By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — President Trump’s rhetoric that might have inspired killers like Patrick Crusius in El Paso and Connor Betts in Dayton, Ohio, last Saturday (Aug. 3) along with Mitch McConnell’s refusal to move gun control legislation, are certainly disgraceful, but their behavior can perhaps be taken up a serious notch. They […]
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International, USAComedian David Steinberg was born this day (August 9) in 1942. This bit in a Smothers Brothers Show was previewed to television stations, and cancelled before it could be aired.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire
LA JOLLA, California (SDJW) — Retired Economics Prof. Lawrence Krause has been notified by UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla that he will be awarded the 2019 Revelle Medal during the university’s Founders Celebration on Friday, Nov. 15. Krause, who lives in retirement at Seacrest Village in Encinitas, writes a column on world affairs
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Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Jewish Family Service’s “On the Go” program in conjunction with Ed Brown Center is one of three senior centers selected from across the country to test an outreach and education program connecting older adults with ridesharing services, so they can participate in health and wellness programs. The pilot program is
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San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — Every time I move to a new city and join a synagogue, I ask the rabbi what he thinks about political talk in the synagogue. In my parents’ time, it wasn’t an issue. Being so close to the suffering Jews had experienced in Europe under a myriad of different political
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Jewish Religion, USA
33 1/3 House of Dreams through August 25, 2019, San Diego Rep, at the Lyceum Theater By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — As a baby boomer, I like music from the 1960’s and I think much of it is timeless. Many of the songs from the 1960’s were recorded at Gold Star Recording Studios in Hollywood.
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Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Travel and FoodHistorian Gertrude Himmelfarb was born this day (August 8) in 1922. Married to Irving Kristol, she also is known as Bea Kristol.
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Travel and Food
By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — It’s not widely known, but President Trump – very briefly yet seriously– considered converting to Judaism. It occurred recently when he felt the world was crashing in on him: people he’d considered extremely loyal were deserting him, even testifying against him; his constant denials of collusion and illegal
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Repentance as we know it today is not a biblical concept despite the thinking of many that the prophet Hosea talked about it. Hosea 14:2 states “Shuva Yisrael ad Hashem Elokekha,” “Return Israel to the Lord your God.” Actually, Hosea says in chapter 14 what he
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — A million years ago I worked in the Public Relations Department at Boston University. At the time there were 72 schools and colleges flourishing in the Greater Boston area, all bombarding the Boston Globe with press releases about their activities and feeling rewarded if that prestigious newspaper granted them a couple of
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Irv Jacobs, MD LA JOLLA, California — Dr. Itamar Kahn is a distinguished Israeli professor at the Technion, focused on Neuro-degenerative diseases research, at its Prince Center. His biography is most unusual. Interest early on, with a B.S. in computer science from Ben Gurion University, gave him an entrée into neurosurgery operating rooms, where
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Consider the following facts as you wend your way to the Guggenheim Museum and its uppermost gallery, where you will presently find “The Death of Michael Stewart” (1983), Basquiat’s gut-punching tribute to a slain artist, and the centerpiece for an exhibition that could hardly be more timely. Black people
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — If leadership is as difficult and challenging as Moshe so eloquently recounts in his “farewell address,” looking back over the past 40 years as he does in Devarim, why would anyone ever want or accept a position of leadership? When you think back over your past 40 years
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Jewish Religion, Michael MantellSports historian and public relations maven Marty Appel of New York City was born this day (August 7) in 1948.
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