By David Amos SAN DIEGO — On this coming Sunday, July 19th at 3 p.m., the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) will be performing at the synagogue’s Cohen Social Hall its annual Pops Concert. Below I am describing some of the great and beloved music of this program, but the highlight will be the rarely heard
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Men’s Club of Beth Israel will feature Bert Lazerow, Professor of Law at USD and an expert in international law, as its featured speaker at the August 19 Dinner Forum. Lazerow’s presentation will focus on the subject of recovering Holocaust Art. While Lazerow teaches and writes in the areas
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Gabriel Isaac Polak (1851) hit the nail on the head about the current agreement reached with Iran in his comment on this week’s parasha. The Torah teaches: “If a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall
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Middle East, USAHamas claims captive Israeli is a soldier, not mentally unstable (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Avera Mengistu, the 28-year-old Israeli of Ethiopian descent who has been missing since he crossed the border into Gaza last September, is an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier who was taken captive during Operation Protective Edge and not a mentally unstable
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International, Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Marco Rubio’s new campaign ad condemns Obama’s Nuclear Deal with Iran and concludes with a mushroom-shaped cloud explosion. It is unclear whether this image alludes to the dire consequences of the Iranian deal or to Rubio’s chances of winning the Republican presidential nomination. * A new Gallup poll indicates that
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireIncreasing Wholeness: Jewish Wisdom & Guided Meditations to Strengthen & Calm Body, Heart, Mind, & Soul by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, Vermont; ISBN 978-1-58023-823-6 ©2015, $19.99, p. 151, plus notes By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The expression “wholeness is peace” might be considered an aphorism in English, but it
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionWASHINGTON, D.C. – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) voted Thursday, July 16, in the minority, 245-176, against “a so-called drought relief bill that wouldn’t create any new water but would weaken the Endangered Species Act, gut environmental protection laws, and put commercial fishing jobs at risk.” The Western Water and American Food Security Act (H.R. 2898)
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The World We Share, USA
By Eileen Wingard KYOTO, Japan — Singing Hevenu Shalom Aleichem and clapping as they filed in, 24 kimono-clad Japanese women and 15 Japanese men in white shirts and bow ties entered the Kyoto sanctuary of Beit Shalom. This was the Shachar Choir. The audience, composed of our tour group, under the leadership of Rabbi Marvin
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Eileen Wingard, International, Middle EastBy Lloyd Levy LONDON, England — In the UK, we recently had a General Election, in which the Conservative Party won an absolute majority. This is the first all Conservative Government for 20 years, and is on the whole supportive of Israel’s security concerns. The last Government, which was a Conservative/Liberal coalition, restricted arms supplies to
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International, Lloyd Levy, Middle EastIsrael arrests Palestinian Authority-linked terrorist who killed hiker (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested a Palestinian Authority-linked terrorist who shot and killed Israeli hiker Danny Gonen near the community of Dolev in Samaria last month. The Shin Bet security agency, together with the Israel Police and the Israel Defense
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Perhaps one of the reasons for Prime Minister Netanyahu’s preoccupation – some say, obsession – with Iran is that he sees here an opportunity to enlarge and strengthen his very fragile coalition. That’s a possible way of understanding the news that President Rivlin is now mediating between the prime
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s simple as pie to criticize politicians for what they do, and what they don’t do. It’s just as easy to declare what they must do, and what they must not do. What’s tough is to explain what they can do, and what they cannot do. There is no shortage
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-13th in a Series- Exit 4: Hotel Circle, San Diego ~ Riverwalk Golf Course By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The Handlery Hotel, on the northeastern portion of Hotel Circle, adjoins the Riverwalk Golf Course, on land that the Levi and Cushman families have owned for over a century. Currently they and a developer
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