* Jewish War Vets Auxiliary Hold Card Party, Jan. 29th Southwestern Jewish Press, January 25, 1957, Page 5 The Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary will hold a membership luncheon and card party on Tuesday, January 39th, at noon at the North Park Club, 3927 Utah. The luncheon will be catered by the club who promises […]
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Hadassah Presentation Ball To Highlight Social Season Southwestern Jewish Press, January 25, 1957, Pages1, 3. The Presentation Ball, Hadassah’s biggest fund raising affair of the year, will take place tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. at the Hotel del Coronado ballroom The sixteen lovely debutantes, attired in formal white ball gowns, and their court of pre-debutantes
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–This week’s parasha contains the famous verse, “Justice, justice, shall you pursue.” The Hebrew root for “justice” is tzedek. It is the foundation of many other Hebrew words such as tzedakah, charity. The linguistic connection between tzedek and tzedakah reminds us that in Judaism, helping others is not just a
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Young Israel At 100: An American Response to the Challenge of Orthodox Living, 1912-2012; by Yaakov Kornreich, Joel Saibel, Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald Strober; National Council of Young Israel, New York; ISBN 978-1-4751-5792-5 ©2012, $24.95, p. 237 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — To believe that during most of its history, Judaism represented
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By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — It is at this point in time that we all begin to realize that the summer is ending. There is something about mid-August that says, “The summer is waning.” School children begin to experience the anxieties that come with the anticipation of the return to school; vacationers
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SAN DIEGO–Our license plate spotter-in-chief, Melanie Rubin, clearly loves Fiddler on the Roof , so when she saw this ambiguous license plate, she read it as if the heart substituted for an “O” in Goldis. Tevye, you remember, after 25 years loves Goldie, and she loves him too. Our editor, Don Harrison, read the
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RICHMOND HILL, Ontario –Who can say but that Michael Glassman was destined to spot this license plate?
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –Tonight (Friday, Aug. 17) we celebrate Rosh Chodesh Elul, the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul, which is the month immediately preceding Tishrei, whose first day is Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. The Rabbis wrote that the Hebrew letters that spell out Elul are an anagram for the
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By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO –“K’rachaim av al banim, kain Tirachem aleinu…” Like the mercy of a father on children, may You (G-d) have mercy upon us… [Liturgy] A little girl and her father were crossing a flimsy bridge. The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter:”Sweetheart, please hold my
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RICHMOND HILL, Canada — Michael Glassman spotted this license plate proof that even in Ontario province, Jews occasonally have tsuris.
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK– It was another one of those park bench discussions. I hadn’t seen my old friend Eli for quite some time. We would run into each other every couple of years, not because we planned it, but because we lived in the same city. We both loved to take
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The Jewish world has recently begun its new project of the Daf Yomi, or “Page of the Day.” Here is a brief history how the project originally began. Rabbi Meir Shapiro, leader of the World Agudath Israel, introduced a novel idea in 1923. He felt the
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Most of my work with interfaith couples has to do with Jews and Christians; they often come to me (at ‘Reconciliation: The Synagogue Without Walls’) after having been shunned or hurt by a rabbi or a priest or some such figure. They love each other—and are told they
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Editor’s Note: Our Australia bureau chief, Garry Fabian, recently received the following request from the city of Stuttgart, Germany: ” “On the 22nd August this year there will be the 70th anniversary of this very sad moment in Stuttgart (Germany) history. We are planning to commemorate this date when transport of Jewish citizens were commenced
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