewish groups monitor California’s ethnic studies
Following in alphabetical order, by educational topic, are news releases of direct interest to the Jewish community. [News Releases]
Coronavirus Politics in U.S., Israel
Along with, or perhaps behind the quarrels over the presidential transition, is the global pandemic.It’s the worst case since the flu that accompanied World War I more than a century ago.The US President should take considerable credit for his country’s leading indicators of illness and death. His various claims about cures and vaccines, plus his reluctance to wear a mask have contributed to the widespread disregard, and the increasing incidence of infections. [Ira Sharkansky]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USAIsraeli settlers disrupt EU visit to sensitive East Jerusalem area
Israeli settlers disrupted a visit on Monday by a European Union (EU) delegation to a neighbourhood in East Jerusalem where Israel plans to build more than 1,200 housing units.A video published in Israeli media shows activists shouting “anti-Semites go home,” “anti-Semites go back to Europe” as EU representatives attempted to speak.Two Jerusalem city council members
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International, Middle EastJewish organizations react to FBI hate crimes report
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has reported the hate crimes are on the increase in the United States, prompting quick reaction from a variety of Jewish organizations. Here is alphabetical order are news releases from some of those reactions [Press Releases follow]
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USAIsrael demands CNN anchor apologise after comparing Trump years to Kristallnacht
Israel has demanded that a CNN anchor apologises for comparing US President Donald Trump’s actions to the Nazi pogrom against Germany’s Jews in 1938, also known as the Kristallnacht.”This week 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened,” Christiane Amanpour said in a live broadcast on CNN on Thursday. “It was the Nazis’ warning shot across the bow
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASenate chief blasts Trump troop withdrawal plans
Washington (AFP) – US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned President Donald Trump Monday against accelerating troop reductions in Afghanistan and Iraq, saying it would give extremists a “big propaganda victory.”Addressing reports that Trump plans to announce within days sharp cuts to US forces in both countries, the Republican Senate chief said the US would
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International, USA‘We are all Jews here’
Sgt. Edmonds ordered all 1275 men to assemble for the Nazi roll call. Siegmann ordered Edmonds to single out the Jews. He refused. Siegmann put a pistol to Edmonds’ head and threatened to kill him if he did not comply to separate out the Jews. Edmonds, with cold, pure courage, told the American educated Commandant, “We are all Jews here.” He told him the war would be over soon. If he killed him, Siegmann would be tried as a War Criminal. [Jerry Klinger]
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, USA‘Mostly Mishegas’ Satirizes Trump’s Jewish Knowledge
The idea that Donald J. (“John,” not “Jewish”) Trump would even consider converting to Judaism is, on its face, outrageous. Then again, Joel H. (“Hugh,” not “Hebrew”) Cohen, has plenty of outrageous thoughts about the 45th president of the United States and has, in the past, humorously and unapologetically expressed them in these pages of the San Diego Jewish World in his column, “Just Kidding.” [Bruce F. Lowitt]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Bruce F. Lowitt, Donald H. Harrison, Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireJewish Trivia Quiz: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, z”l
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth of Great Britain and renowned spiritual leader, philosopher, and author, died last week. Sacks was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005 and awarded a life peerage in the House of Lords in 2009, taking the title Baron Sacks, of Aldgate in the City of London. He was the winner of numerous awards, including the Templeton Prize, American National Jewish Book Award (4 times), The Norman Lamm Prize at Yeshiva University and the Jerusalem Prize. Rabbi Sacks wrote and spoke eloquently on many subjects, including interfaith dialogue, Torah vehokhmah (Torah and Wisdom), materialism, secularism, anti-Semitism and more. Which of the following are among Rabbi Sacks’s writings? [Mark D. Zimmerman]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireKindness to a boy saying Kaddish for his father
Wolpe, in one of his stories, tells of a bereft eleven-year-old boy, living in Boston and walking to shul every day to say Kaddish for his recently deceased father. A few weeks passed when the synagogue’s sexton showed up at his door saying that he lived nearby and they should walk to shul together. Only years later, as a man with a child of his own, did he discover that the sexton lived far away, walking many miles to the boy’s home just to support him, calling this true chesed, an act of kindness without the expectation of anything in return—this is the Federation. [Fred Reiss, Ed.D]
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Travel and FoodCan Pompeo replace annexation with a glass of Psagot wine?
Could US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo already be stumping for votes for his own presidential run in 2024 by weighing a visit to the West Bank Psagot Winery?PLO Executive Committee member Hanan Ashrawi certainly seemed to make that assumption, when she attacked him for contemplating such a trip during his visit here later this
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USAJustice Samuel Alito Voices Conservative Political Concerns In Speech, Slams ‘Unimaginable’ Curbs On Religious Freedom
During a meeting of the Federalist Society late on Thursday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to “previously unimaginable” curbs on individual liberty, namely through signaling out restrictions on religious events. “We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of
‘Paper Bullets’ tells of lesbian resisters in Nazi-occupied Jersey
Avant-garde artists Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe advertised the fact that they were stepsisters, and hid the fact that they were lovers; their practice in deception useful in hiding their World War II roles as anti-occupation propagandists in Nazi-occupied Jersey. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsGood News from Israel (November 15, 2020)
In the 15th Nov 20 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include: • A new Israeli endoscopy device takes better biopsies for diagnosing cancer. • Saudi Arabia diverted an Israeli plane to fly near Mecca, to avoid a storm. • An Israeli’s learning difficulties led him to develop an educational app. • Israelis helped build Apple’s new microprocessor.
• Latest figures show Israel is the highest spender on R&D as a proportion of GDP. • Israeli hi-tech is the subject of the new TrueFuture TV series. • An on-line Israeli course on Islam has hundreds of students across the Muslim world. [lMichael Ordman]
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