San Diego JCF awards go to Hillel, Beth Jacob

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego has awarded Beth Jacob Congregation and Hillel of San Diego the first annual Sheila Potiker Endowment Leadership AwardS for their exceptional achievements growing their endowment programs as participants in the Foundation’s Endowment Leadership Institute (ELI). The award, established by the Potiker family, honors […]

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Arming countries, then pulling out, recipe for disaster

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forty years ago, Saigon fell to communist North Vietnam. Images of terrified South Vietnamese clambering to the roof of the U.S. embassy, and Vietnamese helicopter pilots ferrying them to ships and then pushing the helicopters overboard to make room for more refugees are still heart-wrenching. Vietnam represented a change in

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Half measures, bobbing, feinting in int’l politics

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We are seeing yet again the bobbing and feinting, complex maneuvers, and pursuit of partial treatment for problems that have no solution. We find it in relations between Israel and Palestine, with different moves toward Palestine West Bank and Palestine Gaza, between Israel and the US, as well as with Britain, Russia,

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Terezin survivor to be special guest at ‘Defiant Requiem’

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Eve Gerstle expects to be sitting in Copley Symphony Hall on the evening of May 7, as a special guest of Conductor Murry Sidlin, watching the performance of the multi-media Concert-Drama, The Defiant Requiem. This remarkable lady, who is celebrating her 101st birthday, has a particular interest in this work.

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Eileen Wingard, Jewish History

Jewish news briefs: April 20, 2015

Pope Francis meets with leading European rabbis at Vatican (JNS.org) Pope Francis met with a delegation of leading European rabbis at the Vatican on Monday to discuss Jewish-Christian relations and the ongoing surge of European anti-Semitism. The delegation was from the Conference of European Rabbis, which represents more than 700 rabbis from synagogues across Europe.

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International, Middle East, USA

Cookbook recalls favorite recipes of fallen IDF soldiers

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Ahead of Israel’s Memorial Day on April 22, the day on which the Jewish state officially remembers its fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism, a unique cookbook compiled with recipes by bereaved mothers who have lost their children to war and terror has recently been published. The cookbook, a

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Jewish Religion, Middle East

An emotional roller coaster during Israel’s holidays

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Jewish and Israeli history is replete with both tragic and joyful events, and in fact the life of a Jew living in Israel is something of a roller-coaster existence, taking us from the depths of sorrow one day to the sublime heights of joy the next, whether it’s

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle East

C.S. Lewis on Freud’s couch

  “In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers both is palpable.” —Sigmund Freud By Eric George Tauber CORONADO, California — In all likelihood, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis never actually met. But what if they had…? Two great minds, both respected scholars in their own right, hold two

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