Nahum HaLevi, The Color of Prophecy: Visualizing the Bible In a New Light; Hardcover; Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House 2012 By Rabbi Michael Samuels CHULA VISTA, California — The Zohar teaches that there are many different layers of Torah interpretation. This mystical work cautions us to take the biblical text at face value. In reality, many
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Eva Trieger Update, March 2, 2014–Due to unforeseen events, Michael Snyder and Brandy Gold have had to postpone the showing of Shelter Me Sderot. Further information will follow with a new date when it is scheduled. * SAN DIEGO — “Mom,” your daughter whines “My English teacher says I need a new composition book.”
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Eva Trieger, San Diego CountyJERUSALEM (Press Release)–Israeli Ministers Avigdor Liberman, Minister of Foreign Affairs; Tzipy Livni, Minister of Justice and Dr. Yuval Steinitz, Minister of Intelligence and Strategic Affairs, as well as Opposition Leader Yitzhak Herzog and Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat addressed leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in briefings Tuesday, Feb. 18,
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) – The Knesset’s Committee for Aliyah, Absorption and Diaspora, headed by MK Yoel Razvozov visited Nefesh B’Nefesh offices on Tuesday morning, Feb. 18. The committee toured the various departments of the organization and was able to experience the organization’s activities to encourage and increase Aliyah from North America firsthand. Various options to
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By Donald H. Harrison ESCONDIDO, California –Now six months into operation, Chesed Home at Hope Village currently serves three residents with mental illnesses and has room for three more. Until recently there were five residents in the Home but two recently “graduated” to independent living units on the same residential property operated by Hope Village,
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) –The five Palestinian suspects arrested in connection with the rock attack that left three-year-old Adele Biton from the Yakir community in critical condition nearly one year ago, heard from Adele’s mother during their trial last Thursday, February 13. In March 2013, three-year-old Adele Biton was critically injured following a Palestinian
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NEW YORK (Press Release) – Two apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) visited AJC in New York on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The extraordinary visit marked the first time that LDS church apostles have come to AJC’s global headquarters, and follows upon a series of meetings at the LDS world headquarters
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Jewish ReligionTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Tel Aviv University researchers won two out of three prestigious melanoma research awards granted this year by The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA) and The Saban Family Foundation. The Team Science Awards are the centerpiece of the MRA research fund, which seeks to promote transformational melanoma research for swift clinical implementation.
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JERUSALEM (WJC) – Delegates at the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress General Assembly in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 18, elected the British-Austrian businessman Julius Meinl, 54, as the organization’s new president. Meinl succeeds Vadim Shulman, who did not stand for re-election. The assembly confirmed Josef Zissels of Ukraine as chairman of the General Council and Mikhail Chlenov
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InternationalBy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org In the Exodus story, Moses decides to rescue his people after he hears God speak to him through the burning bush. But when New York City-based artist Jan Aronson imagined the famous episode in which Moses must decide which path to take in life, she didn’t see a magic fire, but
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Travel and FoodBoycotters of Israel are ‘classical anti-Semites in modern garb,’ Netanyahu says (JNS.org) Boycotters of Israel are “classical anti-Semites in modern garb,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a delegation of leaders visiting Jerusalem with the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Monday. “I think the most eerie thing, the most disgraceful thing,
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA)– The remnants of a rural town that was lived in for approximately two centuries during the Second Temple Period were uncovered near the ‘Burma Road’, on the main route to Jerusalem. In June 2013, Israel Natural Gas Lines began construction of the 35km-long project, which runs from the coast
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — AJC lauded Peruvian President Ollanta Humala’s visit to Israel this week. “Peru has raised the bar for South American relations with Israel,” said Dina Siegel Vann, director of AJC’s Latino and Latin American Institute (LLAI). “We remember that Peru supported Israel’s bid for statehood in 1947,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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InternationalBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO– “It is required you do awake your faith.” To Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of the Old Globe and the director of this production, this is the central theme Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale. Ten years ago, when he directed this play in New York, the concepts of jealousy and loss were
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