Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America by Steven Waldman, published 2009. By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — While framing the United States Constitution, the Founding Fathers learned a startling fact about themselves and the States they represented: they were all Christians yet they were unable to define what that
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By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO – What do you get when you combine delicious food, sustainable business, and charitable giving, spiced up with a little competition? Top Green Chef 2014! On September 30, the Port of San Diego Green Business Network hosted its annual cook-off at the SDG&E® Energy Innovation Center. Now in its third
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By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO – Violence? Check. Despair? Check. A typewriter and toasters? Check and check. The trope of brothers feuding goes as far back as Cain and Abel in the Book of Genesis. In Cygnet Theatre’s new production of playwright Sam Shepard’s True West, the story gains a new twist as the brothers,
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture begins its season of free lectures in Carlsbad and in Coronado with visiting Israeli scholar, Dr. Sariel Birnbaum who will speak on “The Image of the Jew in Arab Cinema”. His talk will takes place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on
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Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — “And how does that make you feel?” I asked David Ellenstein as we chatted in the rehearsal space of North Coast Repertory Theater. I, in the chair, notepad in hand, and David, director of “Freud’s Last Session” on the chaise. And so began our fifty-minute-hour interview about this imaginary
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Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya; 307 pages. Riverhead Books. $27.95 By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO — Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s sentences frolic. They gambol. They have so much fun in Panic in a Suitcase, a marvel of a first novel about a Jewish immigrant family from Odessa, that you can’t wait to join the party. Those
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Each year the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame honors five women who have been particularly outstanding in their field. At least eleven of the past 81 selectees have come from the Jewish community, among them: Dee Aker, Barbara Bry, Bonnie Dumanis, Gracia Molina de Pick, Judy Forman, Gloria Harris,
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Travel and FoodPalestinian Authority ordered to compensate victims of 2001 terrorist attack (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Jerusalem District Court has ordered the Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay restitution to the families of three people killed in a terrorist shooting attack in 2001. The decision concludes a 2009 lawsuit the victims’ families brought against the PA and
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Travel and FoodReport: Iran, not Israel, killed nuclear scientist in 2007 (JNS.org) A new report by The Media Line news agency indicates that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, not Israel, was behind the mysterious deaths of Iranian nuclear scientists in 2007. Since the incident, conspiracy theories have claimed that the Jewish state assassinated the scientists. Mahboobeh Hosseinpour—the sister of
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Women of Reform Judaism of Temple Emanu-El is hosting its annual Artisan Festival on Sunday, Nov. 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 pm. at the synagogue located at 6299 Capri Drive. There will be 52 artisans showcasing the finest in pottery, glassware, fused and blown glass, photography, jewelry, mosaics, painted silks, mosaics,
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By David Amos SAN DIEGO — On September 20, my wife Lee and I were in Seattle and attended the memorial service for the recently departed Peter Eros, age 82. You may remember him. He was the resident conductor of the San Diego Symphony in the 1970’s and the early 80’s. I was most surprised
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Travel and FoodHamas official details possible prisoner swap with Israel (JNS.org) Hamas and Israel may be on the verge of signing a deal that would involve the release of top Hamas officials and operatives in exchange for the remains of fallen Israeli soldiers. According to a post on Hamas official Mushir al-Masri’s Facebook page, the terrorist organization
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release) – The American Jewish Committee (AJC_ hailed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address on Monday, Sept. 29, to the UN General Assembly. “Prime Minister Netanyahu powerfully spoke truth to power to the other 192 members of the United Nations,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris. Netanyahu warned that Iran is proceeding on
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Travel and FoodUNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (WJC) — In his speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, Abbas said Israeli “war crimes” in Gaza should be punished. He claimed that the scale of damage in Gaza was unprecedented and surpassed that of earlier wars. “This last war against Gaza was a series of absolute
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