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Families still being reunited 70 years after the Holocaust

January 27, 2015

By Yotam Rozenwald JERUSALEM (Tazpit)–Although it has been 70 years since the end of World War II, many Holocaust survivors are still searching for lost family members. Approximately 1,000 annual requests, from all over the world, are sent to Magen David Adom’s Restoring Family Links Department. One heartwarming story occurred just last month. Eran Witt, […]

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Numbers shrinking of WWII vets, Shoah survivors

January 26, 2015

By Dorian De Wind AUSTIN, Texas (SDONA)– We are all painfully aware of how the unrelenting and inexorable process of aging is taking from us hundreds of members of that Greatest Generation each and every day. The latest sad statistic provided by the Veterans Administration is that our World War II veterans are dying

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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USA

Auschwitz survivors including San Diegan return

January 26, 2015

AUSCHWITZ, Poland (Press Release)– Fifteen Auschwitz survivors, aged 80-94, returned Monday morning to the infamous camp – some for the first time –ahead of tomorrow’s 70th anniversary celebration of its liberation. Joining the survivors on their visit was Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, who, along with the USC Shoah Foundation, organized the

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International, Jewish Religion

Some spiritual advice for Super Bowl

January 26, 2015

By Rabbi Rafi Andrusier LA MESA, California — The big Super Bowl game day is coming up and everyone has a favorite team to root for. So here is the question one may suggest: I’ve been praying all season long, and my team didn’t even get close to the playoffs. So how can I have faith in

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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions, USA

The wicked symbolism of chametz

January 23, 2015

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — As soon as Purim draws nigh, my wife Judy begins to anguish about Pesach. Although Passover is one of her favorite holidays, it is quite labor intensive. Judy not only needs to change the dishes and prepare for the seder, she also has to rid the house of

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Jewish Religion

Something fishy about hating Shabbos

January 22, 2015

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Rabbi Yitzchok Chinn of McKees Port, Pensylvania, when he was a guest speaker at a Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva Convention, where he told the following story: Rabbi Chinn knew an older Jewish man who said to him, “I hate Shabbos!” The Rabbi

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Jewish Religion

Surprises, mysteries at Brooklyn cemetery

January 22, 2015

By Norman Greene SAN DIEGO — If you are up for solving mysteries and maybe uncovering a few new ones, you can learn a great deal by visiting an old Jewish cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. For years. My late father would become very melancholy four or five days before the yahrzeits of his

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Obituaries & memorials, Travel and Food

‘Charlotte’ tells story of perished German Jewish girl

January 22, 2015

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson GUERET, France — Life is full of strange coincidences. I first encountered the story of Charlotte Salomon about twenty years ago, when an exhibition of her work, a series of paintings with captions describing her life and entitled ‘Life? Or Theatre?’ was held at the Royal Academy in London. It made a

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History

Eger launches UCSD lecture series on Shoah

January 21, 2015

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–During the 2014/15 academic year the Holocaust Living History Workshop offers a series of lectures titled “Forgotten Stories: Legacy of Pain.” The series is intended to broaden understanding of the past and to foster tolerance in the present and future. All events are free and open to the public. The Holocaust

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Jewish History, San Diego County

Book Review: ‘Unlocking the Torah Text’

January 21, 2015

Unlocking the Torah Text, An In-Depth Journey Into The Weekly Torah Portion: Devarim by Samuel Goldin, Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem; ISBN 978-965-229-526-2 ©2014, $29.95, p. 382, plus sources and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–The fifth of the Five Books of Moses, called in Hebrew Devarim and in English the Book of Deuteronomy, is Moses’

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

1,000 Reform Jewish youth to assemble in Atlanta

January 20, 2015

ATLANTA, Georgia (Press Release)–Thousands of Jewish teens and adults will come together for the NFTY Convention and Youth Summit February 13 through 17, 2015, in this city. NFTY, which celebrates its 75 th anniversary this year, is the Reform Jewish Youth Movement. NFTY Convention will attract more than 1,000 teens from across North America. They

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Jewish Religion, USA

Not how but WHAT you say that matters

January 17, 2015

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — When I was growing up I knew a rabbi who was a wonderful speaker. He spoke eloquently and melodiously and had a vocabulary that was the envy of Merriam-Webster. People flocked from near and far to hear him. There was only one problem: no one knew what he

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Jewish Religion

Taking umbrage over umbrella theft

January 17, 2015

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — It was a rainy day in Manhattan. Trust me. I know. I got drenched. I did have an umbrella. Until I put it down in a trusted kosher restaurant in New York City, turned to place my order at the counter and in the “New York minute”

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

Last texts of a Hyper Cacher shooting victim

January 16, 2015

By Rabbi Rafi Andrusier LA MESA, California–Many of us are still reeling from the events in Paris last week. Besides for the massacre in Charlie Hebdo, four holy souls were murdered at Hyper Cacher, a kosher supermarket, shopping for Shabbat. I came across something remarkable today. Rabbi Hattab, father of the murdered Yoav Hattab, 21,

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International, Jewish Religion, USA

Families still being reunited 70 years after the Holocaust

Numbers shrinking of WWII vets, Shoah survivors

Auschwitz survivors including San Diegan return

Some spiritual advice for Super Bowl

The wicked symbolism of chametz

Something fishy about hating Shabbos

Surprises, mysteries at Brooklyn cemetery

‘Charlotte’ tells story of perished German Jewish girl

Eger launches UCSD lecture series on Shoah

Book Review: ‘Unlocking the Torah Text’

1,000 Reform Jewish youth to assemble in Atlanta

Not how but WHAT you say that matters

Taking umbrage over umbrella theft

Last texts of a Hyper Cacher shooting victim

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