The Mountains of Israel – A Taste of Heaven by Britt Lode and Rabbi Yitschak Naki, Gefen Publishing House, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — This is quite simply – a beautiful book. The silky pages are filled with photographs in full color of the mountains and hills of Israel. Opposite each picture are
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The California state senator who heads the first-in-the-nation Jewish legislative caucus says it’s time for Jews in the U.S. Congress to form a caucus too, and adds that U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the Florida congresswoman who chairs the national Democratic party, agrees with him “100 percent.” State Sen.
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–We all follow more or less predictable patterns of responding to our environment. Wanting to be significant and wanting to matter are common wishes for many people. Is being significant important to you? If so, how do you achieve that? Some people like to be visible, upfront, counted. Others
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–A number of individuals from my home town of Fall River have traveled to Ponta Delgada in the Azores to commemorate the refurbishing of a synagogue that they had financed. They also met with the one Jew still living in the islands. The story is long and interesting, and ironic from both
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Everyone knows what an “everything bagel” is, and if you don’t it’s time to Google it both as a news item and a photo image so you can see the round bread with a hole in it up close and personal Unlike a “pizza with everything,” the “everything
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The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Turkey continues to deny that the genocide occurred. Doctors from the World Health Organization have dispatched a research team to Turkey to study the cause of collective amnesia. * Political pundits are abuzz that Marco Rubio is leading among the Republican
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California — Nicknamed the ADHD Festival by Director D.Candis Paule, the audience was warned, “If you don’t like what you’re watching, wait about three minutes and it’ll be over.” She was of course referring to the 2nd Annual 5 Minute Short Play Festival. About 125 people gathered at the Encinitas library
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — Armenia is marking 100 years to the mass killings of Armenian people by the Ottoman Turks in commemorative ceremonies held across the country including its capital, Yerevan on Friday, April 24. Attended by world leaders including representatives from Israel, the central Yerevan ceremony paid tribute to the estimated 1.5
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International, Middle EastOn Independence Day, Gaza rocket launched at Israel for first time in 2015 (JNS.org) For the first time in 2015, and on the same day Israel celebrated its 67th Independence Day, a code-red rocket siren sounded Thursday in the southern Israeli town of Sderot and other communities on the border with Gaza. While there
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International, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — The combined Parasha Tazria-M’tzora deals with various types of ritual impurities, specifically those that our ancestors connected with skin disease. Those who contracted the various ailments described in the Torah became ritually impure, were exiled from the Israelite camp, and could only return after they were cured
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Editor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.” Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
By Joshua Halickman TEL AVIV — Michael Greenberg grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles in what would be described as the American Dream. His father Avery had moved for the sun of California from the cold and dreary winters of Montreal back in the early 1970’s. Along with his wife Sharon, Michael and his
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Middle East, Sports & Competitions