By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –I’m sure that many Jews of my so-called “Baby Boomer” generation will recognize the way in which my late mother Alice would have reacted to two stories in Tuesday’s San Diego Union-Tribune. One story told about how movie mogul Harvey Weinstein may be facing life imprisonment for rape and […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel —Rabbi Ken Spiro’s new book, Destiny, successfully guides the reader through the central themes of Judaism: the impact of Jewish values on civilization, Jewish determination, the disproportionate impact of the Jewish people, anti-Semitism and its message, the Jewish vision of history and conception of time, and [even] mankind’s ultimate
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Steve Kramer
From The Israel Philatelist FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts –Students and faculty leaders at the Foxborough Regional Charter School have completed 18 collages made with donated postage stamps and celebrated with an open house. The 18 signify Chai (Life). They have collected over 11 million stamps for the 6 million Jews and 5 million others murdered
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Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Perhaps it is my bias, but sometimes I think that rabbis should often talk about the lessons drawn from their own lives and not only about the morals we should glean from the legends of such rabbis of old as Shammai, Hillel, and Tarfon. This is not to
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Roz Rothstein was galvanized into responding to the anti-Jewish violence of the Second Intifada and especially to the mutilation murders discovered on May 8, 2001 of teenagers Koby Mandell, 13, and Yosef Ishran, 14. The boys had hiked in the Judean Desert
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
JCC Association of North America gratified by conviction of Israeli who made multiple bomb threats A Tel Aviv District Court convicted 19-year-old Michael Ron David Kadar, a dual American-Israeli citizen, Thursday on multiple counts, including conspiracy to commit a crime, for the hundreds of bomb threats he made against Jewish Community Centers (JCCs) across the United States
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Jewish History, Middle East, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel’s Men’s Club has scheduled Ruth Hohberg as guest speaker at the July 18 Dinner Forum beginning at 6:30 p.m. Her presentation will cover Getting Here, an Odyssey through WWII recounting some of the memories of her experiences as a child during the war. This program is open to all. Membership at Beth
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International, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar
Supreme Court’s 5-4 ‘Travel Ban’ decision saw Jewish justices in the minority In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s Executive Order Number One which the administration describes as a ban of travel from countries which have insufficient vetting procedures against terrorists, and which opponents describe as a “Muslim ban,” as most
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
Israeli Reserve Duty to Earn Academic Credits The Knesset on Monday passed in its third and final reading a law that will provide two academic credits to students who serve a minimum of 14 annual days of reserve duty. The measure was a initiated by Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), MK Meirav Ben-Ari (Kulanu),
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Any Jew who in the name of feigned or real commitment to Judaism wanted to badmouth Reform Judaism has been given a welcome opportunity to do so by Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize winning American-Jewish writer. He was invited last month by the Hebrew Union College, the Reform Seminary, in
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Yael Ridberg & Michael Hopkins SAN DIEGO — Despite the Executive Order ending the forced separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border issued by President Trump this week, there is still a humanitarian crisis unfolding for the 2,300 children who have been separated from their parents, with no plan for reunification. Federal officials cannot
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International, Jewish Religion, USANEW YORK (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC), the global Jewish advocacy organization, mourns Charles Krauthammer, who died on Thursday. The distinguished Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, political commentator, and steadfast supporter of Israel was honored by AJC with its Mass Media Award in 2003. “Charles Krauthammer’s trenchant analyses of critical international issues, including his
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Obituaries & memorials, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The exhibition of paintings by Francisco de Zurburan, a seventeenth-century Spanish painter, has been a major attraction at the Israel Museum for the last few weeks. I had never heard of him, so I made use of a free morning to go and take a look. What met my eyes
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsTRENTON, New Jersey (Press Release) — The New Jersey Legislature on Thursday voted unanimously on a measure which affirms the historical connection of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and condemns efforts by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to deny Jews’ historical, religious, and cultural ties to Jerusalem. Avi Posnick, StandWithUs Northeast Managing
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA