Linda McCartney (September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings that also featured her husband, Paul McCartney of the Beatles. [Wikipedia]
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This moment has been our shofar blast, sounding before Rosh Hashanah itself. For many American Jews, raised in the comfort of the “goldene medina,” antisemitism felt like a relic—something for history books or distant shores. But October 7 shattered that illusion. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
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Ten years ago, Ana Galicot, the dynamic leader of the Mexican-Jewish Community in Mexico City, Tijuana and San Diego, recruited Elisheva Edelson to form a choir at Ohr Shalom Synagogue. To mark that anniversary, the choir, under Elisheva’s direction, presented a concert Monday evening, September 15, in Ohr Shalom’s Social Hall to honor their beloved founder. [Eileen Wingard]
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Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974) was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator. With a career spanning 60 years, he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, coining the term “stereotype” in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 Public Opinion. [Wikipedia]
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Parents worry about their wayward teens, elderly parents are denying their physical limitations, and the “sandwich generation” is trying to figure out how to navigate the amorphous unchartered landscape between these two bookends. [Eva Trieger]
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We want to wish all of our readers and the wider Jewish community a year of health, prosperity, peace, and happiness. [Nancy and Donald Harrison]
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Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur wrote, “We are in a time of mashber. It’s a time of anger and hope, death and life. It’s the birthing of something new and no one knows what that’s going to be.” [Heidi Gantwerk]
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In its meetings with presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers and other senior officials, B’nai B’rith will again underscore the threat posed by illicit Iranian nuclear activity, missile production and sponsorship of terrorism. [Press Release]
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The Fistel case is striking because it has the potential to intensify the already frightening environment that Jews worldwide must endure. He allegedly wrote or called in possible death threats to Mamdani. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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David Stern (September 22, 1942 – January 1, 2020) was an American lawyer and business executive who was the commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1984 to 2014. [Wikipedia]
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Ludwig gained significant fame from his biographical novels Goethe (1920), Bismarck (1921–1926), Napoleon (1924), about Jesus Christ, Der Menschensohn History of a Prophet (1928), Lincoln (1930), Michelangelo (1930), Schliemann (1932), Roosevelt (1938), Beethoven (1943). [Alex Gordon]
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Each flower is in memory of a child; a child whose name is unknown. Each name is known by God. [Jerry Klinger]
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When we hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, it reminds us that G-d created the world, and He is our King. Additionally, when we hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, it reminds us to reflect on our past mistakes and return to G-d. [Cailin Acosta]
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Jerry Bruckheimer (September 21, 1943) is an American film and television producer. He has been active in the genres of action, drama, comedy, fantasy, horror and science fiction. [Wikipedia]
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