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Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law by Chaim N. Saiman, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, © 2018, ISBN 978-0-691-15211-0, p. 248 plus appendices and index, $29.95. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Halakhah is derived from the Hebrew root letters meaning to walk or to go when used as a verb, and path or way as […]
Halakhah through the ages examined Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The recent tragic events in Pittsburgh took my thoughts to Professor Robert Wistrich’s seminal study of anti-Semitism. Coining the phrase ‘the longest hatred’ to denote the phenomenon, and making it the title of his book, Wistrich describes the longstanding and widespread occurrence of anti-Semitism. In a subsequent tome, A
Words alone do not trigger anti- Semitic outrages Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The distance between San Diego, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is 2,450 miles, but the psychological distance between the two American cities was zero as representatives of many faiths filled Congregation Beth Israel’s sanctuary and synagogue to overflowing Monday evening, Oct. 29, in a vigil to express solidarity with the
Vigil for Pittsburgh 11 overflows in San Diego Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Anti-Semitism is one of the world’s most enduring social diseases that we as Jews have known throughout our history. With the murder of eleven Jews at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue, the Jewish community awoke from its slumber only to realize that anti-Semitism is still alive
Jews threatened by extreme right AND extreme left Read More »
Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Laurie Baron Branches cut from the Tree of Life. Fall like leaves in autumn. Roots remain but sap is bleeding. The Sabbath bride is mourning The lumberjack’s hateful harvest. * Baron is professor emeritus of history at San Diego State University. He may be contacted via lawrence.baron@sdjewishworld.com.
Somber Sabbath (A poem of mourning) Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Lawrence Baron, USA
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — As news of the deadly assault on the Tree of Life/ Or L’Shalom Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh were broadcast and cablecast around the country, various Jewish organizations issued statements in response. At last report, there were at least 11 people killed and six others wounded, including four
Jewish world reacts to Pittsburgh synagogue murders Read More »
Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
By Donald H. Harrison SAN CLEMENTE, California –Sometimes artists derive joy from hearing what you think their paintings are about versus what message they actually intended to impart. Paul Bond is one of those artists. I told him that while looking at online images of his art, I was struck by one titled “Sacred Contract
The Magic Realism of Paul Bond Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Shor M. Masori
Editor’s Note: This is the 34th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 By Donald H.
Of Hawaiian judges, royalty, Jews, and Torah Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One reason that Rabbi Leor Sinai suggests that parents should consider sending their child for a semester to the Alexander Muss High School in Hod HaSharon, Israel, is that overseas studies will distinguish that student from members of his or her peer group who also are applying for
High school in Israel seeks college- bound students Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USADonald Trump on the Stump By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−“Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. Why else would they call it caravan? They disguised its Middle Eastern origins by ditching
Humoring the headlines: October 24, 2018 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison SANTEE, California – Located at 10144 Mission Gorge Road in Santee, within walking distance of the trolley stop, and between State Routes 67 and 125, what will become the County of San Diego’s new vital records center and wedding place is expected to open in November 2019 on land that the
Ground broken for new S.D. County document center Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The contemporary art exhibit, “Beyond the Age of Reason,” curated by Larry and Debby Kline, is nearing the end of its run at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. If you want to be intrigued, or even possibly enraged, by various artists’ visions of religion and
Art to inspire, raise questions, and perhaps anger Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar-Third and last of a series By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California – Of the twelve student poets who participated in the Oct. 16 Jewish Voices-Jewish Poets readings in the Astor Library of the Lawrence Family JCC, only two were males. It was a coincidence, perhaps, that both young men wrote about war. REMAIN by
When young men’s thoughts turn to war Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Temple Beth Shalom of Chula Vista celebrated its 60th anniversary Sunday with a banquet, historical reminiscences, and Yiddish folk music at Elijah’s Banquet Hall at 7061 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard. Founded in 1958 by businessman Samuel Vener who purchased the former St. John’s Episcopal Church buildings at the corner
Temple Beth Shalom celebrates its 60th Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion