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Caroline Rothstein’s poems enchant at LFJCC

March 26, 2019

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Caroline Rothstein’s poems were strong and brash, with unique imagery and vivid descriptiveness. She delivered them with the dramatic fervor of a seasoned actress. They ranged in subject matter from love and personal trauma to world upheavals. The three dozen people who gathered in the Rehearsal Room of […]

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Are Democrats going way of British Labour?

March 25, 2019

By Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel –I’ve just finished watching the Netflix hit, Fauda, on my iPhone. This gritty Israeli series has Hebrew and Arab dialogue with English subtitles. Fauda is a realistic portrayal of the intelligence services’ activities in Israeli and Arab towns to prevent terror attacks or to apprehend or “liquidate” terrorists. Fauda’s pace

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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA

Noshing with Sandi ~ Bane Phonkeo

March 25, 2019

Bane Phonkeo, 110 47th Street, San Diego, California By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — My dad and I like to try out new foods, and especially new ethnic food. We’ve been trying to “eat around the world” and have been looking for restaurants that represent different countries. When it comes to Asian food, it’s easy to

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Sandi Masori, Travel and Food

Refugee families find aid in San Diego

March 24, 2019

Editor’s Note: This story which appeared on Times of San Diego today updates a previous story written by San Diego Jewish World editor Donald H. Harrison on this site earlier this month about the Bus Station project. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — San Diego has one of the best and most helpful volunteer

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Mimi Pollack, USA

The Haggadah seen through mystical eyes

March 24, 2019

Faith and Freedom, a commentary on the Haggadah based on the teachings of Eliezer Berkovits By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Hungarian-born scholar Eliezer Berkovits (1908-1992) was a highly respected Orthodox rabbi. He was educated in Berlin, Germany, where he received his PhD. He authored 19 books in several languages. He held

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

William B. Gibbs Jr.’s fight for equal schools

March 22, 2019

By Jerry Klinger ROCKVILLE, Maryland — One can live in a neighborhood and never know the Jewish story that was right in front of them. I lived in Rockville for more than forty years. I never knew the long road ending public school segregation in America began in a Jewish funded public elementary school, the

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Jerry Klinger

The wisdom of Rav. Kook

March 22, 2019

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Even rationalists like me can read, enjoy, and learn from the writings of mystics. We do not have to accept everything they say as being true, but there are things they say which are true. Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook [1] was born in Latvia in

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

Humoring the headlines: March 20, 2019

March 20, 2019

Tweetin’ Donald (tune: Rockin’ Robin) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO− He tweets from his cell phone all day long, Dissing and venting, calling everyone wrong. All his petty fears flow from his little brain Trying to inflict the maximum pain. Tweetin’ Donald, (tweet-tweet-tweet) Tweeting’ Donald, (tweet-tweedilly-tweet) Go Tweetin’ Donald ’cause you can’t let go of

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Esther never fasted on the Fast of Esther

March 20, 2019

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The holiday of Purim is observed today with a fast day called the “Fast of Esther” that precedes it on 13 Adar. Some Jews observe the fast day from morning until sundown. It does not begin the night before as Yom Kippur and Tisha B’Av, and

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Book Review: ‘kaddish.com’ by Nathan Englander

March 19, 2019

Kaddish.Com by Nathan Englander; Alfred A. Knopf; © 2019; ISBN 9781524-732752; 203 pages; $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As a young man, Larry, bridles at having to sit shiva for his father and absolutely refuses to say kaddish for him for the year after his death. Instead, he arranged for someone in

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar

Just What the Doctor Ordered: Moti’s Purim Story

March 19, 2019

(c) By Leba Lieder and Israel Drazin Page 1 The Purim holiday was around the corner and kids and mice everywhere were preparing their costumes and getting ready to give Purim gifts. Moti, a special mouse, wondered if he could find a Purim gift to give to someone. Page 2 As much as it was

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Noshing with Sandi: Farmer’s Table

March 18, 2019

Farmer’s Table, 8141 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa, California 91942 By Sandi Masori LA MESA, California — In the middle of downtown La Mesa you can find a cute little “farm” restaurant where the menu boasts farm to fork freshness. It has options ranging from egg dishes, to flatbreads, to sandwiches and salads. As with

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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and Food

Queen Esther inspired many midrashim

March 17, 2019

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — In my book, Unusual Bible Interpretations: Ruth, Esther, and Judith, I showed that Judith, in the apocrypha, the book Jewish ancestors decided not to include in the Bible, was more observant of Jewish practices than Ruth and Esther. The rabbis did not see this in this

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

What Elie Wiesel taught his students

March 15, 2019

Witness: Lesson’s from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York © 2018, ISBN 9781328802699, p. 264 plus notes, $26. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016), Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate, perhaps best known for his memoir Night, and arguably the most well-known Holocaust spokesman of

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History