The First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life of Rachel Beer, by Eilat Negev and Yehudah Koren, pub., Bantam Books, New York. 349pp. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — A new book, The First Lady of Fleet Street, is about the life and times of Rachel Sassoon Beer, a woman who died in the […]
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Travel and Food
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The anti-circumcision advocates are probably not happy about the latest news to come out of a study conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which reveal the health benefits deriving from male circumcision far outweigh the risks. According to the report, researchers formed a task force
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —Last week, I received an email from the Reelect-elect Obama campaign. The President is urging rabbis to help re-elect the President. The email contained the following information and assertions: Obama for America today announced the launch of Rabbis for Obama, a campaign initiative to engage and mobilize grassroots
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The government of South Africa has defined the State of Israel as not including Beersheva, Yad Mordechai, Acco, Afula, and Nahariya. It creates an “Arab Enclave” in Jaffa not governed by Israel. It reduces the borders of Israel in two places to points on a map — one in
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenIDF develops innovative bulletproof grenade JNS.org The bulletproof grenade was developed following a March 2010 incident on the Gaza Strip border in which two IDF soldiers were killed when a bullet hit a grenade lodged in the vest of one of the soldiers, causing it to detonate. “After that incident, we were ordered to develop
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International
Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, January 25, 1957, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman Father of the “Bird” — Fathers and mothers of “Blue Birds” are flying all over town these days delivering cans of peanuts which their young daughters have sold via the telephone for the Camp Fire Girls. * This is news! The story
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Adventures in SD History
By Loren Kantor Editor’s Note: Loren Kantor often chooses Jews and Jewish themes as topics for his woodcuts. He’s agreed to share images from his work–and the stories behind them– with San Diego Jewish World. Magician Harry Houdini is the fifth topic in the series. STUDIO CITY, California — His name is synonymous with magic,
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Fifth in a series By Donald H. Harrison TECATE, Mexico — It was typical for the Rancho La Puerta health spa here that on the week that my wife Nancy and I visited , she was among the 80 percent of the guests who were women, while I was among the remaining male 20
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The status of nuclear weapons in Israel bears some tantalizing resemblance to the status of the Almighty in Judaism. Those concerned with the history and role of God can click here, and continue further for as many years as the interest or life continues. It is risky in the extreme to summarize
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — This Friday Craig Zobel’s controversial film Compliance will have its San Diego premier at the Ken Theatre in Hillcrest. Based on an incident at a McDonald’s in Mount Washington, Kentucky in 2004, Compliance chillingly depicts how a phone call from a man identifying himself as Officer Daniels commands a
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Lawrence Baron
Hadassah Presentation Ball To Highlight Social Season Southwestern Jewish Press, January 25, 1957, Pages1, 3. The Presentation Ball, Hadassah’s biggest fund raising affair of the year, will take place tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. at the Hotel del Coronado ballroom The sixteen lovely debutantes, attired in formal white ball gowns, and their court of pre-debutantes
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Jewish History
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –In this heady time of national decision, the Hebrew Scripture unhesitatingly calls for appropriate restraints on any king. It’s fair to say that the notion of “limited government” and “checks and balances” are not recent manifestations; they’re actually 3,000 years old and come straight out of Deuteronomy and, hopefully,
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USA
By Carol Davis VISTA, California —One cannot escape the relaxed atmosphere under the stars in Vista, in particular under the stars at Vista’s Moonlight Amphitheatre. It’s here where aromas of home packed dinners and snacks permeate the air and theatergoers sit back in their seats with glasses of whatever washing down the goodies waiting
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Evelyn Gordon WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last month, the Palestinian Authority (PA) took the rare step of publicly voicing concern over the fate of Palestinians living in Syria. About 300 (out of a population of over 500,000) have already been killed, PA officials said, and with some Palestinians supporting the Assad government while others
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Middle East