By Sam Litvin TEL AVIV, Israel — A rabbi shot in the hand, an 8-year-old girl who moved from Sderot and her 32-year-old uncle visiting from Israel, a mother with a 22-year-old who shielded the Rabbi with her body: are these the victims of the right or the left. He was a teenager, 19, with […]
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Sam Litvin, San Diego County, USAConsoler and Enabler-in-Chief By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−After the shooting at Chabad of Poway by a white supremacist armed with an AR-15 rifle, President Trump commented: “My deepest sympathies go to the families who were affected. Looks like a hate crime. Hard to believe!” * When asked the day before if he still believed there
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By Mimi Pollack LA MESA, California — The Bravo TV channel, owned by NBC, is known for its over the top reality shows. These shows include, The Real Wives of Beverly Hills, etc. The shows portray the everyday trials and tribulations of wealthy women and their families. Now, Bravo has decided to expand that repertoire
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Victims identified as Lori Gilbert Kaye, z”l; Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein; Almog Peretz, and young Noya Dahan; Alleged shooter John P. Earnest taken into custody By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – A white male shooter opened fire during Saturday morning Shabbat services on the last day of Passover, killing one woman at the Altman Family
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Getting a PhD in physics from Oxford University wasn’t enough for a British YouTuber known as @ClimateAdam. Worried about the future impacts of runaway global warming, but full of hope and optimism that humans can find ways to stop climate change before it gets unstoppable, he decided to
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International, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO –What are you? For people of mixed ethnicity, this is a common question. That’s why it’s the title of a new work by Asian Story Theater along with Teatro Máscara Mágica and San Diego Black Ensemble Theatre. I first saw Asian Story Theater back in ’98 at Kids Night
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Eric George Tauber, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The Gotthelf Gallery, with its current exhibit, The Art of Aging, will be the setting for the Thursday, May 2, 7:00 p.m. Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices evening. Three senior Jewish Poets will be featured, Janice Alper, Chana Givon (read by Ellen Zyroff) and Dr. Irvin Jacobs. Following the hour
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Irv Jacobs, MD, San Diego CalendarBy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The result of the recent municipal elections in Turkey represents a major shift in public sentiment toward President Erdogan, which will have major political ramifications that will bring him down in disgrace. It is true that the economic crisis and the ineptitude he exhibited in dealing with it played
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — After blowing hot, then cold, then hot, then cold again, the weather in Israel seems finally to have settled down to the appropriate behavior for this time of the year. Yes, I know that for a while last week it was warmer and sunnier in London than here,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — An opinion poll published last Tuesday has it that 66 percent of Israelis want a government that includes the two largest parties, Likud and Blue and White. Without the benefit of research I wrote on April 16 along similar lines. Even though both parties will have the same number
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By Mimi Pollack LA JOLLA, California — Whenever I hear of an organization whose purpose is to build bridges of communication, I want to find out more. I was invited to attend the Sunday Seder of the San Diego chapter of the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an organization of Muslim and Jewish women, which
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Jewish Religion, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida –There are many interpretations of biblical event that people were taught to believe which are clearly untrue. The following are three examples. Adam lied to his wife resulting in a catastrophe Genesis 2:16-17 states that before Eve was created, “The Lord God commanded the man, saying: ‘You
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