January 4, 2012

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Oct. 19, 1956, Part 5

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Demo Candidate Makes Charges Southwestern Jewish Press, October 19, 1956, Page 9 Senator Richard Richards, Democratic candidate for Senator who will be in san Diego Tuesday, October 23, has charged that his opponent’s voting record alone should merit his defeat for re-election and listed Senator Kuchel’s votes on […]

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Adventures in SD History

Meltzer to compare Messiahs of Hebrew and Christian Scriptures

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture continues its lecture series  in Coronado and in Carlsbad respectively on January 18 and January 30. Rabbi Scott Meltzer of SDSU and spiritual leader at Ohr Shalom Synagogue is the featured speaker. Rabbi Meltzer’s first lecture will take place in the Winn Room of

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Travel and Food

Should a Chabadnik say “Today is Thursday, January 5th, in Santa Monica”?

  By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Some time ago, I had a friendly discussion with Rabbi Yisrael Goldberg, a young Chabadnik who lives in Israel. In the course of our talk, he told me that Rabbi Avraymo Levitanski (a former teacher of mine) had recently died. Avraymo was a great man;

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Klezmer, jazz focus of Strom concert Feb. 12

CARLSBAD, California (Press Release) –Award-winning musician, author, filmmaker, writer and photographer Yale Strom is also an ethnographer-artist of klezmer music and history. Strom and Hot Pstromi will perform a concert highlighting jazz and klezmer music. Free tickets will be given out at 1 p.m., Feb. 12,  the day of the concert at the Carlsbad City Library’s

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San Diego County

Israel’s democracy nourished by biblical arguments

 By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The commotion over the place of women in buses and on sidewalks reminds us that religion plays a central role in Israeli politics. There is no formal separation of religion and politics. Moreover, Judaism is a religion that gives a central role to political history, political criticism, and political maneuvering.

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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion