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Standard Chartered Branch, Deloite & Touche accused of conspiring with Iran

August 14, 2012

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Americans are jaded by the size and shape of the financial crisis that ripped through banking in 2008. Bernie Madoff, AIG, “too big to fail,” Goldman Sachs, subprime lending, unfathomable derivatives, and underwater mortgages make it hard to work up much steam on yet another banking story. And you could […]

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

The Wandering Review: ‘The Day I Saw Your Heart’

August 13, 2012

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Jennifer Devoldère’s The Day I Saw Your Heart is the Jewish Film Club’s (www.jewishfilmclub.com) DVD selection for this July and August. It stars Mélanie Laurent as X-Ray technician Justine Dhrey and Michel Blanc as her prickly father Eli. Ju, as she is called, seethes with resentment against Eli. When she

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Lawrence Baron

Some ways to participate in daily Talmud study

August 13, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The Jewish world has recently begun its new project of the Daf Yomi, or “Page of the Day.” Here is a brief history how the project originally began. Rabbi Meir Shapiro, leader of the World Agudath Israel, introduced a novel idea in 1923. He felt the

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Attack on Sikh Temple stirs memories of Glen Falls

August 13, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The recent attack upon the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin dredged up some old memories I thought I had buried. My story began not long after 2001. At that time, I was a rabbi in Glens Falls, New York, when the incident occurred. After the terrible 9/11

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

Shlock rocker Lenny Solomon promos ‘Daniel in Babylon’

August 12, 2012

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Lenny Solomon has bass and treble clefs in his DNA. Inheriting this musical encryption from a long line of cantors on both sides of his family, Solomon has been involved with music since 1985. Though he was majoring in accounting at Queens College in New York, after three years

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Eva Trieger

U.S. naively tries to buy friends in Syria

August 11, 2012

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The news is out — President Obama is not just watching the gory events unfold in Syria. The president signed an intelligence finding permitting the CIA to help the opposition with $25 million’s worth of non-lethal assistance, possibly including communications, logistics, and intelligence. Public acknowledgement of the finding follows

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Some forms of haredi piety are really OCD

August 11, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Who says religious people aren’t funny? Where is Jay Leno when you need him? The world of the Ultra-Orthodox (a.k.a. “Haredi” and “Hasidim”) never fail to evoke laughter and irony. In their quest for personal piety, they will go to extremes to keep themselves away from

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Former Poway rabbi building community in Spokane

August 10, 2012

By Mimi Pollack SPOKANE, Washington — Rabbi Tamar Malino is full of hope and optimism. She has started a new life in Spokane after leaving San Diego in 2008. She still has fond memories of her former congregation in Poway where she was both assistant rabbi and rabbi at Temple Adat-Shalom. In 2008, Rabbi Tamar

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Mimi Pollack, San Diego Calendar

Violent novel depicts Israel after its fall

August 10, 2012

Enfold Me: A Novel of Post Israel by Steven Greenberg; 2012; ISBN 978-0-9856873-1-1; 280 pages; price unlisted By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This brutal, shockingly violent novel imagines a high intensity earthquake that leaves Israel defenseless against an opportunistic strike by Iran and its Arab allies. When the smoke and dust clear,

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Donald H. Harrison

The Wandering Review: ‘Drive’

August 8, 2012

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Ken Cinema (4061 Adams Avenue) will reprise Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (2011) for the midnight shows this Friday and Saturday. The film which earned Refn the award for best director at Cannes is filled with gory killings that will repel squeamish viewers. For those who can stomach the

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Lawrence Baron

Pickwick Players present ‘Pippin’ pretty playfully

August 5, 2012

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — According to Exodus 20, we are bid to “honor thy father and thy mother.” This edict presents something of a challenge for Pippin, son of Charlemagne, as we see in Pickwick Players’ courageous and feisty production at the Moxie Theater. This playful remake of the 1970s’ Broadway production entertains

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Eva Trieger

Picasso, Rosenberg and the Nazi looters

August 5, 2012

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel -In preparation for our summer in France, or perhaps simply because I like to think I can read books in French, I bought Anne Sinclair’s book, 21 Rue la Boetie. Reading it took me into the fascinating world of French art in the twentieth century, with extensive ramifications regarding

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Anthropomorphizing God does HaShem a disservice

August 3, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook writes in his famous mystical and moral tract, The Lights of Penitence: The greatest impediment to the human spirit, upon reaching maturity, results from the fact that the conception of God is crystallized among people in a particular form, which goes back to childish habit

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Guitarist Nestor’s ‘Dancing on Air’ delightfully international

August 2, 2012

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Guitar virtuoso, recording artist, and arranger, Gregg Nestor, has moved back to San Diego after living a number of years in London and Los Angeles. He has recently released five CDs. One of them, Dancing On Air, is a delightful collection of works based on folksongs. The recording opens

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Eileen Wingard

Standard Chartered Branch, Deloite & Touche accused of conspiring with Iran

The Wandering Review: ‘The Day I Saw Your Heart’

Some ways to participate in daily Talmud study

Attack on Sikh Temple stirs memories of Glen Falls

Shlock rocker Lenny Solomon promos ‘Daniel in Babylon’

U.S. naively tries to buy friends in Syria

Some forms of haredi piety are really OCD

Former Poway rabbi building community in Spokane

Violent novel depicts Israel after its fall

The Wandering Review: ‘Drive’

Pickwick Players present ‘Pippin’ pretty playfully

Picasso, Rosenberg and the Nazi looters

Anthropomorphizing God does HaShem a disservice

Guitarist Nestor’s ‘Dancing on Air’ delightfully international

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