December 2011

Not by might, but by light – A modern Hanukkah message

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Historically, the holiday of Hanukkah is a relatively minor holiday when compared to holidays like Passover or Yom Kippur, or the Sabbath. Nevertheless, its significance should not be under-appreciated. Hanukkah celebrates the first triumph for religious freedom in the ancient history of late antiquity. Although the […]

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

‘Jews and Booze’ tells of a people’s involvement with liquor

Jews and Booze: Becoming American In the Age of Prohibition , by Marni Davis. New York University Press, 248pp. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — At the next family simcha (joyous occasion) as I raise my kiddish cup, I might think about the Jewish connection to alcoholic beverages, realizing that wealthy Jews, prior to the

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Sept. 7, 1956, Part 7

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff The Approaching Showdown on Civil Rights Southwestern Jewish Press, September 7, 1956, Pages 17, 20 By Joseph B. Robison Senior Counsel, American Jewish Congress The pressing problem of racial equality has now been turned over to the uncertain helter-skelter of the presidential campaign. It remains to be seen

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Israel’s Justice Minister clashes with American Reform rabbi

  By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Yaakov Neeman is part of Israel’s political mosaic. He may not be one of the shiniest of pieces in the picture, but he holds a serious position as Minister of Justice.    The word apparatchnik entered Hebrew (pl apparatchnikim) from our Russian roots, and refers to a person who has

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 7, 1956, Part 6

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Jewish Education and the University of Judaism Southwestern Jewish Press, September 7, 1956, Page 14 By Philip L. Seman In 1945 at a public meeting marking the thirty-fifth anniversary of the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, the idea of a University of Judaism was

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