By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –One of the most memorable experiences I had growing up in the Orthodox Jewish world, as a young man, was the sanctity the community placed on human life. In matters of Kashrut and Shabbat, there was little compromise among the Hassidic and Haredi communities. They live in
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — “Words, words, words!”, he shouted at me. He was a young man, raised as an observant Jew, but now in rebellion against his traditional upbringing. His parents had asked me to meet with him for several sessions to see if I could at least temper his
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish Federation of San Diego County will present a special Holocaust commemoration (Yom Hashoah) program at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, April 7. This Holocaust commemoration has been held in San Diego for more than three decades and last year, was the largest in the United States with more than 700 people in
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San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I’ve reconciled myself to the fact that Sheli Yachimovitch isn’t taking my advice that Labor should join the Netanyahu government. But can she survive as party leader having turned down the Shas guru, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who is said to have even been prepared to call on her
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Middle EastSenate foreign relations chair Menendez: No ‘blank check’ to Egypt (JNS.org) WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the new chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Tuesday told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference that U.S. aid to Egypt should be contingent upon Egypt upholding its 1979 peace treaty with Israel. “American
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International
Editor Donald H. Harrison has recently returned from a roundtrip cruise between San Diego and the Hawaiian Islands. Following is his second in a series of stories. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — If you want the chance to meet someone and have an interesting conversation, involving hearing another perspective, take a cruise, like
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Donald H. HarrisonReport: Hamas refused missiles with tracking devices (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Hamas refused to receive a shipment of missiles that were smuggled into the Gaza Strip from Libya across the Sinai desert, after it was discovered that they contained espionage and surveillance devices which would enable Israel to track the missiles, an Egyptian news website
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InternationalBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — An amazing letter written by 21-year-old Gabriella Labson from Munkarcs, Czechoslovakia, to Lord Josiah Wedgewood in London, resulted in the rescue of Gabriella and her younger brother from the Nazi scourge. Lord Wedgewood was a member of the British House of Lords, a gentile Zionist who had visited Munkarcs,
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Eileen WingardBy Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO — Can you present 4,000 years of Jewish history in 5 minutes? No, but in the coming 5-Minute Play Festival, sponsored by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, we are promised a theatrical glimpse into some of the many facets of the Jewish life. The brain child of SDCJC producer D.
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Community Foundation held its second annual Peter Chortek Leadership Award Ceremony recently to honor three extraordinary young individuals’ service and leadership contributions to the community. Jenna Arocha, Jonathan Feldman and Sasha Pines were each awarded $3,600 and each received an additional $1,800 in a donor advised fund at the
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San Diego County
Editor Donald H. Harrison has recently returned from a roundtrip cruise between San Diego and the Hawaiian Islands. Following is his first in a series of stories. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The late Ted Geisel of La Jolla, a.k.a Dr. Seuss, enthusiastically wrote in one of his children’s books about
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In the course of the election campaign last January, Yair Lapid, the leader of the new party Yesh Atid, declared that he very much wanted to be part of the next Netanyahu government. Naftali Bennet, the head of the Zionist, settler-nationalist, largely Orthodox party Habayit Hayehudi had election posters
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Bibi has finished the four weeks provided by the President to create a government, and has received the two-week extension allowed by law to the President’s discretion. Prospects are not good, with the two contentious camps of the Haredim and anti-Haredim cursing and threatening one another. Bibi says that he
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Two major and roughly equal-sized branches of the Jewish people live in Israel and the United States. We are separated by distance and diverging more and more by culture. In other words, we are gradually becoming (or have already become) two different people. This is a very unfortunate
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USA