By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — We all have our secret lives. I don’t mean to say that each of us has a sinister side, which we wickedly act out in some deep, dark, private world. What I do mean is that we all act differently when we are alone, or with a […]
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Jewish Religion
SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven Melanie Rubin has no idea whose initials CES are, but she figures that the owner of the license plate has a very lucky number: 18, which, of course, is the numeric value of the Hebrew word for life, “Chai.” So mazal tov, CES, and L’Chaim!
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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — The Palestine Liberation Organization was created in 1964. Like most revolutionary movements, it wrote a Charter to define its aims and fundamental policies, including: Article 17: The partitioning of Palestine, which took place in 1947, and the establishment of Israel are illegal and null and void, regardless of the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Admit it – you’re worried about having enough money during retirement. Does this scenario describe you? You’ve been working for decades. Your kids are grown and mostly self-sufficient. You’ve been contributing to your 401(k), paying off credit cards every month, and dreaming of the day you can afford to
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodBy Sarah Beller WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –Joan Davenny was more than just my eighth grade teacher. As my day school graduating class splashed through Ein Gedi and heard a young kibbutznik’s poem on Yom Hazikaron, walked the ramparts of the Old City and sang “Al Kol Eileh” in the courtyard of Goldstein Youth Village,
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Middle East
Egypt’s Catholic leader says country in a ‘war against terrorism’ (JNS.org) The ongoing turmoil in Egypt “is not a political struggle, but a war against terrorism,” the head of the Catholic Church in Egypt, Bishop Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, Patriarch of Alexandria, said in a recent statement. “With pain, but also with hope, the Catholic Church
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International
The Gods are Broken! The Hidden Legacy of Abraham by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, U. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE as a Jewish Publication Society Book’; ISBN 978-0-8276-0931-0 ©2013, $19.95, p. 133, plus notes and bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The life of Abraham, the first patriarch of the Hebrew nation, is
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — After enacting its ban on the promotion of homosexuality, Russia is defying demands to change its policy or face a boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics there. Putin has dug his heels in and renamed St. Petersburg St. Burg because the mere mention of peters is too homosexually
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Lawrence Baron, USA
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — The Sinai was a bit of heaven; now it is a chunk of hell. Muslims are killing each other in the wilderness where Moses received the Law; in Israel, hands are wringing and hearts are breaking. Since 1979, when Israel dutifully returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, the
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Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— Researchers from Tel Aviv University have unearthed the remains of massive ancient fortifications built around an Iron-Age Assyrian harbor in present-day Israel. At the heart of the well-preserved fortifications is a mud-brick wall up to more than 12 feet wide and 15 feet high. The wall is covered in layers of
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Aryeh Savir TSEMACH, Israel — An Israeli team of scientists has developed a new technology which may enable crops to weather s world-wide drought, thus minimizing famine and strife. The team, led by Professor Shimon Gepstein, Chancellor of the Kinneret College, genetically engineered a plant that can withstand droughts by ‘freezing itself’ after not
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Philip Graubart SHA’AR HANEGEV, Israel — The day before our Israel group visited Sha’ar Hanegev, our sister city in the Northern Negev, one-half kilometer from Gaza City, six missiles fell in the vicinity. When I arrived, I took a quick walk around a youth village with Mayor Alon Schuster and I asked
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Travel and Food
By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California – Some of improv theater’s finest gathered to poke fun at San Diego locals and legends Wednesday night at the Mandell Weiss Forum Theater of La Jolla Playhouse. “The Good, the Bad and the I-5” should have been named “Roasting Bob Filner on a Spit” based on the
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– I have to face it; I’m too heavy. Practically the only time I can see my feet is if I’m sitting down and I cross my legs. Or if I lean back in my Lazy Boy Chair. I had a biometric examination the other day at Grossmont College,
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Donald H. Harrison