NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Orthodox Union has launched a new OU Kosher phone App to search the kosher status of all OU products year-round, including a product’s special Kosher for Passover status. The free App is available for download for iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch, and Androids. To download this App, simply select “OU Kosher” from the […]
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — If racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination, then faithism is the belief that belief in different gods or Gods justifies spiritualism discrimination in terms of who goes to heaven and who goes to hell, among other religious beliefs. In the
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Had the Nazis not come to power in his native Germany, W. Gunther Plaut would have become a judge. But being barred from pursuing a legal career because he was a Jew, he dedicated himself to serving God and his people. That brought him to the Hebrew Union College in
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Birth and Rebirth Through Genesis: A Timeless Theological Conversation, Vol. 1: Genesis 1-3 by Rabbi Michael L. Samuel, Aeon Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4563-0171-3 ©2011, p. 495, including excursuses, bibliography, and index; $20.70. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The biblical narrator of the first three chapters of Genesis, whoever he may be: Moses at God’s direction,
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Emunah (faith) and Bitachon (trust) are two bedrocks of Judaism. We have emunah and bitachon in Hashem, our G-d. The difference between these two related concepts can be illustrated by a joke, told to me by my colleauge Rabbi Dovid Max, Community Torah Center of Bucks County, Richboro,
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SAN DIEGO — Our chief license plate spotter, Melanie Rubin, saw these two license plates for titled grandparents. Dr. Bubbe evidently refers to a grandmother who has a doctorate, whereas HonZady, may well mean “honorable grandfather,” perhaps a holder of public office.
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Jewish Religion, Melanie RubinCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, November 15, 1956, Page 7 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Mental Retardation– As this issue comes from the presses, and if we are the ordinary individuals who are exposed to the radio, television, billboards, and the newspapers, we shall
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the more interesting questions that is sometimes asked in modern anthropology is whether a group is a collection of individuals, or are they like a body with various members? Much of this has what to do with the issue of individual vs. corporate identity.
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff With The Guardians Southwestern Jewish Press, November 16, 1956, page 6 By Morrie Pomeranz Hi-Lites of the November 1st meeting — excellent turnout — enthusiastically presided over by prexy Sammy Addleson who is at his parliamentary best when the crowds are larger — guests included Norman Smith hosted
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Leah R. Singer SAN DIEGO –When Dr. Frank Kretzer heard about the Congregation Beth Israel Torah Project, he knew this was the perfect opportunity to participate in an historic moment, honor his Jewish roots, and most importantly, create a lasting memory for his grandson. Dr. Kretzer, a 67-year-old doctor and teacher at Baylor College
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Jewish ReligionCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Temple Beth Israel To Hold Workshop Southwestern Jewish Press, November 16, 1956, Page 4 Richard F. Lustig, Vice-President, announces that on November 20th at 8 p.m. Temple Beth Israel will hold its first Temple Workshop. Major topics to be discussed are 1. Dues and Finances. 2. Temple problems.
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Adina Wollner SAN DIEGO — I attended on Thursday, February 2, an Alternate Focus, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee screening of the film Israel vs. Israel a documentary directed by Terje Carlsson. The film highlights four Jewish Israelis who are working to bring an end to the “40 year occupation of the West Bank”. There were approximately thirty
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Whenever I teach theology I love to ask students: who played the voice of Moses in the Dreamworks movie, The Prince of Egypt? If no one knows I tell them: Moses was voiced by Val Kilmer. Then I ask them who played the voice of God? If no
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, thou shalt not covet thy neighbors house, his field, his slave, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, and all that belongs to your neighbor” Chapter 14 of the Orchos Tzaddikim tells us that envy is the worst of sins – so severe,
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