By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –How the mighty have fallen! This past week, much has been said about one of Modern Orthodoxy’s greatest scholars of our time—Rabbi Michael Broyde, who allegedly has been using a fake ID to help promote his writings and Halachic scholarship. The use of aliases is common in much […]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Recently, a good number of American Jews, self-declared pro-Israel Zionists, wrote Israel P.M. Netanyahu a finger-wagging letter, asking him “to make painful concessions and sacrifices” to the Palestinians to achieve peace. This was not a discreet expression of opinion, permitted to anyone, but a public admonition full
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USABy Danny Bloom CHIAYI City, Taiwan — National Taiwan Normal University — and “Normal University” here is a French educational term that means a “Teachers College” — signed a partnership agreement with the Board of Education of the San Diego Unified School District to help provide Chinese-language teachers for an Asian-language learning center set to
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Travel and FoodTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Evidence indicates that the accumulation of amyloid-beta proteins, which form the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, is critical for the development of Alzheimer’s disease, which impacts 5.4 million Americans. And not just the quantity, but also the quality of amyloid-beta peptides is crucial for Alzheimer’s initiation. The
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Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO – The Jewish Federation of San Diego County has announced that the Super Hero 5k and BBQ on June 9 will aid the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings. The family-friendly event will take place at Liberty Station in San Diego. Participants are encouraged to dress up as their favorite hero to honor the
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San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — “The L-rd spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron… …he shall not come to the Sanctuary at all times… …so that he should not die.” (Leviticus 16:1-2) Rashi teaches us that the Torah emphasizes the death of the sons of Aharon before listing
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Jewish ReligionSpin Your Web by Damona Hoffman, WaterfrontDigitalPress.com, 2013, 978-1-939116-16-1, 89 pgs., $9.95 By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Being a confirmed bachelorette, I was all set to debunk Damona Hoffman’s book on Internet dating. However just a few pages into it, I realized I have to give credit where credit is due. This author/researcher
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Eva Trieger, Travel and FoodFrom Tazpit News Agency Pope Francis I, who hails from Argentina, helped launch People of the World Inscribe the Bible in Argentina by writing the first verse at the International Book Fair in Buenos Aires in 2006. At the time he was known as Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Archbishop of Buenos Aires. He was
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Jewish ReligionU.S. and Israeli teens tie at International Bible Contest (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s annual International Bible Contest was held on Tuesday in Jerusalem, with 58 young people from 26 countries taking part in all stages of the international contest, including Turkey, the United States, Brazil, South Africa and Germany. This year’s results yielded a surprise,
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International
By Sandy Golden SAN DIEGO — Good vs. Evil: Over the past several days we have seen and heard increasing evidence of both, as a result of the horrific happening after the Boston Marathon—-the vicious, vindictive planning that went into the destruction and deaths that resulted –and –the display of heroism, compassion and selfless acts
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Wednesday morning’s news was of two rockets that fell in the outskirts of Eilat. There was no significant damage, but the reminder was clear about the unsettled nature of the Sinai, and the lack of Egyptian control. At the same time, rockets also landed across the border in the Jordanian city
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastThe Laws of Gravity, a novel by Liz Rosenberg, Amazon Publishing, (c) 2013, ISBN: 9781611099546, 310 pages, $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Ari was always protective of his younger, first cousin Nicole. He was fascinated by her long red hair, and though he would not admit it to anyone else, he was
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Joshua Sinai The Internet is a crucial tool that terrorist groups and their extremist supporters use to distribute their propaganda and attack planning beyond the “physical” space where they operate clandestinely into the worldwide “cyber” space, where it is easier to reach vast audiences that have Internet connectivity. Terrorist presence and appeal on the
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USAPETACH TIKVAH, Israel (Press Release) — “It was in the middle of sixth grade when I noticed a strange lump in my armpit. At first they thought I had appendicitis but I heard the doctor say those words-the words everyone is scared of. I had questions but the biggie I couldn’t even ask, not even to
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