Michael and Paula Mantell: Tips for a healthy lifestyle

    By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — How can one have a healthier and more meaningful lifestyle? The psychologist Dr. Michael Mantell likes to use acronyms when conveying his healing messages as he believes they are a helpful way for people to remember them. For him, the acronym PERMA conveys an important message as […]

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Michael Mantell, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Jewish lawmakers favoring Obama power plants plan

WASHINGTON, D.C. (SDJW)–The Jewish delegation in Congress generally reacted with favor to an announcement from the Obama Administration on Monday, June 2, that states will be required to cut their emissions from power plants by 30 percent over the next 16 years.  Jewish organizations that take positions on environmental legislation also had positive reactions. Sen.

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Travel and Food

Bravos for Matathias and Stanislovsky

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — With rhythmic incisiveness, virtuosic flair and technique to burn, Asi Matathias, violin and Victor Stanislovsky, piano, performed a riveting violin-piano recital last Thursday evening at the Lyceum Theatre. The America-Israel Cultural Foundation co-sponsored the evening, part of the Lipinsky Jewish Arts Festival. All proceeds went to the America-Israel Cultural

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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County

Israel will boycott new Palestinian gov’t, but U.S. will continue doing business with it if Hamas not involved

  -San Diego Jewish World roundup- Israel’s Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu at his Cabinet meeting on Sunday, June 1, urged the world to refrain from recognizing the new unity Palestinian government, but Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swore in the new government’s members anyway. In a blow to Israel, the U.S. State Department on June 2

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Middle East, USA

JNS news briefs: June 2, 2014

Israeli, U.S. leaders express concern over Palestinian unity government (JNS.org) Israeli and American leaders expressed concern with the announcement of a new Palestinian unity government between Fatah and Hamas. In a telephone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry “expressed concern about Hamas’s role in any such government and

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International

Orthodox school celebrates women of Judaism

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, celebrating its 51st anniversary two nights before Erev Shavuot, paid tribute to two women of the Bible and to three women who have been essential to the school’s own success. Bobbe Reitman, the school nurse, was honored as volunteer of the year.

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

‘From flower to fruit;’ or to put it another way, ‘We fulfill our purpose by letting ourselves shine’

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –A flower bud in the spring has closed petals, but potential. If the bud is placed in water with dappled sunlight, it will open into a lovely flower. But if the water is too cool or too warm, or the sun too hot or a draft too cold,

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Travel and Food

A thoughtful book by the founder of Jewish Renewal

Gate to the Heart: A Manual of Contemplative Jewish Practice by Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi with editors Netanel Miles-Yépez and Robert Micha’el Esformes, Albion-Andalus, Boulder, Colorado; ISBN 978-0-61594-456-2 ©2013, $13.00, p. 118, plus Recommendations for Further Reading By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, co-author of more than a dozen books on various

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