By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Like a bad penny, the problem will not go away. It doesn’t seem to matter what people say or do to prevent it. Beth Shemesh is a lot like a train-wreck waiting to happen; actually, it has already happened, but the extent of the damage and [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Lots of news. Less clarity. It’s worth thinking about the details, and whether they amount to a watershed inviting a heroic decision. Khaled Mashaal, the senior leader of Hamas, has ordered his forces to cease attacks on Israeli targets. Mashaal’s expression of non-violence has something to do [...]
By Daniel Halper WASHINGTON – In a speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a definitive declaration about his record in regard to Israel. “In fact, I am proud to say that no U.S. administration has done more in support of Israel’s security than ours,” he told the convention center crowd in Washington. ”None. Don’t let anybody else [...]
By Rabbi Ben Kamin JERUSALEM–The so-called prime minister of Hamas—a terror syndicate banned from recognition by the United States and the European Union—is campaigning in European capitals against Israel’s practice of making Jerusalem too Jewish. Here is the verbal equivalent of Hamas’s launching of 10,000 killer missiles into Israeli towns and villages in the past [...]
ORANIT, Israel (Press Release) — Below is a letter written by Rivka Sandomirsky who mentored a child who was very, very sick with cancer. Through the course of her illness, the child became totally paralyzed and then gradually faded away. She was five years old when she died in July. In the beginning she was [...]
By David Amos SAN DIEGO — As an active member of the Jewish community, I am exposed, as many of you are, to programs, films, television specials, lectures, and books on the Holocaust. Most of us know and have spoken to Holocaust survivors, and have heard directly from them the horrific times they suffered in [...]
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Temple Beth Israel Sisterhood Slates 2nd Edition of “Follies of ’56″ Southwestern Jewish Press, October 5, 1956, Page 8 “Fund-raising” and “fun raising” tell the story of the Temple Beth Israel Sisterhood’s “Follies of ’56″ which will have show time and dates of Nov. 3 and 4, Saturday [...]
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California – Jewish legal tradition, better known as “Halachah,” teaches that silence is “tantamount to admission.” The moral implications ought to be clear enough for anyone to readily grasp. When somebody is attempting to do something wrong and illegal, one cannot dissociate oneself from the situation and [...]
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–One simple yet helpful way of describing the public discourse in and about contemporary Israel is to view it as a struggle between security (sometimes coupled with the quest for survival) and values (often equated with morality and prophetic justice). I heard Steven Cohen, the American-Israeli sociologist, suggest in a talk [...]
SAN DIEGO — What’s a Jew to do on Dec. 25th. At Beth Jacob Congregation, there was a Chanukah festival, complete with dreidel games, Magen David balloons, latkes and a talent show. On hand to photograph the fun were Nancy Harrison and Sam Zeiden.
