Haftorah Reading for Ki Tissa is I Kings 18:1-39 By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California — In these all prose “prophetic” passages by unknown writers, we are introduced to a ‘miracle’ induced by ‘atypical prophet’ Elijah during the reign of King Ahab of the Northern Kingdom (871-852). This was in the era of unknown
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — What counts in your life? Rather, what do you make count in your life? This week’s parasha may seem a bit “obsessed” with counting. “When you take the sum of the children of Israel according to their numbers, let each one give to the Lord an atonement
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By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Haim Jachter, the rabbi of a Sephardic synagogue for more than 20 years who is of Ashkenazic descent and trained in Ashkenazic yeshivot, tells readers about more than 100 differences in the religious practices between Ashkenazim and Sephardim. Ashkenazim are Jews of eastern European descent. Sephardic
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The 757-room, Victorian-era, beachfront Hotel del Coronado, which opened in 1888, has hosted U.S. Presidents, British royalty, and movie and recording stars in its more than 130 years of existence [Donald H. Harrison]
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Morris Casuto, the Anti-Defamation League regional director who defended San Diego County’s Jewish community against antisemites while forging good relations with other ethnic and religious groups within the county, died from leukemia Friday night, February 11, at the UCSD Jacobs Medical Center. Graveside funeral services for Casuto, 79, will be conducted at 2 p.m., Tuesday, at El Camino Memorial Park. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — It’s been 60 years since I hearkened to the glorious words, “Yaamod Ha’Bachor ha’Bar Mitzvah Moshe Rafoyel ben Betzalel Shlishi,” and chanted this parasha, Tetzaveh, at Temple B’nai Abraham in Newark, N.J., under the watchful eye and full heart of Rabbi Joachim Prinz, zt”l. I recall our
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By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, A Hasidic Village in Upstate New York is a brilliant, eye-opening, thought provoking, easy to read and enjoyable book by two university scholars, Nomi M. Stolzenberg of the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, who has written
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionHaftorah Reading for TeTzaveh is Ezekiel 43:10-27 By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California — In these all prose passages, we are bamboozled by a flood of word salad and redundancy. We have previously established that all the prophets were psychotic, i.e. the definition of psychosis specifies that it includes one who claims to converse
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
By Menachem Posner Chabad.org/News BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Viewers of Chabad.org/Video and consumers of the website’s in-depth essays have long known and enjoyed the prolific scholarly output of Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Downtown Brooklyn and rabbi of Congregation B’nai Avraham in Brooklyn Heights. The rabbi’s most recent work, Simanim: Parsha Mnemonics, provides a
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By Jerry Klinger YBOR CITY, Florida — It’s a simple, small concrete gray hexagonal paver. The words Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, contracted for line count restrictions, are etched in a slightly off-centered recess. The paver is on the sidewalk, in front of the former Buchman store at 1910 E. 7th Ave., Ybor City,
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Opinion, USABy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. In this week’s Torah reading, we learn of a gift that Hashem has given to us, yes, another gift, this, the gift of giving. Want to grow happier and more joyful than you are? Terumah teaches us a way — give. Want to live with a sense of abundance and
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Jewish Religion, Michael MantellHaftorah Reading for Terumah is I Kings 5:26-6:13 By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California — These brief all-prose passages from “The Former Unnamed Prophets” purport to summarize a description of the construction of the First Temple, i.e. King Solomon’s “house.” Solomon is depicted simply as wise, via a gift from the LORD. [1] The
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
A retirement party was held via Zoom on Wednesday, Feb. 2, for Hedy Dalin, who for 21 1/2 years has served the clients of Jewish Family Service in a variety of roles, particularly as a problem solver for elders and as a mentor for more recently hired staff members. [Donald H. Harrison]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Whoopi Goldberg was wrong but as far as I’m concerned, the folks at ABC and The View were too harsh when they suspended her for two weeks. Let me explain. In a discussion of the Holocaust on The View television show, Goldberg commented that the Holocaust wasn’t racist
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