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I-8 Jewish travel: Qualcomm Way, Qualcomm Stadium

August 6, 2015

–16th in a series– Exit 6, Qualcomm Way, San Diego ~ Qualcomm Stadium, By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In 1997, Qualcomm, a telecommunications industry giant co-founded by Jewish electrical engineers Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and others, paid the City of San Diego $18 million for San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium to be renamed for […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food

Setting goals for our prayers

August 2, 2015

By Michael R. Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — I recently went on the Rabbinical Assembly website and found 15 prayerbooks. Prayerbooks. Fifteen of them. Who needs fifteen different prayerbooks? I guess the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative/Masorti rabbis believes we, the members of Conservative congregations worldwide, need them. But fifteen? Seriously? This got me

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

Film: I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors

August 1, 2015

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors by Ann Marie Fleming, National Film Board of Canada

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International, Jewish History

The story of the youngest of the Monuments Men

August 1, 2015

By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — During the Second World War as the Nazis stormed across Europe, they systematically looted millions of priceless paintings, sculptures and other cultural artifacts from museums, including their own, churches, libraries and private collections, mostly Jewish. The monetary value ran into the billions, but the cultural loss was incalculable. It

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International, Jewish History

Her first days in America, 1939

July 31, 2015

By Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — In October 1939, I was twelve years old. My parents, my six-year-old brother, and I sat in the basement of our Paris apartment with gas masks on every night as the sirens screeched that German planes were overhead. We fear they will drop mustard gas, which we were

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Jewish Religion, Natasha Josefowitz, USA

Terrorism in the guise of piety

July 31, 2015

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–When I first encountered Zionism as a child in post-war Poland, I heard much about the dream for Jews to become like all other peoples. After all that we had been through we now wanted to be like everybody else. Living in Israel today, not only when I’m in Tel Aviv,

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Life cycle events and visions of the immortal

July 30, 2015

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — As I gazed into the wedding canopy where my younger daughter exchanged marriage vows with her betrothed some two and a half years ago, all of the fears floated out of me. The professional dreads, the generational anxieties, the clinging grudges, and the pounding griefs of this existence—they vanished.

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Jewish Religion

I-8 Jewish travel: Morris Casuto and the ADL

July 30, 2015

–15th in a series– Exit 5: Mission Center Road, San Diego ~ Former Anti-Defamation League offices By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Although Jewish agencies and organizations including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recently have clustered their offices near those of the Jewish Federation of San Diego in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood, they used to

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Why do Jews achieve so much?

July 28, 2015

The Debate Over Jewish Achievement: Exploring the Nature and Nurture of Human Accomplishment by Steven L. Pease, Deucalion, Sonoma, California; ISBN 978-0-9825168-4-3 ©2015, $19.95, p. 275, plus bibliography and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The Jewish people are an enigma to historians, social scientists, and pundits of various stripes who cannot quite fathom

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Hundreds rally in San Diego to stop Iran N- deal

July 26, 2015

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Numerous speakers during a Sunday, July 26, rally at Balboa Park passionately decried the nuclear arms deal that the United States and other major world powers recently reached with Iran, but the San Diegan who easily was the hero of the day chose the printed word-not the microphone-to

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, USA

Jews, despite differences, must love one another

July 26, 2015

By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM–A little while ago, as we broke our fast at the end of the mournful day of Tisha B’Av, I was suddenly overcome with this strong sentimental thought – perhaps prompted also by a friend who wrote in a Facebook message that when he drives on Begin Highway and sees new

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Toby Klein Greenwald

Loving your fellow Jew

July 26, 2015

By Michael R. Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — What lesson have we not learned from one of the most basic principles in Judaism, “Love your fellow Jew as yourself”? It’s preached on pulpit after pulpit, regardless of the sex of the rabbi, the color of the rabbi’s talit, whether the rabbi wears a kippah or not,

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

The danger of excessive Tisha B’Av mourning

July 25, 2015

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–A man once told me that he became a more observant Jew when he changed from being a person who remembers the Sabbath Day, according to the first set of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:5), to a person who observes it, as per the second set (Deuteronomy 5:12). Using the same

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

The need for modesty in law- giving

July 24, 2015

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Here is an amusing story based on this week’s parasha which speaks not only of rabbinic discretion and the limits of rabbinic authority, but the independent nature of Jews as well! The book of D’varim (Deuteronomy) begins, “These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel”” (Deut.

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Jewish Religion

I-8 Jewish travel: Qualcomm Way, Qualcomm Stadium

Setting goals for our prayers

Film: I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors

The story of the youngest of the Monuments Men

Her first days in America, 1939

Terrorism in the guise of piety

Life cycle events and visions of the immortal

I-8 Jewish travel: Morris Casuto and the ADL

Why do Jews achieve so much?

Hundreds rally in San Diego to stop Iran N- deal

Jews, despite differences, must love one another

Loving your fellow Jew

The danger of excessive Tisha B’Av mourning

The need for modesty in law- giving

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