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Post Yom Kippur question: What are limits of forgiveness?

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The Chinese say, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step.” Recently we began our spiritual journey with a celebration of Yom Kippur—a holiday that is wholly devoted to the cultivation of forgiveness and spiritual renewal—both as individuals and as a community. “I […]

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Saddam’s Iraq is a lesson for U.S.-Syrian relations

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — A flurry of diplomatic activity has overtaken the Senate debate on the use of force by the United States against Syria as punishment for/deterrence against the use of chemical weapons. The world awaits the next meeting, the next announcement, the next slip-of-the-tongue, or the first bomb. The interregnum is

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Grossmont College honors rescue workers at 9-11 commemoration

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON – A UCSD emergency room doctor who led a medical team from San Diego to Ground Zero in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and treated rescue workers and volunteers at the site, has offered eleven prescriptions for Americans wanting to commemorate the attacks appropriately. Dr.

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Donald H. Harrison

Americans not war-weary, but are ‘war-wary’

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama and supporters of an American strike on Syria have characterized negative American public opinion as “war-weariness.”  They are trying to overcome it with exhortations about America’s special responsibility, or America’s credibility, or the president’s credibility, or the terribleness of the fighting there.  The public isn’t buying it,

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

The houses corned beef built

M. Hirsh Goldberg, It All Started With a Deli: The Attmans of Lombard Street;  Baltimore: Apprentice House, 2003, ISBN 978-1-934074-28-2, 194 pages, $26.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Here is a book that will make Jewish Marylanders (the term almost seems a contradiction) kvell over the potential of a good corned beef sandwich.   Back

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Donald H. Harrison