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		<title>Sharing spiritual gifts enhances them</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 13:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Is it possible to give something away and not lose, but gain in the process? Absolutely! Moses shows us how. As we all know, the Israelites were not a happy lot. After awhile, their kvetching finally got to Moses. He complained to God, &#8220;I cannot carry all this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God was the first Lover of words, but Jews were a close second</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 21:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jews and Words by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, ISBN 978-0-300-15647-8 ©2012, $25.99, p. 204, plus source listing and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The Hebrew Bible announces that God created the heaven and the earth. How did God form them? Through the spoken word, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbinic intern learns Israel advocacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8211;This month&#8217;s Midrash Shabbat teacher at Tifereth Israel Synagogue will be Sarah Shulman. A student at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles and a triathlete, Sarah is also my AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) Intern. Many people who read the publicity for this weekend were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Ballet in rousing &#8216;The Seasons&#8217; and &#8216;Carmina Burana&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 22:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO &#8212; On May 5th, 2013, in the Spreckels Theatre, City Ballet of San Diego finished its 20th anniversary season with a rousing program of  &#8220;The Seasons&#8221; (Vivaldi&#8217;s &#8220;The Four Seasons&#8221;) and Carl Orff&#8217;s &#8220;Carmina Burana.&#8221; Complimented by a live orchestra and 100 voice choir, the program encompassed both ends of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This land ain&#8217;t your land&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/05/03/this-land-aint-your-land/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=this-land-aint-your-land</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 15:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; There is a story that I have told many times based on a verse in parashat B&#8217;har: &#8220;But the land must not be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine; you are but strangers resident with me.&#8221; This verse teaches us that humans do not own the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: How much do I need to retire?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO &#8212; Question:  I want to plan ahead for retirement and want to know how much I need.  I&#8217;ve heard numbers anywhere from $3 million to $5 million. Answer:  I am famous for giving 2 answers and this time is no exception. Before giving any answer, please know that it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jews reach out to intermarried families</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Ogul SAN DIEGO &#8212; I recently spent several days in rural Maryland with a group of men and women from around the country who are doing what they can to save Judaism. The facts are startling. While barely more than 1 of every 10 Jews who got hitched before 1970 was in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tifereth Israel to host Ron Wolfson for weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/04/26/tifereth-israel-to-host-ron-wolfson-for-weekend/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=tifereth-israel-to-host-ron-wolfson-for-weekend</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; The Torah says in parashat Emor: &#8220;You shall have one standard for the stranger and citizen alike: for I the Lord am your God.&#8221; As I hope you know, I think hachnasat orchim, welcoming visitors, is one of the most important mitzvot that members of a congregation can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women, gays, other religions persecuted in Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid Anti-Israel activists spin tales about alleged Israeli human rights abuses to instill hostility against the Jewish state. They have had an impact, but not one desired by most fair-minded people. The false allegations have served as a decoy, distracting the UN, NGOs, churches, students and the wider public from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The post-911 world through interreligious eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trialogue and Terror: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam after 9/11 by Alan L. Berger, ed., Cascade Books, Eugene, OR;  ISBN 978-1-60899-546-2 ©2012, $30.00, p. 255, plus index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Domestic stories primarily covered the front page of the New York Times on September 10, 2001. Succeeding days and months would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God watches as scofflaws run stop signs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; There are many times when I feel that I am living in Israel when I drive from the synagogue to my home. It is not because of the scenery or landscape, but rather because of the all-way stop signs at the intersection of Tommy and Wing Span Drives. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angel teaches about Maimonides</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maimonides: Essential Teachings on Jewish Faith &#38; Ethics, the Book of Knowledge &#38; the Thirteen Principles of Faith Annotated &#38; Explained by Rabbi Marc D. Angel, PhD, Skylight Paths Publishing, Woodstock, VT; ISBN 978-1-59473-311-6 ©2012, $18.99, p. 172, plus notes and selected bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; By the mid-twelfth century, conditions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding the positive in others</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Call me old-fashioned or sexist, but I think that the entire dust up of President Obama calling California attorney general Kamala Harris the &#8220;best-looking attorney general in the country&#8221; is a tempest in a teapot. I understand the importance of de-emphasizing appearance in a world in which physical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: If I Were a Rich (Wo)Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO &#8212; Here are some of the questions I am often asked. Q:        How can I get rich? A:        Well, that depends on what you consider to be rich.  If you’re talking about yachts, butlers, and ten villas around the world, you have four options: 1)                  Inherit a bunch of money. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Kosher&#8217; a cool word in the vernacular</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Believe it or not, I watch a lot of cooking shows. (No, I don&#8217;t cook much, but I do enjoy eating!) One of the most common ingredients chefs use is &#8220;kosher salt.&#8221; I never fail to be amused when they use it to season pork! Salt is kosher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish license plate: Chutzpa</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/03/25/jewish-license-plate-chutzpa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jewish-license-plate-chutzpa</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rubin~Melanie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[      &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; SAN DIEGO &#8212; Melanie Rubin, who spotted this gem, asks: &#8220;Does it take chutzpa to put chutzpa on your license plate?&#8221;  In our opinion, not at all.  Just a sense of humor.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Better a rebellious child than an indifferent one</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/03/22/better-a-rebellious-child-than-an-indifferent-one/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=better-a-rebellious-child-than-an-indifferent-one</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; After receiving last week&#8217;s D&#8217;var Torah about hamantaschen, my son, Rabbi Adam Rosenthal, emailed me noting that I was already avoiding dealing with the text of Leviticus, which is primarily concerned with the laws of animal sacrifices, in my weekly column. Since I am on a streak, why [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friendship, not breakthroughs, object of Obama visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 23:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO &#8212; President Obama is only the fifth sitting US President to visit Israel and like his predecessor, George W. Bush, waited until after the first term to make such a visit.   Major diplomatic announcements or breakthroughs are not expected in any of the stops &#8211; to Israel, the West Bank or Jordan.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book examines Muslim anti-Semitism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sons of Pigs and Apes: Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence by Neil J. Kressel, Potomac Books, Washington, D.C.; ISBN 978-1-59797-702-9 ©2012, $29.95, p. 206, plus addenda and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The word “anti-Semitism” is a relatively new word to the English language, being coined sometime after 1860. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish-interest license plate:  Kal Ram</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/03/20/jewish-interest-license-plate-kal-ram/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jewish-interest-license-plate-kal-ram</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO &#8212; Melanie Rubin, license-plate spotter extraordinaire, found it, and Shahar Masori, Israeli-born son in law of the publishers, translated it:   &#8220;Kal means light as in lighter than air.  And ram means high as in higher than a kite&#8230;&#8221; Somebody, obviously, is feeling great! &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: The Passover Fairy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling Sheryl asked me to do the column for her this time because “this year, Passover falls right in the busiest part of tax season!”  I said to her, “Why is this year different from any other year?”  That girl has no sense of humor these days … Dear Passover Fairy, I’m trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UCSD administration rejects &#8216;Israel divestment&#8217; bid</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/03/20/ucsd-administration-rejects-israel-divestment-bid/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ucsd-administration-rejects-israel-divestment-bid</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES &#8211;Although the UC San Diego student government voted last week for divestment from corporations doing business with Israel, the UC regents, who set investment policy, will not even consider the divestment resolution. After the student bill passed, UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla reiterated that “divestment is not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The origin of baking &#8216;Haman&#8217;s ears&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; As Pesach approaches, we need to clean the chametz out of our lives. There is some leftover Hamantaschen business in my life that I need to dispose of. Right before Purim I wrote an article about Hamantaschen. I explained the origins of the triangular cookie, but said I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Ballet&#8217;s &#8216;Giselle&#8217; truly inspirational</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO &#8212; The old Spreckels Theatre downtown is an intimate jewel box of a theatre and the perfect setting for Giselle &#8211; a ballet which has a special place in dance history since it was first performed in 1841.  This iconic Romantic Era ballet continues to be in the repertoire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: IRA Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling Q:        My accountant told me that I could contribute to a Traditional IRA or a Roth IRA.  How do I choose? A:        Assuming that you’re planning to hold the IRA for a while, it really depends on your current and expected tax brackets.  First, let’s go over how each IRA works.  With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excitement of attending an AIPAC conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8211; Can you imagine over 12,000 Jews and non-Jews gathered together in the same place for the same purpose? I would not have thought it possible, except I just returned from the AIPAC 2013 Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. and saw it myself. The last time I attended a Policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish-interest license plate: Safta L</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/03/06/jewish-interest-license-plate-safta-l/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jewish-interest-license-plate-safta-l</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO&#8211; Melanie Rubin, our license plate maven, spotted this vanity plate, owned by Safta L, who no doubt is very proud of all her grandchildren.  Whatever else the &#8220;L&#8221; stands for, it stands for &#8220;love.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: The best financial advice</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/03/02/money-maven-the-best-financial-advice/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=money-maven-the-best-financial-advice</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science, Medicine, Education]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO&#8211;Once when I was speaking to a group, I was asked the following question:  If you could give only one piece of financial planning advice, what would it be?  After decades of practice and education, having authored articles and a book on wealth management, how could I put every aspect of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Challenging God in the face of tragedy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fed-Up Man of Faith: Challenging God in the Face of Tragedy and Suffering by Shmuley Boteach, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, New York;  ISBN 978-965-229-606-1 ©2012, $24.95, p. 340, plus addenda By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; World-renown Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, in his latest book The Fed-Up Man of Faith, continues on the path [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All about hamantaschen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Nothing in Jewish life is easy. What could be complicated about a triangular shaped pastry with filling inside? Hamantaschen, the preferred perennial Purim treat, seem simple enough at face value. But a little research proves that this holiday delicacy has a vast and perplexing history. First of all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The privilege of sustaining a holy community</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/02/15/the-privilege-of-sustaining-a-holy-community/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-privilege-of-sustaining-a-holy-community</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal  SAN DIEGO &#8212; The Chafetz Chaim was one of the greatest Jewish ethicists and moralists of all time. He took his name from the verse from the book of Psalms, chapter 34: &#8220;Who is the man who is eager for life; who desires years of good fortune? Guard your tongue from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chasid who refused to lie</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; In preparing this week&#8217;s D&#8217;var Torah I came upon a Chassidic story whose conclusion puzzled me: Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa used to ask: &#8220;What is the difference between a &#8216;lover of truth&#8217; and a &#8216;hater of lies?&#8217;&#8221; A &#8220;hater of lies&#8221; hates everyone, because there no one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barry Rubin offers 11 of his books free to downloaders</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/02/06/barry-rubin-offers-11-of-his-books-free-to-downloaders/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=barry-rubin-offers-11-of-his-books-free-to-downloaders</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Prof. Barry Rubin, director of the GLORIA center in Israel which keeps close track of geo-political developments in the Middle East, is an occasional columnist for San Diego Jewish World.   He now is offering free to readers 11 books he has published over the years. HERZLIYA, Israel (Press Release)&#8211; The GLORIA Center has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten Commandments and Investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 15:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO &#8211;The Ten Commandments Of Investing The principles set forth in the Ten Commandments can be applied to investing and achieving financial security. (Actually, eight &#8211; as you will see.)  Sure, it takes interpretation, but why not?  Here goes – ONE:  I am the Lord Your God, who brought you out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ground Hog Day and the Ten Commandments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; By a strange confluence of fortuitous happenstance this Shabbat, on which we read parashat Yitro, is also Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day celebrates a commonly held folk belief. If a groundhog emerges from its burrow on February 2 and sees its shadow, winter will linger for another six weeks. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Torah teaches reconciliation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Torah of Reconciliation by Sheldon Lewis, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, New York,  ISBN 978-965-229-541-5 ©2012, $24.95, p. 340, plus addenda By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The Torah, the Five Books of Moses, has been commented about so many times that one wonders if anything new can be found within its text. Yet, Rabbi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do we need God&#8217;s miracles in order to believe?</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/01/25/do-we-need-gods-miracles-in-order-to-believe/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=do-we-need-gods-miracles-in-order-to-believe</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal  SAN DIEGO &#8212; Is lack of faith our fault or God&#8217;s fault? This week I discovered two commentaries on parashat B&#8217;shallach with radically different points of view. When the Sea of Reeds blocked the escape of the Children of Israel from Egypt, they thought they were doomed. As Pharaoh&#8217;s chariots closed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Truly rare occurence: Chanukah-Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/01/18/truly-rare-occurence-chanukah-thanksgiving/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=truly-rare-occurence-chanukah-thanksgiving</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 02:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California &#8212; A news story under the byline of Jonathan Mizrahi has been making its way around the Internet. The story says that this year will be the only time that Chanukah will fall on Thanksgiving. So, is the story true? Yes and no. President Lincoln in 1863 proclaimed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should we give to street corner beggars?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Although helping those in need is one of my fundamental guiding principles, I rarely give to individuals who solicit funds on street corners. When someone with a sign reading &#8220;Anything Helps. God Bless&#8221; walks by my car I usually look away. I am never sure whether such people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relationship evolves between Israel and Diaspora</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/01/11/relationship-evolves-between-israel-and-diaspora/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=relationship-evolves-between-israel-and-diaspora</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO&#8211; In my Community Jewish High senior class we are studying about Israel. We just read and analyzed Israel&#8217;s Declaration of Independence which was proclaimed and signed in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948.    The founding fathers and mothers of Israel were greatly concerned with &#8220;normalizing&#8221; the Jewish People. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish-interest license plate: Safa</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/01/10/jewish-interest-license-plate-safa/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jewish-interest-license-plate-safa</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; SAN DIEGO&#8211; In Hebrew, &#8220;safa&#8221; means &#8220;language,&#8221; which prompted license plate spotter Melanie Rubin to wonder whether the driver wanted those behind him to &#8220;watch their language.&#8221;   &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Book tells of immigrants and their Aramaic language</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/01/08/book-tells-of-immigrants-and-their-aramaic-language/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=book-tells-of-immigrants-and-their-aramaic-language</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO &#8212; About 15 years ago, a student of mine with blue eyes told me he was a Kurdish Jew. I was surprised because most of my Kurdish students at Grossmont College in nearby El Cajon were Muslim with a scattering of Christians. It turns out I was wrong. Before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: Honoring Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling  SAN DIEGO &#8212; I recently and unexpectedly lost a dear friend.  Not only was she a wonderful friend, a devoted wife and mother, she was also a “mover &#38; shaker” in the community – in the best possible interpretation of that phrase.  Gail Littman was the type of person who could make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping miracles to occur</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2013/01/04/helping-miracles-to-occur/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=helping-miracles-to-occur</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8211; Although midrash at times attempts to solve textual problems, at other times midrash seems an illogical flight of fantasy that creates more problems than it solves. Such is the rabbinic comment about Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter pulling Moses from the Nile River. The Torah says: &#8220;The daughter of Pharaoh came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli general&#8217;s social commentary is an eye opener</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/12/26/israeli-generals-social-commentary-is-an-eye-opener/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=israeli-generals-social-commentary-is-an-eye-opener</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 02:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggling Over Israel’s Soul byElazar Stern, Gefen, Jerusalem, New York; ISBN 978-965-229-576-7 ©2012, $18.00, p. 373, plus notes and indices. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; The struggle for Israel’s soul is hardly new. From without, the Hellenists fought for it from the time of Alexander the Great’s conquest of Israel until their defeat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass shootings indicate USA becoming more dysfunctional</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/12/21/33174/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=33174</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Starting with Abraham&#8217;s expulsion of Ishmael, the Torah&#8217;s patriarchal stories reflect a multi-generational family in distress. Each generation transmits its dysfunction to the next, where it continues to do damage before propagating forward. Abraham expelled his son, Ishmael, in favor of Isaac, only to end up traumatizing him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps we should register body armor</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/12/14/perhaps-we-should-register-body-armor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=perhaps-we-should-register-body-armor</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO &#8211;The shootings in Connecticut hit me hard.  Just the thought of a gunman coming into a school and shooting children was too much for me.  I thought of the times when my daughter was younger and attended San Diego Jewish Academy  that she would tell me of a Code Red, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: Solving tough Chanukah questions</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/12/10/money-maven-solving-tough-chanukah-questions/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=money-maven-solving-tough-chanukah-questions</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO &#8212; Dear Readers, I have received numerous questions related to Hanukkah.  Most of these don’t have much to do with financial matters.  However, I will do my best to give a financial take when possible! Dear Money Maven, I’m concerned about my kids playing dreidel and betting gelt.  Am I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adultery is an offense against God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; I visited one of our younger Torah School classrooms on Wednesday. They were learning about the Luchot Ha-Brit, the Tablets of the Covenant, i.e., the Ten Commandments. One of the students asked me, &#8220;What is adultery?&#8221; Before I could answer the teacher explained, &#8220;I tell them that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real meaning of Palestine&#8217;s &#8216;statehood&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel &#8211;Twenty-four years ago, almost to the day, in 1988, I stood in a large hall in Algeria and saw Yasir Arafat declare the independence of a Palestinian state. And that was forty-one years, almost to the day, after the UN offered a Palestinian state in 1947. Twelve years ago Israel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living among gentiles &#8212; and enjoying it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; My grandmother had a deep-seated distrust of non-Jews. Given her childhood, this was understandable. My grandmother grew up in Russia during a time of turmoil, ferment, and rabid anti-Semitism. She told me of the pogroms she and her family survived, and of the Cossacks beating her younger brother. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donor Advised Funds help others, earn tax savings</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/11/27/donor-advised-funds-help-others-earn-tax-savings/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=donor-advised-funds-help-others-earn-tax-savings</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO &#8212; Have I Got a Deal for You!  Act Now! It’s true that I’ve talked about donor advised funds before… but it’s worth repeating!  And, if you act by the end of the year, you can get an extra bonus!  A donor advised fund (DAF) is a tax-efficient and convenient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measuring out our compassion</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/11/23/measuring-out-our-compassion/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=measuring-out-our-compassion</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; In the midst of the battle between Israel and Hamas, I read a provocative article by Rabbi Daniel Gordis on &#8220;The Times of Israel&#8221; website (if you would like to read the original article, click here). Rabbi Gordis, who lives in Israel and is Senior Vice President and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanctuary rescues exotic pets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mimi Pollack ALPINE, California &#8212; Wild animals should not be behind cages! That might be your first impression when you see the pictures from Lions, Tigers, and Bears, an animal sanctuary here. However, did you know that there are more tigers born in captivity than there are in the wild? Did you know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish-interest license: Harran</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/11/17/jewish-interest-license-harran/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jewish-interest-license-harran</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 08:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO &#8212; Eagle-eyed Melanie Rubin, remembering her Book of Genesis, spotted this Jewish-interest license plate, which recalls the name of the patriarch Abraham&#8217;s brother.]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the arrivals of baby girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; As I read the opening words of this week&#8217;s parasha, I found them to especially appropriate: &#8220;eleh toldot &#8211; these are the generations.&#8221; While the Torah is speaking about the generations, or story, of Isaac and his decendents, I was applying the words to my own family. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham&#8217;s experience provides funeral-arrangement lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 17:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; A few years ago our youngest daughter, Margalit, called us on my day off. &#8220;Where are you?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;At the cemetery,&#8221; we replied. &#8220;What are you doing there?&#8221; she asked. &#8220;Picking out graves!&#8221; we answered. We freaked her out. While Judy and I were not expecting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shepherds vs farmers: a queston of biblical philosophy</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/11/08/shepherds-vs-farmers-a-queston-of-biblical-philosophy/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=shepherds-vs-farmers-a-queston-of-biblical-philosophy</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philosophy of the Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony, Cambridge University Press, New York; ISBN 978-0-521-17667-5 ©2012, $24.99, p. 273, plus notes and indices. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8211;Placing the word “philosophy” next to the expression “Hebrew Scriptures” seems to be incongruous; after all, philosophy is about using reason to find “truths” to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham demonstrated true humility</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal  SAN DIEGO &#8212; When Abraham bargained with God to save the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, he prefaced his challenge by telling God, &#8220;Here I venture to speak to my Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.&#8221; (Gen. 18:27) With these words Abraham acknowledged the inadequacy of his position and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama has been Israel&#8217;s friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 06:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO &#8212; This is a full throated endorsement of the re-election of Barack Obama.  Why?  Well, let’s look at what he has achieved: Hunted down and killed Osama bin Laden; But the President understands that the fight against terrorism and Al Qa’ida is not over.  In his National Security Strategy, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking beside, before, and behind HaShem</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/10/26/walking-beside-before-and-behind-hashem/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=walking-beside-before-and-behind-hashem</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Last week I wrote about the well-known midrash that compares Noah&#8217;s moral immaturity to Abraham&#8217;s moral maturity. Noah, the &#8220;hero&#8221; of the flood story, was saved because: &#8220;&#8230;Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.&#8221; (Gen 6:9) However, later on when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noah not so righteous as Abraham</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Noah, the &#8220;hero&#8221; of the flood story, was saved because: &#8220;&#8230;Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.&#8221; (Gen 6:9) However, later on when God spoke to Avraham, he instructed him: &#8220;&#8230;walk before Me and be blameless&#8230;&#8221; (Gen. 17:1) That is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protestant leaders&#8217; hypocrisy on Israel exposed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Roz Rothstein/JNS.org It is appalling that Protestant leaders sent a letter to Congress asking it to investigate whether Israel’s use of American military aid has violated U.S. or international law. This letter marks a disturbing escalation in the efforts of Protestant anti-Israel activists. For several years, factions within some denominations have tried, unsuccessfully, to get their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney&#8217;s idea to arm Syrian rebels is folly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO &#8212; To counteract the impression that he didn’t have the credentials to be the commander in chief or positions on key international issues, Governor Romney recently put forward his ideas on Syria.  Actually, he made like a cliff diver and made a huge splash with great risk.  His solution is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How an educational edict helped shape the Jewish people</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/10/14/how-an-educational-edict-helped-shape-the-jewish-people/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-an-educational-edict-helped-shape-the-jewish-people</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini and Zvi Eckstein, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; ISBN 978-0-691-14487-0 ©2012, $39.50, p. 273, plus appendix, bibliography, and index &#160;  By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; How many Jewish doctors and lawyers do you know? How many Jewish farmers? I would hazard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lifting off and lifting up</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/10/12/lifting-off-and-lifting-up/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lifting-off-and-lifting-up</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Space exploration has always fascinated me so I followed the launch of SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 rocket last Sunday with great interest. On Wednesday, SpaceX&#8217;s Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station with close to 1,000 lbs of supplies. It was the first private commercial non-NASA supply mission [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Demystifying the Torah</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/10/05/demystifying-the-torah/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=demystifying-the-torah</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal &#160; SAN DIEGO &#8212; One of my guilty pleasures is reading spy and espionage books. Last week I stopped short after reading a sentence in The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA by Antonio J. Mendez. Mendez was describing one-time pads which are used for secure encrypted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza seems a hell on earth</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/09/30/gaza-seems-a-hell-on-earth/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gaza-seems-a-hell-on-earth</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO &#8212; I often forget how much modern Hebrew language is influenced by the Torah.  On Kol Nidre, Barbara Carr,one of the great Jewish educators in our community was talking about the scapegoat as part of her D&#8217;var Torah. And as she talked about the destination of the scapegoat &#8211; Azazael, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The secret of 18A?</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/09/27/the-secret-of-18a/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-secret-of-18a</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO &#8212; Okay, here&#8217;s one that is a &#8220;puzzlement.&#8221; If it read A 18, it would mean the owner was a member of the California Assembly from the 18th district. But this is 18 A. Melanie Rubin decided that since &#8220;18&#8243; is the numeric value of &#8220;Chai,&#8221;  that 18 A must mean Chai-A, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: Financial Failings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO &#8212; Q:        I’ve been in a contemplative mood since the High Holy Days.  Now, as I begin a new Jewish year, what “financial failings” should I strive to overcome? A:        With an advance apology for “literary license,” I offer the following inspirational meditation: For the financial failings that I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eizenstat peers into a Jewish crystal ball</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/09/20/eizenstat-peers-into-a-jewish-crystal-ball/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=eizenstat-peers-into-a-jewish-crystal-ball</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Future of the Jews: How Global Forces are Impacting the Jewish People, Israel, and Its Relationship with the United States by Stuart E. Eizenstat, Rowman &#38; Littlefield, New York; ISBN 978-1-44422-1627-3 ©2012, $37.50, p. 318, plus notes and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211;Stuart Eizenstat author of The Future of the Jews, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering the covenant made at Sinai</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/09/14/remembering-the-covenant-made-at-sinai/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=remembering-the-covenant-made-at-sinai</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; After Torah School on Wednesday, Judaica teacher Cheryl Katz, told me about her experience teaching her students about parashat Nitzavim: &#8220;You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God&#8230;to enter into the Covenant of the Lord your God&#8230;.&#8221; (Deut. 29:9-11) She was trying to explain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coded message, or history, in Deuteronomy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; This week&#8217;s parasha, Ki Tavo, contains a declaration that the Israelites were to make after they had settled the land and brought their first fruits to the Kohen as an offering. The declaration begins: &#8220;I acknowledge this day before the Lord your God that I have entered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who hid the Aleppo Codex&#8211; and why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Aleppo Codex: A True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the Pursuit of an Ancient Bible by Matti Friedman, Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC;  ISBN 978-1-61620-040-4 ©2012, $24.95, p. 277, plus notes By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; Unlike the Cairo Geniza, whose vast treasure of medieval correspondence came to light accidentally late in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The measures of honesty</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; During one early visit to Israel, Judy and I entered a coffee store to buy a pound of ground coffee. We watched in amazement as the proprietor held a paper bag under a chute, opened the door, closed it, and placed our coffee on his scale: it weighed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice, justice we should pursue</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/08/24/justice-justice-we-should-pursue/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=justice-justice-we-should-pursue</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO&#8211;This week&#8217;s parasha contains the famous verse, &#8220;Justice, justice, shall you pursue.&#8221; The Hebrew root for &#8220;justice&#8221; is tzedek. It is the foundation of many other Hebrew words such as tzedakah, charity. The linguistic connection between tzedek and tzedakah reminds us that in Judaism, helping others is not just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movement still &#8216;Young&#8217; Israel at 100</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young Israel At 100: An American Response to the Challenge of Orthodox Living, 1912-2012; by Yaakov Kornreich, Joel Saibel, Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober; National Council of Young Israel, New York; ISBN 978-1-4751-5792-5 ©2012, $24.95, p. 237 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; To believe that during most of its history, Judaism represented [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish-interest license plate: G-ldis</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/08/21/jewish-interest-license-plate-g-ldis/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jewish-interest-license-plate-g-ldis</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 02:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; SAN DIEGO&#8211;Our license plate spotter-in-chief, Melanie Rubin, clearly loves Fiddler on the Roof , so when she saw this ambiguous license plate, she read it as if the heart substituted for an &#8220;O&#8221; in Goldis.   Tevye, you remember, after 25 years loves Goldie, and she loves him too.   Our editor, Don Harrison, read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media adopts Palestinian talking points as their own</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel &#8211;In almost 40 years of studying these issues, I’ve never seen a better case study of mass media bias and knee-jerk narrowness than an aspect of the current flap about what presidential candidate Mitt Romney said during his trip to Israel. I’m going to focus on a single point because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 4 C&#8217;s of choosing an A+ financial advisor</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/08/19/the-4-cs-of-choosing-an-a-financial-advisor/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-4-cs-of-choosing-an-a-financial-advisor</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 02:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO&#8211;Choosing your advisor may likely be one of the most important financial decisions you make.   All financial advisors are not created equal!  Borrowing from the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (www.napfa.org), I will discuss why choosing a Fee-Only advisor is best! A Fee-Only advisor is not a stockbroker or insurance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving offense&#8230;and seeking forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/08/17/giving-offense-and-seeking-forgiveness/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=giving-offense-and-seeking-forgiveness</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 14:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8211;Tonight (Friday, Aug. 17) we celebrate Rosh Chodesh Elul, the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul, which is the month immediately preceding Tishrei, whose first day is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. The Rabbis wrote that the Hebrew letters that spell out Elul are an anagram for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions I meant to ask my father</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO &#8212; I have come to realize that one can never be prepared totally for someone to die.  I thought that I was. My father lived for over 30 years with congestive heart failure.  In May 1981, he suffered a major heart attack.  The heart attack was so severe; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daniel Rotto, former Congregation Dor Hadash president, dies</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/08/12/daniel-rotto-former-congregation-dor-hadah-president-dies/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=daniel-rotto-former-congregation-dor-hadah-president-dies</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Gary Rotto ENCINITAS, California &#8212; My father, Daniel Rotto, a founding member of Congregation Dor Hadash who later served as a president of the Reconstructionist congregation, has died at age 89 at Seacrest Village Retirement Community here. Many of the early meetings of Congregation Dor Hadash were held in the Rotto home, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish-interest license plate: &#8216;Nifrah&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/08/11/jewish-interest-license-plate-nifrah/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=jewish-interest-license-plate-nifrah</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 21:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO &#8212; Melanie Rubin found this transliterated Hebrew license plate.  Nifrah means &#8220;we will blossom.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Attack on ANY religious group is an outrage</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/08/10/attack-on-any-religious-group-is-an-outrage/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=attack-on-any-religious-group-is-an-outrage</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 05:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8211;I was appalled by one of the comments that I heard repeatedly in the wake of the murderous rampage at a Milwaukee Sikh temple last Sunday: the white supremacist shooter who attacked it probably mistook it for an Islamic house of worship. As if that is any kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Poway rabbi building community in Spokane</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/08/10/former-poway-rabbi-building-community-in-spokane/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=former-poway-rabbi-building-community-in-spokane</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 04:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Mimi Pollack SPOKANE, Washington &#8212; Rabbi Tamar Malino is full of hope and optimism. She has started a new life in Spokane after leaving San Diego in 2008. She still has fond memories of her former congregation in Poway where she was both assistant rabbi and rabbi at Temple Adat-Shalom. In 2008, Rabbi Tamar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: Can I deduct that?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 03:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note:  None of these letters come from actual celebrities. By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO&#8211;Dear Money Maven, I’m an attorney.  Can I deduct the cost of my business suits? Hopefully, Helen Dear Helen,    Unfortunately, no.  To be deductible as a business expense, clothing must be required as a condition of the job and must not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Torah&#8217;s 2 versons of 10 Commandments differ subtly</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/08/03/torahs-2-versons-of-10-commandments-differ-subtly/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=torahs-2-versons-of-10-commandments-differ-subtly</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; Is ignorance of the law an excuse? Should people be held responsible for things they do not know? The Ten Commandments appear twice in the Torah, first in parashat Yitro and again in parashat va-Etchanan. While the commandments themselves are substantially the same, there are variations in wording. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did Romney say between the lines in Jerusalem?</title>
		<link>http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/07/31/what-did-romney-say-between-the-lines-in-jerusalem/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=what-did-romney-say-between-the-lines-in-jerusalem</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, ISRAEL &#8212; Speaking to an often-cheering group of about 400 people in Jerusalem, Governor Mitt Romney gave a speech less notable for what he said that for the fact that the audience believed he was sincere in saying it. At a beautiful outdoor setting with the Old City in the background, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein at the crossroads of science and religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 23:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion by Steven Gimbel; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland;  ISBN 978-1-4214-0554-4 ©2012, $24.95, p. 245, including endnotes, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California &#8212; In 1922, a year after winning the Nobel Prize in physics for what we know today as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Israel&#8217;s athletes on their yahrzeits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO &#8212; The question is “How should the International Olympic Committee commemorate and remember the slaying of 11 Israeli Olympic Athletes at the Munich Olympics?” The conversation has focused on one answer, which, of course, is not the question, but only one answer.  Whether on Facebook or via the petition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can God have regrets?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO &#8212; If everything God does is perfect, can God regret what God does? Tisha B&#8217;Av, literally the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples. This year the ninth of Av falls on Shabbat. Therefore, the commemoration and fast are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mon Dieu!  The bagels of Montreal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 22:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Rotto MONTREAL, Canada &#8212; Sometimes you find the Jewish community when you&#8217;re not really looking for it.  We were to arrive in Montreal on Friday and I thought it would be nice to attend services.  As a member of a Reconstructionist congregation, I contracted Congregation Dorchei Emet, but discovered that the congregation held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A 20:20 view of Toronto&#8217;s kosher treats</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gary Rotto TORONTO, Canada &#8211;It was 20:00 and I was waiting at a restaurant for a chicken shishkebab.  Make that a kosher shishkebab.  Clearly I was not in San Diego County because other than when I join my parents at Seacrest Village Retirement Communities for Shabbat, nowhere can I find a restaurant that serves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Syrian scenarios for after the fall of Assad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin HERZLILYA, Israel &#8212; The tide seems to be turning in Syria. While the civil war is far from over, the regime is clearly weakening; the rebels are expanding their operations and effectiveness. There have also been more high-level defections. What does this mean and why is this happening? There are three main [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Maven: Socially Responsible Investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 06:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO &#8212; Many people are interested in socially responsible investing.  After all, aren’t we supposed to take part in tikkun olam?  But, most people – and their advisors – don’t really know how to define or implement or socially responsible investing! &#160; “Socially responsible investing” (SRI) means investing based on personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Long Way to Midnight&#8217; soon to be ready for prime time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO &#8212; A Long Way to Midnight is a work in progress, looking for producers to bring it to life as a staged production. On Thursday evening, July 12, I attended a first reading at the Community Actor’s Theatre. Because it was a first reading, it was like a rough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Museum brings ancient Kumeyaay ways to life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[            Story and photos by Mimi Pollack TECATE, Mexico &#8212; There are only 70 to 80 people left in Baja California who speak Kumeyaay, according to Michael Wilken Robertson, an anthropologist with a specialty in ethno-botany who is curator of the Kumeyaay Museum in this city hugging the U.S.-Mexican border. In a recent interview, Wilken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arafat allegations one more attempt to dehumanize Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 18:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel &#8212; Yasir Arafat is still dead. True, he was once alive. I sat across from him in his Gaza office, for example. And he even had a copy of my history of the PLO on his bookshelf so he must have been of sound mind at the time. It’s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So do we have free will or don&#8217;t we?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Determinism or Free Will by Chapman Cohen; Literary Licensing LLC, Whitefish, MT; ISBN 978-1-2581-2881-4 ©2012 reprint of a book published in 1919, $25.95, p. 127 Free Will by Sam Harris; Free Press, New York ISBN 978-1-4516-8347-0 ©2012, $9.99, p. 81, including notes and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California&#8211;Judaism provides no help in settling [...]]]></description>
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