By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Conductor Murry Sidlin is well-remembered by San Diegans for his creative programs with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. For many years, he was the conductor of the Classical Hits series. He also did a stint as conductor of the Summer Pops and, later, conducted the Light Bulb series. Most […]
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Eileen Wingard
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — “Religion is good for you.” “A religious person is a mentally healthy person.” Statements such as these could not have been made when I was a graduate student in psychology back in the 1960s. Quite the contrary. The prevalent belief in the mental health profession then was
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Jewish ReligionBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Recently I received an interesting email from two sisters in Ontario, Canada, who wanted to know if there was a Jewish museum in San Diego or anything else Jewish that they could see on a planned 2 1/2 day visit to our city. What I told them in the body
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Donald H. HarrisonLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — A leadership gift of $1 million from San Diego philanthropists Joan and Irwin Jacobs will help UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center change how cancer is treated by supporting the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, a newly established center headed by Razelle Kurzrock, M.D. The UC San Diego Moores Cancer
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Science, Medicine, & Education
Saudi airline under fire for discrimination against Israeli passengers (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) New York City mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio said on Monday that Saudi Arabian Airlines should be excluded from U.S. airports if it doesn’t stop discriminating against Israeli passengers. “Saudi Arabian Airlines uses U.S. airports and yet bans Israeli citizens from being
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InternationalBy Rabbi Jonah Geffen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tisha B’Av, which took place this last week, is a time for each of us to experience anew the tragedies that have befallen our people over the centuries – and yet it is also a time to renew our emotional ties to Israel and to look forward
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Jewish ReligionBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The pressure on politicians to rush to judgments about their fellow politicians must be overwhelming. On Monday, Democratic Congressman Scott Peters, who has been constantly badgered by the Republican National Committee to join in the howls for Mayor Bob Filner’s resignation, succumbed. So too did Democratic Congresswoman Susan
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Donald H. HarrisonKnesset committee designates a memorial day for Jewish refugees of Arab states (JNS.org) The Knesset Ministerial Committee for Legislation endorsed a new proposal on Sunday that will mark Nov. 30 as a national day to commemorate the more than 850,000 Jews who fled or were evicted from their homes in Arab countries after Israel’s establishment,
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International
By Alan Muskovitz DETROIT–We all face challenges. Health. Financial. Challenges that test us. It’s part of the human equation. No one gets by unscathed. But you know the saying – “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Yeah, well trying convincing someone of that after they’ve attempted to “seamlessly” switch their phone service
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Travel and Food
WASHINGTON (Press Release)– Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life today announced that Eric Fingerhut will serve as its president and CEO. The appointment was approved unanimously on Sunday by the Hillel Board of Directors, who met in New York. “Eric is an ideal fit for Hillel at this important time in our history,” said
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USA
The Modern Menu. Simple. Beautiful. Kosher by Kim Kushner, photography by Andrew Zuckerman; Gefen Publishing House, Jerusalem, 2013/5773. Softcover ISBN 978-965-229-632-0. Hardcover ISBN 978-965-229-611-5. 152 pages. No printed price in the book but prices vary online. By Melanie Ross SAN DIEGO — Upon opening this beautiful cookbook I expected a frumme looking woman dressed in
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Travel and Food
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM — The IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai wished Muslim citizens in Israel and across the world a Ramadan kareem, or blessed Ramadan, in a video message posted on the IDF YouTube account. The Israeli general spoke in Arabic with English subtitles throughout the video. “I would like to wish Israel’s
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Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California–The problem is not what we know; it’s what we feel. We do not really know what happened: for the vast majority of us, it happened somewhere else (in the previously unknown town of Sanford, Fla.), we have relied entirely on the cloying media with its pundits and professional oracles,
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USA
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO –Fifty years after its publication, Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem continues to polarize public discourse. Margarethe von Trotta’s thought provoking but flawed film rekindles the fiery debates over Arendt’s characterization of Eichmann as a dutiful bureaucrat and her charge that the Jewish Councils abetted the Holocaust by complying with German
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