Jewish woman markets ‘cootie booties’ SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –While walking barefoot through airport security a couple years ago, local Jewish Rancho Santa Fe resident, Adria Cammeyer, looked down at the dirty floor and filthy feet of the person in front of her and had an epiphany, Cootie Booties. Cootie Booties are a cute and […]
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Travel and FoodPalestinians riot on Temple Mount before Rosh Hashanah (JNS.org) Dozens of masked Palestinian youths shot fireworks at police officers at the Mughrabi Gate as the Temple Mount was opened for visitors on Wednesday morning before Rosh Hashanah,Israel Hayom reported. The Israel Police Special Patrol Unit and Border Police rounded up the rioters in an effort
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release) – Hadassah Magazine has announced that Helene Wecker, author of the acclaimed novel The Golem and the Jinni, is the winner of the 2014 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Jewish fiction. For the past 30 years, Hadassah Magazine has awarded the Ribalow prize annually to an author who has created an outstanding
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Travel and FoodHamas terrorists who kidnapped and murdered Israeli teens killed in Hebron (JNS.org) Hamas terrorists Marwan Qawasmeh and Amer Abu Aisheh—who kidnapped and murdered Israeli teens Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Frenkel in June—were killed Tuesday in a joint Israel Defense Forces, Israeli Police, and Shin Bet security agency operation in Hebron. The bodies of
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By Emily Nye SAN DIEGO — To tell the story of Honorable Menschen, San Diego’s newest amateur klezmer band, I must take you through my klezmer awakening. When I first heard klezmer music as a young woman, my body responded before my brain: my toes tapped, my torso vibrated, and I wanted to dance. This
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Travel and FoodIsrael approves $360 million aid package for Gaza-border communities (JNS.org) The Israeli government on Sunday approved a multi-year strategic recovery plan devised for southern Israel in the wake of Operation Protective Edge. The plan includes the immediate appropriation of $360 million to communities adjacent to the Israel-Gaza border. “This is the biggest investment Israel has
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Travel and FoodBy Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Lawrence Kushner doesn’t bill himself as a dancer, and I didn’t go to see him at San Diego’s Yom Limmud in my role as a dance critic. But the rabbi’s got moves! Rabbi Kushner was giving a talk titled “Jewish Spirituality: It’s All God.” I was interested because
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — What do August Osage County, Death at a Funeral, Nora’s Will, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Wish I Was Here have in common? They all focus on squabbling dysfunctional families brought together by the death or dying of a mother or father. Grieving or the inability to grieve compels the
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By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO–Rabbi Hillel? Really? According to a number of sources that you figure had decent fact-checkers—like O Magazine and Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird—Rabbi Hillel wrote the following bit of Zen: “I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.” I was so charmed by this saying when I
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– San Diego REPertory Theatre (San Diego REP) has announced the extension of the critically-acclaimed production of Mona Golabek in The Pianist of Willesden Lane” adapted and directed by Hershey Felder, based on the book “The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen. An additional 12 performances have been added to
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Travel and FoodScottish independence rejected, Jewish fears averted (JNS.org) Scottish citizens rejected independence from the United Kingdom in a 55-45 percent referendum vote, a result that puts to rest the concerns of some Jews that independence would have been accompanied by a rise in anti-Israel sentiment. “The Jewish community [leans] more towards the no vote than the
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