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
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, USACompiled 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, USASAN 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 & SatireBy 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
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
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 ReligionBy 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
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 RowlingJohn 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, USABy 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 ReligionCompiled by Donald H. Harrison The U.S. Senate unanimously adopted, by a vote of 99-0 the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, which provides for peer support and community outreach programs to assist veterans to transition from military to civilian life. It also calls for independent consultants to evaluate efforts by the Department
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