SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The community mikvah, providing waters for spiritual immersion for a variety of rituals, has decided to suspend its programs while its board reassesses communal needs and acceptance. With less activity in prospect during this transition, its executive director, Rabbi Lenore Bohm, will step down March 31 to pursue other opportunities. Following
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org Israeli television exit polls on Tuesday night showed that while the country’s national election remains too close to call, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party defied the projections of pre-election polling and would likely extend his current six-year run as prime minister. An exit poll by Channel 2 said that Likud won
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Jacob Kamaras, Middle EastThe JGuy’s Guide: The GPS for Jewish Teen Guys by Rabbi J. B. Meszler, Dr. S. Reinharz, L. Suneby, and D. Heiman, Jewish Lights Publishing; ISBN 978-1-45967-434-9 ©2013, $18.99, p. 177, plus notes By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –A much narrower distinction existed between childhood and adulthood in the nineteenth century then it does
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have developed a groundbreaking approach to determine sleep quality using their new breath sound analysis (BSA). This is less expensive and invasive than current polysomnography (PSG) technology, according to a new study published on PLOS Online. “One of the main goals of sleep medicine today
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Peter Kubicek is an email friend of mine who I have known for about ten years now. He lives in New York and I live in Taiwan but we meet often online to chat about current events and Jewish history, especially the Holocaust. Kubicek is a Holocaust survivor,
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By Joshua Halickman KIRYAT SHEMONA, Israel — Walking up to the Kiryat Shemona Municipal Stadium, I could see the beautiful snow-capped Hermon Mountain in the background of this picturesque facility planted right in the middle of a suburban neighborhood far away from the hustle and bustle of Tel Aviv. This is where the 2014 Israel State Cup
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International, Middle East, Sports & CompetitionsBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — I am a fiduciary and I am ready to serve retirement investors. The Secretary of Labor has been tasked with updating regulations to require fiduciary standards for those who provide advice or investments to retirement plans or those saving for retirement. The fiduciary standard – putting the clients’ interests first
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Sheryl RowlingBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The New York Times and the Toronto Globe and Mail, together with no doubt countless other publications around the world, seem to be surprised at the announcement by Prime Minister Netanyahu that he doesn’t favour a Palestinian state. It didn’t come as a surprise to most Israelis. Yes, he
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Middle EastNetanyahu says no Palestinian state if he forms next government (JNS.org) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday that he would not establish a Palestinian state if his Likud party forms the next Israeli government, reversing the support for a two-state solution that he expressed in a 2009 speech at Bar-Ilan University. “I think that anyone
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International, Middle East, USAThe Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose; Atria Books © 2015; 978-1-4767-7806-8, 366 pages, $25. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Sandrine grew up in the lap of American luxury. Her American mother and French-born father owned several East Coast homes. Her father frequently took her to museums, concerts, and art exhibits. However by the
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Confident that the Senate possesses the constitutional power to warn Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei that it could reject any nuclear agreement signed by President Obama, the forty-seven Republicans who signed the letter are now planning to open embassies in countries around the world. * During a campaign speech in New
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– On April 13, 2015 various theaters, cultural organizations and memorial institutions across the country will unite to honor victims of the Holocaust by joining in Remembrance Readings for Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). This inaugural event is led by theaters from San Diego, including the La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, North Coast
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Jewish History, San Diego CalendarBy Susan Tuchman, Esq. and Morton Klein NEW YORK (Press Release) — Last week, the University of Oklahoma appropriately responded swiftly and strongly when members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity sang anti-black chants that included the “n” word and references to lynching. The university expelled two students and shut down the entire fraternity chapter,
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