Judaism

Biography of Nehemiah prompts mixed emotions

Nehemiah: Statesman and Sage by Dov S. Zakheim; Maggid Books © 2016; ISBN 9781592-643691; 246 pages including appendices; $27.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – From the standpoint of one in whose family there have been several intermarriages in which the children have been raised as Reform Jews, I read this biography of the […]

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

June 28 play, lecture to augment ‘The Unfinished Diary’

SAN DIEGO — Feivel Wolgelernter, whose father Chaim Yitzchok Wolgelernter wrote the The Unfinished Diary: A Chronicle of Tears, which detailed his experiences hiding in Dzialoszyce, Poland from the German Nazis, will speak at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 28, at Congregation Adat Yeshurun, 8625 La Jolla Scenic Drive North. Feivel’s talk will be followed by a

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Jews receive official minority status in Maharashtra

MUMBAI, India (JNS.org) — The Indian state of Maharashtra has become the second Indian state to grant official minority status to its Jewish community, which contains about 3,000 of the approximately 4,500 Jews who live in all of India. Among other new state benefits for Maharashtra’s Jews, the ruling means that those Jews will join

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International, Jewish Religion

Illustrated prayer book follows Ashkenazic tradition

Nehalel beChol: Weekday Siddur devised by Michael Haruni; Introduction by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Nevarech Press, Jerusalem, © 2015, ISBN 978-965-92180-1-1, p. 665 plus Photo and Credits Appendix, $29.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – At first blush, one cannot help but be moved by the attractiveness of the color photographs permeating the Nehalel beChol

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

I-8 Jewish Travel: Kwaaymii, Arden and oral history

-61st in a Series- Exit 47, Sunrise Highway, Mount Laguna, California By Donald H. Harrison MOUNT LAGUNA, California – Jackie Lucas dropped in on the Serra Museum in Presidio Park, San Diego, in 1975, to look around the museum that focuses on early San Diego history.  She saw on display a photo of a Kumeyaay woman.  She

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German lawmaker to let party membership lapse over anti-Semitic works

Stuttgart, Germany (dpa) – A lawmaker with the nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party whose membership was under dispute said Tuesday that he will no longer be active in the group. Wolfgang Gedeon, a physician-turned-AfD-lawmaker in the wealthy southern state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, made the announcement after a party meeting that was originally supposed to decide

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International, Jewish History

Hannaton students not deterred by Haredi protests

HANNATON, Israel (SDJW) — Students from the Hannaton Educational Center, a pluralistic school at Kibbutz Hannaton, participated in an egalitarian service at the Kotel last Thursday which was disrupted by Haredi men opposed to the genders praying together.  Pushing and shoving and numerous insults such as “You are not Jews” marred the occasion. The prayer session

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Leading rabbi challenges Sweden: End bans on milah, shechita

The President of the Conference of European Rabbis has challenged the Swedish government to lift all restrictions on Jewish practices in Sweden, after its Ambassador to Israel claimed his prime minister wants to lead the fight against worldwide anti-Semitism. In a letter to Prime Minister Stefan L&oumlfven, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt – who also serves as

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Google permitted Auschwitz game to be distributed as an app

JERUSALEM (WJC) — Colette Avital, the head of the Center of Holocaust Survivor Organizations in Israel and a member of the Executive of the World Jewish Congress-Israel, expressed indignation and outrage over a program available on Google Play which invited users to “live like a real Jew in Auschwitz.” “We cannot understand how the top management of Google

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA