By Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — In our Torah portion this week, Ki Tisa, Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. When he saw that the Israelites had built a golden calf in his absence, out of anger, he throws the tablets down to the ground smashing them into many pieces. But […]
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A parade of rabbinical colleagues and family members mourning Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal, praised him, which they acknowledged he would have hated, and told jokes about him, which they said he would have loved. The rabbi’s funeral service was attended by hundreds of congregants and friends Friday afternoon in
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SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, spotted this reference on a California license plate, leading to speculation that the car’s owner is a music lover. This particular psalm continues with some well known sayings including, “out of the mouth of babes,” and “You have made
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — In our Torah portion this week, Parashat Terumah, the Israelites are commanded by God to build a mikdash, a sanctuary. The mikdash was supposed to be a home for God that the Israelites could carry with them wherever they went, so that God’s presence would always dwell among
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Jewish ReligionFirst the Jews: Combating the World’s Longest-Running Hate Campaign by Rabbi Evan Moffic, Abingdon Press, Nashville © 2019, ISBN 978-1-5018-7083-5, p. 228 plus notes, $22. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan assured us we “Don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” In the same vein, we don’t need
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — With the Exodus from Egypt behind us, in Parashat Mishpatim, the text of the Torah takes a turn from narrative, to law. This Shabbat we will read about 53 of the Torah’s 613 Mitzvoth. Many of them like the laws about the treatment of servants and foreigners, damages and
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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Have you ever had the frustrating experience of being in an environment where no one speaks your language? You know the feeling that there are too many people invading your personal space, but you’ve no way to communicate that to them? What about the times when you sincerely want
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U.S., Poland to host ‘ministerial’ on the Middle East The U.S. State Department on Friday issued the following statement: The “Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East,” held jointly by the United States and Poland, will take place in Warsaw, Poland on February 13-14. We have received very positive
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Official release for Fanny Krasner Lebovits’ Holocaust memoir Tuesday, Jan. 22, was the official release date for Memories, Miracles & Meaning — Insights of a Holocaust Survivor by San Diegan Fanny Krasner Lebovits. Congregation Beth El, 8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, will host a book sale and signing for the 96-year-old author at 6 p.m.,
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By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINTAS, California — I arrived at the Coastal Roots Farm around 10.30 Sunday morning, a bit delayed as I assumed the entrance was on Saxony Road, and had to circle around to Ecke Ranch road, north of the farm.. The day’s event was in honor of the Jewish holiday of
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The New York Times columnist Bari Weiss on Sunday, Jan. 20, previewed for 450 supporters of the Jewish National Fund a book she is currently writing, The New Seven Dirty Words, about important yet controversial terms that often are used in discussions about Jews and Israel. Featured
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Amazing Jewish Heroes Down Through The Ages by David Richard Goldberg, © 2018; Gefen Publishing, ISBN 9789652-298812; 187 pages including afterword and sources. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – You might call this book a Jewish hagiography, one which may be interesting for Young Adults to read but really not suitable for quotation in
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — This Shabbat, throughout the Jewish world, is known as Shabbat Shirah, the Shabbat of Song. That is because in our Torah portion this week, BeShalach, we read about how Miriam led the Israelites in a song, Shirat HaYam, as they traveled through the split sea. The song itself is
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Jewish ReligionTu B’Shevat, Israeli style, to be celebrated at Lawrence Family JCC The Israel-American Council (IAC) plans to celebrate Tu B’Shevat in 40 cities across North America, including San Diego, with special dinners Friday night coupled with presentations about the annual “birthday of the trees.” In San Diego, the celebration will be held from 6:30 p.m.
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