By Bruce S. Ticker SAN DIEGO — They are both Palestinians. Leila Khalad hijacked a TWA flight a half-century ago and her fans in America encourage her to blab her head off. Rami Aman reached out to young Israelis a half-year ago, and Hamas jails him. This stark contrast brings to mind two familiar phrases: […]
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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Avraham Azrieli’s The Elixirist is excellent, so full of exciting events that it will make a wonderful motion picture. It is the story of a young boy of 16, Sall, who lived in the biblical time of the judges, before the Israel tribes united, when they
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr.
Other items in today’s column include *Political bytes *Jewish organizations *In memoriam By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This publication proudly endorses Joe Biden for President. We will give credit to President Donald Trump where it is due. We applauded his decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize the Golan
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, USA
Tune: Everybody’s Talking at Me By Laurie Baron (in San Diego) Donald Trump is squawking at him. He doesn’t hear a word Joe’s saying With every insult that he spouts. Voters scared and hurting. He doesn’t see their faces Only the MAGA on their hats. He’s shouting that the Dems are leftists. Who’ll defund the
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Lawrence Baron
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. —Think of Iran as a lobster body with two pincer arms. The north pincer is commonly referred to as the “Shiite Crescent” stretching from the body across Iraq, Syria and Lebanon to the Mediterranean Sea. It is both a lid on Iran’s primary enemies Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel and
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Mark D. Zimmerman Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died earlier this month at the age of 87, following 27 years of service on the United States Supreme Court, where she was the first Jewish woman to serve. Throughout her career she was an advocate for women’s rights, as evidenced by her writing
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Yossef Ben-Meir and Ellen Hernandez MARRAKECH, Morocco — Harnessing the experiences and the history of religious and ethnic groups in Morocco must be a priority before the holders of that knowledge are lost to time. Moroccan-based civil associations, with the right support, are in an ideal position to gather and disseminate this knowledge for
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Yossef Ben-Meir
By Teresa Konopka SAN DIEGO — The One and Only Jewish Miss America premiered Sept.8 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. This marked the 75th anniversary of Bess Myerson winning the Miss America pageant. As the name implies, she was and still is the only Jewish woman to win the prestigious
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International, Sports & Competitions, Teresa_Konopka, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Richard L. Cravatts BOCA RATON, Florida — Led by the virulent anti-Israel, often anti-Semitic group Students for Justice in Palestine, the student government at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently passed a resolution calling on the university to oppose anti-black racism and also to divest from Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Company, Lockheed Martin, Caterpillar
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Coping is a synonym for political management. It’s especially prominent in situations of intense conflict, when competing groups can’t make crisp decisions. It’s marked by doing a bit of this, and a bit of that, without overcoming the conflict. There’s also avoidance and ambiguity. Avoiding the knotty problems, and fashioning
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastEditor’s Note: Laurie Baron, Ph.D, envisions how U.S. President Donald Trump would rewrite the history of the United States. Here is a link to Part I, the colonial period. … The New Republic (not to be confused with the fake news magazine)
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
On behalf of San Diego Jewish World, I would like to offer sincere sympathy to the parishioners and clergy of St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Church in Rancho San Diego and Our Mother of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in El Cajon, on whose houses of worship swastikas and hateful slogans were discovered on Saturday morning. [Donald H. Harrison, ‘Our Shtetl San Diego County’]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
In 1928 Herbert van Son, the uncle I never knew, was a young man of nineteen. The family lived in Hamburg and his father was a successful importer of tobacco. He arranged for his son to travel to Louisville and work as an apprentice to a business associate who was a tobacco farmer and trader there. He writes about the hot, damp climate and the warm relations between him and his employer, who helped him get settled and even took him to the Kentucky Derby. It was all interesting but very different to the life he had known in Hamburg,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Travel and Food, USA
It was only in the past year that a number of Arab countries decided that the failure of the Palestinian Arabs to come to an agreement with Israel was dangerous for those selfsame countries. With an expansionist Shia-Muslim Iran threatening them, two Sunni-Muslim Arab states decided to put their citizens first and ally themselves with the most powerful state in the neighborhood, Israel. No longer would the security of the Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain (by “allying” with Israel) be vetoed by Palestinian Arabs, whose demand is NO normalization with Israelis. [Steve Kramer]
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Middle East, Steve Kramer