By Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — “The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator [and Jew hater] Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time. Although the term now has wide currency, it is a misnomer, since it implies a discrimination against all Semites. […]
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USAAsylum by Moriz Scheyer (Translated by P.N. Singer); Little, Brown and Company, 2016 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Written at the time of the actual events, this powerful book starts by describing the atmosphere in Vienna before the Anschluss by Nazi Germany, followed by the author’s flight, together with his wife and non-Jewish housekeeper, who
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By Rabbi Rafi Andrusier SAN DIEGO –My association with Chabad of Poway began before we moved to San Diego to establish a Chabad House for the eastern San Diego region in 2012. Even before I met my San Diegan wife, Chaya, in 2010. In 2007, I was a young rabbinical student in Chicago, and I
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — This has been somewhat of a surreal few days for the San Diego Jewish community. From Pittsburgh to Sri Lanka, over the past few months we have heard about attacks on houses of worship. While we gathered together and mourned with faith communities around the world, the attacks
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By Toby Tabachnick Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — I ran into an old friend about three weeks after the Tree of Life massacre, a former Pittsburgher, who wanted to talk about the events of Oct. 27. In particular, she wanted to know about one of the survivors, someone with whom she had grown up.
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Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of my congregants posed an interesting question we ought to consider asking: What would Rev Martin Luther King Jr. have said about the Poway synagogue shooting? It is an important question—not just for members of the Jewish community, but also for the African-American community. Throughout
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By Carol Greenwald CHEVY CHASE, Maryland — Jewish Democrats must decide: Trump’s pro-Israel policies, or the increasingly anti-Israel policies of the Democratic Party. (May 1, 2019 / JNS) The next president of the United States will be able to reverse nearly every one of U.S. President Donald Trump’s pro-Israel actions because most of them have
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Middle East, USABy David Harris NEW YORK — In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to forget (lo tishkach). This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Day of Holocaust Remembrance. On this solemn occasion, 74 years after the end of World War II: We remember the six million Jewish martyrs, including 1.5
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — I just returned from an evening spent with my colleague, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. Although wounded on Saturday, he was up late fielding phone calls, making plans, and sitting with some old colleagues (one of whom is me). Rabbi Goldstein stared death in the face; the rifle of the
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Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-RabbiBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida –There are two things I have been saying and then a third item came along and surprised me. I mentioned often that there is no concept of “sin” in the Hebrew Bible as a distorting stain upon the soul that requires a kind of supernatural atonement process,
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The Guest Book by Sarah Blake, Flatiron Books © 2019, ISBN 9781250-110251, 480 pages, $27.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — When Ogden Moss Milton purchased Crockett’s Island, Maine, in 1935, possibly unbeknownst to him, but fairly obvious to outside observers, he established a monument to white privilege. Not just any white, mind you,
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Numerous activities have been scheduled to memorialize Lori Kaye, who was murdered by a gunman at Chabad of Poway last Saturday. San Diego State University students and the Jewish Studies Program plan a noon vigil on Wednesday, May 1, in front of Scripps Cottage on campus to stand “against all
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