By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO –Suppose Moses had turned west instead of east after leaving Egypt? Suppose the Ten (Lost) Tribes swept off to slavery in Assyria eventually escaped and continued eastward all the way to Japan? In the realm of all things are possible – both are interesting posits. In The Japanese and the […]
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International, Jewish History
Pepper, Silk & Ivory By Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Ellen Rodman, PhD, © 2014, Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-647-4; 316 pages including index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –When friends question me about whether I really think “There is a Jewish Story Everywhere,” as the motto of San Diego Jewish World insists, I shall
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (SDJW)– Prof. Lawrence “Laurie” Baron, emeritus professor of history at San Diego State University and a regular contributor to San Diego Jewish World, has been appointed the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies by the Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey. In the fall semester of 2015 at the college
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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Every once in a while someone new starts reading my columns, and responds with an expression of frustration. Usually it’s something like, “Dammit, what’s your solution?” Read my lips. There ain’t any. In politics one should never say never, but in this case there is close to a century of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
SAN DIEGO (SDJW)–The twentieth anniversary of the death of the singing rabbi, Reb. Shlomo Carlebach, will be memorialized with a Shabbaton Nov 7-8 at Young Israel of San Diego, 7289 Navajo Road, in the San Carlos section of San Diego. The yahrzeit of Carlebach’s death falls this year on Nov. 9, 1994. The Shabbaton will include
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CalendarBy Morton Klein NEW YORK — Secretary of State John Kerry clearly believes — or wishes to be heard saying — that Israel is responsible for increased terrorism and instability roiling the Middle East. In a recent speech at a White House ceremony for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, Kerry said that “there wasn’t
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Middle East, USA
By Anav Silverman MASADA, Israel –Underneath the Masada Mountain, along the shores of the Dead Sea, over 12,000 people danced to the electronic beats of Dash Berlin, Deep Dish and Sander Van Doorn and other international and local artists on Thursday night, October 23. The second annual Dead Sea Rave -424, which took place from
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Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC) — The Gaza-based terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad have hailed the terrorist act in Jerusalem on Wednesday in which a baby girl died as “an act of heroism.” An Arab man from east Jerusalem rammed his car into a crowd of commuters at a light rail station, killing three-month Chaya Zissel Braun
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Middle EastBy Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel –In synagogues this week, Jews read about Noah and the Biblical flood, which tells of the destruction of the ancient world. Today, there are many evils that again threaten to flood the planet, but at least now we have a nation – Israel – busy re-constructing the world to prevent
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Michael Ordman, Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — I live, to my misfortune, in the 52nd Congressional District. Even if you live in another congressional district you cannot help but be aware of the bitter election battle between incumbent Scott Peters and challenger Carl DeMaio. You can’t turn on your television (in the San Diego media
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San Diego County, USAPalestinians say they will not postpone U.N. Security Council petition (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat on Thursday denied reports that the Palestinians were willing to postpone by two months a petition to the U.N. Security Council calling for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank by November 2016.
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Travel and Food
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Lt. Col. Shai Abramson, Chief Cantor of the Israel Defense Force, will once again be in San Diego to share his remarkable talent with our community. The concert will be presented by Friends of the Israel Defense Force on Tuesday evening, October 28, at 7 p.m., at the Balboa Theatre.
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego CalendarThe Lost Matriarch: Finding Leah in the Bible and Midrash by Jerry Rabow, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia; ISBN 978-0-8276-1207-5 ©2014, $22.95, p. 193, plus Index and several appendices By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Tradition maintains that each word of the Five Books of Moses contains multiple interpretations. Bible stories such as Noah and the flood, Joseph
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Holocaust Survivor Lou Dunst and Christian Zionist preacher Rev. Dumisani Washington of Stockton, Calif., are four decades apart in age, yet hearing one and then the other speak, gave me reassurance that Washington’s message partially fulfills the intent of Dunst’s agonized rhetorical cry of pain: “And the Free World
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA