By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — A couple of weeks ago, a member of our congregation reported an extremely unpleasant incident at the La Mesa Costco. He wears a kippah and tzitzit in public which makes him an easily identified Jew. One of the shoppers accosted him and began making anti-Semitic comments, specifically accusing him of
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USAOusmane Sow, a luminary figure of African contemporary art, died early Thursday morning in Dakar. He was 81. “He takes with him the dreams and the plans that his body, too tired, did not wish to follow,” Sow’s family told Agence France-Presse. Born in the Senegalese capital of Dakar in 1935, Sow was one of
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorialsYesterday was a day of loss for the cast and crew of CBS drama “Hawaii Five-O.” Keo Woolford, who played Detective James Chang on the series, passed away at the age of 49. Woolford died on Monday afternoon at Pali Momi Medical Center in Oahu, Hawaii, three days after suffering from a severe stroke, People
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe annual meeting between the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Vatican ended Wednesday. This year’s meeting was focused on efforts to achieve peace in light of the rising amount of violence committed in the name of religion. The statement of the ‘Joint Commission of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel’s Delegation for Relations with the
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastJERUSALEM (Press Release) — A new report by the Jewish People Policy Institute “Exploring the Jewish Spectrum in a Time of Fluid Identity” analyzes the changing Jewish community and sets forth concerted recommendations which can serve as points of departure for leadership deliberation. Recommendations include that Jewish communal groups work to strengthen the sense of “Jewish Peoplehood” among individuals from mixed Jewish/non-Jewish
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAFrom artists to newspapermen, the early Jewish community on the Caribbean island set many precedents — before being decimated by assimilation, immigration and intermarriage By Julie Masis KINGSTON, Jamaica — “Is this the way to the Jewish church?” a Jamaican driver yells out of the window of his car. “Yes, just keep going straight,” someone
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Jewish Religion, Travel and FoodKarlsruhe, Germany (dpa) – A German federal court upheld on Monday the conviction of a 95-year-old man known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz” for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people, clearing the way for the trials of other elderly people who served at Nazi death camps. Oskar Groening had appealed his four-year
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International, Jewish History
OSWIECIM, Poland (Press Release)– For the first time, five members of the northeastern Indian Bnei Menashe Jewish community, which claims descent from one of Israel’s lost tribes, visited Auschwitz last week as part of a trip for 12th-graders aimed at educating them about the horrors of the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people. “I feel more connected
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International, Jewish History, Middle East[video:2021488] The Chabad-Lubavitch hasidic movement opened its annual emissaries’ conference in New York this weekend. Close to 4,000 Chabad emissaries are participating in the conference, during which they will discuss a range of issues affecting Jewish life around the world. The Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters published data on the initiative began by the Lubavitcher Rebbe Menachem Mendel
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International, Jewish ReligionTel Aviv (dpa) – A video showing Russian ice skaters performing in concentration camp prisoner outfits was slammed as “grotesque” and “offensive” on various social media platforms on Sunday. Tatyana Navka, who’s married to Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, performed the piece based on the Italian movie Life is Beautiful on Saturday night on the
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International, Jewish HistoryWithin the context of the fires currently raging around Israel, Chief Rabbi of Tzfat Shmuel Eliyahu was asked how one should behave, according to Jewish law, should one encounter an Arab starting a fire on Shabbat – or any other day of the week. Jewish law forbids Jews from extinguishing fires on Shabbat – unless
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastA poem handwritten by one of the Holocaust’s most famous victims, diarist Anne Frank, sold for 140,000 euros (roughly $148,000) on Wednesday at a Dutch auction house. The sum, which doesn’t include the auctioneer’s commission, greatly exceeded the expected sale price of 30,000 to 50,000 euros. Thijs Blankevoort, director of the Bubb Kuyper auction house
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish HistoryThe following graveside eulogy was delivered by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal on November 21, 2016 at El Camino Memorial Park in San Diego. SAN DIEGO — Joseph I. Weiss once wrote, “However short, however long the time given to those who are near to us, strength will be fashioned through the gratitude of our hearts for
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Hugs and Knishes: A Celebration of Our Jewish Foods and Traditions explores the rich history of Jewish food and its cultural impact on the community. The film visits a variety of Jewish homes, Ashkenazic and Sephardic, for anecdotes of Jewish life that represent a diverse cultural experience and demonstrate the
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