By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I find myself wondering why San Diego Gas & Electric decided to name its giant fire-fighting helicopter “Goliath.” Sure, it’s big, and Goliath of biblical infamy was big, but there the similarity ends. Goliath, a Philistine who stood between 12 and 13 feet tall, was a bully. He
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — This Shabbat is Rosh Chodesh Elul, the first day of the month of Elul. During Elul we recite Psalm 27, the Psalm of Repentance, during morning and evening services. On weekdays we also sound the Shofar during minyan services. Psalm 27 and the call of the Shofar remind us
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Jewish Religion
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A highlight of my recent trip to China was in Xian, once the largest city in the ancient world and capital of China throughout 11 dynasties. After arriving by bullet train from Beijing, we had dinner at a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant and spent the evening listening to three speakers
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Eileen Wingard, International, Jewish ReligionBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — When Jewish Family Service announced the College Avenue Center would move Sept. 1 from Beth Jacob Congregation to Temple Emanu-El–with hot kosher lunches to be prepared at the JFS campus on Balboa Avenue–Leopoldo Kahn raised the issue of whether Orthodox lunch patrons would be left out. He explained
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
–17th in a series– Exit 6, Texas Street, San Diego ~ District Office of U.S. Rep. Susan Davis By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The distance between this city and Washington D.C. is approximately 2,690 miles, or a five-hour jet plane ride. Impractical to go back and forth every day between work in Washington and constituents
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Jews are the ultimate disruptors, and I mean that in a good way. Lately, we hear a lot about disruptive technologies: advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy. Well, it occurs to me that this is what the Jews have been doing since antiquity. We are
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Jewish History, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — It would be so much easier to cope with things if God simply intervened and cleaned up all the messes. But where would that really leave us? The miracles described in the Bible are wonderful cartoons and they salve anxiety for a little while. They are imaginative dramas
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Jewish Religion
We are two—a couple, a double—but also a whole, a unit, one. We are sometimes opposites and sometimes parallels. Parallels that make it so easy, opposites that make it so exciting. We are opposites, but ones that complete each other. We are parallels, so close they are almost a line. We are from places far
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International, Jewish History, San Diego County
Editor’s Note: Seth Moreida recently interviewed Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights, who explains in the first part of this series his criticism of Israel’s conduct of last year’s Gaza War. In the second part of this series, Moreida will provide a contrary perspective. Moreida is majoring in political science and international relations and
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The College Avenue Center will move Sept. 1 after 17 years at Beth Jacob Congregation to Temple Emanu-El, approximately a mile and a half north on College Avenue, Jewish Family Service has announced. Although the move will be from the social hall of an Orthodox congregation to a
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — The Dalai Lama and many of his people fled the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959. Now after more than 50 years in exile, he has been considering the problem of how to keep both the culture and religious heritage of his people alive. It occurred to him that there
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Jewish ReligionBy Michael R. Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — In the words of one sexually frustrated husband, “My wife doesn’t. Understand me?” For so many years, the jokes about Judaism and sex – together with Jewish illiteracy — have so misled generations, that too many of today’s young Jewish couples simply do not understand the true joy
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — “Take off your shoes,” God admonished Moses at the site of the Burning Bush. “You are standing on holy ground.” What was God actually saying? Moses was not at the Vatican. He was not at the Mosque of Omar. He was not even in Jerusalem. He was in
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Jewish Religion
–16th in a series– Exit 6, Qualcomm Way, San Diego ~ Qualcomm Stadium, By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In 1997, Qualcomm, a telecommunications industry giant co-founded by Jewish electrical engineers Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and others, paid the City of San Diego $18 million for San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium to be renamed for
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