Farmer’s Table, 8141 La Mesa Blvd., La Mesa, California 91942 By Sandi Masori LA MESA, California — In the middle of downtown La Mesa you can find a cute little “farm” restaurant where the menu boasts farm to fork freshness. It has options ranging from egg dishes, to flatbreads, to sandwiches and salads. As with […]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The election may not decide anything. The clusters of parties seem nearly tied in recent polls, with neither right nor center-left clearly able to amass the seats need to form a government. What comes next will be long and messy, and ultimately create a government. Or another election. At the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Donald Trump, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaub all issued hollow statements after 49 Muslims praying at two New Zealand mosques were mowed down by gunfire on Friday – after Trump, Omar, and Tlaib played dangerous games with volatile issues. It would be customary to expect reactions from our president
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International, Middle East, USABy Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — “Ivanka would be a perfect Queen Esther on screen and on the Broadway stage,” President Trump tweeted. “She’s gorgeous, built like a statuesque statue, almost as smart as I am, and she didn’t come out as Jewish until she was in her 20’s. A BONUS – with a
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — In my book, Unusual Bible Interpretations: Ruth, Esther, and Judith, I showed that Judith, in the apocrypha, the book Jewish ancestors decided not to include in the Bible, was more observant of Jewish practices than Ruth and Esther. The rabbis did not see this in this
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionBy Caren Besner BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Albert Einstein once observed, “If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, USAJewish organizations around the world condemn mosque massacres in New Zealand World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder has expressed horror and revulsion at the reports of multiple casualties following terrorist attacks on two mosques in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. Lauder said: “I would like to express my horror and revulsion at the
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWitness: Lesson’s from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York © 2018, ISBN 9781328802699, p. 264 plus notes, $26. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Elie Wiesel (1928 – 2016), Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize laureate, perhaps best known for his memoir Night, and arguably the most well-known Holocaust spokesman of
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –An article in Friday’s Jerusalem Post Magazine, under the rubric, “Purim Oddities” called, “Psychiatric playfulness,” points to the Jewish tradition of levity and humor on Purim, the festival that tells the story of an impending disaster. The article informs us that “humor is the strategy in dealing with stressful situations.”
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — I was privileged to attend a concert in a private home given by young musicians who are students at Jerusalem’s Hassadna Music Conservatory. Together with the rest of the audience, I was greatly impressed by their professional standard and aplomb. Some of the musicians were of Ethiopian background and displayed
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Sam Litvin TEL AVIV — It’s nine o’clock on Thursday night, the equivalent of a Friday night in the U.S. The weekend’s here and all are heading home or are with their kids, or out and about at bars. I’m with my fellow students, walking on wet walkways of our University. The skies are
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Middle East, Sam LitvinBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — This coming week, we will be celebrating the holiday of Purim. According to the the Jewish mystical work the Zohar, in the world to come, Purim will be one of only two holidays that is still celebrated – the other one is Yom Kippur. At first glance, it
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