By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — The sounds of Tibetan monks chanting, an Iranian playing the santoor, western African style music, Rastafarian and reggae beats, as well as some Israeli rock, among other musical genres could recently be heard pulsating from Jerusalem’s Tower of David in the Old City. The international and local rhythms made up […]
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Middle East
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Although I usually review films that deal with Jewish themes, I’m devoting this week’s column to The Butler (the director’s name was added to the title because Warner Brothers sued over copyright infringement of a silent movie entitled The Butler) because it has been the number one box-office
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Astor Orphan by Alexandra Aldrich; Harper Collins, 2012, 259p By David Strom CHULA VISTA, California — Recently, I read an interview with Alexandra Aldrich published in the Forward. What interested me in the interview was that Aldrich, a member of the famous Astor family, was a Jew, an ultra-orthodox Jew. She had just written a
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Travel and Food
Israeli police come under attack during anti-terror raid, three Palestinian rioters killed (JNS.org) Israeli border police on a raid to apprehend a terror suspect in the Palestinian refugee camp Qalandia near Ramallah were attacked by more than 1,500 Palestinian rioters, resulting in deadly clashes that left three Palestinians dead. The Israeli Border Police were in
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InternationalBy Nancy K. Kaufman There’s a funny thing about anniversaries — just as we look back with nostalgia on the way things were, too, do we inevitably reflect on how things have changed in the intervening years. So it is as we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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USA
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Have you ever thought what it would be like to find yourself alone in a strange foreign city with no reference points, no human connections, no means of communication? That’s the position Anne (Mary Margaret O’Hara) finds herself in in filmmaker Jem Cohen’s lyric poem of a film, Museum
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — An internet friend writes that settlements are at the heart of Israel’s sins, and its problems with world public opinion. My friend has been careful to distinguish the different places labeled settlements, but he also falls into the practice of lumping them all into one problem. In this, he accepts
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastTEL AVIV (Press Release)— When’s the last time you heard prostitution and mothering mentioned in the same sentence? Prof. Einat Peled of Tel Aviv University’s Bob Shapell School of Social Work is willing to bet it wasn’t recently. In a new study, Peled and her co-researcher Tal Levin-Rotberg, a social worker at the Israel Health
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The cheers of politicians over the resignation of Mayor Bob Filner may soon turn to gasps of horror when they realize that they too may become subject to trial by media circus. For the women who came forward to complain about Filner’s behavior, perhaps Friday’s denouement of San Diego’s
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Once upon a time, some American tourists went to Mexico on a vacation; they toured some hot springs, where they saw the natives washing their clothes! One tourist said to his guide, “My, isn’t wonderful how Mother Nature provides her children with hot water to wash their
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)–Teens listening to their preferred music while driving commit a greater number of errors and miscalculations, according to a new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers that will be published in the October issue of Accident Analysis and Prevention. Male novice drivers in particular make more frequent and serious mistakes
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — I must confess that it was with regret that I learned that soon-to-be-former Mayor Bob Filner will resign. With his resignation I lose the butt of some of my recent jokes. (“Did you hear that the synagogue is cancelling its sexual harassment training program this year? In its
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO (Press Release)- After three years of direct grant making through its San Diego County Small Grant Program, Weingart Foundation has announced that, as of August 2013, the program will be managed by the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego (JCF). This exciting re-granting relationship is designed to maintain Weingart Foundation’s commitment to San
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San Diego CountyBy Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is hard to look at the photographs. American newspapers are showing largely sanitized versions, so you’re safe. But Twitter feeds and UK newspapers such as the Daily Mail don’t hesitate to show the full horror. Hundreds of beautiful children, all dead, most of them wrapped
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