NEW YORK (Press Release)– America’s Reform rabbis are making a major effort to change worship to match the needs and desires of today’s Reform Jews. In alignment with trends highlighted by the recent Pew study on American Jews, Reform rabbis are creating a new High Holiday service that makes all prayers LGBT friendly, adds references to God as
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Jewish Religion, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The following predictions of which films will win Oscars this Sunday should not be construed as a list of my favorite films from the previous year. An election by the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences determines the winners. As in any election, they are
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Travel and Food
LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Leaders of NA’AMAT USA joined representatives of the organization from Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium, Argentina, Uruguay and Israel last week for the first NA’AMAT International Solidarity Conference in Israel. The delegation, led by national president Elizabeth Raider, were special guests of the President of Israel Reuven Rivlin during the conference’s opening
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International, Middle East, USA
By Eva Trieger PALM SPRINGS, California — If your fashion acumen consists of “Don’t wear white after Labor Day.” get yourself to Fashion Week at El Paseo! Palm Springs Life magazine is producing the tenth annual week-long event under the direction of Susan Stein. Seven days of fashion, food, music, gorgeous models and international designers is
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — No sooner was the ink dry on a recent column here at the San Diego Jewish World about President Obama’s NASCAR-related remarks at the annual National Prayer Breakfast than a former religion columnist for the Kansas City Star named Bill Tammeus picked up his own computer keyboard and
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Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — A baby girl was born on Thursday night, February 19 in Jerusalem during the snowstorm that swept the capital, Golan Heights and other part of northern Israel as well as Judea and Samaria, and even the southern city of Be’er Sheva. In Jerusalem, Magen David Adom (MDA) received a
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Middle EastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Jordanian, 21 Egyptians and 4 Americans sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is not. They, along with thousands of others, have been murdered by the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) in the Middle East, and by Boko Haram in Nigeria. The victims
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Is there a qualitative difference between the murder of over six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Shoah and the beheading of twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians by ISIS in Libya? I don’t think so. Genocide is the intentional destruction of a national, cultural, or
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International, Middle East, USA
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Motti Kirshenbaum, the co-host of a popular daily television news hour, suggested on Thursday evening that Jerusalemites were preparing for the snow storm – it came late that day and continued through the night and on Friday – the way our ancestors prepared for the siege of Jerusalem by
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Middle EastNEW YORK (WJC) — A significant majority of Americans — some 77% of those polled — see the “development of nuclear weapons by Iran” as a “critical threat;” another 16% see it as “important but not critical”, according to new numbers from Gallup. ISIS and international terrorism loom largest in Americans’ minds as critical threats
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International, Middle East, USAIsraeli-made ‘TaxiBot’ airplane tow vehicle makes debut in Germany (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) An Israeli-made robotic airplane tow vehicle made its debut at Frankfurt Airport on Thursday in a ceremony attended by journalists from around the world. Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) “TaxiBot” was designed to ferry the most commonly used passenger airplane, the Boeing 737,
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International, Middle East, USABy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Cellist Maya Beiser was the star of the show in the La Jolla Symphony’s impressive concert February 7 at Mandeville Auditorium. The gifted Israeli instrumentalist, dressed in a short black dress with long sleeves and high black boots, her wavy black tresses framing her beautiful face, did not look
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – British journalist Melanie Phillips said the reaction of Jews in Europe to radical Muslims killing Jews in Paris and in Copenhagen is split into two major camps: there are those who are fearful and are considering moving to Israel or to other parts or the world, and those
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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County