By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Rabbi Yitzchok Chinn of McKees Port, Pensylvania, when he was a guest speaker at a Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva Convention, where he told the following story: Rabbi Chinn knew an older Jewish man who said to him, “I hate Shabbos!” The Rabbi […]
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Jewish ReligionBy Norman Greene SAN DIEGO — If you are up for solving mysteries and maybe uncovering a few new ones, you can learn a great deal by visiting an old Jewish cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. For years. My late father would become very melancholy four or five days before the yahrzeits of his
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Obituaries & memorials, Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson GUERET, France — Life is full of strange coincidences. I first encountered the story of Charlotte Salomon about twenty years ago, when an exhibition of her work, a series of paintings with captions describing her life and entitled ‘Life? Or Theatre?’ was held at the Royal Academy in London. It made a
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By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California –Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Bret Stephens suggested in a public dialogue with radio commentator Dennis Prager at Congregation Beth El that Jews are appreciated in America, a country where success is admired, but are reviled in Europe and the Arab world, where success is envied. Stephens, a columnist
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)— The sound of a bag of potato chips being torn open cuts through a darkened movie theater. The noise, in an otherwise silent space, pinpoints for all moviegoers exactly where the chips are being devoured. According to a new Tel Aviv University study, bats operate in a similar fashion. Bats, hunting
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Editor’s Note: The following article responds to a previous press release from the Zionist Organization of America. By Ken Bob NEW YORK — The Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) publicity department is working overtime in attempts to silence the voice of the leading progressive Zionist groups in America. Deploying sensational headlines, coupled with untruths and
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Middle East, USASatellite images reveal new long-range Iranian missile and launcher (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Israeli satellite imaging company ImageSat released images from Iran revealing a new nuclear development site. The images show what appears to be a new missile launcher that stands 89 feet tall and is capable of launching a nuclear missile to Israel
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International, Middle East, USALA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–During the 2014/15 academic year the Holocaust Living History Workshop offers a series of lectures titled “Forgotten Stories: Legacy of Pain.” The series is intended to broaden understanding of the past and to foster tolerance in the present and future. All events are free and open to the public. The Holocaust
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The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. By Gina B. Nahai; 413 pages. Akashic Books. $29.95 By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO– The term “magic realism” arose to describe the juxtaposition of the everyday and the fantastic in novels by Latin American authors like Gabriel García Márquez. In her first novel, Cry of the Peacock (1992), Gina B.
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Travel and FoodCompiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Jewish officeholders and organizations offered a diverse chorus of reactions to President Barack Obama’s “State of the Union” address on Tuesday, Jan. 20. These included: U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colorado): “Too many Colorado families still lack economic security despite the recent momentum in our recovery. There are
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The election campaign in Israel is going from national to regional to global. The national manifests itself in customary campaign rhetoric, often in bad taste, such as Netanyahu’s ad using children in a nursery school to denigrate his political opponents. (A judge has now banned the ad and made
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Middle East, USABy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO –It is said that lightning never strikes twice, but I don’t think Sophie Tuttleman would concur. Her earliest memory of her dad is the ambulance carrying him off just before he died of Hodgkin’s disease. Sophie and her little sister, Emma, developed an abject fear of losing their mother. Jan
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –I’m on the email line with Paddy Hernon in Canada, and he’s giving me a brief introductory-level tutorial on the Hebrew language. As a teenager in the early 1960s, three days a week after regular school was over, I hopped on a yellow school bus with the designatation “United
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