Outdoors, masked, and socially distanced, members of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club who served in the military raised the American flag, played recorded military music, and briefly recounted some of their experiences protecting America. [Sandi Masori]
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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, USA
Democrats Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock must navigate an obstacle course to convert voting figures so they can join the U.S. Senate on Jan. 5 and Jewish Georgians wary of “apartheid” phrasing could help swing their elections.
Warnock’s antipathy to Israel could cost Dems the Senate Read More »
Bruce Ticker, USA
It will be very interesting to see what City Councilman-elect Sean Elo-Rivera and his wife Angela will be doing come November 2021.
The early part of November has been uncommonly meaningful for them the last several years. In November 2018, at a party to watch election returns attended by his and Angela Rivera’s family, Sean Elo dropped to his knee right after the initial vote for the Board of Trustees of the San Diego Community College District showed him winning, and asked Angela to marry him. [Donald H. Harrison]
Meet Sean Elo-Rivera, SD’s newest Jewish councilman Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, USA
Israel has delivered the first of two Multi-Mission Radars (MMRs) to the United States Army, to be used in conjunction with two Iron Dome missile defence system batteries procured by the Pentagon in an August 2019 deal, according to Israeli media report.The US Army received the first MMR, built by ELTA Systems, from Israel’s Missile
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Middle East, USA
President Donald Trump’s campaign filed a lawsuit Monday in Pennsylvania’s federal court in an attempt to block state election officials from certifying results showing President-elect Joe Biden carrying the swing state.The lawsuit, brought by two registered voters and the Trump campaign, argues that Pennsylvania created “an illegal two-tiered voting system” by offering more oversight over
September 17, 1940 Errington was in the basement of an Auxiliary Fire Station in London when a bomb crashed through the building spreading death, fire and mayhem. Seven Firefighters were killed immediately. Once the daze cleared from his head a bit, Errington saw two surviving comrades trapped with him under the burning debris. Errington freed one man, carrying him through the smoke and flames to the outside, saving the injured man. [Jerry Klinger]
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed on Tuesday that the United States planned to sell top-of-the-line F-35 fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates as part of a $23.37 billion package.The State Department sent a formal notice to Congress on the sale of the stealth precision planes, long sought by the Gulf Arab ally which
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Middle East, USA
We learn profound lessons from the lives of Sarah and Abraham about growing young and happy in older age. Yet we still seem to have the need to turn to, for example, a famed Harvard University study that found the following personality characteristics relating to happiness in aging: A future orientation and the ability to plan positively (“I figure if I can do this when I’m 85, I’ll be doing pretty well.”) The capacity for both gratitude and forgiveness The ability to see the world through the eyes of another The desire to do things with, and for, people. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
Saeb Erekat, a veteran peace negotiator and prominent international spokesman for the Palestinians for more than three decades, died on Tuesday, weeks after being infected by the coronavirus. He was 65.The American-educated Erekat was involved in nearly every round of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians going back to the landmark Madrid conference in
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Middle East
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Saying the presidential race is “by no means over,” South Carolina’s senior Republican lawmaker suggested that President Donald Trump exhaust every legal avenue before conceding the contest, and if he concedes, run again in four years and “keep his movement alive.”“All I’m asking people to do is run down every credible allegation
Graham says Trump should consider a 2024 run if every legal option is exhausted Read More »
USA
Georgia Senate candidate, Democrat Jon Ossoff, has faith that Georgia can keep the momentum and replace the two current Republican senators with Democrats in the January runoff elections.“There’s a huge sense of enthusiasm and momentum here in Georgia right now,” said Ossoff in an interview with CNN on Monday, claiming that Georgian Democrats have “the
Why are American Jewish organizations silent about Congressional anti-Semitism and anti-Israel slander?
Why is it that the ZOA is the only Jewish organization in America that initiated instant condemnation of Ilhan Omar’s latest anti-Semitic drumbeat against Israel. The new set of Omar’s lies, tweeted after the US election, included the blood libel that Israel is ethnically cleansing the Palestinians, accusing the Jewish State of “leaving an entire community homeless in direct violation of international law.” [Barry Shaw]
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Barry Shaw, Middle East, USA
The Last Vermeer – producer Dan Friedkin’s directorial debut – is a well-paced and thoroughly engaging World War II drama. Joseph Piller (played by Claes Bang), is a Dutch Jew who fought with the Resistance during the war; and is now commissioned with uncovering and redistributing art stolen by the Nazis. Enter the flamboyant painter and art dealer, Han van Meegeren (masterfully played by Guy Pearce) who is suspected of selling Dutch art treasures to Field-Marshal Hermann Goering and other top Nazi officials. Piller’s story is complicated by a fraught relationship with his wife (played by Marie Bach Henson), who remained in Holland during the occupation; and while she provided intelligence to the Resistance, the implication is that she was only able to acquire such intelligence by carrying on a romantic dalliance with Nazi officers. [Sam Ben-Meir, Ph.D]
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir
Two Democratic San Diego City Councilwomen — Jennifer Campbell, who is Jewish, and Monica Montgomery Steppe, who is African American — have announced their intentions to compete for the position of President of the San Diego City Council, which Georgette Gomez will relinquish next month when she leaves office following an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Congress. [Donald H. Harrison]
Contest Dec. 10 for San Diego City Council President Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County