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Parsha Shemini: The weight of Aaron's silence
4+ hour, 29+ min ago (886+ words) By Michael R. Mantell, Ph. D. , in El Cajon, California Some moments arrive so full they almost crack you open. That's where Parsha Shemini begins. After seven days of milu'im, the inauguration of the Mishkan, the eighth day finally comes. "Ki hayom…...
Today's Jewish birthday: Jeff Zucker
4+ hour, 30+ min ago (40+ words) Jeff Zucker (April 9, 1965) is an American businessman and media executive. Zucker was the president of CNN Worldwide from 2013 to 2022. [Wikipedia] Tomorrow, April 10: Haim Ramon PLEASE CLICK ON ANY AD BELOW TO VISIT THE ADVERTISER'S WEBSITE...
Antisemitic statements rattle Jews in two states; goof in advertisement draws adverse comments in a third
10+ hour, 27+ min ago (931+ words) By Bruce S. Ticker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Georgia legislative candidate Nathalie Kanani risked offending Atlanta-area Jews when she took out a Passover ad that featured a loaf of challah which was decidedly leavened. In Connecticut's Fairfield County, a bunch of spoiled…...
Black/ Jewish solidarity required to defeat racism, antisemitism
17+ hour, 5+ min ago (388+ words) By Barrett Holman Leak in San Diego While the national media often treats the intersection of Black and Jewish identities as a modern novelty, the history of Jews of Color in the Americas is centuries deep. Long before the term…...
The Roaring Lion of Ofakim
17+ hour, 5+ min ago (894+ words) By Jerry Klinger in Boynton Beach, Florida Approximately 2, 800 years ago, a raiding party burst from Gaza." They surged across the adjacent fields deep into Judaea, into Israel, searching for plunder and human victims to kidnap. Plunder was fine, but captured…...
Documentary memorializes Hillel Slovak of the Red-Hot Chili Peppers
21+ hour, 23+ min ago (471+ words) By Cailin Acosta in La Mesa, California Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel Slovak is a 2026 documentary on Netflix directed by Ben Feldman. The film focuses on the formative years of the Los Angeles-based rock/funk…...
Today's Jewish birthday: Seymour Hersh
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (25+ words) San Diego Jewish World Tomorrow, April 9: Jeff Zucker PLEASE CLICK ON ANY AD BELOW TO VISIT THE ADVERTISER'S WEBSITE...
Moving from matzah back to chametz
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (244+ words) By Cailin Acosta in La Mesa, California Crunch, crunch, crunch. Most people are looking forward to returning to eating chametz and saying goodbye to the matzah. In our house, we don't mind it and eat it year-round, either with soup…...
ADL, AEN rap Palestinian bias of the American Association of Geographers
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (161+ words) NEW YORK CITY (Press Release) " ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) and the Academic Engagement Network (AEN) expressed deep concern at developments during the recent Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), held March 17-21. Shira Goodman, ADL Vice President of…...
Today's Jewish birthday: Daniel Ellsberg
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (253+ words) San Diego Jewish World While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U. S government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New…...