By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –“Messiah” may be a stretch. The word implies something from another world, associated with the Almighty, and meant to create some kind of Paradise for those who are favored. Writing from Jerusalem on the subject is especially dicey, given that we are within walking distance of the places where the world’s […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastLewis Katz, co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer died with six other people in a small plane crash in Massachusetts. He had attended a gathering at the home of Doris Kearns Goodwin, the presidential biographer, according to an AP story in the U-T. * Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vermont,plans to introduce legislation this week to permit veterans
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — The generation that stood at Har Sinai was the greatest generation of all time. Their leader was the greatest leader of all time. This was not a coincidence. Hashem gives us leaders in proportion to the generation. The greater the generation, the greater the leader. Young Rabbi Yechezkel
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)–The Jewish delegation in Congress generally reacted with favor to an announcement from the Obama Administration on Monday, June 2, that states will be required to cut their emissions from power plants by 30 percent over the next 16 years. Jewish organizations that take positions on environmental legislation also had positive reactions. Sen.
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Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — With rhythmic incisiveness, virtuosic flair and technique to burn, Asi Matathias, violin and Victor Stanislovsky, piano, performed a riveting violin-piano recital last Thursday evening at the Lyceum Theatre. The America-Israel Cultural Foundation co-sponsored the evening, part of the Lipinsky Jewish Arts Festival. All proceeds went to the America-Israel Cultural
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County-San Diego Jewish World roundup- Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu at his Cabinet meeting on Sunday, June 1, urged the world to refrain from recognizing the new unity Palestinian government, but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in the new government’s members anyway. In a blow to Israel, the U.S. State Department on June 2
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – It might have been a project on homelessness, or cleaning up the environment, or any other of a number of efforts by Jewish and Latino high school students to impact major social problems, but the project that caught the eye of the judges—and won a
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & EducationIsraeli, U.S. leaders express concern over Palestinian unity government (JNS.org) Israeli and American leaders expressed concern with the announcement of a new Palestinian unity government between Fatah and Hamas. In a telephone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “expressed concern about Hamas’s role in any such government and
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, celebrating its 51st anniversary two nights before Erev Shavuot, paid tribute to two women of the Bible and to three women who have been essential to the school’s own success. Bobbe Reitman, the school nurse, was honored as volunteer of the year.
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –A flower bud in the spring has closed petals, but potential. If the bud is placed in water with dappled sunlight, it will open into a lovely flower. But if the water is too cool or too warm, or the sun too hot or a draft too cold,
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — It was a day of remembrance of those who came before us, in particular polio vaccine discoverer Dr. Jonas Salk and physicist Albert Einstein, two Jewish scientists who in their time helped transform the world. The U-T’s Bradley J. Fikes detailed a $25 million gift that philanthropist Conrad Prebys made to
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San Diego CountyGate to the Heart: A Manual of Contemplative Jewish Practice by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi with editors Netanel Miles-Yépez and Robert Micha’el Esformes, Albion-Andalus, Boulder, Colorado; ISBN 978-0-61594-456-2 ©2013, $13.00, p. 118, plus Recommendations for Further Reading By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, co-author of more than a dozen books on various
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Travel and FoodBy Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)- The Shabak, Israel’s internal security service, last week lifted a gag order on the arrest of a senior Hamas terrorist in April 2014, and provided details on the results of his interrogation. Mahmoud Mohammed Issa Tuama revealed that Hamas has been the force behind recent outbreaks of violence on the
