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Muslim speaker replaced at Marathon service

By Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org The imam of a mosque that is managed by the Muslim Brotherhood-founded Muslim American Society (MAS) was initially invited to speak at Thursday’s interfaith service in Boston to honor the Boston Marathon attack’s victims, but that invitation was later rescinded by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s office, JNS.org has learned. The Islamic Society […]

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Jacob Kamaras, USA

Were those who attacked ethicist themselves ethical?

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –How the mighty have fallen! This past week, much has been said about one of Modern Orthodoxy’s greatest scholars of our time—Rabbi Michael Broyde, who allegedly has been using a fake ID to help promote his writings and Halachic scholarship. The use of aliases is common in much

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Black Jewish author provides online dating tips

  Spin Your Web by Damona Hoffman, WaterfrontDigitalPress.com, 2013, 978-1-939116-16-1, 89 pgs., $9.95 By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Being a confirmed bachelorette, I was all set to debunk Damona Hoffman’s book on Internet dating.  However just a few pages into it, I realized I have to give credit where credit is due.  This author/researcher

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Eva Trieger, Travel and Food

The Holocaust in terms a child can understand

Odette’s Secrets by Maryann Macdonald, Bloomsbury Children’s Books, (c) 2013, 978-1-5990-750-5; 225 pages,  $16.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Although classified as “fiction,” Odette’s Secrets cannot be so easily pigeonholed.  Author Maryann Macdonald found a copy of the real memoirs of the late Odette Meyers, who as a child in Nazi-occupied France had posed

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Donald H. Harrison

‘Oleanna,’ an allegory for self-conflicted Jews?

By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California — From the instant the dialogue began, I was riveted by the hallmark Mamet staccato, terse exchanges.  The principals in this case were a young college professor (Francis Gercke) attempting to understand a distraught, frustrated coed (Rachael Van Wormer).  The Intrepid Shakespeare Company, directed by Christy Yael and Sean Cox,

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Eva Trieger

A potpourri of Jewish poetry

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The fifth season of “Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices” concluded  last month at the Astor Judaica Library in the Lawrence Family JCC. During its first five seasons, the series featured local poets and song writers expressing themselves not only in English, but also in Yiddish, Hebrew, Ladino, Russian, Spanish and

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Eileen Wingard

‘Triumph and Tragedy’ relates Jewish history of Poland

Triumph and Tragedy: Journeying Through 1000 Years of Jewish Life in Poland, compiled by Joel Padowitz, J Roots (c) 2013, ISBN 978-1-937887-06-3, 264 pages including endnotes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Essentially this is a Jewish guide book to Poland.  The “triumph” portion focuses on the great rabbis and writers who preceded the

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Donald H. Harrison

Angel teaches about Maimonides

Maimonides: Essential Teachings on Jewish Faith & Ethics, the Book of Knowledge & the Thirteen Principles of Faith Annotated & Explained by Rabbi Marc D. Angel, PhD, Skylight Paths Publishing, Woodstock, VT; ISBN 978-1-59473-311-6 ©2012, $18.99, p. 172, plus notes and selected bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — By the mid-twelfth century, conditions

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Fred Reiss, EdD