By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — After receiving last week’s D’var Torah about hamantaschen, my son, Rabbi Adam Rosenthal, emailed me noting that I was already avoiding dealing with the text of Leviticus, which is primarily concerned with the laws of animal sacrifices, in my weekly column. Since I am on a streak, why […]
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — What would be the relationship between Israel and the Palestinian Authority today, had Obama made the speech he now made in Jerusalem at the beginning of his first four-year term as president rather than at the beginning of the second? Not only would much of the allegedly toxic atmosphere
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Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The visit to Israel of US President Obama caused great excitement for a variety of reasons. The first was why had he come? Was it to reach an agreement regarding dealing with Iran’s steady progress towards a nuclear bomb or to exert pressure towards a solution of the
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEG0 — The local baker was plotting to poison the Jews of Prague. His fiendish plan was to use our own holiday against us. He knew that the Jews did not eat bread during that holiday of Pesach, and that the day after the holiday, they came in droves to
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Jewish ReligionAcre mayor shot in apparent assassination attempt (JNS.org) Acre Mayor Shimon Lankri was shot in the chest on Thursday night in what the police have called an apparent assassination attempt, Israel Hayom reported. Lankri, 51, suffered moderate wounds and was rushed to the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya. He is hospitalized under police guard. The
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InternationalBy Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California — It’s really a puzzlement trying to figure out who the producers of Avenue Q had in mind for an audience for their puppet show, since the production is too cloyingly cutesy for grownups and too explicitly sexual for kids. (In fact, the show comes with a warning: “Not
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Cynthia CitronSPRINGFIELD, N.J. (Press Release)–Congregation Beth Am and Temple Solel in San Diego County, California, have partnered with Behrman House, the leading publisher of textbooks and multi-media educational materials for Jewish religious schools, to bring the company’s Online Learning Center (OLC) to the fingertips of Hebrew students and teachers alike. Behrman House introduced the OLC last year
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Jewish ReligionBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Obama has had an opportunity during his visit to see some of Israel’s pioneering technology. The list (with thanks to Tom Gross) includes energy alternatives; search and rescue technology; a bionic exoskeleton that allows paraplegics to walk; and a “third eye” camera that helps prevent automobile collisions. If
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Shoshana BryenWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– Congressman Scott Peters (CA-52), continuing Congresswoman Susan Davis’ efforts, introduced a bipartisan bill on Thursday, March 21, to name a new federal courthouse in San Diego after judges James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep, who were trailblazers in their field. The James M. Carter and Judith N. Keep Federal Courthouse Naming
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San Diego CountyHere is the text of President Barack Obama‘s address Thursday at the Jerusalem Convention Center, as prepared for delivery (and below that are his comments in Ramalah, Palestine Authority, with PA President Mahmoud Abbas. Remarks of President Barack Obama To the People of Israel Jerusalem Convention Center March 21, 2013 Shalom. It is an honor
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Middle EastNetanyahu to Obama in Israel: Diplomacy and sanctions have not stopped Iran (JNS.org) President Barack Obama in Israel dismissed a U.S. policy of containment for the Iranian nuclear threat and echoed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that the Jewish state has the right to “defend itself, by itself” during a joint press conference with the
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InternationalBy Yaakov Lappin JINSA Visiting Fellow U.S. President Barack Obama is in Israel today on for his first state visit here. He will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss three core strategic security issues. The first issue will undoubtedly be Iran’s nuclear program, an issue that dwarfs all others in terms of
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Middle East(JNS.org) A bipartisan letter signed by more than three-fourths of the U.S. Senate urged President Barack Obama to stand by Israel ahead of his trip to the Middle East. The letter, signed by 78 U.S. senators including U.S. Sen Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and supported by the America Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), asks Obama to “reaffirm
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USABy Rabbi Jack Abramowitz NEW YORK — “Now, the man Moshe was very humble, more so than any person on the face of the Earth” – Numbers 12:3 A famous and familiar verse. But if Moshe Rabbeinu is our role model for humility, who is our Biblical exemplar for ego? There are a lot of
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