By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — The Lord said to Abram, ‘Go forth from your native land and your father’s house to the land that I will show you.” (Gen. 12:1) There is a general consensus among rabbinic sources that God’s command to Abraham to leave his family and all that he knew in […]
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Jewish Religion
NEW YORK (Press Release)– EL AL, the national airline of Israel, and “Bears from Bergenfield” have reached a milestone in its effort to send 100,000 teddy bears to Israel as part of a six-year-long charity project. Upon arrival in Israel, the 100,000 soft and cuddly teddy bears have been delivered to sick children in hospitals
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Richard D. Barton, a partner in the law firm of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, has been appointed by Mark Yudof, University of California President, to serve as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion. The Council is comprised of 18 community representatives and
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Avraham grew up in a world where the norm was idolotry. His father was a card carrying idolator. That was the family business. But Avraham, through his penetrating insight and honest analysis, realized that this norm was wrong. Despite the social mores, despite fierce, even violent resistance he held on
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO — Our guess is that the dueling television commercials pitting Meg Whitman against Jerry Brown and Carly Fiorina against Barbara Boxer for California governor and U.S. Senator respectively have made almost everybody wish that the Nov. 2nd election would have come and gone already – if only to quiet all this quarreling.
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USANEW YORK (Press Release) — In remarks at a dinner where he was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his stalwart support of Israel and his commitment to promoting respect and speaking out against anti-Semitism, media magnate K. Rupert Murdoch described in stark terms what he sees as an “ongoing war against the Jews” and
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Son of Hamas, by Mosab Hasan Yousef with Ron Brackin, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 264 pages, 2010. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Human beings are complicated and because of this, life is interesting. If you are raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, grow up in an Orthodox community, go to Orthodox religious schools, play
HAIFA (Press Release) — “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon is intended to remind all of Lebanon’s denominations that Iran will not tolerate any harm to Hezbollah’s power and status,” says Dr. Soli Shahvar, Director of the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. Hezbollah was established as a branch
TEL AVIV (Press Release)–Anxiety, or the reaction to a perceived danger, is a response that differs from one animal or human to another ― or so scientists thought. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are challenging what we know about stress, and their study has implications for helping clinicians better treat victims of terrorism or
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Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC) — the United States sees as legitimate Israel’s demand that Palestinians and other Arab states recognize Israel’s Jewish character, a State Department spokesman has said. P. J. Crowley was asked by reporters during a briefing about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to extend a partial settlement building freeze in exchange for the Palestinian leadership’s
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Middle EastROME (WJC)–At a synod of Catholic bishops dealing with the Middle East , Rabbi David Rosen said “Christians in Israel are obviously in a very different situation from their sister communities in the Holy Land, who are part and parcel of a Palestinian society struggling for its independence and who are inevitably caught up in
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Travel and FoodANKARA (WJC)–Turkey will not attend this year’s tourism conference of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is to be held in Jerusalem later this month. Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay spoke to reporters on Tuesday and confirmed that Ankara would not be sending representatives to Israel for the conference despite prior
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Middle EastBEIRUT (WJC)–Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was scheduled to visit Hezbollah strongholds near the Lebanese border with Israel today (Oct. 14) after he was warmly received in Beirut on Wednesday. Ahmadinejad is on a state visit to Lebanon. Speaking at a late night rally staged by Hezbollah in the capital, the Iranian leader again questioned that the 9/11
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Now that the Chilean miners are above ground, Israel’s media and those elsewhere will turn to other items. The drama recalls Josef Stalin’s line that one death is a tragedy, while a million are a statistic. It also makes me think about The Ballad of Ira Hays, one of my
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