Abba Hillel Silver (January 28, 1893 – November 28, 1963) was an American rabbi and Zionist leader. He was a key figure in the mobilization of American support for the founding of the State of Israel. [Wikipedia]
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By Cailin Acosta in La Mesa, California Recently, San Diego’s historic Balboa Park has started charging for parking, which has caused an uproar among many residents who have enjoyed parking for free and spending time at the park’s museums, restaurants, theaters, and gardens. I have a membership at the Mingei International Museum where children under
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Holocaust survivor and documentarian Bernard Offen, 96, who was imprisoned in the ghetto in Krakow, Poland, and later was an inmate at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex, spoke Tuesday at a ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of those camps by Soviet forces. [Donald H. Harrison]
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We take miracles for granted because familiarity breeds… well, scrolling past them. (Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel)
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The liberation has not lost its urgency or its moral weight. As we reflect more than eight decades later, the connections between that history and the world we are living in today are impossible to ignore. (Press release).
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There are an estimated 196,600 Jewish Holocaust survivors globally, living across more than 90 countries. This is down from the 220,000 survivors estimated to be alive when the Claims Conference released this data in January 2025. (Press Release)
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A married couple, both college English professors, are taking a weekend away in a cabin. This escape is intended to help Elena (Rhiannon McAfee) and Jim (Charles Peters) heal their relationship which has been upended with Elena’s diagnosis of bipolar disorder. (Eva Trieger)
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Julius Lester (January 27, 1939 – January 18, 2018) was an American writer of books for children and adults and an academic who taught for 32 years (1971–2003) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. [Wikipedia]
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The remains of Ran Gvili have been recovered by the Israeli military and identified by Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine. The 24-year-old member of Israel’s Police Special Forces was killed in the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre and his body was taken to Gaza. He was the last hostage, alive or dead, held by terrorists in Gaza. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Our goal is simple: to help survivors remain safely and comfortably in their own homes for as long as possible. Services include home care assistance, transportation to medical appointments, access to nutritious food and help navigating complex healthcare systems. Just as important is addressing the emotional and social impacts of aging and trauma. [Dana Toppel]
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On January 22, 1938, Goldman was arrested. He was charged with participation in counter-revolutionary crimes – anti-state subversive and terrorist activities. He was brutally tortured during interrogations, but he categorically denied all charges and said nothing that would have allowed a case to be fabricated against others, as the investigators demanded. [Alex Gordon]
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Jules Feiffer (January 26, 1929 – January 17, 2025) was an American cartoonist and author, who at one time was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for editorial cartooning and, in 2004, Feiffer was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. [Wikipedia]
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Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nevada) in an interview with the Associated Press said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should be impeached. [Donald H. Harrison]
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October 27, 2021, Rabbi Yonasan Abrams of Chabad Temecula and Baruch Bloom, of the Chesed Shel Emes Society of California, buried the remains of a Ploni Ben Abraham, in the Chabad Mt. of Olives Cemetery in Los Angeles. Ploni Ben Abraham means unknown but to God. [Jerry Klinger]
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