Editor’s Note: In this eight-part series, Eva Trieger shares with us some of the perils of dating. -First in a series- By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — After the demise of my 18-year relationship to my husband, I began to grow up. I found myself on the opposite side of the country, nearly 3,000 […]
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By Douglas Parisi GARDNER, Kansas — We live in a time where we need to educate ourselves and our family on unfortunate events. It’s important to empower your loved ones to take action in active shooter situations, even amidst pangs of fear. This information is designed to highlight important conceptual aspects of readiness training. The
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By Rabbi Benj Fried Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A Times of San Diego article portrayed the major leaders and clergy in the San Diego Jewish community as passively mum in the face of President Trump’s anti-Semitic portrayals of Jewish Democrats as disloyal and vicious attacks on Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar. The article
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
This is another installment in author Natasha Josefowitz’s memoir By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Back from our business trip/honeymoon in South America, my husband Sam’s apartment was in a basement on the west side of New York City. The small windows were right under the ceiling. We had a view of people’s
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By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Sad to say, President Trump has just blown any chance (admittedly, next-to-zero, or less) of establishing political détente with me. He did it with an all-too-typical wild-and-woolly statement that many considered startling, even offensive. Count me among them. Trump issued a challenge to Jewish voters, aimed at getting
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Harry Litman, a former United States Attorney for western Pennsylvania and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, will address the Beth Israel Men’s Club at a 6:30 p.m. dinner buffet Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the temple, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. Litman teaches Constitutional Law and National Security Law at both the UCLA
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San Diego Calendar, USA
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — It might surprise most people to know that ecological themes form an important part of the Torah and Tanakh. For example: Genesis begins with an important ecological truth: “The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and
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By Peter C. Herman Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Now that public outrage has forced the retraction of the K-12 ethnic studies curriculum proposal because it contained way too much jargon (e.g., “cisheteropatriarchy,” “hxrstory,” and “accompliceship”), leftish propaganda, and the exclusion of such ethnic groups as Jews and Indian-Americans, we still have another
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This story was updated on August 26, 2019 By Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A week before the November 2018 election, 17 San Diego-area rabbis signed a letter denouncing Rep. Duncan Hunter‘s “fear mongering” attacks on the Palestinian ancestry of Christian opponent Ammar Campa-Najjar. They said the Republican congressman’s attacks on the
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When Avrome David Goldberg of Little Rock, Arkansas died at the age of 93 in 2018, his local obituary noted that “Dave” — as he was called by everyone who knew him — was called ”Daddy Dave” by his two grandchildren Emma and Maya when they were kids.
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By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — President Trump’s rebuke of Jewish “disloyalty” on Tuesday is disturbing on many levels, but primarily he was preaching to 5.7 million fellow Americans who he must think should be told what is best for them. Our president was patronizing any American Jew who does not go along with
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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA
On October 21, 1961, I finished my bar mitzvah speech at Judea Center Synagogue in Brooklyn, thanking my parents for raising me as a Jew. Six months later, I interrupted our family’s Shabbat candle lighting to announce that I was finished with religion. [Michael Ginsberg]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Ginsberg, USASculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born this day (August 22) in 1891.
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Is it possible that the U.S. president, considered by many to be more supportive of Israel than any of his predecessors, uses the terminology of anti-Semites? Have his Jewish daughter and her family not sensitized him to the fact that to question the loyalty of Jews has been the
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