Yemenite Jewish medley
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Travel and Food
A Ballad in the Key of 4G
(c) Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is deeply personal. But what I have experienced should resonate with the entire Jewish community—the one we know and the one to come. In the whirlwind that seizes me and all who are communally aware, I have reached a new and stunning personal location, wedged between the searing
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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USALatino Film Festival has diverse offerings
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — I think one can learn a lot by being exposed to other cultures and ideas. It is good to be inclusive rather than exclusive. We need bridges of understanding, not walls. The San Diego Latino Film Festival, now in its 26th year, offers a wide variety of films from
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International, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTrue or False on the new tax laws
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — The new tax laws are here and they are very confusing. Rather than list out a bunch of boring rules, I thought I’d try to clarify some of the common misconceptions. Charitable contributions are no longer deductible. FALSE Charitable contributions do not reduce your income taxes if you don’t
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodThe mysterious Gabriel at North Coast Rep
By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel SOLANA BEACH, California — Last December I reviewed the movie Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society on this website. It took place on England’s Guernsey and Channel islands just off the coast of France during World War II . I learned then that Winston Churchill considered these islands indefensible and removed
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBrahms Lullaby ~ Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink, a member of the Jewish community, had homes in La Mesa and Coronado, California.She sings the lullaby at the end of the video.
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Travel and FoodSeeing Israel changed mind of Hispanic opponent
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Although Sebastian Parra grew up in Cali, Colombia, with the words of Genesis 12:3 intoned frequently at his Protestant church, anti-Israel propagandists in the United States knew just how to destroy his faith in God’s declaration to Abram, that “I will bless those who bless you, and him
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, USADemocrats’ ‘B-Team’ is in trouble
By Colleen O’Connor Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Big hurdles face the Democrats’ “B” team of presidential nominees. Biden, Bernie, Beto and Brown may not scale in 2020. First, their history is challenging. Former Vice President Joe Biden is hurt most by his past. There’s his age, his lukewarm assistance to the Hillary
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USAWhy women light candles before Shabbat begins
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — If people would take the time to look at the bulletin of an Orthodox Synagogue, they would find something very curious. The women are instructed to light candles several minutes before the men are scheduled to leave the home to attend the Mincha
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionA justifiable revolution in Venezuela
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON D.C. — The Russian- and Cuban-supported Maduro regime is getting bolder in attempts to crush the people of Venezuela. It is now working to block aid from coming across the border to the starving citizens. Some of that aid is American, to the irritation of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who doesn’t believe
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International, Shoshana Bryen, USAFelder’s Beethoven: dramatic, informative, musical
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –– Although we hear it only near the end of Hershey Felder, Beethoven, the letter Beethoven wrote to his younger brother, Johann, at the age of 31, known as the Heiligenstadt Testament, summarized his struggles with handicaps and tragedy that drove the composer to consider giving up on life. His
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyFamous Jewish poets to be read March 5
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Emma Lazarus’ words on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty take
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyHow Maimonides understood Torah
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Unfortunately, most people of all religions only know what they were taught about their religion and the Bible that they learnt in grade school. Most of it is childish and wrong. It is a shame that people do not improve their knowledge about religion as they
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