By Michael Laitman, Ph.D PETACH TIKVAH, Israel — All over the world, people are moving out from the coronavirus-struck city centers into the suburbs and beyond, to the country or even to different countries. Within a few months from the outbreak of the pandemic, people have gotten used to working from home, making the necessity to […]
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Compiled by Laurie Baron, Ph.D All times Pacific Daylight Time Sunday, October 11 11am Mikhal Dekel, “Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey,” Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum. Monday, October 12 10 am Elai Rettig, “Israel’s ‘Special Relationship’ with the US,” Israel Center, Washington University. 10 am Eliezer Diamond, “Generosity, Gratitude, and Faith: Rav Eliyahu Dessler’s
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By Franklin Gaylis MD, FACS SAN DIEGO — The South African Jewish American Community (SAJAC) is sponsoring a virtual presentation from 4-6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 15, addressing genetic disorders related to our Ashkenazi Jewish heritage. The goal of this presentation is to increase an awareness of diseases caused by genetic abnormalities amongst Ashkenazi Jews,
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By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — The short-term and long-term psychological effects of bullying – on either side of the bullying fence, as a victim or as an aggressor – are well documented. Sadly, Jewish day schools, synagogues, youth groups and camps are not necessarily free of children and teens intentionally and
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Shemini Atseret, 8th day of Sukkot, Deuteronomy 14:22-23:44 By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California — This essay covers: ancient moneychangers; debt and slavery relief; and dealing with the needy. These readings are part of parasha RE’EH, which was read on the Shabbat of August 15th.. I have, to the extent possible, avoided redundancy to
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By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –Here we are with a lot of time on our hands. This is probably a new experience for a lot of people; it certainly is for me. So in what way can we use this time and think about things we don’t normally cogitate on? HumanGood, the
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By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — I owned a Kodak Brownie, 16 mm Minox, Petri, Minolta, film in a box, Cannon and a Polaroid. Karen had an Olympus and a Fuji. Between us we have owned three Cannons. Fabled German Leica, Hasselblad and Rolleiflex were beyond financial reach and skill set. I’ve known several
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By Ira Spector SAN DIEGO — In 1972, at age thirty-nine, I was filled with feelings of youth and immortality. This was changed forever by a 23-year-old nymph who was in a discussion group I was involved in. She defined me, for the first time within earshot, as an “older man,” thus creating an unclimbable
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Lifestyles, USABy Michael Laitman, Ph.D PETACH TIKVAH, Israel — For months, I have been watching with growing trepidation the cavalier nonchalance of Israelis toward Covid-19. Now, I am afraid, it’s too late to undo the damage. In the past week, the average death toll was 31 people, and the rate is quickly rising since many hospitals
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Lifestyles, Middle EastBy Ira Spector SAN DIEGO — Why is it, sometimes, that the same item is called one thing in one place and another name somewhere else? What we Yanks call a cigarette, or cig, the Brits call smokes, a fag, or faggot. What we call underpants, they call knickers. Every vacuum cleaner to them is
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By Sam Glaser LOS ANGELES — During the Sukkot holiday, the Pico-Robertson neighborhood of Los Angeles erupts in joyful celebration. Our forty-plus kosher restaurants all have sukkot attached. There’s a sukkah on top of Ralph’s supermarket. One could conceivably sukkah hop to a different hut every five minutes and not exhaust the inventory. Google “Sukkah’s
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Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Middle East, Sam Glaser, USA
Other items in this column include: *Ethnic Studies *Political Bytes *San Diego Jewish World news *In memoriam By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, now observing a nine-day holiday for Sukkot, will delay the resumption of its in-person classes until Wednesday, Oct. 14, two days after the holiday period’s
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By Beth Sirull SAN DIEGO — It has been more than six months since the original “shelter in place” order. Back in March, many of us thought we would be working at home for a few weeks or months and then things would return to “normal.” But here we are still largely at home, with
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Lifestyles, San Diego CountyLess than a month after the normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain has also joined the peace train. I am all for it; peace and normalization are always better than war and animosity. But to be honest, I don’t see that the rest of the world is so excited about it, and I think this shows how isolated we are in the world. Despite the fact that Israel has established connections with countries that were previously enemies, no one is cheering, no one is sounding the festive trumpets. For all our efforts to be accepted, Israel, and Jews (though they may not recognize it), are excluded from the family of nations. [Michael Laitman, Ph.D]
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