By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Biblical leadership is hardly a democracy. God and God alone appoints most leaders. Even when the Israelites demanded a King, God had to endorse their choice. According to the midrash, there is one important exception to the rule: someone appointed as a parnas, or communal leader. Rabbi Isaac said: […]
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Jewish ReligionIDF outlines defense of southern airport, braces for Islamic State-linked attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces—which is said to be preparing for the possibility of an Islamic State-linked terror attack along the Israel-Egypt border—is outlining its defense of the Timna Airport, the new international airport that is currently under construction in southern
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International, Middle East, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Whenever a new literary genre comes of age, when its time arrives, it signals a small shift in public awareness. Before sci-fi arrived on the scene in the 1920s, via short stories in science fiction magazines that set the stage for future SF writers like Isaac Asimov, Harlen
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The World We ShareEditor, San Diego Jewish World It is with deep pain that I pen this letter to you today. Earlier this week, we were horrified to hear that my brother’s 4 year old daughter, who lives in Orange County, has been diagnosed with cancer. Our family is overwhelmed grappling with such news. Tests have been conducted and
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Anti-Israel Van Driving Around San Diego Editor, San Diego Jewish World I stopped to do some shopping at the NorthPark Market – that’s it’s name, it isn’t in North Park– and I saw this truck pull in and park. Looks like it’s sponsored by some faux Jewish group called Jewish Voice for Peace – e-mail www.jvp-sandiego.org
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — On my way home one day, I stopped to watch a Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first- base line, I asked one of the boys what the score was ‘We’re
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – When President Obama announced his Student Bill of Rights this week it contained language from a bill by Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California). The San Diego Democrat’s bill helps borrowers pay down their student loans faster by directing extra payments go toward the principal and not toward the interest. “I was pleased
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — This week, Members of Congress (MC’s) Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-California), senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ed Royce (R-California), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-New York), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent
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Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release)— Hurricanes require moisture, the rotation of the earth, and warm ocean temperatures to grow from a mere atmospheric disturbance into a tropical storm. But where do these storm cells originate, and exactly what makes an atmospheric disturbance amp up full throttle? A new study published in Geophysical Research Letters by Tel
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Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareATHENS (Press Release)– A senior American Jewish Committee (AJC) leadership group just concluded a two-day visit to Greece. The six-member delegation, led by AJC President Stanley Bergman and Executive Director David Harris, was joined by leaders of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS), an AJC partner organization, and Andrew Manatos, a prominent leader
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International, Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — In response to Wednesday night’s (March 11) shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, Rabbi Jonah Pesner, Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, issued the following statement: “We condemn in the strongest terms last night’s shooting of two Ferguson police officers and are praying for their full
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Jewish Religion, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee) on Thursday, March 12, criticized the use of Congressional video footage in a new campaign advertisement released by the Israeli Likud party, which is led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On several occasions both before and after the Prime Minister’s speech to a joint meeting
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – Curators Larry and Debby Kline have pulled together a multi-religious, multi-media exhibition in which religious symbols are conflated with symbols from other human arenas to produce an exhibition which may inspire some, anger others, but get everyone to think. Titled “Seeing is Believing: A Reinvention of
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