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Jewish Passover music from Tijuana, Mexico

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Hoping that everyone has had happy holidays we leave you a piece with the great Alexandre "Sasha" Gourevitch refers precisely to the holidays, enjoy it. https://www.facebook.com/OrquestaBajaCalifornia/videos/177593063269682/?t=0

Join San Diego’s Virtual Holocaust Commemoration

VIRTUAL YOM HASHOAH 2020 Join us for a unique virtual experience as we explore the Shoah through multi-generational perspectives. You will have access to resources, videos, and other events happening throughout the world. Our program...
More seders may take place in 2020, yet without extended family and friends due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. March 29, 2010. Photo by Flash90.

The challenges, and beauty, of this year’s Passover holiday

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In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared complete lockdown for Passover Seder night, threatening arrest or a fine to anyone found on the streets. No, he wasn’t overreacting, and he’s not planning on turning...
Ewan-M / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)

Streaming Sephardic movies

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There are fewer movies about the Sephardim than ones about Ashkenazim, and many of those that do exist aren’t available for streaming.  Here’s a partial list of some you can stream at home. Daniel Deronda:...
Members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, spray disinfectant in the streets of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 26, 2020, during a campaign aimed at slowing down the spread of the novel coronavirus. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

A pandemic anti-Semitism ceasefire? Not a chance

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Two weeks ago, something highly unusual happened. The United Nations praised Israel. The cause for this remarkable exception to the general rule of the world body’s Israel-bashing was the cooperation between Israel and the...
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Covid-19 hits Haredim in Israel, N.Y., N.J., and Florida

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It must be a bad dream – the spectacle of police in New York City and Lakewood, N.J., breaking up Orthodox Jewish funerals. What was a mitzvah a few months ago has morphed into a...
Israeli and American flags. Credit: Israel Defense Forces via Wikimedia Commons.

In reply to 140 U.S. Jewish leaders

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What if American Jews read on the front pages of The New York Times and the Washington Post that Israeli Jews would estrange themselves from American Jews, if the latter chose to vote for a president who was...
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The Trump Presidency: A Breathtaking Assault on Law, Justice and Security

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“At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric….It is only in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, to silence.” – Albert...
Israel Defense Forces' Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a graduation ceremony for new Israel Navy officers in Haifa on Sept. 4, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir: ‘We have to make the most of the IDF’s abilities...

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Israel Defense Forces’ Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir, the military’s point man with respect to managing the pandemic, is something of a lonely man these days. Given the restrictions imposed due...
Window To Eternity - Vojko Kalan Public Domain

Sovre la vida i la egzistensya en la eternitad

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Amo la vida i kero bivir mas i mas…. La vida no perdona los ke kedan tadre… Es un largo kamino i todo modo de situasyones ke eksperimentamos , lo mas sin kererlos o kuando...