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"They wanted to give the soldiers some new dad jokes as they knew a lot of the service men and women were parents themselves.
"When William's father came to visit, the students, especially in William's class, were asking about specific soldiers they got to know during that time."
Mr Seip said Lt Anderson got in contact with the school a few weeks ago when he was planning his return to Australia.
"He contacted me and said they'd really appreciated (the care packages) so much and they wanted to give the school a gift to say thank you, and he wanted to surprise his son," Mr Seip said.
"We thought why not get the whole school community there to share in that as they shared in the journey.
"It was just a special opportunity to be able to reunite them. William is a great kid and it was just an honour to help bring them back together."
William said he would remember that moment, and the school community coming together to support him, his dad and the platoon, for the rest of his life.
"I cannot believe I cried in front of the school," William said.
A heartwarming video of the encounter published on the school's Facebook page has now been viewed over 20,000 times by people all over the world.
"It makes me really happy," William said when told about the views.
"There are a lot of other children whose parents serve overseas.
"I'm just so lucky to have my teachers, classmates and school community supporting me."
Lt Anderson, who is back at his base in Enoggera, near Brisbane, said in the video he was thankful to the school community for the support.
"That support goes a long way with all the soldiers," he said.
"It gives us plenty of fond memories."
The school was gifted a rectangular banner with 'Operation Highroad Camp Qargha 2018-2019' written across one side, with the signatures of platoon members who had been touched by the school's generosity.
Robert Weick as Karl Marx in “Marx in Soho,” through Sept. 22 at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
The one-man show Marx in Soho is playing at the Philadelphia Ethical Society through Sept. 22 as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. It isn't really a play at all, but rather a 70-minute harangue. Its premise is that Karl Marx has returned to Earth for one day with the mission to remind us all, but especially Americans, that capitalism is still, as it always was, the enemy of humanity. His rousing cry from the Communist Manifesto — "Workers of the world, unite!" — resounds once again and launches Norristown's Iron Age Theatre's bid to "rebirth" itself in Philadelphia.
Marx in Soho was written by Howard Zinn, a famed political activist and one of the earliest voices raised against the war in Vietnam. Zinn was a leading academic and the highly respected author of books such as A People's History of the United States: 1492 to the Present. His passion for a more equitable world is intense, and the show is a ringing indictment of the status quo, of the greed-driven Western world.
Robert Weick, who plays Marx, has been touring the United States in this production directed by John Doyle. His performance is also filled with passionate intensity. The theatrical portrait is occasionally amusing as he portrays various members of Marx's circle, including influential revolutionary theorists like Engels and Bakunin and Proudhon. Weick humanizes — and sentimentalizes — the great figure with stories about his beloved wife, Jenny, their children, and especially the firebrand Eleanor. Their hard times spent while impoverished in London's Soho seem self-pitying. If I admire Marx's ideas, I don't find much to admire in the man.
Weick's diction is often stilted, and his vehemence seems a cliche as Marx rails against the System, the 1-percenters, the military-industrial complex, Big Pharma, and so on. We've heard it all before. Marx's outrage is the outrage of John Oliver without the humor or the speed or the wit.
The author of Das Kapital asks this rhetorical question: "Is there anything more dull than reading political economy?"
And he answers it: "Yes there is — writing political economy."
If I may I add my two cents: Even duller is listening to a tirade about political economy.
Marx in Soho. Production by Iron Age Theatre/ Radical Acts. Through Sept. 22 at the Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1906 Rittenhouse Square. Tickets: $15. Information: 215-413-1318, fringearts.com.
JOSE MOURINHO was in charge of Chelsea when the Blues derailed Liverpool’s title challenge in 2013/14.
In what will be Liverpool’s biggest game of the season when they meet Chelsea later today, Reds fans will be thinking back to that fateful day in April 2014.
Liverpool were battling for Premier League glory under Brendan Rodgers when Mourinho’s Chelsea rolled up to Anfield with three games of the season to play and spoiled their title party.
Goals from Demba Ba and Willian, along with Steven Gerrard’s infamous slip, were enough to cap off a historical Premier League day for both sides.
And ahead of today’s clash, with Jurgen Klopp’s side two points ahead of Manchester City in the title race, Mourinho believes it’s must-win for both teams.
“Liverpool-Chelsea in the Premier League is a big one, for many reasons,” he told RT.
“Liverpool, they have to win every match between now and the end of the season, and wait for Man City to lose a couple of points.
“It’s a must-win for Liverpool. At the same time Chelsea need points to finish top four.
“Manchester United is there, Spurs is there, Arsenal, despite their last defeat, are also there.
“Chelsea needs points. It’s a must-win for both. And to add something more to the game, the last time Liverpool were almost winning the title it was Chelsea who spoiled the celebration at Anfield.
With five games of the season to play for Liverpool, and six for City, the Reds are heaping pressure on Pep Guardiola’s side, who will win the title if they can pick up maximum points from now until May 11.
But along the way, City face tough games against Tottenham and Manchester United away from home.
Liverpool’s last top-six clash is against Chelsea, who are looking to finish in the top four to secure Champions League qualification for next season.
The title lead has changed hands 26 times this season, as both City and Liverpool have led the chasing pack from the off.
City are looking to become the first side to to retain the Premier League since United in 2008/09.
Meanwhile, Liverpool will be out to secure their first English league title in 29 years.
Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 45 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, March 18.
German heavy-metal vocalist Udo Dirkschneider, formerly of Accept, leads his current band, with guests Elm Street.
Brooklyn-based Afrobeat collective Antibalas plays the Biltmore Cabaret, touring in support of latest album Where the Gods Are in Peace.
Houston-based soul band the Suffers plays the Imperial.
The Rogue Folk Club presents Cuban-Canadian harmonica player Carlos del Junco at St. James Hall.
Vintage jazz band Black Gardenia, led by vocalist Daphne Roubini, plays the ANZA Club.
Run a five-kilometre or 10-kilometre race around Vancouver's Pacific Spirit Park at the MEC Vancouver: Road Race TWO.
Learn how to make meatballs in a Mamma Ciuffa-style Roman sauce, as well as the classic carbonara, at an Italian Cooking Class at Kits Community Centre.
Girls Learning Generative Art with Processing workshop at Clio focuses on teaching the fundamentals of computer programming in a visual context.
The Museum of Anthropology at UBC celebrates the opening of its new exhibition, Culture at the Centre, with dance performances from the communities represented in the exhibition: Musqueam, Squamish, Lil’wat, Heiltsuk, Nisg̱a’a and Haida.
The Vancouver International Dance Festival runs until March 24 at various Vancouver venues. Performances today include Harbour Dance ITF at Woodwards Atrium.
New Works’ Pop Up Dances presents dance and poetry at the Vancouver Public Library, with performances by Project Soul & Rupert Cotton, Olivia C. Davies & Julie Peters, and All Bodies Dance.
Poets and dancers come together to celebrate the spoken word for World Poetry Day at the Vancouver Public Library.
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Bach's Trio Sonata in G Major are performed on period instruments with a baroque chamber ensemble led by Chloe Meyers at St. Andrew's–Wesley United Church.
The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Forget About Tomorrow, Jill Daum's play about a woman whose husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, at Goldcorp Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre.
Carousel Theatre for Young People presents The Velveteen Rabbit, the tale of a toy rabbit transformed by one little boy’s love, at the Waterfront Theatre.
Opening night at the Firehall Arts Centre of Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, which pays homage to the late Canadian poet and singer-songwriter.
Exit 22 Company Productions (Capilano University Theatre) presents Anne of Green Gables, the iconic Canadian story of a fiercely imaginative little girl who touches the lives of everyone she meets, at the BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.
Realwheels Theatre presents Sequence, a fast-paced science thriller that explores the intersection of math, nature, and spirituality, at Presentation House Theatre.
Naked Goddess Productions presents Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor's story of love and friendship, A Beautiful View, at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House.
Western Gold Theatre presents its final performance of Harvey, a comedy about a man and his best friend, an invisible and very tall pooka resembling an anthropomorphic rabbit, at PAL Studio Theatre.
Performance at Performance Works of Little Miss Glitz, a musical that follows the story of a naïve, starry-eyed little girl as she navigates her way through her first beauty pageant.
More than 55 paintings and sculptures are featured in Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, the first-ever retrospective of Murakami's work in Canada, at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
空/Emptiness: Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan at the Vancouver Art Gallery uses works by Emily Carr and Lui Shou Kwan to explore how each artist experimented with modernist movements and mysticism through their respective depictions of nature.
Culture at the Centre at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC is a collaboration between six First Nations communities that offers insight into the work Indigenous-run cultural centres and museums in B.C. are doing to support their language, culture, and history.
Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Inovation and Tradition at the Museum of Vancouver is an exhibition guest-curated by Kwiaahwah Jones that features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers, collected as early as the 1890s.
Screening at Vancity Theatre of The Road Movie, an anthology of dashcam footage from the roads of Russia, by turns scary and profane, hair-raising and hilarious.
Screening at the Cinematheque of Birdland, writer-director Peter Lynch's Toronto-shot post-noir mystery, a story told through surveillance, memories and flashbacks of a marriage in trouble and an ex-cop who is unravelling a mystery.
Screenings at the Cinematheque of Ingmar Bergman's The Passion of Anna and Fårö Document.
In Hollywood Haute Couture 2 at the Vancity Theatre, film scholar Michael van den Bos introduces très chic couture clips featuring the allure of cosmopolitan cover girls and a vanity fair of vintage fashion shows as seen in classic movies.
After kicking off their comeback at Coachella, OutKast has been announced as the headliner for this year’s BET Experience at L.A. LIVE.
As part of their 40-plus festival appearances this summer, the reunited duo of André 3000 and Big Boi will close out the second day of the three-day fest at Staples Center in downtown L.A. on Saturday, June 28.
Hosted by DJ Khaled, Saturday’s hip-hop-heavy lineup also includes Rick Ross, A$AP Rocky, K. Michelle, Ty Dolla $ign, and August Alsina.
The BET Experience kicks off on Friday, June 27, with R&B performers Maxwell, Jill Scott, Marsha Ambrosius, and Candice Glover. Later that evening, Future will play a late-night gig at Club Nokia.
Following the 2014 BET Awards on Sunday, Mary J. Blige, Trey Songz, and Jennifer Hudson will cap off the weekend with a show at Staples.
Single-day tickets are on sale now for $59.50-$149.50, while 3-day Staples Center packages are priced between $199-$399.
At a time when anti-Semitism was the norm, Abraham Lincoln not only treated Jews with respect but counted many of them as close friends.
Abraham Lincoln and the Jews don’t exactly go together in the popular imagination like bagels and lox. While Lincoln has been championed as a Moses leading African Americans out of slavery, the 16th president’s ties to the Tribe have not been well examined or even clearly acknowledged.
The fact that some aspect of Lincoln’s life has gone unstudied is striking. Lincoln is the closest we have to a U.S.-sanctioned saint in a country with a constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. It’s safe to say that no other politician has won American adoration or scholarship the way Lincoln has.
One would think, therefore, it is impossible to uncover an unexplored aspect of Lincoln’s life as we approach the morose anniversary of his April 15, 1865, assassination. But Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell have proved that’s not the case with their new book, Lincoln and the Jews: A History.
I must admit, I approached the book and its accompanying exhibit, Lincoln and the Jews, at the New York Historical Society with a heavy dose of skepticism. Was Lincoln’s relationship with Jews substantial enough to merit such an examination, or would it feel contrived so close to such an important date?
Jews were certainly a presence in Lincoln’s America. More than 70 years before Lincoln took office, President George Washington formally addressed Jewish Americans in his Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport in 1790. But it’s hard to imagine a man born in frontier Kentucky and brought up in Lincoln’s circumstances would have many exchanges with the Jews of early and mid-19th-century America.
I was completely wrong, not only in my perception of Lincoln but also in my understanding of the Jewish community in his day. Through examining Lincoln’s surprising number of interactions with Jewish politicians, soldiers, doctors, and neighbors, Sarna and Shapell uncover a robust history that is as much about the development of America’s Jewish community as it is about the beloved president.
Lincoln and the Jews is meticulous in its research and scope. Sarna is one, if not the most, preeminent scholars on American Jewish history (he serves as the Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University), and Shapell established the Shapell Manuscript Foundation, which has worked with the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Museum, and many other historic institutions.
What makes it such a delight to flip through the pages of Lincoln and the Jews is the plethora of beautiful and remarkably clear manuscripts, photographs, portraits, and letters. A section on Jewish soldiers includes photographs of a number of the “Israelite” men who served the Union Army. There’s also an image of the Confederate $2 bill with Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin, marking it as the first piece of American currency with a Jew on it.
Also on display at the New York Historical Society are letters revealing Lincoln’s consideration for Jewish Americans at a time when the U.S. was, to put it mildly, deeply anti-Semitic. Sarna and Shapell go to great lengths to dissect Lincoln’s political and personal exchanges with the Jewish community, of which there was a surprisingly large amount for a man from Kentucky who likely did not meet a single Jew until he was an adult.
The story of Lincoln’s attitude starts at the very beginning, with his upbringing in a Calvinist family. Although Lincoln never formally joined a church, the Baptist Calvinist one his parents belonged to was one of the few Christian organizations of its day that did not actively encourage the conversion of Jews.
This religious background may have formed the foundation for Lincoln’s unusual lack of anti-Semitism, which was reflected in his career as president. Lincoln was highly open to the military’s appointment of Jewish officers, including Alfred Mordecai Jr. (who eventually retired as a general) and Capt. Ephraim M. Joel.
A letter on Executive Mansion stationery by Lincoln recommends that C.M. Levy be made assistant quartermaster because he had “not yet appointed a Hebrew.” The Nov. 4, 1862, document indicates that Lincoln was not only remarkably unprejudiced against Jews for a man of his day, but actually cared enough about them to desire their representation in the military.
Lincoln was also likely influenced by his close relationships with individual Jews during his adult life, including his time in the White House. Arguably, the most significant Jew in Lincoln’s life—and maybe one of the most significant people in life overall—was Abraham Jonas. The two Abe’s served together in the Illinois state legislature, and Jonas worked tirelessly behind the scenes of Lincoln’s presidential campaign. In a Feb. 4, 1860 letter to Jonas, Lincoln refers to him “as one of my most valued friends,” an endearment which, Sarna and Shapell note, Lincoln never appears to repeat in his other known correspondences.
Issachar Zacharie, Lincoln’s podiatrist (known as a “chiropodist” in the 19th century), did more than care for Honest Abe’s feet. His section in the New York Historical Society exhibit earned the (inadvertently) humorous title “Issachar Zacharie: Foot Doctor, Emissary, and Political Operative,” which was also completely accurate. Zacharie was popular among the political and military elite. His client list included John C. Calhoun, George McClellan, Ambrose Burnside, and William Seward, among others. Zacharie, who had connections to the Jewish community in New Orleans, was dispatched by Lincoln to the city to collect information on enemy troops while also under instruction to “mingle freely with its people of all classes, especially your countrymen; to ascertain and report as far as possible that nature of its opinions,” according to a Jan. 1, 1863 letter from Gen. Nathaniel Banks.
According to Sarna and Shapell, Lincoln’s decision to send Zacharie to New Orleans was a concerted effort to mend fences with the Jewish community after his own Union generals had gone out of their way to alienate the roughly 2,000 Jewish residents that inhabited the city. Gen. Banks, the man Lincoln wrote to about Zacharie, had succeeded General Benjamin F. Butler as what was then called the commander of the Department of the Gulf. Butler was openly anti-Semitic and regularly jailed and insulted Jews.
Butler was hardly Lincoln’s sole anti-Semitic general during the Civil War. In December 1862, future President Ulysses S. Grant issued General Orders No. 11, which explicitly expelled Jews “as a class” from territory under his command. The “Jew order,” as Grant later referred to it, wreaked havoc in certain regions, such as in Paducah, Kentucky, where “Women and children were expelled to, and in the confusion… one baby was almost forgotten, and two dying women had to be left behind in the care of neighbors,” write Sarna and Shapell.
In certain parts of the South, Jews actually held significant political esteem and power, so Jewish hearts and minds were not necessarily an easy win for the Union. In Louisiana alone, Judah P. Benjamin–who, as previously mentioned, became the Confederates’ secretary of state–was a senator. The state’s lieutenant governor and speaker of the state legislature were also Jews. Lincoln’s efforts to reach out to Jews in New Orleans was not–or not only–a reflection of his concern for Jews; it was also strategic.
Of all the details in Lincoln and the Jews, what may surprise modern readers the most is how many Jewish leaders supported slavery. Although American Jews today are considered one of the most socially progressive demographics in America and were extremely active in the civil-rights movement, the mid-19th century Jewish community was split on abolitionism. The book includes a number of excerpts from rabbis and prominent Jewish figures who did not support the abolitionist movement. Rabbi Morris Raphall of New York’s B’nai Jeshurun was a “celebrity rabbi” of his day, according to Sarna and Shapell, and he very much opposed Lincoln’s 1860 election to the presidency and the antislavery movement. “How dare you denounce slaveholding as a sin?” he asked in a sermon chastising anti-slavery advocate Henry Ward Beecher.
To the credit of Saran and Shapell, their book and analysis complicates any black-and-white understanding of American Jewish history or the community’s connection to Lincoln..
Yet, when news of Lincoln’s assassination spread on a Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, many synagogues rushed to mourn the fallen president. It was noted in a Jewish publication at the time that at Shearith Israel synagogue in New York, congregants offered up the Sephardic Jewish prayer for the dead, marking “the first time in the history of Judaism in America that these prayers have been said in a Jewish house of worship for other than professing the Jewish faith. “Lincoln was one of the most controversial politicians of his day, and the split in the Jewish community reflected this. How Lincoln felt about the Jews in turn, is just another reminder of the singularity of this icon.
MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Feb. 26, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Chad Johnson, Mission Viejo High School head football coach and chairman of the board of South County Trojans Youth Football, announced today that Coach Ryan Koh has accepted the head coach and offensive coordinator positions for the chapter's 14U team.
Coach Koh possesses an impressive football coaching resume of more than fifteen years, including seven years among the elite Trinity League as well as multiple youth football championships.

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