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Eulogy by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal Delivered July 22, 2016 at San Diego, CA SAN DIEGO — The fact that all mortals eventually die has always served as a lesson to the living. We cannot long evade the consciousness of our own mortality, and fail to draw therefrom some fundamental lessons on how to live
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International, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USAThe Ninth President Shimon Peres hosted the professional football player Eran Zahavi on Sunday, 28.8, at the Peres Center for Peace, on his first visit back to Israel since joining the Gwangju RP China football team. The ceremony was attended by Ninth President Shimon Peres, Eran Zahavi, and the Chinese Ambassador to Israel Zhan Yongxin.
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsIn a grand ceremony that will attract huge crowds to St Peter’s Square, the nun known as the “Angel of the Poor” is set to be canonized by the pontiff who once said he dreamt of “a poor church, for the church.” Vatican City (dpa) – Mother Teresa of Calcutta, one of the most iconic
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InternationalWashington (dpa) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Saturday continued his appeal to black voters in the largely white state of Iowa, describing African-American citizens living in US inner cities as “trapped.” However, Trump’s attempt to win African-American votes slipped up on Twitter where he was heavily criticized for appearing to insensitively use the
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USAIslamic State group fighters are reportedly eager for Republican Donald Trump to win the White House so that they can use his rhetoric against Muslims to win over new followers. Foreign Affairs magazine analyzed Twitter users’ comments and interviewed people who recruit for the militant group also known as ISIS and found they overwhelmingly believe
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Middle East, USAA female singer was asked to leave the stage at a government-sponsored music festival on an Israeli beach on Friday because she was wearing a bikini top. Concert organizers in the coastal city of Ashdod demanded that she button a shirt she was wearing over the top, and when she refused they ended the performance,
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Every Day Lasts A Year: A Jewish Family’s Correspondence From Poland edited by Christopher R. Browning, Richard S. Hollander and Nechama Tec; Cambridge University Press; © 2014; ISBN 9781107-668768; 290 pages including index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Richard Hollander, one of the editors of this work, is the son of Joseph Hollander,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish HistoryLOS ANGELES—Several authorities have charged dozens of Southern California postal workers and their associates with mail theft, embezzlement and an array of other crimes as part of a sweeping investigation into criminal activity at the U.S. Postal Service. A total of 33 defendants were charged in 28 cases, including one individual who was found to
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USADonald Trump’s new campaign CEO is facing scrutiny over allegations of anti-Semitic remarks and domestic violence. Stephen Bannon, on leave from his post as head of the alt-right Breitbart News, made anti-Semitic remarks in reference to the student population of a private school his daughters were touring, according to a sworn deposition from his ex-wife,
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USADonald Trump’s longtime physician said he wrote a strongly-worded bill of health for the White House hopeful in just five minutes while a limo sent by the Republican candidate waited outside his office, NBC News reported Friday. Dr. Harold Bornstein defended the glowing and hastily authored assessment in an interview this week more than eight
North Korea on Saturday expressed great displeasure over the United Nations Security Council’s strong condemnation of the East Asian country’s four ballistic missile launches between July and August. In a press statement approved by the 15 members, the council denounced the North’s ballistic missile activities as fueling tensions and called them “grave violations” of the
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International, USAThere’s the Galilee, and then there’s the Western Galilee. For decades, Israelis and tourists have flocked to the towns, villages and cities surrounding the Sea of Galilee, to the tzimmer guest cabins and hotels of that northern region. But then the Western Galilee beckoned. Bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, it’s anchored by the port city
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Middle East, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Dr. Oded Brosh, a leading expert on nuclear politics, will serve as the Jewish Studies Program’s Visiting Israeli Professor in Fall 2016 and Spring 2017. Dr. Brosh is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy and Strategy and Director of M.A. Specialization in Diplomacy and Conflict Studies at the Lauder
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