By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–One morning the revered Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky, zt”l, was about to enter Mesivta Torah Vodaath, when a teenager sprinted forward to open the door for him. The boy was holding his own Tefillin while also holding the door open for him to enter. Rav Yaakov stopped at the […]
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — The Torah says in parashat Emor: “You shall have one standard for the stranger and citizen alike: for I the Lord am your God.” As I hope you know, I think hachnasat orchim, welcoming visitors, is one of the most important mitzvot that members of a congregation can
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Holocaust denial cases up 77 percent in Canada (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose by 3.7 percent in 2012, and Holocaust denial rose 77 percent, an annual audit revealed. The report released by the League for Human Rights of B’nai B’rith Canada showed that there were 1,345 anti-Semitic incidents in Canada in
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InternationalJERUSALEM (Press Release) — A delegation led by the Governor of the State of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, pledged cooperation with The Hebrew University’s Faculty of Medicine during a visit to The Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine on Tuesday, April 23. During the visit, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Hebrew University president, Prof. Menahem
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–As a teenager growing up in her native Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Myrna Cohen was already soloing with the Conservative Synagogue Choir where her mother, Goldie, an opera singer, was a hired professional. Myrna was the soloist at her confirmation and went on to teach music at religious schools and Jewish camps. The
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Michelle Guefen will star in J*Company’s upcoming production of Hello, Dolly! at the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, May 3-12. For tickets and information go to www.sdcjc.org/jcompany. By Michelle Guefen LA JOLLA, California — This May, I will be embodying the role of Dolly Levi in J*Company’s production of Hello, Dolly! It is the
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release) — Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress (WJC), strongly condemned an article by the special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Richard A. Falk, in which he blames the terrorist attacks at the Boston Marathon earlier this month on Israel and on American foreign policy. In an
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USABEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) has signed a cooperation agreement with the Galapagos National Park to aid conservation of the endangered islands’ biological diversity. “In spite of excellent management and meticulous policing of ecotourism, a full-blown ecological disaster is unfolding before our eyes,
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Aryeh Savir UNITED NATIONS, New York — Ambassador Ron Prosor, Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, spoke Wednesday, April 24, during the UN Security Council’s monthly debate on the Middle East. During his statement he noted that: “Earlier this month, the Iranian delegate…had the audacity to say the following ‘the transfer of arms to
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Middle EastBy Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid Anti-Israel activists spin tales about alleged Israeli human rights abuses to instill hostility against the Jewish state. They have had an impact, but not one desired by most fair-minded people. The false allegations have served as a decoy, distracting the UN, NGOs, churches, students and the wider public from the
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Middle EastRock-thrower sentenced for killing Israeli man and son (JNS.org) Israel’s Ofer Base Military Court on Wednesday sentenced Waal al-Arja, a former officer in the Palestinian Authority’s security forces who was convicted of the 2011 murders of 30-year-old Asher Palmer and his year-old son Yonatan, to two consecutive life terms with an additional 58 years,
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InternationalTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Because it has no source of energy, a dead star — known as a white dwarf — will eventually cool down and fade away. But circumstantial evidence suggests that white dwarfs can still support habitable planets, says Prof. Dan Maoz of Tel Aviv University’s School of Physics and Astronomy. Now Prof.
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Recently I came across an interesting but unusual halachic question: Can a Jewish pimp receive an Aliya on Shabbat? The original questioned pertained to a pimp who was the only Levite in his community. The question came to the attention of the famous Iraqi Sephardic Rabbi
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Artist Peter Max is a busy, peripatetic man. He squeezed my telephone interview with him into a New York City cab, which he directed, on Wednesday, April 24, to “turn left on 83rd Street” en route to an appointment. He arrived at his destination within nine minutes, so
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