Ivanka Trump surprised many of her followers on Instagram when she sent out a famous rabbinic aphorism but attributed it to Harry Potter star Emma Watson. She uploaded an image which said, “If not me, who? If not now, when?” and attributed it to Watson, most famous for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter […]
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USANehemiah: Statesman and Sage by Dov S. Zakheim, Maggid Books., New Milfored, CT, ©2016, ISBN 978-1-59264-369-1, p. 246, $27.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – In 586 BCE, Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, overlooking the city of Jerusalem, capital of the Judean monarchy, standing on Mt. Scopus, the present home of the Hebrew University, watched as his
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The Wondering Jew: My Journey into Judaism by Ellen Brazer; TCJ Publishing; ISBN 9780693-739945; 188 pages including book club questions, $12.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Novelist Ellen Brazer (Clouds Across the Sun; So It Was Written; Hearts of Fire) has authored a primer on the Jewish religion, perhaps as much for her
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An examination of Panim el Panim – Face to Face, with Love By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM – There is an expression in Hebrew used colloquially, “Wars of the Jews,” and it’s not referring to the seven volumes written by the historian Josephus in the first century of the modern era. Rather, it’s
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Toby Klein GreenwaldAccording to an article in Highline about US Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, a friend of Ivanka’s noted a correlation between the occurrence of the Jewish Sabbath and holidays and Donald Trump’s more outstanding Twitter faux pas. The friend attributed the correlation to the fact that Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner are not
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Jewish Religion, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are just around the corner. Unfortunately, many older adults will not attend religious services for these holidays because they’re unable to drive and lack transportation. To combat this, Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) is offering free rides for persons 60 and older to synagogues
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Nadav Caine POWAY, California — Kever Avot is the Jewish custom that we mark the approaching High Holy Days with annual visits to the graves of departed loved ones. We speak to them and draw on their memories to inspire our personal formulations for how we want to live in this world for the
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CalendarBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –This past weekend, Detroit pastor Bishop Wayne Jackson draped a tallit around Donald Trump’s shoulders at service. What was the Jewish reaction? Well, that takes us to the rest of the story that I am about to tell you. Most Jews I know are probably confused about
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USARepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump made an appearance at a black church in Detroit Saturday, and received a prayer shawl (tallit) for the occasion. After giving a brief speech, Trump received a Jewish Heritage Study Bible along with the prayer shawl from Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, pastor of Great Faith Ministries International. Trump wore the
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Jewish Religion, USAInbar Tabib was born in Israel to a Yemenite/Persian family. Her father was disabled as a young child, and both her parents served as role models for coping with challenges. When she was 5, her family relocated to Chicago, where she spent the rest of her childhood. Although Inbar grew up in a traditional home
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In Parashat Re’eh, Moses charges the Children of Israel to obey God. “See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God which I enjoin upon you this day; and curse, if you do not obey the
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Jewish ReligionPrime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu averted a brewing coalition crisis Friday morning, settling a government dispute over infrastructure work by Israel”s train system on Shabbat. The haredi parties, Shas and United Torah Judaism, had issued an ultimatum Thursday evening, demanding the Prime Minister restrict work by the state-owned rail company during the Jewish holy day. Giving
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In parashat Eikev, Moses succinctly summarizes God’s demands of us: “And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God demand of you? Only this: to revere the Lord your God, to walk only in His paths, to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with
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Jewish ReligionThe heads of the haredi parties, Ministers Arye Deri (Shas), Yaakov Litzman (UTJ), and MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening, bearing an ultimatum: gives us our Shabbat, or we take your coalition. Haredi MKs have been in an uproar these past few days over the
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