By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — As 122 Gaza rockets struck Israel on Tuesday, July 15, hundreds of observant Muslims and observant Jews across Israel united to break their mutual fast day together. The events brought the people of the two different faiths together, as the Jewish fast of the 17th of Tammuz, commemorating the […]
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Jewish Religion, Middle East
–Fifth in a series– By Donald H. Harrison SAN BERNARDINO, California –As grandson Shor and I continued our tour up the Interstate 15 from Riverside, it seemed only a matter of minutes until we reached San Bernardino, site of the oldest Jewish cemetery in continuous use in Southern California. The Home of Eternity, at 8th
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
MADRID (WJC) –Spain’s world-famous Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum should return the Impressionist masterpiece ‘Rue Saint-Honoré’ to the heirs of the Jewish family from whom it was stolen by the Nazis shortly before World War II, the president of the World Jewish Congress urged on Friday. The Madrid museum is owned by the Spanish state. “Since 1988, Spain
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International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO– In parashat Pinchas we continue reading about the Israelites’ adventures as they camped through the Sinai desert….which, of course, reminds me of my trip to visit Tifereth Israel’s kids at Camp Ramah last week! It has been a couple of years since Judy and I visited camp, which is
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Jewish ReligionBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (TNA)–I literally trembled with emotion when I held the two volumes ofPogrom Night 1938: A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany. Together they comprise over seven hundred pages which are packed with information about the more than one thousand synagogues and prayer rooms that existed in pre-WWII Germany
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History
-Third in a series — By Donald H. Harrison TEMECULA, California – Attorney and writer Erle Stanley Gardner invented “Perry Mason,” the fictional defense lawyer of television and pulp fiction fame, who most people my age (68) can’t think of without remembering the actor who played him on television, Raymond Burr. Gardner also was
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USABy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D SAN DIEGO — “Shluff, now, mamellah.” My mother and grandmother used to say that to me after a few urgings to “Gai shluffen” or, more commonly, “gai shluffie.” How’d you shluff last night? For about 70 million Americans, yes, even readers of the wonderful, positive, life-enhancing San Diego Jewish World,
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014) died on July 3rd this past week. The world has lost of one its greatest and most imaginative modern Rebbes of modern times. In the early sixties, he and Shlomo Carlbach were among the earliest followers of Rabbi Schneersohn and their success set the
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi1177 B.C., the Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; ISBN 978-0-691-14089-6 ©2014, $29.95, p. 176, plus Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, and Index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, Calilfornia — The Late Bronze Age is prominent for its unprecedented financial, political, and social interconnectedness, along with the generation of great wealth
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Fred Reiss, EdD, International, Jewish History
Editor’s Note: Want to learn more about the Jewish players mentioned in the story below? Have your mouse hover over the name of the player and a link will appear. SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Are you interested in how Jewish baseball players are doing in the majors and the minors? The website Jewish Baseball News
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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions
By Norman Greene CASABLANCA, Morocco — Dressed in her head-to-toe hajab or jalaba, she reminded me of an Arabic version of San Diego’s late travel maven Gert Thaler as she skillfully guided us on our quest around the old Jewish Quarter in Casablanca. She was effusive, charming, funny and full of energy. We had
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Jewish History, Middle East, Travel and FoodBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In a well-run library, books are not only organized, kept in good repair, new books of interest added, but also those of less interest are withdrawn. In looking over Temple Emanu-El’s library collection of biographies I noted that the shelves were full and perhaps it was time to consider
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Jewish History
NEW YORK (Press Release)- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has congratulated U.S. Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-New York) for the successful passage of her Protect Cemeteries Act (H.R. 4028) in the House of Representatives. If Meng’s bill is next approved by the Senate (S. 2466) and signed by the President, the International Religious Freedom Act
Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — It’s easy to take those we love for granted. Sometimes it is only after they are gone that we realize how much they meant to us, how much we counted upon them, and how much they added to our lives. This was the lesson the Israelites learned after the
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Jewish Religion