By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — The Dalai Lama and many of his people fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959. Now after more than 50 years in exile, he has been considering the problem of how to keep both the culture and religious heritage of his people alive. It occurred to him that there
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Jewish ReligionBy Michael R. Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — In the words of one sexually frustrated husband, “My wife doesn’t. Understand me?” For so many years, the jokes about Judaism and sex – together with Jewish illiteracy — have so misled generations, that too many of today’s young Jewish couples simply do not understand the true joy
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is a great deal swirling around us concerned with Iran and the US. It is impossible to know anything for sure, but these appear to be points more or less clear. Barack Obama believes strongly in diplomacy. He’s willing to use a bit of military power against the ugliest
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — The Doggie Street Festival is the love child of Jude Pauline Artenstein, a San Diego based independent filmmaker and wife of producer/director Isaac Artenstein. She founded the annual festival seven years ago as a civic tribute to her beloved golden retriever, Scout. During that time [2008-2009], she was recuperating from
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Mimi Pollack, The World We ShareThe Fox News Presidential Debate By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ It opened more like a sporting event than a political debate with the moderators observing that the venue was where the Cleveland Cavaliers play their games. Though the moderators are supposed to be impartial, Megan Kelly anointed Carly Fiorina the Snow White of the earlier
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is hardly a city or town in Israel’s Jewish sector without a street named for Shaul Tchernichovsky, and his picture is on the 50 shekel bill. Currently we hear several times a day that this is the 140th anniversary of his birth, with frequent renderings of his poetry in
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USALeading Jewish Democrats Schumer, Engel to vote against Iran deal (JNS.org) U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, two leading Jewish Democrats in Congress from the state of New York, will vote against the Iran nuclear deal. In particular, Schumer’s impending decision on the deal had been the source of intense public lobbying
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Middle East, USAEven You by Marilyn Oser; Mill City Press, Minneapolis; © 2015; ISBN-13: 978-1-63413-546-7; 261 pages, $15.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This is an intense book. At times it educated me. At other times it made me shudder in revulsion. On fleeting occasions, the author’s fascination with the little ironies of words made me laugh.
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — “Take off your shoes,” God admonished Moses at the site of the Burning Bush. “You are standing on holy ground.” What was God actually saying? Moses was not at the Vatican. He was not at the Mosque of Omar. He was not even in Jerusalem. He was in
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Jewish ReligionEditor’s Note: Below, you see investigative reporter Edwin Black’s original Jonathan Pollard article published 13 years ago in 2002. For this scoop, Black visited Pollard in prison, at that time the first journalist to do so, plus Black extensively interviewed his attorneys and reviewed their evidence, and also interviewed then ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Casper Weinberger, and many other
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