By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Actress Natalie Portman is in the headlines, having decided to forgo her receipt of the Israeli Genesis Prize, often referred to as the Jewish Nobel Prize. Portman said that she did not want her presence to imply approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was scheduled to speak at […]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire© Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — The measurement of time changes after you retire. You do not have to go to work, and you can do pretty much what you want to do within financial and physical limits. The change of direction can be dramatic. Do not confuse sleeping late with depression, but exhaustion from
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver PollakBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This contentious little country could not get through its Memorial Day and its 70th Anniversary Independence Day without political squabbles that qualify for the label of noisome, i.e., stinky. The media of Memorial Day were marked, as is usual, by stories about young people cut down before they could demonstrate
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Even though I have often written about downsizing, I confess to my inability to actually do it. I feel forever guilty looking around at my “too much stuff.” That is until now. I just read a book by Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up—The Japanese
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Lemonade and chalk are two tools that the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs (SWU) utilizes on college campuses across the U.S. and Canada to combat aggressive anti-Israel campaigns launched by such groups as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Sarah Tagger, a campus strategist for the 17-year-old StandWithUs, briefed members
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−To counteract bad publicity for calling the police to arrest two African American customers, Starbucks will close its stores for one day of racial sensitivity training for its staff and discontinue its Blond roast line of coffee. * For the first time in its history, the Senate allowed one of its
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Press Release) — On weekends as a child, Dana Rogozinski sat with her grandmother, Ella, at the kitchen table playing with beads and baubles. Ella, a Holocaust survivor, was self-taught in the art of stringing pearls and worked as a jeweler for a high-end jewelry store in Jacksonville, Florida. Her grandmother’s Auschwitz forearm
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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While Professor Harold Hill may have been a part of Tanna Frederick’s formative years, the college graduate who left Iowa, was bound for glory in New York or Los Angeles where she just knew stardom was awaiting her. However, her road to Los Angeles wasn’t paved with gold, and
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Come April 27, Disobedience will open in movie theaters across the country. I think a better title might be Restraint. It is the story of Ronit, the daughter of an Orthodox rabbi, banished from her British community because she was discovered having a lesbian affair with a neighbor
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Reps. Nita Lowey (D-NY), Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Albio Sires (D-NJ), and Michael McCaul (R-TX) on Wednesday introduced H. Res. 835, a resolution supporting robust bilateral relations with the State of Israel globally and fairness in its treatment in multilateral fora upon seventy years of statehood. The resolution highlights Israel’s recent advances
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Middle East, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The re-election of Egypt’s President Sisi came as no surprise. Despite irregularities at some polling stations, President Sisi won handily because he remains the most popular president, and perhaps for good reason. A clear majority of Egyptians feel that unlike any of his predecessors, Sisi is dedicated to improving
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