By Amy Bebchick SAN DIEGO — The first time I ever attended a Healing Circle was last month. Not generally drawn to such “touchy-feely” experiences, I was definitely skeptical. I had attended all the planning meetings and knew exactly what was going to happen. I was confident it would be a wonderful experience for
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Travel and Food
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — This is year number six for Cygnet Theatre and the radio version of the Frank Capra movie It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry and directed by Sean Murray with musical direction by Billy Thompson. Once again a trip down memory lane is
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Daniel Halper WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite the Kremlin’s best effort, an Internet video emerged the other week of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin being booed by a full arena of fans at the end of a mixed martial arts fight in Moscow’s Olympic Stadium. “Putin’s spin-doctors came up with a variety of explanations of the
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International
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — The Torah tells us: “Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land. Shechem, son of Hamor, the Hivite, chief of the country, saw her, and took her and lay with her by force.” (Gen. 23:1-2) The story
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Jewish ReligionLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –The Lawrence Family JCC is offering a class from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 11 with artist Ilanit Shalev on how to create your own fused glass mezuzah. Shalev was born and raised in Israel. While residing in Portland, Oregon, she studied at the “World Center” for glass. She made a
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The College Avenue Senior Center, a program of Jewish Family Service, has announced its special and regular programming for the month of January. The center is located inside Beth Jacob Congregation at 4855 College Avenue. It may be reached through JFS main office at (858) 637-3280. Special Events, Lectures and
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C (JINSA)–Too long neglected, the Pacific region will soon be getting its due. As U.S. forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan and have already departed Iraq, it is to the strategically important Pacific that American attention will be directed. And not a moment too soon. Friends and allies in the region have spent the better
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–He’s now # 1418989 in the Maasiyahu Prison, near Ramla. This is a minimum security facility, which houses white collar and other convicts not judged to be a danger to society. And within this prison, Moshe Katsav has been assigned to the unit for religious prisoners. To some, this may be the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Vera Cohen as told to Harold Berman Southwestern Jewish Press, September 7, 1956, Pages 6, 7 {Part 3 of Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 7, 1956) The story of Anne Frank and her diary, told in book form and in the current Pulitzer Prize stage adaptation, has stirred millions. Vera Cohn, a
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Adventures in SD History
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES– Many people judge Stephen Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List to be the definitive Holocaust movie. Until now. Giving Spielberg a run for his money is Agnieszka Holland’s latest film, In Darkness. Poland’s official entry for Best Foreign Language Film in this year’s Oscar race, In Darkness is exactly what its title proclaims:
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Cynthia Citron
Baseless Hatred: What It Is and What You Can Do about It by Rene H. Levy, PhD, Gefen Publishing House, 2011, 212 pages including bibliography, ISBN 9789652295309, price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — An important concept in this book is that of arevut, which teaches that the responsibility that one Jew
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Those wanting to understand what is happening in Europe can learn something from the chapters in those dusty American history books that deal with the Articles of Confederation. For reasons I’ll get to, the lessons are limited, but still worth considering. Like Europe today, the states under the Articles
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International, Ira SharkanskyCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff United Jewish Fund Board Resumes Activity After Holy Days Southwestern Jewish Press, September 7, 1956, Page 4 The United Jewish Fund will swing into action for its Fall session immediately after the holidays, Morris W. Douglas, President of the Fund, announced. Directors of the Fund will meet for
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Recently this question was posed to me: God warns us explicitly not to follow in the ways of the other nations. How does this apply to our custom to give gifts on Chanukah, which seems to have been taken from the very not-Jewish tradition of
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi