By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Sexual abuse probably occurs in most societies as well as in American subcultures. How it is handled within any particular cultural grouping may differ, but in the end there is always a victim and a victimizer. The general perception among many in and outside of the Church is that
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Editor’s Note: San Diegans are receiving notes from their family members and friends who are in Israel at this time of grave crisis. As we receive permission from the authors to reprint these letters, we will bring to you–from many perspectives–a running commentary. From Rabbi Bill Berk (In response to a letter from a friend
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By Isaac and Marcy Blumberg SAN DIEGO — When we had our son three years ago, our Jewish friends told us we had to sign up for PJ Library and how wonderful the books were. From the first month of receiving the books in the mail, we realized they were right. We love to read
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –.Most of us parents imagine having to console our children—even when they are adults—at times of stress and angst for them. We listen, our hearts in a bit of atrophy, when they anguish with us about money, their jobs, and, sometimes, their marriages. But it’s not often that we
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — A new documentary by film director Alison Klayman, titled Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is screening now in Taipei. While the film has not been shown in mainland China yet, the controversial artist and photographer, Ai Weiwei, has seen it and gave it a big thumbs up, Klayman said.
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Travel and FoodBy Gil Shefler/JNS.org SECAUCUS, NJ—Nothing says Jewish food like a bowl of matzoh ball soup or a slab of pastrami on rye. But will Mediterranean gefilte fish or facon also be on that list one day? Facon, you ask? As the name implies, it’s fake bacon, and it was just one of the many novelties
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Travel and FoodEditor’s Note: Janis Coulter was among the victims who died with San Diego’s Marla Bennett in a terrorist explosion that rocked the Hebrew University cafeteria. New York City has memorialized her. By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org The average pedestrian standing at the corner of Madison Avenue and 69th Street in New York City may not appreciate the
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Travel and FoodBy Maxine Dovere/JNS.org NEW YORK—Noam Sheriff, conductor of the Haifa Symphony Orchestra and 2011 winner of the Israel Prize (largely regarded as the state’s highest honor) in music, believes decades of experience gives him a unique perspective on major prizes. “If I were 20 or 30, the excitement would be overwhelming,” the 77-year-old Sheriff,
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Travel and FoodEditor’s Note: Sha’ar Hanegev, the sister region of San Diego’s Jewish Federation, lies along Israel’s border with Gaza and has been suffering the effects of the constant rocket attacks from across the border. By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — My correspondents on the East Coast of the United States may view this note as a parallel to waiting
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Travel and FoodBy Daniel Brodsky SAN DIEGO — For many years I have been awed by the writings and speeches of Caroline Glick, the formidable Jerusalem Post columnist. If you could read only one Israeli reporter’s news, it would have to be Glick. In her biweekly commentaries she “spot-on” analyzes events as they unfold both globally and
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By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D LA JOLLA, California — We had a big house on top of a hill with a view over the distant ocean and winter sunsets. It was an old house and a week didn’t go by that something had to be fixed. Most times my husband could do it but other
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will present its first series of concerts of the 2012-13 season on Sunday, November 18 at 3:00 pm, and Tuesday the 20th at 7:30 pm. Both concerts will be at the synagogue’s Cohen Social Hall. These programs will feature Armando Pesqueira as guest conductor, and pianist Kanae
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By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — Before I entered the classroom that evening, I already knew that Zalman would come prepared with some dazzling piece of scholarship. The regular reader of this column will remember that last week, the fourth session of the class I was leading using the book of Genesis to study
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Travel and FoodNorway is West’s most anti-Semitic and anti-Israel country, historian says (JNS.org) A major Norwegian historian and diplomat accused her own country of being “the most anti-Semitic country in the West” and attacked it for “biased support for only the Palestinian views” at a Jerusalem event on Tuesday. “The degree of anti-Israelism in Norway today
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