By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –This time I travelled to Israel in the company of Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel Prize winner in economics. Not in the flesh, of course, but with his bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow. The book has much to teach on many subjects. Inter alia Kahneman seems to be implicitly supporting […]
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is a complex world with many players and numerous conflicts. So what else is new? In this holiday season when wise commentators summarize what happened, what is happening, and what will happen, it is appropriate to remind ourselves of the obvious, trivial, and continuing realities. We members
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–A benevolent calendar coincidence, occurring every few years, brings us on Dec. 24 to the shared lighting of solstice calendars by both Christians and Jews. The solar and lunar calendar cycles have intertwined, and so this Christmas Eve will share the fifth night of Hanukkah, 5772. The circumstances should work
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Jewish ReligionCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, October 5, 1956, Page 6 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Effective Study Methods While it is too early in the school term for parents to look for report cards or other signs of achievement from their children’s school program,
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Grandson Sky is an energetic four-year-old. With only a little coaxing he will clean up whatever room he left looking like it was subjected to a hurricane. But I’m not certain that he is ready to absorb the lesson at the downtown Children’s Museum that the world
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO —Every year at this time, I feel that the opera season is ready to give me another early holiday gift. Before we know it, it will be January 28th and opening night of Richard Strauss’ fiery Salomé. In mid February the long awaited west coast premiere of Moby Dick by
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO – Word has been received here of the death of Rabbi Joel Goor, former spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel. His daughter, Beri, said in an email to Stan Schwartz, president of the Jewish Historical Society of San Diego, that the funeral will be held on Monday, Dec. 26, at 11 a.m.
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Our sages taught that the entire point of lighting a Chanukah Menorah is pirsumei nisa, “to publicize the miracle of Chanukah.” To accomplish this they instructed that the Menorah be lit at dusk, the time people returned from work in ancient times, and placed outside the front door
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, October 5, 1956, Page 4 By Julia Kaufman “The Happier The Time The Faster It Goes” — For those who missed or forgot Part I of my saga of the west, we left our hero and heroine on Rt. 395 headed for Reno
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur ASIRA AL-QIBLIYA, Palestinian Authority — I’ve heard many Jews who live inWest Banksettlements tell journalists that, despite the toxic politics, they’ve good relations with their Palestinian neighbors. But that’s not what I heard last Wednesday in Asira Al-Qibliya, a Palestinian town of some 2,500 people south of Nablus and close to
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Here it is impossible to go to a public place in the evening without hearing a blessing on the Chanukah lights. Chabad has placed a large Chanukiah (9-armed menorah) in the most prominent of French Hill’s traffic circles, along with other efforts to make the festival more important than its ancient
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The ancient Near East has always been a good-old-boy’s club. Testosterum was (and still is) always in the air and especially in religion and culture; women, especially, lived politically marginal lives. That part of the world has hardly changed. Just look in the Middle East today;
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Jewish ReligionBy Yaacov Lapin WASHINGTON, D.C. (JINSA) — The Egyptian military’s weakening grip on power is the last obstacle standing in the way of an alliance between a Cairo under Islamist rule and the Hamas regime in Gaza. Two out of three phases in Egypt’s parliamentary elections are now complete, and the results are unequivocal. A
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Middle EastAllen Miliefsky of San Diego forwarded the link for this Chanukah gem by the Fountainheads. Happy Chanukah to all our readers!
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