By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — When Yaakov was garbed in Esav’s clothing, he was still polite and respectful of his father. He was still Yaakov inside. His goodness could not be suppressed. The goodness of tzadikim (the righteous) still shines even in the most incongruous situations, as the following true story illustrates: November […]
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Jewish Religion
By Garry Fabian MELBOURNE, Australia — While the aim in life should be take each day as it comes, and generally always be forward looking, occasionally a significant date brings back a past event into sharp focus. On the 20th November 2012, one such landmark comes sharply into focus for me. Seventy years before, on
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion
By Isaac and Marcy Blumberg SAN DIEGO — When we had our son three years ago, our Jewish friends told us we had to sign up for PJ Library and how wonderful the books were. From the first month of receiving the books in the mail, we realized they were right. We love to read
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Travel and Food
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –.Most of us parents imagine having to console our children—even when they are adults—at times of stress and angst for them. We listen, our hearts in a bit of atrophy, when they anguish with us about money, their jobs, and, sometimes, their marriages. But it’s not often that we
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Travel and Food
By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –When it comes to good taste, it’s all relative, especially if you keep it in the family! Linda and Tiana Ravden have created an extremely tasty haven in La Jolla, filled with divine, unique and creative sensations. Finch’s Bistro and Wine Bar is the newest darling of Girard Avenue
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Eva Trieger, San Diego CalendarBy Evelyn Gordon The latest escalation along the Israel-Gaza border – which saw Palestinians fire more than 250 rockets at Israel since Wednesday after Israel, responding to days of only slightly less intensive rocket fire, assassinated a senior Hamas terrorist and destroyed most of Hamas’s long-range missiles on Wednesday – may yet be interrupted
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Middle East
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — A new documentary by film director Alison Klayman, titled Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is screening now in Taipei. While the film has not been shown in mainland China yet, the controversial artist and photographer, Ai Weiwei, has seen it and gave it a big thumbs up, Klayman said.
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Travel and FoodBy Gil Shefler/JNS.org SECAUCUS, NJ—Nothing says Jewish food like a bowl of matzoh ball soup or a slab of pastrami on rye. But will Mediterranean gefilte fish or facon also be on that list one day? Facon, you ask? As the name implies, it’s fake bacon, and it was just one of the many novelties
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Travel and FoodPalestinian media praises terrorist leader Jabari as ‘martyr’ (JNS.org) The day after the targeted killing of Hamas terrorist chief Ahmed Jabari, the Palestinian media lead with headlines praising his “martyrdom,” despite his long history of involvement in terrorism against Israeli civilians. According to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) official newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,
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InternationalBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — The immense impact that weather can have on our civilization has been demonstrated regularly with such events atvolcano eruptions, massive tsunamis and, as of late, hurricanes like Sandy. But as fearsome and awesome as these are, the impacts of globalwarming may be even more devastating. Hollywood ought to
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Bibi isn’t what he sounds like. He is a fascinating mixture of the distasteful and admirable, a politician who remains on top of a contentious and highly competitive heap despite promising much more than he has delivered. What follows is not an endorsement, but an exploration of how his various
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIran calls new air defense system a ‘slap’ to U.S. and Israel (JNS.org) While the U.S. and Israel engage in air defense cooperation such as Austere Challenge 12, a drill meant to build soldarity, Iran’s current air defense exercise is intended as a “slap” to West. Iran has modeled a new air defense system after
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International
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — Here it was, the sixth session of the class which was using the book of Genesis as a source for studying the nature of leadership. It was proving not to be the kind of class in which the teacher lectured and the students listened passively. Rather, it
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Jewish ReligionBy Yaakov Lappin Israel is facing an unenviable challenge these days, to regain its deterrence in a chaotic neighborhood in which its enemies are feeling emboldened. As a direct result of the regional turmoil, Israel is dealing with the deterioration of security on two fronts simultaneously. In the south, the time bomb that is
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Middle East