Blaise Pascal’s foolish bet
What is more important believing in God or acting properly? [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionAAA-Writers and photographers
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Streaming Jewish films and lectures
Want to continue your Jewish education. Laurie Baron, Ph.D., tells us what is coming up online.
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International, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USATake it from the Bible: All lives do matter!
I decided to … bring to your attention basic truths that transcend political correctness that few members of the clergy are willing to mention today, lest they be branded as a “white supremacist” or tarred and feathered as a “racist.” [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USAQuick, I say ‘peanut butter and …’ What do you say?
Anila Ali, the Pakistani-born leader of the American Muslims Multifaith Women’s Empowerment Council (AMMWEC) on Wednesday moderated a panel that brought together officeholders, law enforcement officers, educators, and Rabbi Peter Levi, Orange County regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, to discuss how communities can overcome biases, bridge gaps, and forge unity. [Our Shtetl San Diego County column by Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLeaders and pretenders to leadership
(D)uring the journey through the wilderness, we come upon Korach with his self-aggrandizing, self-focused self-interest, and his lack of a relationship with Hashem. Korach’s style of leadership was doomed to fail. To Korach, material wealth and personal power far outweighed the benefit of being spiritually anchored. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiFor the love of Brahms
I was delighted when my sister, violinist Zina Schiff, and Cameron Grant, solo pianist with the New York City Ballet, recorded the three Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano, released by MSR Classics, because Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) is my all-time favorite composer. The bittersweet nature of his music, the Hungarian Gypsy tunes, the waltz-like rhythms, the syncopations, all spoke to me and touched my heart. [Eileen Wingard]
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsInternet: the good, bad, and appalling
The Internet is being used for good, bad, and terrible as attested to by the messages, news releases, and articles that reach our in-box at San Diego Jewish World. [Our Shtetl San Diego County by Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASay goodbye to RE-silience
It’s time for a fresh, humanizing perspective on RE-silience. It’s time for a real transformation that includes a stark awareness of what truly matters and of how adversity can bring a sense of meaning and wellbeing to your life. [Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D]
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Lifestyles, Michael MantellS.D. City Council considers Commission on Police Practices
Judging by the names San Diegans for Justice lists as supporters of its call for an Independent Commission on Police Practices, tomorrow’s hearing before the San Diego City Council “to end meet-and-confer with the police union and to pass a resolution of intent to move forward with our proposal” ought to be a slam dunk. [Our Shtetl San Diego County column by Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USAThe making of monumental decisions
Leave them up? Or tear them down? As the recent decision by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City attests, to remove a statue of Theodore Roosevelt in the company of a Native American and an African American, we have entered a time of monumental decision making. [Op-Ed by Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USAJFS issues call for food delivery drivers
Michael Hopkins, the chief executive officer of Jewish Family Service of San Diego, has issued a call for volunteers who can deliver meals to seniors who are required to shelter-in-place because of the Coronavirus pandemic. [Our Shtetl San Diego County column by Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAExamining the slogans for the thoughts behind them
So much time, so much passion, and so much heat is wasted arguing about labels, while what is needed is to understand the urgent feelings and dreams behind the labels.
Let’s start with the obvious: “Black Lives Matter.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, USAWho’s reconsidering Virginia Woolf?
I read Orlando by Virginia Woolf originally many years ago, when I first ‘discovered’ Virginia Woolf and the fascinating world of the Bloomsbury Group – the coterie of artists, writers and intellectuals who coalesced around her and her husband, Leonard Woolf (who was Jewish). I eagerly swallowed every word she had ever written, as well as her diaries, collected letters and the many works about her and the other members of the group. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, InternationalBowman v. Engel: Progressive Democrats’ seek takeover
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Jamaal Bowman, a candidate in a New York Democratic primary election for Congress, on Friday disqualified himself in the eyes of many pro-Israel voters, when he revealed disingenuous views about Israel in an opinion piece published by The Riverdale Press, a Pulitzer-Prize winning neighborhood weekly. Bowman, 44, is trying
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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA