Rashi by Elie Wiesel. Translated from the French by Catherine Temerson, Nextbook ISBN 978-0-8052-4254-6, ©2009, $22.00, p. 90 plus chronology, glossary, and bibliography. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — One would be hard pressed to find a greater Jewish authority than Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak, known to the world as Rashi. Many religious questions […]
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Fred Reiss, EdDJERUSALEM (Press Release) –The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, under the leadership of Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, its founder and president, announced a donation of $1.1 million to the Jewish Agency for Israel to support the network of Jewish day schools in the former Soviet Union. This comes in addition to the $400,000 in support to
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Plans for 300 Year Celebration In Making Southwestern Jewish Press, September 17, Page 1 Mayor John D. Butler this week took official cognizance of the 300th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America and issued a Tercentenary proclamation. The proclamation states that the theme of the observance, man’s opportunities
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Middle EastBy Franklin Gaylis SAN DIEGO — Several thousand years of Jewish history has been extremely well documented. What about our personal family’s history over the past few hundred years? This is the question I asked myself when our children were born in the USA after my wife Jean, and I emigrated in 1982 from South
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By Jay Tell ENCINO, California–Just when you’re on top of the world, you get blindsided. I was 21, in LA two years, my stamp and coin business was growing. I’d not smoked, but tried cigarillos. In the mirror I saw tiny specks on my chest, tried to flick off the dust, but it didn’t budge.
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Israel is a normal country, but is strained to preserve that status against the rest of the world that is even less normal. That is not a sentence one would expect from a confirmed social scientist. It does not make sense according to the elemental rules of logic, but it does
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Registration is now open for the Teen Hebrew for Credit Program presented by the Agency for Jewish Education! The Hebrew for Credit Program is an accredited foreign language program (for grades 8 to 12), recognized by the public schools in our community. T his program mirrors the public schools in terms of
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San Diego CalendarJERUSALEM (Press Release)–Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky said he is deeply disappointed that conversion legislation proposed by MK David Rotem, which includes several controversial clauses, passed today (July 12) in Knesset committee. “We cannot divide the Jewish People with legislation which many in the Jewish world view as defining them as second class
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Travel and FoodCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff A Grievous Loss (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, September 3, 1954, Page 7 The Jewish Community lost one of its outstanding leaders last week with the passing of George Neumann, at the age of 69. He and his wife, Julia, had been pioneers and leaders in every worthwhile activity
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By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA– Perhaps it was their futile attempt at humor. Eight students at the University of California Irvine passed up their chance to answer university charges that they disrupted a speech presented by Israeli Ambassador Michael B. Oren last Feb. 8, a UCI administrator stated in a letter. Instead, they invoked their “Fifth
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SAN DIEGO — Sandi Masori of Balloon Utopia spotted this license plate– which in Hebrew means one redhead. Judging by the license plate frame, it’s one redhead with bladder trouble. The plate has been added to SD Jewish World’s online collection of license plates. If you see or have one you’d like to include, please
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Travel and FoodHAIFA (Press Release)–Israel’s and one of the world’s first scholarly journals on the Holocaust, published in conjunction with the University of Haifa’s Institute for Holocaust Research since 1979, is now being published in English as well as the original Hebrew. Dapim: Studies on the Shoah, The Journal of the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Cosmopolitan Hotel with 10 boutique hotel rooms in Old Town San Diego Historic State Park was rededicated on Saturday with cannon fire, a parade including a present day Marine color guard, historic Buffalo Soldiers re-enactors, costumed Old Town docents, and representatives of various faith groups that
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–At the same moment that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was being chided by the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for having clerked for the suddenly demonic “activist judge,” Thurgood Marshall, Marshall himself, in the person of actor Laurence Fishburne, was enthralling audiences in a dynamic nearly two-hour monologue at
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