Vaerah – Obstacle or Opportunity? You Decide! By Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — When Moshe originally spoke to the Jewish people about G-d’s plan to redeem them, Moshe performed the signs G-d had given him, people, upon witnessing the signs, were convinced that G-d had, indeed, sent Moshe to redeem them. They enthusiastically bowed
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-38th in a series– Exit 11, 70th Street, San Diego ~ Former Congregation Beth Tefilah By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Today the structure at 69th and Mohawk Streets houses the Skyline Fellowship Korean Church but when it was constructed in 1971 it was the home of Congregation Beth Tefilah (House of Prayer), a Conservative
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and FoodLet There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel, St. Martin’s Press, New York; ISBN 978-1-250-07395-2 ©2015, $27.99, p. 252, plus eight color photos, appendices and; an index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. “Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” WINCHESTER,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Donald Trump’s first television campaign ad reiterates his intention to build a wall on the Mexican border and make Mexico pay for it. To illustrate the porousness of the southern border, the ad features footage of refugees streaming across it. The problem is that the border in the film is
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – U.S. Representatives Nita Lowey (NY-17), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23), Eliot Engel (NY-16), Albio Sires (NJ-8), Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Susan Davis (CA-53), and Jerrold Nadler (NY-10) on Wednesday, Jan. 6, sent a letter to President Barack Obama calling for immediate punitive sanctions in response to Iran’s recent violation of international law
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Middle East, USAI Don’t Know What to Believe: Making Spiritual Peace With Your Religion by Rabbi Ben Kamin; Central Recovery Press, © 2016; ISBN 878-1-942094-04-3; 224 pages; $16.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Rabbi Kamin’s columns appear regularly on San Diego Jewish World. In fairness to those reading this review, it should be noted that we
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionIDF officer killed in training accident (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) An Israel Defense Forces officer was killed and another soldier was wounded Tuesday in an accident at an IDF training base in southern Israel. Capt. Yishai Rosales, of the IDF’s haredi Netzah Yehuda Battalion, was killed when a mortar shell was accidentally fired in his
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “The past belongs to us; we don’t belong to the past.” I heard Amos Oz, the great Israeli writer, say this last Tuesday at a launch of a just published book on the relationship between Hebrew and European literature by Menachem Brinker, one of the stars on Israel’s intellectual
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Some years ago, a distinguished American academic, Charles Lindblom, published an article, “The Science of Muddling Through.” A little of this, a little of that, in a context where no one is sure what must be done. Not too much in one direction or another will, at least, limit the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Do You Like Chocolate? Today, I am recommending that you spend some money. It is for a good cause! Temple Adat Shalom is hosting a Grand Chocolate Gala this Saturday evening (January 9th) at 6 pm. The money will be used to fund Reform Judaism in North County Inland
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San Diego Calendar, Sheryl RowlingIsrael razes 2 terrorists’ homes in eastern Jerusalem (JNS.org) Israeli security forces on Monday razed the homes of two terrorists in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. The demolition was carried out according to government orders. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said the first home belonged to Bahaa Mohammed Khalil Alian, one of the terrorists
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Middle East, Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)- The San Diego Jewish Film Festival presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run February 4-14, 2016. This year the festival will showcase a total of 60 films of the best contemporary Jewish themed films from around
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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Most people seem to be confused about Islam. Is it “a religion of peace,” or the opposite? Are Muslims who live and die for “jihad” extremists or fundamentalists, or just observant Muslims? To find out, I recently attended a lecture by Mordecai Kedar, under the auspices of “The
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