By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — We read in parashat Va-yigash about Jacob and his sons reuniting with Joseph in Egypt. After revealing his true identity, Joseph brought his family there to escape the famine in Canaan. Joseph settled them in Goshen. The Torah says: “[Jacob] …sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph, to point
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — After decades of unfathomable hardships and a multitude of betrayals, broken dreams, and dashed hopes, Yosef now faces the perpetrators who set into motion this sequence of events. Yosef had maneuvered his brothers into a position that would allow him to attain his ultimate revenge. He was a
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Jewish ReligionSales of a new, special edition of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” are skyrocketing since a German publisher brought it to market last year. “Mein Kampf,” which translates in English to “my struggle,” is an autobiographical depiction of Hitler’s ideology that served as the bedrock for Nazism. It laid out his hatred for the Jewish faith
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish HistoryFormer Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, who twice served in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu”s cabinet, passed away on Sunday at the age of 77. He is survived by his wife and their six children. Though he never served as an MK, Neeman served as a senior official in Likud governments going back to Menachem Begin”s first
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsHilarion Capucci, who spent four years in Israeli prison, participated in Gaza flotillas, called a ‘martyr’ by PA By Times of Israel staff Archbishop Hilarion Capucci (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Piotr Zygulski/Wikimedia Commons) A Syrian Catholic bishop famous for his support of Palestinians, who was once imprisoned by Israel for smuggling weapons to West Bank
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International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsPASADENA, Calif. — William Christopher, best known as the calm-voiced Father Francis Mulcahy on “M.A.S.H.,” has died. He was 84. His son, John Christopher, told KABC his father died of non-lung small cell carcinoma. RELATED: On New Year’s Eve, someone from Mariah Carey’s team asked an embarrassingly obvious question William Christopher played the role of
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLondon (dpa) – The Beatles’ first manager, Allan Williams, has died at the age of 86, the club he once owned in Liverpool confirmed late Friday. “Today our founder and the man who discovered the Beatles passed away at the age of 86. Allan Williams, you will be missed,” the Jacaranda Club wrote on Twitter.
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International, Obituaries & memorialsDebbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher will have a joint funeral and are to be buried together in Hollywood, according to Reynolds’ son. Todd Fisher said no date had been set for the funeral, which will be private. Carrie Fisher’s body was released to her family on Friday. The actress and writer who starred
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLOS ANGELES—In the late 1930s, when few doors were open to the son of a poor Chinese immigrant, Tyrus Wong landed a job at Walt Disney’s studio as a lowly “in-betweener,” whose artwork filled the gaps between the animator’s key drawings. But he arrived at an opportune moment. Disney’s animators were struggling to bring “Bambi”
Barbara Tarbuck, a stage and screen actress who played Jane Jacks on “General Hospital” and Mother Superior Claudia on “American Horror Story: Asylum,” has died. She was 74. Tarbuck died Monday at her Los Angeles home, said her daughter, producer Jennifer Lane Connolly. Tarbuck suffered from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder, a rare, degenerative brain disease, Connolly said
(Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Google announced it is adjusting its algorithms after users who entered the question “Did the Holocaust happen?” in online searches were directed to a neo-Nazi website. Until recently, the top result the search engine provided to that question was a link to Stormfront, a white supremacist online forum, and an article
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Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — Pharaoh had a dream in which he saw seven healthy cows come out of the Nile river and stand on the banks of the river. Seven scrawny cows followed and stood with them. At this point of his dream, the scrawny cows ate the healthy cows. Pharaoh continued
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Jewish ReligionBuenos Aires (dpa) – An Argentine court on Thursday reopened a case against former president Christina Fernandez de Kirchner that was filed by a prosecutor four days before he was found dead in suspicious circumstances in January 2015. The Federal Criminal Court of Cassations ruled that the case filed by Alberto Nisman, which alleged that
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Marion Pritchard passed away in Washington DC on December 11th. Although she might not be as well-known as many of the luminaries who died in 2016, her rescue of 150 Jews during the Holocaust merits our gratitude and recognition. When I served as the historian for Sam and Pearl
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