SAN DIEGO — A friend of license plate maven Melanie Rubin found this specimen, obviously a variant on L’Chaim. We can speculate that the 4 in the middle of the word may mean “for” rather than “four,” suggesting that the owner supports all life forms. Another reading might be that there are four people (perhaps […]
Jewish-interest license plate L’CH4IM Read More »
Melanie Rubin, The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Mohammad Ali Hammadi has been arrested by Greek police. It was only a short story in the Daily Mail of Britain — and barely in the American papers at all, except, naturally, Navy Times.
Think back.
U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem was aboard TWA Flight 847 on June 14, 1985, scheduled to fly from Cairo to San Diego with intermediate stops. It never made it. The plane was hijacked after a stop in Athens by Shi’ite Hezbollah terrorists who first looked for passengers with Israeli passports. Finding none, they brutally murdered Stethem on a stop in Beirut and threw his body out on the tarmac. (Please click headline to read more)
Terrorist murderer of U.S. Navy sailor eludes extradition Read More »
International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
Items in today’s column include:
*Tel Aviv Foundation applauds San Diegans’ philanthropy
*Father Joe Carroll endorses Joe Leventhal for City Council
*Rabbi Dorsch and Cantor Leberman star in Tifereth Israel High Holy Days video
*Israeli Idol Haggit Yaso to perform at StandWithUs gala
*Meet the Family Eilfort
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 24, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyRock drummer Janet Weiss was born on this day (September 24) in 1965.
Happy birthday Janet Weiss Read More »
Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
The election was only the first step. It seems to have closed the door on Bibi, even though he doesn’t recognize it. Both Likud and Blue AND White fell short of the 61 seats needed to form a government. What exists may be a free for all, almost. But perhaps not for Bibi. (Please click on headline to read more)
The many possibilities of coalition in Israel Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
The current president of Ukraine is Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky defeated incumbent President Petro Poroshenko with 73% of the vote in April, 2019. He is now at the center of a controversy regarding a whistleblower complaint within the United States Intelligence service that purports to indicate that President Donald Trump improperly pressured Zelensky to assist him in his electoral campaign, particularly in trying to besmirch Joe Biden. Prior to his election as president, Zelensky, who is Jewish, was a comedian and actor who appeared in numerous movies and television shows. One of Zelensky’s roles was as the lead character in Servant of the People. What was the plot of Servant of the People? (click headline to read more)
Jewish Trivia Quiz: Volodymyr Zelensky Read More »
Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Items in today’s column: *Climate warming emergency drives Micah Perlin’s Assembly candidacy *Personal wealth vs. political endorsements in 53rd C.D. race *Some of the honorable traits animals share with humans *A play about immigration has premiered at the Old Globe Theatre *Mazel tov! Mazel tov! *Passages By Donald H. Harrison Climate warming emergency drives Micah
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 23, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, The World We Share, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThanks to Liora Subel for forwarding this video to San Diego Jewish World.
Od Yavo Shalom Aleinu ~ South African style Read More »
International, Middle East
Claiming a “mutual love affair, unlike any other in history” between himself and the Jewish people, President Trump is rolling back tariffs on several product imports from China that are favored by Jews.
In a series of tweets, the president said: “Nobody loves the Jews the as much as I do, and no world leader – including Bibi — is loved more by Jews than I am. So I’m doing them a dollars-and-cents buying favor.” (Please click on headline to read more)
‘Just Kidding:’ Tariff relief on Jewish-loved Chinese products Read More »
Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Items in this column include:
*Sha’ar Hanegev Mayor Libstein has 3-day whirlwind tour of San Diego
*Ban on ‘Harry Potter’ series demonstrates need for Banned Book Week
*How the full-time staff of Camp Mountain Chai is described
*Mazel tov! Mazel tov!
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 22, 2019 Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Lifestyles, Middle East, San Diego County
Excerpt: Through seven sections, Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics examines a broad swath of the kosher landscape. Who inspects the inspectors certifying kosher products and are the stamps on kosher meat truly a mark of adherence to traditional values? What are the moral underpinnings of eating kosher meat and what should they be? There is more to kosher meat than slaying by a trained shochet, there must be concern for animal welfare. Family-owned farms, bought out, are now part of mechanized slaughterhouses, whose chief aim is profit. Does a neglected animal, or one needlessly made to suffer, deserve the label kosher even if properly killed? (Please click headline to read full story)
Kashrut involves not only a hechsher but also ethical behavior Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Travel and FoodNational Basketball Association Commissioner David Stern was born this day (September 22) in 1942.
Remembering David Stern Read More »
Sports & Competitions
Excerpt: This year’s visit started with a bang, the sun was shining and we had been invited to tour the House of Lords by a sitting member who had attended the LSE at the same time as I had, but had gone on to have a stellar career in the law, eventually being made a baroness. She had seen my articles about life in Israel in the AJR Journal and contacted me last year, when we visited her in Oxford. Because parliament had been ‘prorogued,’ i.e., suspended, by the Prime Minister, the place was deserted apart from a few security personnel. Nonetheless, we were taken around the opulent building, parts of which date back to the thirteenth century, while much of it was restored in the nineteenth century after a fire. We felt very privileged to be taken around by our friend, who also treated us to a lovely meal at the Wolesley restaurant. (Please click headline to read full story)
A nostalgic, educational visit to London Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food
Excerpt: In Paterson and Trenton, both iconic cities in New Jersey, Michael Jackson and Kathy McBride are members of the city council today, and towards the other end of the country, Patrick Little is running for council in Garden City, Idaho, a suburb of Boise. Little is a white nationalist and a Republican. and Jackson and McBride are African-American Democrats.
Jackson played the race card in Paterson after he was admonished for proclaiming “Jew us down” during a council meeting on September 10 while debating the reconstruction of a local stadium, according to The Paterson Press. “That was meant with no malice,” Jackson said, noting that he learned the phrase during his “upbringing.”
The councilman subsequently questioned if the city administration was doing enough to quell violence involving young African men. In an argument with Mayor Andre Sayegh, he said the phrase was used by people to describe haggling. “I never use it,” the mayor said. (Please click headline to read full story)
Fighting anti-Semitism at local levels of government Read More »
Bruce Ticker, USA