By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–Among the hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews that gathered to protest the government’s proposed military draft law yesterday, there were countless women and children. Police estimated that about half a million Haredim gathered on Sunday afternoon at the nation’s capital, with 2,000 busses bringing in demonstrators from outside, in a united
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Middle EastBy Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — It might seem trite to bring up “elder fraud” again. Trite as it might seem, it is real and happening NOW! Oy vey! A good friend called me last week, upset after finding out about her parents’ experience. It went like this: Her mother received a phone call early
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Sheryl Rowling
Editor’s Note: Following is a response to “Muslims, Jews See the World Differently,” a column by Professor Ira Sharkansky that ran on San Diego Jewish World on February 24, 2014: By Jacob Bender PHILADELPHIA — The essence of xenophobia is to extend to an entire group the actions of the few. Based upon the financial
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—My very first job as a young teenager was working as a busboy in a Los Angeles cafeteria called Ontra’s. I was fired after a single shift, with the manager telling me: “We need someone to clean the tables, not to talk with the customers.” I was a schmoozer back
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Adventures in SD History
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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Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
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