By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — I have been on vacation for the greater part of this past week. While I was away, I listened carefully to the news about a variety of social and international problems I will be addressing within the next several days. As details of the Michael Brown […]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Board of Directors of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego has selected Charlene Seidle as the Foundation’s next President and Chief Executive Officer upon the retirement of outgoing President & CEO Marjory Kaplan in January 2015. The selection was made after a national search that began this spring following
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) –Americans for Peace Now announced the death Aug. 13 of its longtime Board Member Leonard “Leibel” Fein. “We know that Leibel will be mourned by the countless people he touched through his writings and his personal contacts across a life that spanned 8 decades of extraordinary professional accomplishments, including as a
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-Twentieth in a Series- By Donald H. Harrison CASCADE LOCKS, Oregon – Herman the Sturgeon is by far the biggest attraction at the Bonneville Fish Hatchery here. Approximately 70 years old, Herman is 10 feet long and weighs 450 pounds. He is midsize for his species, with some sturgeons having been known to grow to
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Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
DENVER, Colorado (Press Release)– A generous gift from Colorado resident Francine Lavin Weaver has funded the first kosher retreat center in the Rocky Mountains, as part of Camp Ramah in the Rockies. Ramah announced the opening of the new Beit Kesher Retreat Center, which was dedicated on Sunday, August 3, with a festive opening
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Jewish Religion, USABy Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Over the weekend, I attended a recital featuring an organist, two trumpet players, and a soprano at the First Church of Christ Scientist in this San Diego suburb, allowing me to look around one of the many historic buildings in this metropolitan area designed by San Diego architect
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-Seventeenth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison MOIESE, Montana — In 1908, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, a formidable conservationist, laid aside the National Bison Range to help bring the American bison (often mislabeled as a ‘buffalo’) back from the precipice of extinction. Today, to paraphrase the lyrics of “Home on the Range,” the bison
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Unconditionally, and in the name of my Jewish faith: I pray that the Gaza ceasefire endures because I am deeply uncomfortable and aggrieved with the civilian carnage that has accumulated in the region. The first thing we all need to bring to the table before the children of
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO–Lawrence “Laurie” Baron is professor emeritus of modern Jewish history at San Diego State. He has a doctorate in modern European intellectual history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He’s an expert on Holocaust films. So what’s a nice Jewish teacher doing writing one-liners like these?
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA)- Hundreds of Jews ascended the Temple Mount Tuesday morning, Aug. 5, to mark Tisha B’Av the Jewish national day of mourning and fasting for the destruction of the two Holy Temples, which both stood on the Temple Mount for nearly a millennium until they were destroyed by the Babylonian and
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO– “Words! Words! Words! I’m so sick of words! I get words all day through; First from him, now from you! Is that all you blighters can do?” So laments Eliza Doolittle in the musical classic My Fair Lady. Eliza was clearly not Jewish! Jews never complain about words. They
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Jewish ReligionBy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin/JNS.org Amid the current unrest in Israel and Gaza, Jews around the world have been targeted for attack. Virulently anti-Israel demonstrations and activities in cities across Europe and around the world have resulted in frightening anti-Jewish violence. Meanwhile, in the U.S. right now, school is out and students are safe. But there is little
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
-Thirteenth in a series- By Donald H. Harrison BUTTE, Montana – In this old west city where the very first mayor was Jewish, Montana’s oldest synagogue may be on the verge of dying. Meanwhile, at the city’s annual Montana Folk Festival, the klezmer music of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews is periodically reincarnated. Thus summer visitors
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Members of Ohr Shalom Synagogue and Tifereth Israel Synagogue will gather at the latter congregation, 6660 Cowles Mountain Blvd., at 8 p.m. for Tisha B’Av services during which the Book of Lamentations will be read and host Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal will explore the topic: “Is the Modern State of Israel
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