By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK –Very often, we think that if a person is especially spiritual, he cannot possibly be very practical. It is as if religious devotion and good common sense just don’t go together. My own experience has taught me that, on the contrary, some of the soundest advice I have […]
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Jewish ReligionBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — In six months I will mark the end of my first century. I have been searching for a way to celebrate my hundredth birthday that will give the world something worthwhile after I am gone. A year ago I wrote on these pages that the Cairo codex,
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Jewish History, Middle East, Travel and FoodBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – Chronic exposure to rocket attacks launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel is causing an increase in severe adolescent violence, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers. The study, published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP), followed
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eric George Tauber VISTA, California — When Todd Salovey directed his first Jewish Arts Festival, his daughter was a babe in his arms. Today, she’s a young woman living in Israel and like her, the festival has grown healthy and strong, imbued with a profound knowledge of her heritage. Such was the sense of
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By David Amos SAN DIEGO — If you like music for the classical violin, these concerts are certainly for you. The eminent violinist and recording artist Jacques Israelievitch will be the guest soloist of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra in two programs which will have, yes, three major violin concerto masterpieces of the classic repertoire,
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The Jewish Federation of San Diego County will sponsor the Super Hero 5k and BBQ on June 9 to aid the victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings through The One Fund of Boston. The family-friendly event will take place at Liberty Station in San Diego. Participants are encouraged to dress up
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San Diego CountyBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Turkey is the latest point of fascination for those who dream about the spread of democracy in the Middle East. The reportage and commentary is more subdued than what came in response to the demonstrations that began more than two years ago. Deaths climbing toward or above 100,000 in Syria, continued unrest
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Middle East
Kerry says time is running out on peace process (JNS.org) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned that time is running out on the peace process during a speech at the American Jewish Committee’s Global Forum in Washington, DC. “We’re running out of time. We’re running out of possibilities. And let’s be clear: If we
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InternationalNo real peace without end to Palestinian incitement, Ya’alon says (JNS.org) Peace agreements between Israel and the Palestinians could be signed on paper, but as long as the Palestinians still educate their youth to hate Israelis, the peace “will blow up in our faces,” Israeli Defense Minister Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon said Monday. “The crux of
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International
By Sheryl Rowling DEL MAR, California — As you know, I’m not a food critic – at least not a published one. Yet, I got invited to the San Diego County Fair’s media night last Friday. So, I feel obliged to write about it! What can a financial person do with this subject? I can
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San Diego County, Sheryl RowlingBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School celebrated its 50th anniversary on Sunday night, June 2, at a banquet featuring recollections of two of the school’s pioneer board presidents and a tribute to the late philanthropists Morrie and Barbara Steiman who helped the Orthodox Jewish school surmount some tough financial
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By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson TEL AVIV–Going to gala concerts isn’t really our thing, but when the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra announced that in honor of its return to the refurbished Heichal Hatarbut (Palace of Culture), its home in Tel Aviv, it would be performing Mahler’s fifth symphony, along with Beethoven’s violin concerto (with Itzhak Perlman as soloist)
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Things have never been better for many of us. Europeans are quarreling rather than killing one another. Jews are capable of reaching the top of virtually all professions, with decent housing and no worry about gentlemen’s agreements or restrictive covenants, and safe from plunder and pogroms. Life expectancy and other good stuff
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California–As even the Supreme Court takes up the issue of same-sex marriage, and the issue finally appears to have captured the heart of humanity in every sense, some folks are again presuming the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King in the name of something he actually never addressed. If one
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