Donald H. Harrison

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: several movies have musical themes

February 6, 2012

By David Amos SAN DIEGO–We are very fortunate to have in San Diego a yearly film festival on Jewish subjects that never ceases to be interesting, provocative, educational, and entertaining. This year is no exception. Starting February 9 and ending the 19th, there are many interesting choices available. Due to my various activities in the […]

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Travel and Food

This concert’s value far exceeded price of ticket

February 6, 2012

By Sara Appel-Lennon CHULA VISTA, California — Where can you go to listen to a full orchestra combined with a leading pianist in a two-hour Beethoven concert for $10 per ticket? On Sunday, January 29, Kingsley McLaren, on-air host of 104.9 XLNC, introduced a concert of such magnitude at the First United Methodist Church here.

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Travel and Food

Does turning on the water faucet violate Shabbat?

February 5, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most respected Chabad authorities on kosher food, who is also the chief rabbi of a haredi city in Israel, has banned the use of tap water on Shabbat. Bnei Brak’s Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Leib Landa issued a halachic ruling that using a faucet

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Normal Arab-Jewish coexistence in Israel goes unreported by media

February 5, 2012

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Despite rumors to the contrary, Israel is a normal country at least as far as retail therapy is concerned. Shopping malls are popping up with ever-increasing frequency wherever one looks. They incorporate many advantages for both vendors and shoppers, and the ambience in them varies from quiet

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

‘The Lonesome West’ deserves its adjective

February 5, 2012

By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California — If there is a loaded shotgun hanging on the living room wall just below the crucifix, you sort of get a hint of the kind of household you’ve entered. In Martin McDonagh’s play The Lonesome West, currently onstage at the excellent Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica, the

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Cynthia Citron

Jewish-interest license plate

February 4, 2012

SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin is a collector of Jewish-interest license plate images. And she has found another two. “A Mensh” (for those who don’t know) is someone who is a good person, a humanitarian. And” OyImla8″ suggests someone with a great sense of humor who’s a little tardy. If you have a Jewish-interest license

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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin

For Israel, anti-Iran sanctions far better than attacking

February 4, 2012

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–The website of the British tabloid the Daily Mirror shows a detailed diagram of how Israel would attack Iran using sophisticated fighter planes, drones and missiles from its five ultra-modern submarines. It also predicts when: not later than April. The why is there, too:Iran could make four nuclear bombs within a

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Middle East

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector’

February 4, 2012

By Paul Greenberg SAN DIEGO — “I may not believe in God, I wish to hell I believed in God, but I believe in the devil,” explained the reclusive and nutty musical genius Phil Spector near the end of the strangely captivating and at times disturbing documentary film, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil

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Travel and Food

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Dolphin Boy’

February 3, 2012

By Yvonne Greenberg LA JOLLA, California — Dolphin Boy is an endearing yet heart-breaking film which left me feeling upbeat. Dolphin therapy helps the main character recover his lost communication skills. The plot reveals a deep love for family, boyfriend, and girlfriend, and a newly acquired one for dolphins. . Morad, an Israeli-Arab teen,

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Travel and Food

Federation joins in deploring haredi violence and intimidation in Israel

February 3, 2012

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Steven J. Morris President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, on Friday announced his concurrence with a statement by the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) urging positive change in Israel to promote “tolerance, respect and inclusion.” The JFNA statement reads: “Over recent months, Israel has witnessed

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San Diego County

Dream of two peaceful states, side by side, still lives

February 3, 2012

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — I was born in Israel just a few years after its inception in 1948. My father and mother were there, however, as the British withdrew on May 14 of that year, lowering the Union Jack over the port of Haifa, and raising the stakes considerably for the

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Middle East

World should accept impossibility of ‘peace process’ in Middle East

February 3, 2012

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The current round of Israeli-Palestinian meetings in Jordan ended with a Palestinian decision to leave. “The Israelis brought nothing new in these meetings,” said one official, without bothering to note the obvious — neither did the Palestinians. The talks were the result of a Quartet plan to have Israelis and

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

U.S. must plan for contingencies as fractured opposition fights Syrian regime

February 3, 2012

By James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. –At the United Nations, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for an international response to the crisis in Syria, warning that if the UN fails to act it should consider itself complicit with the brutal regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. And there are certainly steps that the United States

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International

American Jews should speak and write against discrimination in Israel against women

February 3, 2012

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — This week I wanted to write about Miriam, Moses’ and Aaron’s sister. The Torah records that after the Children of Israel crossed the Sea of Reeds in their escape from Pharaoh, “Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went

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Jewish Religion

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: several movies have musical themes

This concert’s value far exceeded price of ticket

Does turning on the water faucet violate Shabbat?

Normal Arab-Jewish coexistence in Israel goes unreported by media

‘The Lonesome West’ deserves its adjective

Jewish-interest license plate

For Israel, anti-Iran sanctions far better than attacking

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector’

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Dolphin Boy’

Federation joins in deploring haredi violence and intimidation in Israel

Dream of two peaceful states, side by side, still lives

World should accept impossibility of ‘peace process’ in Middle East

U.S. must plan for contingencies as fractured opposition fights Syrian regime

American Jews should speak and write against discrimination in Israel against women

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