Cell phones cause whingeing at concert venues

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — One of the Facebook groups I belong to is called ‘Brits Whingeing in Israel’ (motto: ‘Lose some, whinge some’), having split off from ‘Brits Laughing in Israel,’ which in turn split off from ‘Brits Living in Israel.’ The politics behind the various groups and sub-groups is not clear

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Rep. Davis endorses Green New Deal at forum

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) surprised and mollified a restive crowd of environmentalists Saturday when she announced that when she returns to Washington for Tuesday’s congressional session she will “be signing onto the Green New Deal.” Her announcement was greeted with 16 seconds of applause, which might

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, USA

Weekly Torah portion: Naso

By Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — Our Torah portion this week, Naso, describes the somewhat unusual lifestyle choices of a Nazarite. A Nazarite takes a vow of holiness, abstains from drinking alcohol, cutting his hair, and coming into contact with the dead. The vow is for a predetermined finite amount of time. Through abstaining

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Jewish Religion

U.S. Senate condemns attack on Chabad of Poway

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Democratic U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris  and Dianne Feinstein , both from California, on Thursday applauded the approval of a resolution condemning the recent anti-Semitic attack on worshipers at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue. S. Res. 231, Condemning the horrific Anti-Semitic Attack on the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San

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San Diego County, USA

Biblical Exodus inspires ‘Journey to Freedom’ oratorio

By Eileen Wingard ALISO VIEJO, California — The manuscript of Journey to Freedom languished for decades at the bottom of a pile of Dr. Bernard “Barney” Gilmore’s scores. It was not until after UC Irvine Music Faculty Professor Gilmore’s death, that his wife, while organizing his music for the archives at the UC Irvine Library,

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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Kabbalah as explained by quantum physics

From Infinity to Man by Eduard Shyfrin, White Raven Publishing, © 2019, ISBN 978-1-911195-84-9, p. 122 plus notes and index, $24.99. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Kabbalah is esoteric Judaism, the mystical traditions handed down orally through the generations. Yet, Kabbalah is not a monolith, its concepts and structures evolve. In the introduction to

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Abrasive questions on Israel asked of Engel

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Rabea Ali, president of the Muslim Students Association at Manhattan College, wasted no time challenging U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel’s advocacy in a campus speech for Israel when she asked, “And how do you find it in your humanity to support Israel when it is actively committing human rights

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA