By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — We were walking down the long airport corridor on the way to the boarding gate. Somehow, it seems that whenever my wife and I have a flight to catch, anywhere, our gate is always at the farthest end of the long hall. We had plenty of time
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –The last few days of the rocket barrage from Gaza into Israel’s south is naturally grabbing the headlines here. If you live out of the ever increasing rocket range it’s tempting to say that, after all, Israel hasn’t suffered too much from them. Yes, there have been injuries and damage
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Middle EastBy Jenn Sanders SAN DIEGO–The Hillcrest Town Council voted 24-3 on Tuesday evening, March 13, to recommend to the San Diego City Council that Blaine Street be renamed as Harvey Milk Street after the gay San Francisco City-County supervisor who was slain along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in 1978 by former supervisor Dan
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — When the witty and always insightful Jewish-American writer Jonathan Rauch — who writes for the National Journal and the Atlantic, in addition to a host of books about his travels in Japan and life as a gay man — wrote in a 2003 Atlantic article about introverts and
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — This is a Jewish story with a Taiwanese twist. It’s really an American story, but this American reporter is reporting it from across the seas in Taiwan. You see, a certain woman named Mrs. Wandy Wang Druss was born in Chiayi in southern Taiwan and moved to
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USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Former San Diego County Sheriff Bill Kolender announced his endorsement this week of Solana Beach Deputy Mayor Dave Roberts to be the next Third District Supervisor for San Diego County. “Dave Roberts works diligently to promote safe communities,” said former Sheriff Kolender. “He has been a great friend of the
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SAN DIEGO — Cantor Shelly Merel has carved out his place in local Jewish history as the chazan emeritus of Congregation Beth Israel and as the husband of Marcie Merel, former president of Jewish Family Service. But it turns out that through his family he can lay a claim to a first in U.S.
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Travel and FoodEDITOR’S NOTE–On both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border are groups of people whose families either practiced some form of Judaism secretly– a holdover from the days of persecution under the Spanish Inquisition –or whose families converted to Christianity and now wish to return. Among them is Ysmael Escudero Tisnado(Coronel) II, who writes in Ladino about
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — In his classical work on masculine spirituality, Iron John, Robert Bly notes how our contemporary society no longer provides the necessary rituals to help reintegrate warriors after a war. Unlike the ancient societies, which presented a series of complex rituals to help their soldiers make a
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin TEL AVIV—Visiting here in Israel this week for my mother’s milestone birthday and an international reunion with my two daughters, the reality and poignancy of Israel have made imprints on my heart. Maneuvering emotionally between Tel Aviv’s gleaming skyscrapers and the spoken fears of the elders under siege in the south,
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Two influential public safety groups have endorsed Mathew Kostrinsky for San Diego’s 7th District City Council seat. The San Diego Police Officers Association and the San Diego Association for Lifeguards are throwing their support behind the Del Cerro resident, who is a former U.S. Senate and Chamber of Commerce aide.
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The novel A Room With A View by E.M. Forster is a charming period piece that takes place in the early 1900’s. It was published in 1908 as England was on the cusp of sloughing off the repressive Victorian attitudes and readying itself toward more flexible and relaxed attitudes
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There are reports about a cease fire, arranged by Egypt. After the cease fire was said to go into effect, there continued some rockets and mortars fired from Gaza, but this was to be expected. Either groups are asserting their machismo and superiority, or there is a failure of whatever
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World Yo-Ma-Co News Southwestern Jewish Press, November 30, 1956, Page 7 The last meeting of the Yo-Ma-Co Club was attended by a delegation of board of directors from the Jewish Community Center. Mr. William Schwartz, president of the JCC, was presented at that time with a check in the amount
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