By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California –No cyber connections. No roar of television commercials in the background. No numbing news cycle of repeated bad developments. No usernames or passwords; just loving faces and star shine. And the moon smiling down through a thatched roof. Wednesday night, Oct. 8, when many Jews, from Pittsburgh to Paris, […]
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Temple Emanu-El welcomes Tamara Levin to the staff as the new director of the Price Family Preschool. Levin spent her childhood and early adult years in Cape Town, South Africa, where she attended the University of Cape Town and then taught grades five and six. She came to America with
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO –I went to Yeshiva with a wonderful friend named Mark Marshall. He told this true story at his father’s funeral: Bud Marshall kept a small box in his bedroom where he kept several important & sentimental mementos including the medals he had earned for his service in WWII. These
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Jewish ReligionJudaism in Transition: How Economic Choices Shape Religious Tradition by Carmel U. Chiswick, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA; ISBN 978-0-8047-7605-9 ©2014, $22.95, p. 201, plus Reference material By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Words to an old folksong read, “If religion were a thing that money could buy, then the rich would live and the poor
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, Californa — A Jew is a constituent of the longest-running, most confounding, hardest to categorize, most widely-scattered, historically hunted and murdered, nomadic, demographically-challenged, resilient, despised, and admired faith community without a firmly-set liturgy in history. A Jew is a nationality without a nation who therefore is sincerely and deeply hyper-patriotic
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Jewish ReligionBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO–Why do we fast in the first place? Yes, the answer is in the very word itself: F.A.S.T. = For A Spiritual Transformation During Yom Kippur, beginning this year at sundown on October 3rd and ending 25 hours later on October 4th, many Jews will be fasting and engaged
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) –It was a historical moment at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum on Thursday night, September 18, as the world’s oldest known Jewish prayer book was displayed for the first time to the general public with leading Jewish and Christian figures present. The siddur, which is 1,200 years old, belongs to Steve
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Mike Zak’s, z”l, was a Past President of Tifereth Israel Synagogue,a longtime active and supportive congregant, and a Holocaust survivor. One of his favorite stories was about his arrival in San Diego as a refugee and having to obtain a Social Security card. He asked, “What is Social
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Jewish ReligionMichael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO– This year it begins on Wednesday evening, September 25th. Our chance, once again, to reset the “character clock” and start renewed, fresh, and cleansed. With the beginning of the “High Holidays,” Jews throughout the world are offered the opportunity again to join in the oldest, most widespread, and clearly
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Jewish Religion, Michael MantellNEW YORK (Press Release)– With the high demand of travelers, EL AL Israel Airlines is preparing for a sweet new year by offering traditional in-flight holiday treats. In celebration of the festive season, passengers will enjoy a taste of traditional meals with apples and honey available on all flights Anyone interested in creating a honey cake
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MEMPHIS, Tennessee (Press Release)– Faced with an uncertain national economy plus skyrocketing costs of housing and education, an increasing number of young Jewish families are choosing to move to the “vibrant, affordable, and friendly” community of Memphis, Tennessee. Sensing an opportunity to welcome a skilled, talented cohort of active Jews looking to establish roots, the local
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CARLSBAD, California (Press Release) — The Jewish Collaborative of San Diego (JCo) has announced the formation of a new North San Diego County synagogue describing itself as “multi-generational, post denominational, democratic and highly participatory.” It will be led by the husband and wife team of Rabbi Josh Burrows and Rabbi/ Cantor Gabi Arad starting this
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Intermarriage is increasingly becoming a subject of concern in Jewish circles. But should it? When two people fall in love, it should be a happy occasion rather than a cause for lament. It would be more productive to discuss some ideas of how intermarriage can increase, rather than decrease,
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Arkady Mamaysky, Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — In other denominations, confession is a personal event, often realized between the confessor and a priestly intermediary. The cleric is charged with admonition but also the release, by virtue of so many devotions, mantras and other rituals. Not so with the Jews: As the community soon gathers for
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