San Diego Jewish World

Palestine so far missing from Israeli election debate

February 4, 2015

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Six weeks before the election, the focus of campaigning combines personal attacks, accusations of illegality, and bombastic solutions to serious problems that have little chance of implementation. Call it playing to the low side, or creative innovation. Your choice. Likud’s opponents are making a big deal about Sara’s bottles and her management […]

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Novelist whets ‘Water Knife’ to forecast drought wars

February 4, 2015

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Although the Hebrew holy books, from the Five Books of Moses to the Torah, are not “science fiction” tracts, they do contain some out-of-this-world stories that always entertained me as a kid growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of them are absolutely mind-blowing. And as people

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The World We Share

The Jewish comedians: Buddy Hackett

February 4, 2015

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Videos

Happy birthday you tree, here’s a hug!

February 4, 2015

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Some trees at Mission Trails Regional Park received hugs and a special birthday song on Wednesday, February 4, from elementary school-aged Hebrew School pupils studying with Chabad of East County. The occasion was Tu B’Shevat, also known as the birthday of the trees. Normally, students at the Chabad school, taught by

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA

Internet neutrality and privacy measures advance

February 4, 2015

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, proposed rules on Wednesday, Feb. 4, to keep the Internet “neutral,” meaning that wealthy users could not gain preference or priority by paying more to their providers. The FCC’s chairman’s proposal — which now goes to a vote of the full Federal

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Jewish trivia column to start on Monday

February 4, 2015

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –Are Israeli cherries harvested during the Jubilee year? Is Gefilte Phish one of Ben and Jerry’s best-selling Israeli ice cream flavors? Are Tzitzit disease-carrying Mediterranean flies? Did George Washington throw gelt across the Potomac River? The answers to these and many other questions of Jewish Law, Tradition, History, and Popular Culture can be

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Israel’s ‘Lego Man’ tells of Ezer Mizion’s kids

February 4, 2015

By Maor Cohen ORANIT, Israel — Three years ago, when I came to Ezer Mizion’s Donald Berman Rehabilitation Center, they explained to me that I would be working with children who have cancer and with children whose parents have cancer. All I came for was to donate some Legos but the angels at Ezer Mizion

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

1,000 children pick fruit, celebrate Tu B’Shevat

February 4, 2015

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TAZPIT)–In honor of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish holiday that marks the beginning of the new year for trees, youth volunteering with Leket Israel, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, picked excess fruit remaining on trees in people’s private gardens to give to the poor. Over 1,000 children and teens from across Israel including kibbutzim

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

Auschwitz rite honors victims, reminds Europe

February 4, 2015

By Alex Brummer AUSCHWITZ, Poland (WJC) — Wrapped in narrow striped blue and white scarves the survivors some ancient and frail, others upright, chests forward and proudly strong made their way out through the gate of death into the dark the snowflakes falling. They made the trudge through the crisp snow, in path dug alongside the

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International, Jewish Religion

Israeli cellist Maya Beiser performs Feb. 7 & 8 in La Jolla

February 4, 2015

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Dubbed by the New Yorker as a “Cello Godess,” credited by NPR with “a stunning command of her instrument,” and lauded by the New York Times for her “ferocious energy and talent,” Israeli cellist, Maya Beiser, will be the featured soloist in the La Jolla Symphony’s February 7, 7:30

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Travel and Food

‘Apples from the Desert’ a peach of a movie

February 4, 2015

By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Adapted from Savyon Liebrecht’s short story, Apples from the Desert is a spiritual coming of age journey. Rivkah, the only child of Orthodox Jewish parents, lives in Jerusalem under the iron fist of her controlling, traditional father while her mother cowers in abdication. No option for college, Rivkah is

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San Diego County, Sheryl Rowling

Jewish news briefs: February 4, 2015

February 4, 2015

John Baird, strongly pro-Israel Canadian foreign minister, resigns (JNS.org) Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, a strongly pro-Israel voice in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government, resigned on Tuesday. “I will miss this place very much,” Baird said in a speech to the Canadian Parliament. “The time has come to start a new chapter in my life.”

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International, Middle East, USA

The Jewish Comedians: Larry Fine & Moe Howard

February 3, 2015

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Videos

The Passover seder and climate change questions

February 3, 2015

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Rori Shay’s first book, Elected is a Young Adult (YA) genre sci-fi/cli-fi hybrid novel, part of a projected trilogy she is writing, and it’s being followed up with a second book, Suspected, due out this month. In a recent interview with San Diego Jewish World, debut novelist Shay, 36, was kind

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Jewish Religion

Palestine so far missing from Israeli election debate

Novelist whets ‘Water Knife’ to forecast drought wars

The Jewish comedians: Buddy Hackett

Happy birthday you tree, here’s a hug!

Internet neutrality and privacy measures advance

Jewish trivia column to start on Monday

Israel’s ‘Lego Man’ tells of Ezer Mizion’s kids

1,000 children pick fruit, celebrate Tu B’Shevat

Auschwitz rite honors victims, reminds Europe

Israeli cellist Maya Beiser performs Feb. 7 & 8 in La Jolla

‘Apples from the Desert’ a peach of a movie

Jewish news briefs: February 4, 2015

The Jewish Comedians: Larry Fine & Moe Howard

The Passover seder and climate change questions

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