Judaism

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 1, 2018 (3 items)

Jewish Council for Public Affairs offers post-Pittsburgh Massacre to-do list for Jewish community As follow-up to the Pittsburgh massacre, JCPA has compiled some initial resources and recommendations. Educate Throughout the last year, JCPA has raised concerns about rising white nationalism by passing a Resolution on White Supremacy at JCPA’s April 2018 Conference, as well as […]

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 31, 2018 (7 items)

San Diego County Rabbis denounce Duncan Hunter’s attacks on Ammar Campa-Najjar A group of 17 active and retired rabbis in San Diego County, affiliated with the Jewish Renewal, Reconstructionist, Reform, and Conservative branches of Judaism have issued the following statement: “As rabbis and leaders of the Jewish community in the San Diego area, we are

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Continued public focus on Pittsburgh massacre

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –If you missed Monday night’s community vigil at Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego, you’ll have another chance to attend an interfaith gathering  memorializing the 11 Jews slain at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and honoring the four law enforcement officials also shot by the white supremacist gunman. Temple Beth

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Jewish History, San Diego County, USA

Halakhah through the ages examined

Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law by Chaim N. Saiman, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, © 2018, ISBN 978-0-691-15211-0, p. 248 plus appendices and index, $29.95. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Halakhah is derived from the Hebrew root letters meaning to walk or to go when used as a verb, and path or way as

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Words alone do not trigger anti- Semitic outrages

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The recent tragic events in Pittsburgh took my thoughts to Professor Robert Wistrich’s seminal study of anti-Semitism. Coining the phrase ‘the longest hatred’ to denote the phenomenon, and making it the title of his book, Wistrich describes the longstanding and widespread occurrence of anti-Semitism. In a subsequent tome, A

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, USA

Vigil for Pittsburgh 11 overflows in San Diego

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The distance between San Diego, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is 2,450 miles, but the psychological distance between the two American cities was zero as representatives of many faiths filled Congregation Beth Israel’s sanctuary and synagogue to overflowing Monday evening, Oct. 29,  in a vigil to express solidarity with the

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 29, 2018 (7 items)

Chabad merges San Diego memorial gathering with community service at Beth Israel Rabbi Rafi Andrusier of Chabad of East County sent the following message: “After such a terrible tragedy, I sent an email on Saturday night about increasing Jewish unity. Chabad jumped into action and immediately setup an event to honor those holy souls who

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jews threatened by extreme right AND extreme left

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Anti-Semitism is one of the world’s most enduring social diseases that we as Jews have known throughout our history. With the murder of eleven Jews at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue, the Jewish community awoke from its slumber only to realize that anti-Semitism is still alive

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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

More reactions to Pittsburgh Shabbat massacre

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — A day after the Shabbat morning massacre at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, reactions from Jewish and non-Jewish organizations and individuals continued to come into the offices of San Diego Jewish World via email.  In addition to messages from those individuals and organizations that spoke out on Saturday, there

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David Ogul, International, Jewish Religion, John McCormick, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USA

Jewish world reacts to Pittsburgh synagogue murders

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — As news of the deadly assault on the Tree of Life/ Or L’Shalom Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh were broadcast and cablecast around the country, various Jewish organizations issued statements in response. At last report, there were at least 11 people killed and six others wounded, including four

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 26, 2018 (3 items)

Mattis, Lieberman confer on defense The U.S. Defense Department issued the following statement Friday: Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis spoke on the phone with Israeli Minister of Defense (MOD) Avigdor Lieberman on Oct. 24 to reaffirm the longstanding defense relationship between the United States and Israel. The leaders discussed a broad range of defense

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 25, 2018 (3 items)

Republicans, Democrats accused of anti-Israel, anti-Semitic statements Republicans and Democrats have been accused of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel sentiments in two congressional races. The Washngton Post reported that Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa visited Nazi Holocaust sites in Poland as the guest of From the Depths, a Holocaust Memorial group, then, on his own money, traveled to

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Of Hawaiian judges, royalty, Jews, and Torah

Editor’s Note: This is the 34th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:   1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 By Donald H.

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA