The New Colossus ~ Emma Lazarus
On this date (June 17) in 1885, the Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor. This poem by Emma Lazarus would be affixed to its pedestal.
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Travel and FoodIn the event Rep. Hunter’s seat is vacated
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After Margaret Hunter pleaded guilty June 13 to conspiracy in the misuse of the campaign funds of her husband, Congressman Duncan Duane Hunter (R-Alpine) and in so doing helped prosecutors lay out a case against the congressman, questions arose what will happen in Hunter’s 50th District should it
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San Diego County, USAJewish trivia quiz: Target
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Target was in the news this past weekend, as a major computer glitch caused the checkout registers in almost all of their stores around the world to stop working. Target has found themselves in the middle of some controversies within the Jewish community in the past. In
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireShurat HaDin battles BDS in Arkansas case
By Nitsana Darshan-Leitner RAMAT GAN, Israel –Shurat HaDin is continuing its battle against the racist BDS movement. This past week, we filed an amicus curiae or “friend of the court” brief with the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the State of Arkansas’ Anti-BDS law, exposing the insidious discriminatory origins and tactics of
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Middle East, USANew Zealand briefly replaces Israel with ‘Palestine’
By David Cumin, PhD AUCKLAND, New Zealand — In the second century, the Romans renamed Judea as “Palaestina” in an attempt to minimize the Jewish indigenous ties to the land of Israel. The New Zealand government recently published a similar insult, labeling a map of the State of Israel as “Palestine” in an official Immigration
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International, Middle EastNoshing with Sandi ~ Black Mountain Grill
Black Mountain Grill, 11201 S Eastern Avenue, Henderson, Nevada 89052 By Sandi Masori HENDERSON, Nevada — I was in the Las Vegas area for a conference and met an old friend for dinner. She took me to the Black Mountain Grill which is part sports bar and part restaurant/ lounge. It’s a very large restaurant
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Sandi Masori, Travel and Food, USADiverse society seeks to define Australia’s values
By Seamus Carr MELBOURNE, Australia –Since Prime Minister John Howard’s government first introduced the Citizenship Test in 2007, politicians have been bandying around words to describe what they believe are ‘Australian values’. Trying to define what Australian values are in a way that is meaningful to our diverse society, and is not just about political
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International, Jewish HistoryRadzynski recital set for June 18 at Beth El
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — David Radzynski became the youngest concertmaster of a major symphony orchestra when, in 2015, the 28-year-old violinist was selected to fill that post in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO). Up until then, Radzynski had never played in a professional orchestra, but his formidable talents, honed in the United
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CalendarLove Story ~ Andy Williams (in memory of Erich Segal)
Author Erich Segal was born this day (June 16) in 1937.
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Travel and FoodAlbright warns against pride morphing into hate
Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be appointed a U.S. Secretary of State, warned graduating UC San Diego students Saturday to beware when “pride in ‘us’ hurdles into hatred of ‘them’” in multi-cultural America. “When pride in ‘us’ hurdles into hatred of ‘them,’ the American tapestry unravels
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San Diego County, USAThe legacy of Entebbe
By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — It was June, 27, 1976, forty three years ago. The Palestine Liberation Organization and radical left-wing Germans hijacked an Air France flight in Athens, refueled in Libya, and landed at Entebbe airport in Uganda. There, the syphilitic president, Idi Amin,
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA‘Prayer’ by Ernest Bloch ~ Raphael Wallfisch & John York
In honor of cellist Raphael Wallfisch’s birth on this day in 1953.
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Travel and FoodCell phones cause whingeing at concert venues
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — One of the Facebook groups I belong to is called ‘Brits Whingeing in Israel’ (motto: ‘Lose some, whinge some’), having split off from ‘Brits Laughing in Israel,’ which in turn split off from ‘Brits Living in Israel.’ The politics behind the various groups and sub-groups is not clear
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