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Increasing Wholeness: Jewish Wisdom & Guided Meditations to Strengthen & Calm Body, Heart, Mind, & Soul by Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz, Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, Vermont; ISBN 978-1-58023-823-6 ©2015, $19.99, p. 151, plus notes By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The expression “wholeness is peace” might be considered an aphorism in English, but it […]
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
By Eileen Wingard KYOTO, Japan — Singing Hevenu Shalom Aleichem and clapping as they filed in, 24 kimono-clad Japanese women and 15 Japanese men in white shirts and bow ties entered the Kyoto sanctuary of Beit Shalom. This was the Shachar Choir. The audience, composed of our tour group, under the leadership of Rabbi Marvin
Philo- Semitic Japanese choir entertains Read More »
Eileen Wingard, International, Middle East
-13th in a Series- Exit 4: Hotel Circle, San Diego ~ Riverwalk Golf Course By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The Handlery Hotel, on the northeastern portion of Hotel Circle, adjoins the Riverwalk Golf Course, on land that the Levi and Cushman families have owned for over a century. Currently they and a developer
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Due to the large field of candidates, just ten of the many candidates vying to be the Republican nominee for president will be featured on the initial debates at Fox News and CNN, giving urgency to the campaigning before the August 6 Fox News debate. Below are snippets from
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Donald Trump claimed that “corrupt Mexican officials obviously let” drug cartel kingpin El Chapo” escape through an elaborate mile long tunnel. Now Trump faces a dilemma: he either must build his wall between the Mexican-American border both upward and downward or force Mexico to delegate the administration of prison tunnels
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireChristians United for Israel summit kicks off as Iran deal hangs in the balance By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org Having spent a decade growing into America’s largest pro-Israel organization, with 2.2 million members, the journey of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) arrived at a historic crossroads on Monday morning. While a nuclear deal between Iran and world
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International, Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USABy Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — When did leaders in workplace wellness become hoodwinked and duped into thinking managing something is better than preventing it? I guess they believe buying ambulances, paying for emergency room services, expensive tests, medications, and aftercare trumps a fence. I’ll explain with a story about a little village in
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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Mimi Pollack LA MESA, California — What makes Adolfo Guzman Lopez tick? That is a question I have asked myself for a long time. This is a man who went from an undocumented immigrant to graduating from UCSD, to Taco Shop Poet, to reporter for KPBS and presently KPCC, and finally to a student
A poet among several cultures Read More »
Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Having just completed second grade at the Kavod Elementary School, a public school charter at which Hebrew is added to the regular English-language curriculum, my grandson Sky Masori now has two languages in which to exchange greetings. But, of course, not all the personalities—alive or modeled—whom Sky met
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — My readers know that I, as an expatriate American, am primarily concerned with how any prospective president views the Jewish state. There are many candidates running for the US presidency from both parties, all of whom have opinions about Israel and its relationship with America. In my last
Israel views of five GOP candidates for President Read More »
Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Like many Israelis, Asaf Hanuka and Boaz Lavie served in the IDF, meeting each other on the staff of an Army newspaper. Hanuka had learned to draw by copying comic books sent to him by relatives in Santa Monica, California. Lavie had studied screen writing at a special
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─Latinos now outnumber non-Hispanic whites in California. Based on that statistic, all the television news networks project that any Republican candidate but Donald Trump will win the state’s presidential primary next June. * The talent agency that handled Bill Cosby has dropped him. All of his concerts have been cancelled. On
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –The president — Commander in Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces — does not have to be a military man. Or maybe should not be a military man; a civilian perspective on issues of war is essential. But that being so, the civilian CinC should be wary of inventing military doctrine. President
Obama’s ‘better idea’ insults the military Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
-Twelfth in a Series- Exit 3, Taylor Street, San Diego: Temple Beth Israel, Heritage Park By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Many fine carriages pulled up to the new building at the corner of 2nd and Beech Streets on a hill overlooking downtown San Diego and the Bay. Their occupants came to observe or to participate
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food