By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California –My paternal grandfather was a Torah scribe. He spent his days carefully drawing the Hebrew letters that made up the Torah, the most sacred of Jewish texts. Writing on thin parchment paper made from the skin of a kosher animal, he began by carefully marking thin pencil lines that […]
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By Ozzie Nogg OMAHA, Nebraska — Pesach is coming, so make sure to kasher your water. In his coverage of the Middle East peace process, freelance journalist Andy Rowell writes, “As much as the conflict between Israel and Palestine is about religion and access to land, it is also about resources and who controls those
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Last December, Jerusalem was under siege because of the snowstorm; today Sunday, March 2, it’s under siege because of the half-a-million or more ultra-Orthodox haredim due to come out to demonstrate against the proposed conscription law that would not only compel their young men to serve in the army
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–As a matter of halacha, Rabbi Victoria Armour-Hileman was always Jewish, as she was born to a Jewish mother But growing up, she followed the ways of her Irish Catholic father, attending Catholic parochial schools, and even working for six years in Hong Kong and Thailand as a Maryknoll Lay
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-You may have noticed in the newspaper this week that Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, passed away. If you read further into her obituary, you would discover that this remarkable woman had a career as a pianist which spanned from the 1920s until her death. Nominated for an Oscar
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Tea Party celebrated its fifth anniversary. It held its commemorative dinner at McDonald’s to demonstrate the Party’s commitment to fiscal conservatism and opposition to the nanny state. When no one offered to pay the bill, the attendees refused to recognize the authority of the police to force them
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Guess what? There is another proposal for solving Israel’s problem with the Palestinians. Michael Oren, recently Israeli Ambassador to the US, has proposed that Israel recognize the impossibility of reaching a deal with the Palestinians, define its borders, withdraw from the rest of the West Bank, and hope for the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
CHICAGO (Press Release)- During the 125th annual Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) Convention, over 60 Reform rabbis will shave their heads to raise awareness of and funding for pediatric cancer research. As the religious leadership of Reform Judaism, the CCAR Rabbis strive for justice and health in the world for all people. The “Shave
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Science, Medicine, & EducationThe Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice by Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; ISBN 978-0-691-16215-7 ©2011 (paperback edition ©2014), $24.95, p. 235, including appendices, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Kabbalah is the hidden and esoteric theology of Judaism. Kabbalists believe that Moses received this secret wisdom
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
Editor’s Note: The following review of The Sheep Look Up, by John Brunner, was reviewed by Alan Weiss, edited by Rabbi Judy Weiss, both members of Citizens Climate Lobby, Boston chapter. The review grew out of a letter exchange that the rabbi had with San Diego Jewish World following publication of an article by Dan
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NEW YORK (Press Release)– In celebration of Black History month and to commemorate the legacy of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the State of Israel, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York and the Jewish National Fund honored Dr. Clarence B. Jones, co-author of Dr. King’s famous ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech, and Reverend
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