Editor’s Note: San Diego Jewish World editor Donald H. Harrison and his wife Nancy made the rounds of Purim carnivals at four different congregations on Sunday, March 16, working their way from north to south. The first one they hit was at Temple Solel in Encinitas, followed by Congregation Beth Israel near University Towne Center, […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
Editor’s Note: San Diego Jewish World editor Donald H. Harrison and his wife Nancy made the rounds of Purim carnivals at four different congregations on Sunday, March 16, working their way from north to south. The first one they hit was at Temple Solel in Encinitas, followed by Congregation Beth Israel near University Towne Center,
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — You might have to watch the movie Hairspray several times to fully appreciate just how clever were the Tifereth Israel Synagogue writing team of Susan Levy, Amy Stanley, Beth Klareich, Maya Klareich, Jerry Hermes and Cheryl Katz. In the Purimshpiel presented Saturday evening, March 15, they successfully integrated
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–On the face of it, it’s reasonable to demand that, in a peace agreement, the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Because of the Palestinian mythology that the Jews have no right to this land, fueled occasionally by malevolent “scholarship,” it would make sense to ensure that in the future,
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Middle East
By Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO–In a commencement address at Smith College in 2013, Arianna Huffington equated our insatiable drive to attain money and power as two legs on a three-legged stool. While you may balance on two legs for a while, a fall is inevitable. The third leg of success, Huffington argues, is our
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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California–At Purim carnivals to be held on Sunday, March 16, throughout the world, children will dress up as such adult characters as Esther, Mordecai, Ahasuerus and the wicked Haman, and through the device of masquerade, will once again tell how Esther and Mordecai saved the Jews of old against
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Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–The former Portuguese Consul in Bordeaux, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, is credited with rescuing 30,000 people from the Nazi terror by means of issuing them visas to live in neutral Portugal, even though he had no authorization to do so. After the Germans invaded France in 1940, he signed
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –During the Holocaust years, Purim celebrations were forbidden to the Jews. Christians and Jews could not even own the book of Esther. Such decrees did not stop the Nazis from poking fun at the Jews on this Jewish holiday. With diabolical glee, the Nazis frequently orchestrated special
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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
BETHESDA, Maryland (Press Release) — Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, president of RespectAbility, an advocacy group for people with disabilities, on Friday, March 14, praised the Jewish Council for Public Affairs for having “unanimously passed this resolution (see below) for the inclusion of people with disabilities.” “As you know, we have been fighting for equality for some
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USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – The Senate passed bipartisan legislation introduced by Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) and Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) to award Israeli President Shimon Peres with a Congressional Gold Medal. The bill passed the Senate unanimously and now awaits passage by the House of Representatives. If the bill is enacted, President Peres would
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Middle East, USA
SAN DIEGO — Abbe Wolfsheimer – Stutz, 75, a former member of the San Diego City Council, died Thursday, March 13, at her home in La Jolla. Her son, Marc Wolfsheimer, who announced her death, described her as “a critical thinker – someone who would analyze, investigate and educate herself on matters before making decisions.
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San Diego County
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice” — Martin Luther King Jr. NEW YORK (Press Release)–The following is a statement by Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend the Arc Jewish Action on President Obama’s order to review the administration’s enforcement of deportations. “We applaud President Obama for ordering a review
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USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Israelis in the southern part of the country have taken to shelters and safe rooms under a barrage of more than 60 (and counting) rockets from the Gaza Strip, and as the Israeli General Staff considers a response, it is worth a look at the just-released EU Heads
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen