By Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –This Shabbat is the 9th of Av, the saddest day of the Jewish year. Yet, Shabbat does not afford us the opportunity to grieve. For this reason, the fast is postponed to Saturday night. The time of the “Three Weeks,” leading up to Tisha’ b’ Av, are traditionally […]
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Travel and Food
Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion by Steven Gimbel; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland; ISBN 978-1-4214-0554-4 ©2012, $24.95, p. 245, including endnotes, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — In 1922, a year after winning the Nobel Prize in physics for what we know today as
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eva Trieger VISTA–David Ellenstein, Artistic Director of North Coast Repertory Theater in Solana Beach, set aside some time for an interview between rehearsals for Fiddler on the Roof at Moonlight Amphitheater and his home theater’s summer tap dancing extravaganza. He has eagerly embraced the role of Tevye, an observant Jew, living in Czarist
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Eva Trieger
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Put on your dancing shoes and make haste to the Civic Theatre downtown. Memphis, the La Jolla Playhouses-bred musical that wound it’s way to Broadway picking up four Drama Desk Awards, four Outer Circle Awards and four Tony Awards including Best Musical along the way, is back in town for a
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — The question is “How should the International Olympic Committee commemorate and remember the slaying of 11 Israeli Olympic Athletes at the Munich Olympics?” The conversation has focused on one answer, which, of course, is not the question, but only one answer. Whether on Facebook or via the petition
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Middle EastBy Daniel Halper WASHINGTON, D.C — No intellectually honest individual could examine the vast array of evidence and believe there has not been a spate of high-level national security leaks over the past months. Intimate details of the SEAL team raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan have been consumed by
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USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Governor Romney continues overseas travel that includes Israel, he doesn’t have to be ready to solve the problems of the region, or have a “peace plan” in his pocket. A few basic principles — previously observed by both Republican and Democratic presidents — will serve him well. 1.
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Shoshana Bryen, USA
By David Brin ENCINITAS, California –Folks have been writing in, ever since I posted the latest version of my “Names of Infamy” essay. In fact, during just the last few days there has been a noticeable media swell – – a growing movement not to mention the name of the Aurora/Batman shooter. As reported by
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USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Some anthropologists, like Mircea Eliade, argue that the biblical notion of time is essentially linear, while the Oriental notion of time is cyclical in nature. Eliade was only partially correct. The Jewish holiday cycle certainly has a strong cyclical element. If anything, Jewish concept of time
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — If everything God does is perfect, can God regret what God does? Tisha B’Av, literally the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples. This year the ninth of Av falls on Shabbat. Therefore, the commemoration and fast are
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Jewish ReligionENCINITAS, California (Press Release)– Seacrest Village Retirement Communities hosted its annual 211 Club Patron Recognition Party this past Sunday, July 22. Over 125 members of the 211 Club gathered at the home of Esther & Bud Fischer to visit with friends and make new friends while celebrating their commitment to the charitable mission of
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San Diego Calendar
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The basic message of J Street, which held an initial meeting of its local organization at historic Temple Beth Israel Thursday evening, July 26, amid protests from the Zionist Organization of America, is that Israel can have only two of the following three things: 1) A Jewish
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Donald H. Harrison
By Gary Rotto MONTREAL, Canada — Sometimes you find the Jewish community when you’re not really looking for it. We were to arrive in Montreal on Friday and I thought it would be nice to attend services. As a member of a Reconstructionist congregation, I contracted Congregation Dorchei Emet, but discovered that the congregation held
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International
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — During June, 2012, a dozen teen girls from San Diego spent a week participating in the Girls Give Back “Crafting Social Change” program, where they learned how to give back to the community through the arts. Girls Give Back, a program of Jewish Family Service empowers teens to become the next generation of
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