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Jewish institutions must take stands against sex trafficking

April 24, 2013

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Recently I came across an interesting but unusual halachic question: Can a Jewish pimp receive an Aliya on Shabbat? The original questioned pertained to a pimp who was the only Levite in his community. The question came to the attention of the famous Iraqi Sephardic Rabbi […]

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An interview with Peter Max

April 24, 2013

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Artist Peter Max is a busy, peripatetic man. He squeezed my telephone interview with him into a New York City cab, which he directed, on Wednesday, April 24, to “turn left on 83rd Street” en route to an appointment. He arrived at his destination within nine minutes, so

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Donald H. Harrison

Did Secretary Hagel have an Israel epiphany?

April 24, 2013

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As a U.S. senator, Chuck Hagel went to great lengths to assure people he was not the “Senator from Israel,” and he seemed surprised when people objected to his remark, “The political reality is … that the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here.” It was never

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Rabbi Kahn illuminates mysteries of Leviticus

April 24, 2013

Echoes of Eden: Sefer Vayikra by Rabbi Ari Kahn; Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2013; ISBN-10: 9652295922, 256 pages; $20.95 By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Rabbi Ari Kahn is one of the most imaginative scholars I have encountered in the Orthodox world. His new commentary on the Book of Leviticus is yet

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Boston terrorism not ‘homegrown’

April 23, 2013

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — The discovery that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lived in the United States for a decade produced a spate of theorizing over “homegrown” terrorism and terrorists. Baseball, Google and iPhones are homegrown. There is nothing “homegrown” about Islamic terrorism, which is taught, bought and paid for by international sponsors, primarily

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Enough with the ‘window of opportunity’ rhetoric

April 22, 2013

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Almost lost in the terrible events in Boston is the Obama administration’s dire warning last week that the window for diplomatic success in the Middle East is closing — not on Iran’s quest for nuclear capability; not on the Syrian war; not on sectarian violence in Iraq; not on

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

New Orthodox siddur is intellectually attractive

April 22, 2013

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel SAN DIEGO — The Psalms’ language is unabashedly picturesque; it full of nature imagery—as is the Siddur itself. One way to think of the metaphor is to see it as a moving image; it is not static. This thought is the simple premise behind the Nehahel Siddur: Nature serves to

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Putting down hecklers is Hofstetter specialty

April 22, 2013

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — It is the generally accepted modus operandi of stand up comedians to react to hecklers with quick jabs and caustic barbs. Well, Steve Hofstetter was at the top of his game at Riley’s Bar and Grill in the Point Loma neighborhood last Saturday, April 20. On a small stage,

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Eva Trieger

The Wandering Review: Jackie Robinson and the Jews

April 22, 2013

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO –Brian Helgeland’s 42 is an old fashioned Hollywood biopic. Spanning Jackie Robinson’s recruitment by the Brooklyn Dodgers and first year in the National League, the film presents idealized depictions of both Robinson played by Chadwick Boseman and Branch Rickey played by Harrison Ford. Ford steals the movie like Robinson stole

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Lawrence Baron

The post-911 world through interreligious eyes

April 22, 2013

Trialogue and Terror: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam after 9/11 by Alan L. Berger, ed., Cascade Books, Eugene, OR; ISBN 978-1-60899-546-2 ©2012, $30.00, p. 255, plus index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Domestic stories primarily covered the front page of the New York Times on September 10, 2001. Succeeding days and months would be

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

San Diego celebrates Israel’s 65th birthday

April 21, 2013

Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–There were so many things to do, exhibits to see, and people to schmooze with that unless you walked hand-in-hand with a companion during the entire time of the Israel Independence Festival, never letting go for even a minute, no person’s overall experiences there on Sunday,

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Donald H. Harrison

Director probes the lighter side of death

April 20, 2013

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — I had to ask director Martin Katz whether he had been thinking about death a lot lately. His upcoming play at Grossmont College, An Ordinary Day, is a comedy dealing with a lady who plans to commit suicide, only she is constantly being interrupted. It wasn’t so long

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Donald H. Harrison

Ah, the respite of the Dead Sea

April 20, 2013

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson EIN BOQEQ, Israel — Just one and a half hours’ drive away from my home just outside Jerusalem lies the Dead Sea, the lowest place on earth, whose water is so salty that the human body can float quite easily on its surface. It rains very rarely and the temperature there never

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Boston terrorism part of a larger pattern

April 19, 2013

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Tarnaev brothers were cruelly successful, but they are far from the only terrorists over the past decade with big ideas about carnage in America. There is a temptation with each act of terror to see it as isolated, connected to the mental state of the actor, but not

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Jewish institutions must take stands against sex trafficking

An interview with Peter Max

Did Secretary Hagel have an Israel epiphany?

Rabbi Kahn illuminates mysteries of Leviticus

Boston terrorism not ‘homegrown’

Enough with the ‘window of opportunity’ rhetoric

New Orthodox siddur is intellectually attractive

Putting down hecklers is Hofstetter specialty

The Wandering Review: Jackie Robinson and the Jews

The post-911 world through interreligious eyes

San Diego celebrates Israel’s 65th birthday

Director probes the lighter side of death

Ah, the respite of the Dead Sea

Boston terrorism part of a larger pattern

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