Judaism

Ivanka Trump Mistakes Judaism As One of The World’s Largest Religions

Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump’s daughter and one of his personal advisers, incorrectly identified Judaism as one of the three largest world religions during her Monday appearance on “Fox & friends.” Read: Ivanka Trump To Appear On ‘Fox & Friends’: What To Expect From Her Interview During her appearance on the cable morning news show,

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Jewish Religion, USA

Rabbi Sacks essays on the Book of Numbers

Covenant & Conversation, Numbers: The Wilderness Years, A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Maggid Books and The Orthodox Union, Jerusalem, © 2017, ISBN 978-1-68025-294-1, p. 171, plus glossary, $14.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –  World-renown rabbi and scholar Rabbi Jonathan Sacks begins with the assertion that the Book of

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

History detective tells SDHC gala of her adventures

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you think of a history researcher as someone who spends nearly every waking hour poring over old manuscripts, you haven’t met Joellyn Zollman, Ph.D She’s the curator of the “Celebrate San Diego! The history & Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community” exhibit which is being presented through

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

E.L. Woody, the self-proclaimed ‘King of the Paparazzi’, dies at 70

He didn’t meet Sylvester Stallone on the best of nights, and it didn’t go much better the time he bumped into Kiefer Sutherland. But Mark Wahlberg liked E.L. Woody, at least enough to cast him in HBO’s hit series “Entourage.” Wahlberg’s marching orders for Woody were clear enough — just play yourself. So Woody strapped

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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Jewish great-grandson has a play on Theresienstadt

By Sandee Brawarsky J.R.R. Tolkien’s great-grandson Nicholas Tolkien. Separated by three generations, one lived through war to create a magical world of fantasy, and one was blessed to know peace but writes about an unimaginably tragic chapter of history. Playwright and director Nicholas Tolkien, who makes his Off-Broadway debut this month with “ Terezin,” is

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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

In ancient mass graves, archaeologists find child slaves of biblical Egypt

New findings at Amarna, the capital of an eccentric ‘monotheistic’ king, indicate a disposable juvenile labor force. Could there be a connection to the Hebrews? By Amanda Borschel-Dan While the archaeological record may not shore up the biblical account of the Exodus from Egypt, in light of recent finds one could be forgiven for speculating

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Jewish History, Middle East

Was the whale created by Jonah’s subconscious mind?

Unusual Bible Interpretations: Jonah and Amos, by Rabbi Israel Drazin; Gefen Publishing House, 2016; ISBN-10: 9652298859; ISBN-13: 978-9652298850 By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — I would like to begin this book review with a conversation I had with the publisher of San Diego Jewish World, Don Harrison. He asked me whether there was

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Future historians may rue aspects of U.S. war on terror

By Ken Stone Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Lichtblau, author of an exposé of the Nazi era’s shameful American aftermath, is worried what a future historian might say about today’s War on Terror. With James Risen, Eric Lichtblau won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for revealing

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Ken Stone, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

‘Just Kidding:’ If Ruth’s Moabite family wrote to her

By Joel H. Cohen (A Shavuot highlight is the reading of the Book of Ruth, a remarkable widow who, rather than return to her native Moab and her own family, chose to stay with her mother-in-law and accompany her on her spiritual and physical journey, adopting her people and religion. How Ruth’s family reacted to that

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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire