{Eulogy delivered March 29, 2015 at the Home of Peace Cemetery, San Diego} By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–At the Seder table we read a special book which has an unusual name. The name is derived from the answer to the question posed in the Bible where we are told that the day would come […]
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–It goes without saying that countless families in Israel are unable to afford the Passover Seder meal but two charitable organizations, Leket Israel and Colel Chabad are working to change that reality. Colel Chabad, the oldest continuously running social services organization in Israel, founded in 1788, has been charged by the
NGOs to distribute food for Pesach in Israel Read More »
Jewish Religion, Middle East
Here is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays by Leslea Newman and illustrated by Susan Gal; Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014, with reinforced binding, ISBN 978-141-971-1855; $18.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This richly illustrated book, intended to familiarize young Jewish children with the annual cycle of holidays, tells in verse
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — With nearly 50 years of history behind Israel’s parliament building, the Classical stone structure has seen countless historical changes and events. But a new kind of revolution is making its way through the halls of the Israeli parliament with the “Green Knesset Project,” a unique environmentally friendly initiative spearheaded
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastHAIFA (SDJW)– Imaginative students at the Technion in Haifa found a Rube Goldberg way of retelling the Passover story, using various forms of mechanical force to illustrate the highlights that we Jews retell when we read our Haggadahs. Our thanks to our frequent contributor and book reviewer, Dr. Fred Reiss of Winchester, California, for spotting
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — When Jewish children turn thirteen they become adults in the eyes of the Jewish community and are responsible for observing the mitzvot (commandments) on their own. We call this status “Bar or Bat Mitzvah,” which means, “son or daughter of the commandments,” but more correctly, “responsible for following
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Jewish Religion
SAN DIEGO — The following Passover Haggadah insert was received by San Diego Jewish World from the Hatikvah slate running for delegate spots at the upcoming World Zionist Congress. We provide the text for your information, and not as an endorsement. * Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav has become famous because of these words: Kol Ha’olam
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
MADRID (WJC) –Spain’s Congress adopted a bill granting Spanish citizenship to the descendants of Jewish families expelled from the country in 1492, in a gesture of reconciliation. Legislators approved the new law in a session on Wednesday, ahead of a vote in the Senate, the upper house of parliament. the law is expected to come
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International, Jewish History
EDIRNE, Turkey (WJC)–The deputy CEO of the World Jewish Congress, Maram Stern, was in Turkey this week to take part in the re-opening ceremony of the Great Synagogue of Edirne, which was restored for $2.5 million and is the first synagogue to open in Turkey in two generations. Guest of honor at the ceremony was
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — After this website published a news article headlined “A Tale of Two Holocaust Survivors” on March 17, Tomi Reichental, who was one of the two men mentioned in the story and who is 80, contacted me by email from his home in Ireland and said he would like
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International, Jewish History, USABy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Child sex abuse in an Orthodox Jewish community, indeed in any community, is not an easy topic to discuss. It isn’t an easy topic to write about either, especially in a Jewish publication. But when Judy Bloom Friedel called and asked if I would moderate a panel
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education
An Improbable Journey: A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II by Susan Schenkel, Ph.D; ISBN 978-0-9894377-2-1, 183 pages, $12.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After her mother’s death, author Susan Schenkel decided to research the lives that her parents, by then both deceased, had led during World War II
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –A person worked long and hard to save a big fortune. He decided to rest from the work and to live in luxury for his pleasure, which he could afford because of his wealth. Just when he made his decision, the Angel of Death came to him. Being a
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Jewish ReligionNumber of Israeli ministers expected to rise in next government (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Despite the decisive victory by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party in the March 17 Israeli election, the negotiations to build the Jewish state’s next coalition government could take up the entire 42-day time period allotted by Israeli law. In his
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA