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Category Archives: Jews
‘Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California’
Here is the Amazon.com page for the book and here is the website for the author Frances Dinkelspiel. We did this interview a couple of weeks ago via email. I told Frances to only answer the questions she found interesting. … Continue reading
Posted in Author Interviews, California, Jews
Tagged amazon, hall dances, jewish immigrant, teutonic hall, uc berkeley library, wilshire boulevard temple
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David Gregory: Vote Obama or You’re Racist
Evan Gahr writes: David Gregory took over MSNBC’s prime time election coverage earlier this year from Professional Angry Person Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews because Olbermann embarrassed the poorly rated cable network with his blatantly partisan tirades against the GOP, … Continue reading
Posted in Jews, Journalism, Politics
Tagged congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, debbie wasserman schultz, Jeremiah Wright, keith olbermann, mayor ed koch, mccain supporters
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Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
My favorite part of this biography by Hellman’s great-great-granddaughter Frances Dinkelspiel came on page 181. It describes how affluent German Jews in the San Francisco Bay Area reacted with ambivalent feelings to the arrival of Russian Jewish immigrants. Why were … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, California, Charity, Jews
Tagged ambivalent feelings, german jews, government bureaucracy, government welfare, jewish immigrant, russian jewish immigrants
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36 Key Jews In The 2008 Election
From Haaretz: Eli Pariser: He heads MoveOn.org, a liberal on-line advocacy group that has raised large sums for Democratic candidates. Martin Peretz: The editor of The New Republic, he wrote an influential article entitled "Can friends of Israel – and … Continue reading
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Tagged campaign reform bill, democratic national committee, penny pritzker, radio talk show, radio talk show host, sub prime mortgages
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The Bomb That Healed Atlanta
ATLANTA (AP) — The bombing of a prominent Atlanta synagogue in 1958 claimed no lives, but the community outrage that it prompted helped galvanize the city’s nervous Jewish community to embrace the civil rights movement. Members of The Temple gathered … Continue reading
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Tagged civil rights movement, community outrage, jacob rothschild, rabbi jacob, racial equality, temple member
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‘The Rape of Europa’
No, rabbi, I was not looking at an R-rated movie. I don’t pollute my mind with such forbidden images. This is a documentary about the Nazis grab for art during World War II and how the good guys got most … Continue reading
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Tagged good guys, handsome woman, nazis, rabbi, world war ii
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Jews Attach Extra Spending To Bailout Bill
From the Forward: Washington — As the $700 billion bailout package wended its way through Congress and grew from a three-page proposal to a 442–page document, Jewish groups were able to fold into the final legislation two key social service … Continue reading
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Tagged bailout package, house speaker nancy pelosi, jewish philanthropies, nancy pelosi, republican caucuses, speaker nancy pelosi
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Penises Don’t Lie
From my live cam chat: guest26: Chaim A.’s best line: Penises don’t lie…classic and so true guest26: especially those in tightie whities User ChaimAmalek entered the room. guest26: speaking of the devil ChaimAmalek: Jews are so often into antisocial perversions … Continue reading
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Tagged goyim, jewess, jewish woman, jewish women, kishke, live cam chat
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Why Are So Many Hippies Jewish?
Khunrum emails: "As senior committee member let me put my two baht in. The reason there were so many Jewish Hippies, Jewish Bombers, Jewish Radicals…Jewish everything in the 60’s was because that’s where the fun was. Jews caught on early … Continue reading
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Tagged boom boom, jefferson airplane, jewish parents, notches, senior committee, sweet youth
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Why Were There So Many Jews In SDS?
Mark Rudd, a former member of The Weathermen, writes: I’ve been thinking about this subject for a long time, almost forty years, so I want to begin by thanking the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society for giving me this … Continue reading
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Tagged american jews, jew watch, mark rudd, minute monologue, twentieth anniversary celebration, zionist occupation government
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