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Soleveitchik via Lustiger illuminates the Torah

January 12, 2014

Chumash Mesoras Harav – Chumash with Commentary Based on the Teachings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik – Sefer Bereishis by Dr. Arnold Lustiger: OU Press and Ohr Publishing; First edition (2013) ISBN-10: 0989124606. Price: $38.24 Rating: 5* By Rabbi Michael Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — As one of the most important Orthodox thinkers of his time,

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Tu B’Shevat comes Thursday, January 16, this year

January 10, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release)–Tu B’Shevat, the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar—celebrated this year on Thursday, January 16, 2014—is the day that marks the beginning of a “new year” for trees. This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new

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Jewish Religion

Another aspect of ‘The Song of the Sea’

January 10, 2014

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — This Shabbat lucky Torah readers will chant Shirat Hayam, the Song of the Sea. Shirat Hayam is the poem the Israelites sang after they safely crossed the Sea of Reeds. Looking back, they saw the waters closing upon the pursuing Egyptians and knew that they were finally safe.

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Jewish Religion

Lauder: Bavarian bill on looted art ‘insufficient’

January 8, 2014

MUNICH (WJC) — The government of Bavaria, one of the 16 German states, announced on Tuesday that it would introduce a bill in the upper house of the German legislature aimed at facilitating the restitution of Nazi-looted art. If adopted, the new legislation would eliminate a 30-year statute of limitations in the German Civil Code

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Putting more ‘mitzvah’ into that bar mitzvah

January 7, 2014

By Judy Lash Balint/JNS.org JERUSALEM—It’s 9:30 a.m. on a sunny Monday morning in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City. Two large groups of revelers almost collide in the alley leading to the main square. Both groups are accompanied by a clarinetist and a drummer belting out traditional “simcha” tunes, and in the middle

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

ADL scolds Israel’s Chief Rabbinate over Weiss case

January 6, 2014

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday voiced “concern and disappointment” with the way the Chief Rabbinate of Israel is questioning the status of prominent and long-established Orthodox rabbis and their ability to perform marriages according to Jewish law. The League specifically cited the case of Rabbi Avi Weiss, a

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Jewish Religion

Controversy erupts over Anelka’s ‘quenelle’ salute

January 6, 2014

LONDON (WJC) — French soccer player Nicolas Anelka has come under fire for celebrating a goal last week by flashing the so-called ‘quenelle’ salute popularized by the anti-Semitic comedian Dieudonné Mbala-Mbala. Anelka made the controversial gesture after scoring the first of two goals for his West Bromwich Albion team against West Ham United in

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Jewish Religion

Op-Ed: ‘Birthright to Jewish Education’ needed

January 4, 2014

By Ezra Friedlander NEW YORK — Jewish philanthropists: I offer a New Year’s Resolution that can potentially change the face of American Jewry for decades. Create a Birthright to a Jewish education. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on Birthright Israel, the program that sends Jewish young adults on a ten day educational

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Jewish Religion

Thank HaShem, the other side kept delaying

January 2, 2014

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–Another delay?! Another costly delay. It was getting ridiculous already. Michael Malady entered into a contract to buy a condo in New Jersey as an investment. He wanted to fix it up, spruce it up, and resell it. Time and opportunity were a wasting. He was supposed to close on

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Jewish Religion

Scholar analyzes process by which Bible was canonized

January 2, 2014

The Formation of the Jewish Cannon by Timothy H. Lim, Yale University Press, New Haven; ISBN 978-0-300-16434-3 ©2013, $45.00, p. 287, including appendices and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — How many books are there in the Bible? If you came up with a number, you might be wrong. The correct answer to

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, July 12, 1957, Part 3

January 1, 2014

San Diego Prepares for 8th National Shakespeare Festival at Old Globe Southwestern Jewish Press, July 12, 1957, Page 5 The San Diego 8th Annual National Shakespeare Festival is scheduled for the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park July 19 through September 1. Plays to be presented each night at 8 p.m. are “King Lear” and

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

Abraham Joshua Heschel’s insights elucidated for a new generation

December 31, 2013

Abraham Joshua Heschel: The Call of Transcendence, by Shai Held. Indiana University Press, 2013. 332 pages. $30. By Rabbi Jack Riemer/JNS.org Whenever a new book on the life and thought of Abraham Joshua Heschel appears, I always have two reactions. One is to marvel at the fact that Heschel is the only one of the

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Jewish Religion

Water animals and the Jews

December 28, 2013

Female (top) and male ducks spotted at Poway Lake on Saturday, Dec. 28 By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California — On the periphery of a bunch of old coots, I saw a couple keeping more or less to themselves, clearly outsiders. On that Shabbat afternoon, Dec. 28, he wore what looked like a

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, The World We Share, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

Davening at Victoria’s Secret

December 27, 2013

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California–Hassidic literature teaches that one of the reasons given for Hassidim swaying in prayer is based upon the analogy of the movement that occurs in the act of love making. Prayer is like “making love to the Shekhinah.” The Baal Shem Tov is purported to have taught: Prayer

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Soleveitchik via Lustiger illuminates the Torah

Tu B’Shevat comes Thursday, January 16, this year

Another aspect of ‘The Song of the Sea’

Lauder: Bavarian bill on looted art ‘insufficient’

Putting more ‘mitzvah’ into that bar mitzvah

ADL scolds Israel’s Chief Rabbinate over Weiss case

Controversy erupts over Anelka’s ‘quenelle’ salute

Op-Ed: ‘Birthright to Jewish Education’ needed

Thank HaShem, the other side kept delaying

Scholar analyzes process by which Bible was canonized

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, July 12, 1957, Part 3

Abraham Joshua Heschel’s insights elucidated for a new generation

Water animals and the Jews

Davening at Victoria’s Secret

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