By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — When I was growing up I knew a rabbi who was a wonderful speaker. He spoke eloquently and melodiously and had a vocabulary that was the envy of Merriam-Webster. People flocked from near and far to hear him. There was only one problem: no one knew what he […]
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Jewish ReligionBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — It was a rainy day in Manhattan. Trust me. I know. I got drenched. I did have an umbrella. Until I put it down in a trusted kosher restaurant in New York City, turned to place my order at the counter and in the “New York minute”
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Jewish Religion, Michael MantellBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Salvation? Curse? Or a bit of both, as well as being something that pervades and is impossible to avoid? There are no end of the lessons to derive from Charlie Hebdo and the Kosher market. Yet it cannot be entirely clear what they are. Mystery is never far from this subject. Being religious
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East-Compiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The annual celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday prompted numerous officeholders to discuss his legacy and ways to carry his ideals forward. From Jewish members in the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and California Legislature there were these comments: U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Rafi Andrusier LA MESA, California–Many of us are still reeling from the events in Paris last week. Besides for the massacre in Charlie Hebdo, four holy souls were murdered at Hyper Cacher, a kosher supermarket, shopping for Shabbat. I came across something remarkable today. Rabbi Hattab, father of the murdered Yoav Hattab, 21,
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International, Jewish Religion, USA
ENCINITAS, California (Press Release)– The Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities will host its 37th Annual Gala, “Emerald City” on Saturday, February 21st at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla with Rusti Bartell Weiss serving as Gala Chair. Weiss became involved with Seacrest Village (San Diego Hebrew Homes) at the requests of Sigrid Fisher who was
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San Diego CalendarNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday, Jan. 16, said it is increasingly disturbing to see Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu ratcheting up their anti-Israel rhetoric by using the tragedy of the Paris terror attacks to further virulently anti-Israel views, which contributes to a growing anti-Jewish atmosphere within
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Middle East, USA
By Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi GREATER NOIDA, India — The Society for Social Regeneration & Equity (SSRE), an NGO dedicated to the prevention of mass violence and the promotion of peace, staged a Holocaust themed play, Sipahi (Soldier) on Jan. 15 written by Rajat Prajapati, a final year student of BTech+MBA dual degree at Gautam
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International, Jewish HistoryBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Life, to many, seems like it is a series of popularity contests. The only people who don’t like popularity contests are those who either believe that they will lose them, or worse, do lose them. They hold their breath each time they walk into a room, get up
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Michael MantellBRUSSELS (WJC) — Jewish schools in Brussels and Antwerp were closed Friday due to the heightened terror threat against sensitive targets, one day after the Belgian police conducted a wide anti-terror operation targeting jihadists who have returned from Syria. A suspected jihadist group targeted in a major anti-terror raid on Thursday had been planning to kill
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InternationalBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson LONDON–Spending a few days in London in January reminded me of the little ditty below by Robert Louis Stevenson, and although I now have the benefit of electric light, there’s no getting away from the long, dark nights, the late rising and early setting sun — if you manage to get a
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–A cartoon in last Friday’s Ha’aretz shows a narrow hilly road with two cars facing each other that cannot pass each other. The one going uphill is driven by Isaac (Buji) Herzog, the leader of the newly minted Zionist Camp, an amalgam of his Labour and Tzipi Livni’s Hat’nua. The other
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Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — On the day that we watched scenes from the funeral in Jerusalem of four French Jews who were murdered at a kosher market in Paris for being Jewish, I received my copy of the Johns Hopkins Magazine, an excellent publication from my alma mater. As I leafed through it,
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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
By Rabbi Avi Weiss PARIS — “A fire is burning” Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky declared to European Jewry during the 1930s. Too few heeded his cry. As I leave Paris after a solidarity mission following terrorist attacks at Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher, I offer a similar cry. While French prime minister Manuel Valls proclaimed, “France
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International, Middle East, USA