64.6 F
San Diego
Saturday, May 4, 2024

Daily Archives: July 31, 2020

Herman Cain at a Republican Party fundraiser in Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 17, 2011. Credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr.

Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after contracting COVID-19

0
Businessman and former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has died at age 74 as a result of the coronavirus, his website posted on Thursday. While it wasn’t certain how he contracted COVID-19, he did attend U.S. President...
worldjewishcongress.org

Israelis in the US to show solidarity with Israeli protesters!

0
San Francisco & New York – A group of Israeli activists who relocated to the US has decided to be pro-active and to support their brothers and sisters in Israel, demonstrating against the Anti-Democratic regulations...
Abraham Joshua Heschel walks with Martin Luther King Jr. on civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Courtesy of the American Jewish Archives

Jews and Blacks: Failure to communicate

0
Movie fans should recognize this line from Cool Hand Luke: “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” Such a sentiment aptly describes relations between the Black and Jewish communities, as Rodney Muhammad, president of...

July 31, 1919: Primo Levi, Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor, was born

0
Italian Jewish chemist Primo Levi survived a year at Auschwitz against all odds. He is best known for his moving memoirs 'If This Is a Man' and 'The Periodic Table.' Synopsis Born on July 31, 1919,...

Operation Hallel

0
The Last Secular Jew in Israel It’s no secret that a tremendous spiritual revolution is approaching in Israel. Even the secular Jews know it, and that’s why they’re so uptight. In a big way, it’s...

“A bayshpil”, sung by Jacob Gorelik

0
Jacob (Yankev) Gorelik was born in Schedrin (Shchadryn, Scadryn) Belarus, and came to the US in the 1920s. This performance was recorded at a concert in New York City on November 10th, 1990, organized...