By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Lawrence Kushner doesn’t bill himself as a dancer, and I didn’t go to see him at San Diego’s Yom Limmud in my role as a dance critic. But the rabbi’s got moves! Rabbi Kushner was giving a talk titled “Jewish Spirituality: It’s All God.” I was interested because […]
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has hailed the unanimous U.S. Senate adoption of the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act (S. 2673). This important measure, co-sponsored by Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), recognizes Israel is a major U.S. strategic partner, and broadens the U.S.-Israel alliance by promoting greater cooperation on security,
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It risks the charge of banality to assert that Israel is a place with a multitude of historical layers, many of which intrude into its politics and international relations. The people who migrated, fought, conquered, suffered defeat, left, or stayed have made their mark on the names of places, changes in the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ San Diego Unified School District returned the Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicle it had received from the Department of Defense. In the letter to the DOD, it explained that it had rescinded its “spare the tank, spoil the child” disciplinary policy. * Vice-President Biden apologized to the Jewish community for calling predatory
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — What do August Osage County, Death at a Funeral, Nora’s Will, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Wish I Was Here have in common? They all focus on squabbling dysfunctional families brought together by the death or dying of a mother or father. Grieving or the inability to grieve compels the
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Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer JERUSALEM — I had last visited the Temple Mount in 1982, on a synagogue-sponsored trip from New Jersey. My memories of that visit are hazy, but Michal and I got another chance just before Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. We joined a Tel Aviv University-sponsored trip, guided by archeologist/historian Dr. Stephen Rosenberg, whose
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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer-First in a series- By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — This is part one of a five-part series on the emotional states of grief. The poems are excerpted from my book, Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without: Hope and Healing after Loss. Everyone deals with pain differently. What helps me is
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Take a team of writers in Brooklyn and give them a small yet important assignment: Write an illustrated children’s book about global warming and climate change and what kids can do to help. That’s exactly what an “all-in-the-family” writing team did, using the storytelling traditions they grew up with,
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The World We Share
By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO–Rabbi Hillel? Really? According to a number of sources that you figure had decent fact-checkers—like O Magazine and Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird—Rabbi Hillel wrote the following bit of Zen: “I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.” I was so charmed by this saying when I
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) United States District Judge Dana M. Sabraw on Friday, Sept. 19, sentenced Eric S. Levine to 18 months in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from La Jolla’s Congregation Beth El synagogue. Levine served as Beth El’s Executive Director from July 2007 to December 2013, overseeing the synagogue’s annual budget.
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By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) –It was a historical moment at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum on Thursday night, September 18, as the world’s oldest known Jewish prayer book was displayed for the first time to the general public with leading Jewish and Christian figures present. The siddur, which is 1,200 years old, belongs to Steve
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– San Diego REPertory Theatre (San Diego REP) has announced the extension of the critically-acclaimed production of Mona Golabek in The Pianist of Willesden Lane” adapted and directed by Hershey Felder, based on the book “The Children of Willesden Lane by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen. An additional 12 performances have been added to
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, condemned “the hateful anti-Muslim language of Oklahoma State Representative John Bennett,” in a statement by Bend the Arc CEO Stosh Cotler: “It is deeply disturbing when anyone refers to a group of people as a ‘cancer,’ especially when that person is a public official,” Cotler
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