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Morris Casuto, 79, Defender of the Jewish People

February 12, 2022

Morris Casuto, the Anti-Defamation League regional director who defended San Diego County’s Jewish community against antisemites while forging good relations with other ethnic and religious groups within the county, died from leukemia Friday night, February 11, at the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center. Graveside funeral services for Casuto, 79, will be conducted at 2 p.m., Tuesday, at El Camino Memorial Park. [Donald H. Harrison]

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California, Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County

Parashat Tetzaveh: Our Spirituality is Deep Within Us

February 11, 2022

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — It’s been 60 years since I hearkened to the glorious words, “Yaamod Ha’Bachor ha’Bar Mitzvah Moshe Rafoyel ben Betzalel Shlishi,” and chanted this parasha, Tetzaveh, at Temple B’nai Abraham in Newark, N.J., under the watchful eye and full heart of Rabbi Joachim Prinz, zt”l. I recall our

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

The Unexpected Successes of Satmar Hasidim

February 10, 2022

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York is a brilliant, eye-opening, thought provoking, easy to read and enjoyable book by two university scholars, Nomi M. Stolzenberg of the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, who has written

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

Haftorah for February 12, 2022

February 9, 2022

Haftorah Reading for TeTzaveh is Ezekiel 43:10-27 By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California — In these all prose passages, we are bamboozled by a flood of word salad and redundancy. We have previously established that all the prophets were psychotic, i.e. the definition of psychosis specifies that it includes one who claims to converse

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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion

Discussing the Secrets of Torah Numerology with Author Rabbi Aaron Raskin

February 8, 2022

By Menachem Posner Chabad.org/News BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Viewers of Chabad.org/Video and consumers of the website’s in-depth essays have long known and enjoyed the prolific scholarly output of Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Downtown Brooklyn and rabbi of Congregation B’nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights. The rabbi’s most recent work, Simanim: Parsha Mnemonics, provides a

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Jewish Religion, USA

Ybor City, the Pavers, and the Jews

February 7, 2022

By Jerry Klinger YBOR CITY, Florida — It’s a simple, small concrete gray hexagonal paver. The words Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, contracted for line count restrictions, are etched in a slightly off-centered recess. The paver is on the sidewalk, in front of the former Buchman store at 1910 E. 7th Ave., Ybor City,

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion, USA

Parashat Terumah: The Gift of Giving

February 3, 2022

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. In this week’s Torah reading, we learn of a gift that Hashem has given to us, yes, another gift, this, the gift of giving. Want to grow happier and more joyful than you are? Terumah teaches us a way — give. Want to live with a sense of abundance and

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

Haftorah for February 5, 2022

February 3, 2022

Haftorah Reading for Terumah is I Kings 5:26-6:13 By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California — These brief all-prose passages from “The Former Unnamed Prophets” purport to summarize a description of the construction of the First Temple, i.e. King Solomon’s “house.” Solomon is depicted simply as wise, via a gift from the LORD. [1] The

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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion

Hedy Dalin Saluted by JFS in Retirement Ceremony

February 2, 2022

A retirement party was held via Zoom on Wednesday, Feb. 2, for Hedy Dalin, who for 21 1/2 years has served the clients of Jewish Family Service in a variety of roles, particularly as a problem solver for elders and as a mentor for more recently hired staff members. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Jewish History, San Diego County

OpEd: Whoopi Goldberg’s Mistake Wasn’t So Terrible

February 2, 2022

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Whoopi Goldberg was wrong but as far as I’m concerned, the folks at ABC and The View were too harsh when they suspended her for two weeks. Let me explain. In a discussion of the Holocaust on The View television show, Goldberg commented that the Holocaust wasn’t racist

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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Opinion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

A New Appreciation for Moses

February 1, 2022

By Teresa Konopka SAN DIEGO — When reading tales of our ancestors in the Torah, it can seem more like fiction than fact. The characters are distant peoples from faraway lands whose personal lives we can only speculate about. As the same parshas are read year after year, it is easy to be desensitized to

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Jewish Religion, Opinion, Teresa_Konopka

Book Provides More Complete Picture of Concentration Camp Life

February 1, 2022

“Never Forget Your Name: The Children of Auschwitz,” by Alwin Meyer; English version Polity Press (c) 2022; ISBN 13:978-1-5095-4550-6; 496 pages. By Sandra Scheller CHULA VISTA, California — In 1971, 21-year-old Alwin Meyer made his first trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp, not as a relative of a survivor but as a German observer. He

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Sandra Scheller

Murder and Approaching Death Fill a Tale of Hoffman

February 1, 2022

Author Wayne Hoffman regales us with two concurrent non-fiction stories. His search to learn the identity of the person who murdered his great-grandmother as she lay sleeping in her bed, with an infant child at her side, occurred at the same time that his mother, Susan, was having increasing problems with her memory as Alzheimer’s progressively took a worsening toll. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Children’s Literature: ‘Passover, Here I Come!’

February 1, 2022

This charming book tells in rhyming couplets the story of a Passover celebration from the viewpoint of young children in a multiracial Jewish family. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion

Morris Casuto, 79, Defender of the Jewish People

Parashat Tetzaveh: Our Spirituality is Deep Within Us

The Unexpected Successes of Satmar Hasidim

Haftorah for February 12, 2022

Discussing the Secrets of Torah Numerology with Author Rabbi Aaron Raskin

Ybor City, the Pavers, and the Jews

Parashat Terumah: The Gift of Giving

Haftorah for February 5, 2022

Hedy Dalin Saluted by JFS in Retirement Ceremony

OpEd: Whoopi Goldberg’s Mistake Wasn’t So Terrible

A New Appreciation for Moses

Book Provides More Complete Picture of Concentration Camp Life

Murder and Approaching Death Fill a Tale of Hoffman

Children’s Literature: ‘Passover, Here I Come!’

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