By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — It is rare for me to have a “Big Mac Attack.” While I did eat treif in my youth, I swore it off in my college years. I have observed Kashrut since then. Golden Arches no longer entice me. For me they do not exist. I pass by […]
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO- -It isn’t often that we get a chance to see a young, up and coming actor who is still in school and has time to perform, and perform well. How fortunate for us then that Dylan Hoffinger, a freshman at the School of Creative and Performing Arts (as a musical
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — Second-year Fordham University Law student Michael Zimmerman loves to get his hands dirty. Each day Zimmerman and a handful of student volunteers tend to and harvest a small organic roof garden that he began on the top of the parish house at St. Paul the Apostle Church, next to the
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Travel and FoodROME (WJC)–Jewish leaders in Italy have criticized a TV series that portrayed wartime Pope Pius XII as working forcefully to save Jews from the Nazi onslaught as “unacceptable revisionism.” The feature ‘Under the Roman Sky’ was aired Sunday and Monday on the state-owned ‘RAI Television’. Set in 1943, it shows Pius remaining in Rome despite
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Travel and FoodJOHANNESBURG, South Africa (WJC)– A Muslim-owned company in Johannesburg has canceled an order placed by the South African Zionist Federation with comments saying: “Please don’t pay! Don’t contaminate our account with your blood money!” JTA reports that the organization had ordered conference bags from Saleys Travel Goods for a conference in March and had dealt with
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Travel and FoodTEHRAN (WJC)–Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for allegedly having committed adultery, escaped her execution on Wednesday after strong international protests, but still faces the death penalty. Ashtiani, whose case has captivated the world, might be hanged instead of stoned to death, human rights advocates said. The 43-year-old mother, was
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Rabbi Baruch Lederman By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–“Yaakov ish tam yoshev ohalim … Yaakov was a simple man, a dweller of tents.” Yaakov did the basic simple things with consistancy and enormous dedication. He didn’t overcomplicate things, he did what needed to be done – whatever needed to be done. Sometimes the most simple
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The Media Art Center’s San Diego Latino Film Festival plans to offer the best of Jewish Latino films to San Diego County from November 2010 to February 2011. The Jewish Latino Film Series is a four- month celebration of films by Jewish Latino filmmakers or by filmmakers of other heritages about the
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By David Amos SAN DIEGO–I quote to you a couple of paragraphs from the Musical America Worldwide website of October 29, 2010: CAPE TOWN OPERA TO GO TO ISRAEL Johannesburg. Cape Town’s Opera troupe is rejecting a call from retired Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu to cancel a performance in Israel scheduled for November of
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has stated that Tuesday’s Congressional election result indicates a sweeping rejection of President Obama’s domestic, economic and foreign policy. Many polls indicate Americans’ dissatisfaction with President Obama’s handling of the Arab/Israeli situation. This election further validates that part of the message sentWednesday to President Obama to
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Travel and Food, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Chronos Theatre Group performs on Nov. 12-14, 19-20 Tales of Chelm, a series of comic and heart-warming scenes of life in a Jewish village in Poland a century ago. Tales of Chelm is conceived and directed by Eric George Tauber, adapted in part from stories by Sholem Aleichem and also including accounts
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By Lynne Thrope SAN DIEGO–Meet Jeff Rossman. Chef Jeff to those of us lucky enough to personalize him. But anyone can. He is everywhere in San Diego nowadays. I few weeks ago I caught his cooking demonstration at the Gourmet Experience at the fairgrounds in Del Mar. Immediately after, I dashed over to the
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–In an audience at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday, assured top leaders of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that he would continue to raise his voice against anti-Semitism and attempts to isolate the state of Israel. The Pope was greeted by a leadership delegation in Rome led by Robert G.
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– The Gotthelf Art Gallery at the Lawrence Family JCC will present a solo exhibition, “John David Ratajkowski – From Page to Stage: Portraits of Jewish Literary Figures in Film,” running December 8, 2010 – February 23, 2011. Art will be for sale, with all proceeds benefiting the artist and the Gotthelf Art Gallery.
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