By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President Trump is still determined to help Jews make Tisha B’Av, the saddest day on the Hebrew calendar, “fun again.” He’s reintroduced that slogan, first offered a year ago, this time with examples of how he would accomplish the goal. It’s part of Trump’s just-introduced reelection campaign strategy, to […]
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Sandi Masori JUNEAU, Alaska — We went on a family cruise to Alaska and stopped off in the capital city. While there we worked up quite an appetite rafting on the Mendenhall River under the auspices of Alaska Travel Adventures, so we were really happy to go for dinner afterwards at the Gold Creek
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Sheol Country Blues by Adrienne O’Hare, Asna Publishing © 2019, ISBN 9780578-507248; 165 pages, $18. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I met the Jewish lady whose name sounds very Irish (thanks to her marriage to the affable Larry O’Hare) in February 2018 at shipboard Shabbat services aboard the MS Maasdam, which then
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By Chris Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Fearing for their safety, David Vance rarely steps outside of Hillcrest. As someone who identifies as nonbinary — not male or female – Vance finds comfort and support only on the job and in that gay friendly community. “I’ll be honest and say I almost
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San Diego CountyThe late movie critic Joel Siegel was born on this day (July 7) in 1943. Here is a tribute to his memory.
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The more I read about Trump and Israel the more it seems clear that he wants to please not the Jews but Christian evangelicals of whom there’re many more than Jewish voters in the United States and without whose votes he wouldn’t have become president. Evangelicals believe that Jesus’
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Middle East, USABy Eileen Wingard DEL MAR — July 4th was the third time that Yael and Vlady were invited to perform at this year’s San Diego County Fair. I heard their 3:00 p.m. performance that final day of the fair, on the O’Brien Stage, near Gate 5. Yael’s sultry singing voice is beautifully supported by her
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO — Here is a collection of songs recorded by Cantor Sheldon Merel during his tenure as cantor at Congregation Beth Israel. Click on any title to hear Cantor Merel’s recorded rendition. In some cases, the songs are accompanied by an explanatory article indicated by a date alongside. Adon Olam Adon Olam, Jazz Version
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — The dentist in the television series Seinfeld, Tim Whatley, D.D.S., converted to Judaism in order to tell Jewish jokes, so perhaps Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed Jewish roots to exploit Jewish suffering – and in the process created a sideshow that diverted attention from the suffering of migrants held in
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By Donald H. Harrison AT SEA, Aboard Star Princess – As our family did quite often during the week we were aboard the 3,100-passenger, 950- foot-long M.V. Star Princess, we gathered one afternoon at a round table on Deck 14, which is where the swimming pools and the indoor buffet are located. On this particular
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Donald H. Harrison, Sandi Masori, Shor M. Masori, Travel and FoodOn this date in 1942, Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam. This movie retells the story told in The Diary of Anne Frank, but continues where that movie left off, with the arrest of Anne and her family and their subsequent lives and deaths in Nazi concentration camps.
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — This past week, the American flag became a focal point as we celebrated the Fourth of July. The Wall Street Journal reported how NIKE was forced to recall a shoe that featured the “Betsy Ross” flag on the heel. Colin Kaepernick who signed a multi-million-dollar sponsorship
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Sports & Competitions, USABy Dorian de Wind The Moderate Voice AUSTIN, Texas — During the Holocaust, Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS (the Dutch national railway company), on behalf of the Nazi occupiers, operated the trains that transported more than 100,000 Dutch Jews, first to “transit camps” and then to the Dutch border. There, the Dutch Jews were transferred to
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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USAIn honor of the 69th anniversary of Israel’s Knesset passing the law of return on this date (July 5) in 1950, guaranteeing every Jew in the world the right to become an Israeli citizen.
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