August 2012

Three Silvermans-the author, rabbi and cantor-to lead services

CARLSBAD, California (Press Release) — In a most unusual combination, distinguished Rabbi Hillel Silverman will officiate at High Holiday services with his Cantor Grandson Matthew Rutta in Carlsbad, California. To enhance the generational ties, the Machzor Prayer book being used was edited by the Rabbi’s well known father, Rabbi Morris Silverman, who achieved national prominence with […]

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Jewish Religion

Biography recounts struggles of General Zionists and Revisionists

The Forgotten Zionist: The Life of Solomon (Sioma) Yankelevitch Jacobi by Rodney Benjamin and David Cebon; Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-571-2,  248 pages including index, $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This is a loving biography, well researched historically by the son-in-law and grandson of Sioma Jacobi, who was an assistant to

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Donald H. Harrison

Palestinian mindset: better to slap Israel than to improve self

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Mitt Romney is being castigated for praising the culture that has allowed a democratic, (mainly) free market Israel, operating under the rule of law, to thrive amid decades of threat and periodic open warfare and a heavy defense burden. Actually, he’s being castigated for what his praise of Israel implies

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Here’s Zikhron Ya’akov from grandma’s perspective

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson ZIKHRON YA’AKOV, Israel — It’s over twenty years since my own children were teenagers, and it was with some trepidation that my husband and I agreed to leave our home and spend a week in Zikhron Ya’akov attending to our three grandsons while their parents took a well-deserved break abroad. Like everywhere

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food