By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Donald Trump has recently expressed interest in the possibility of the United States purchasing Greenland from Denmark (Note: It is NOT for sale). While it is not exactly clear why Trump is interested, it may be related to the natural resources on the island (iron, oil, gold, uranium […]
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International, Jewish History, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
David Harrison spotted this license plate in the San Francisco Bay Area. The owner of the car obviously has a healthy self-deprecating sense of humor. (Photo: Shor M. Masori)
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Shor M. Masori, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – With more than 100,000 students preparing to return to city schools on August 26, their safety is uppermost in the minds of those in charge of their education, San Diego City School Superintendent Cindy Marten told a small but animated gathering Sunday night at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. “We
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
LOS ANGELES By Cynthia Citron Ernest was a boy full of sadness and woe, And, I think you’ll agree, justifiably so. His mother had died, and just as he feared, His father then, literally, just disappeared. Leaving him, at thirteen, all alone, Feeling abandoned and on his own. But he soon met a girl, the
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
In The Spider’s Web by Chaim Eliav, adapted as a graphic novel by Avraham Ohayon; Feldheim Publishers; © 2019; ISBN 9781680-251074; 139 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This graphic novel is set shortly before the Six-Day War of 1967 with the action alternating between B’nei Barak, Israel, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. A
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Travel and FoodComedian Andy Samberg was born this day (August 18) in 1978.
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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Peter C. Herman Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — In the introduction to his 1983 novel about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which really means, the Israeli response to Palestinian terrorism, John le Carré talks about how he went about researching The Little Drummer Girl. He tried to speak with the PLO representative in London,
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Middle East, USA
-Second in a series. To read Part I, click here– (c) By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the 1990s, after years of diplomatic wrangling, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accords, envisioning a peaceful two-state solution. Under the complex Oslo Accords, the “West Bank” is divided into three separate administrative zones, Areas
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Edwin Black, International, Middle East
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — It’s curious that U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib would travel to a country – namely, Israel – that they suggest replicates Nazi Germany. Of course, Israel is no Nazi Germany. No concentration camps, no gas chambers, no fuhrers, no German-style ghettoes, no storm troopers, no boxcars
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Middle East, USAFormer U.S. Senator Norm Coleman, R-Minn., was born this day (August 17) in 1949.
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Who is the Endangered Species? By Elona Baron (as told to Laurie Baron) SAN DIEGO−The Golden Deceiver has decided to weaken the Endangered Species Act to make it easier for companies to build, develop, drill, and mine habitats where rare animals reside. Since dogs aren’t threatened with extinction, why should I care? I might be
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Lawrence Baron, The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – Up and down San Diego County, Jewish congregations and organizations are beginning to embrace the celebration of Tu b’Av, a relatively unknown holiday in the United States, but considered to be the equivalent of Valentines Day in Israel. This secular year, it arrived on the evening of August
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastGabriel Lippmann, born this day (August 16) in 1845 won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of a process to take color photographs.
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, all “women of color” known as “the squad,” are the darlings of the mainstream media. Omar (a refugee from Somalia) and Ocasio-Cortez are constantly in the news making bigoted,
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA