By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — A few years ago our youngest daughter, Margalit, called us on my day off. “Where are you?” she asked. “At the cemetery,” we replied. “What are you doing there?” she asked. “Picking out graves!” we answered. We freaked her out. While Judy and I were not expecting […]
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Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–The Slonimer Rebbe, of blessed memory, asked: On Friday night when we sit down to our Shabbos meal the first thing we do is welcome the Angels into our home. ‘Shalom Aleichem! Malachei HaShareis.’ We recite ‘Peace unto you, oh ministering angels.’ Hashem (G-d) sends the holiest guests to our
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Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — When more than 100 million people vote, there is no end of the interpretations that are possible. And when they select one president, more than 450 members of the national legislature, and who knows how many officials of state governments, there is a huge range of possible impacts on public
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Ira Sharkansky, USABarak: Iran slows nuclear weapons development by 8 months (JNS.org) Perhaps the cartoon worked? Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israel’s Channel 2 Nov. 8 that Iran has slowed its nuclear weapons development by about eight months through the diversion of some enriched uranium from military to civilian use. Back in September, Israeli Prime Minister
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International
SAN DIEGO– One of Israel’s foremost performers of Yemenite music — Sagiv Cohen — says he finds surprising similarities in mood and lyrics between the historic songs of African-Americans and those of the Jews of Yemen. In San Diego on a private family visit, Cohen explained that both peoples — African-Americans during the time of
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Donald H. Harrison
By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida — J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace lobby in Washington and JStreetPAC endorsed 71 candidates for Congress and 70 were elected. J Street PAC raised a record 1.8 million dollars to help their candidates. “This is an incredible victory,” said Jeremy Ben-Ami, the founder and president of the organization.
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Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will present its first series of concerts of the 2012-13 season on Sunday, November 18 at 3:00 pm, and Tuesday the 20th at 7:30 pm. Both concerts will be at the synagogue’s Cohen Social Hall. These programs will feature Armando Pesqueira as guest conductor, and pianist Kanae
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Travel and Food
The Philosophy of the Hebrew Scripture by Yoram Hazony, Cambridge University Press, New York; ISBN 978-0-521-17667-5 ©2012, $24.99, p. 273, plus notes and indices. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –Placing the word “philosophy” next to the expression “Hebrew Scriptures” seems to be incongruous; after all, philosophy is about using reason to find “truths” to
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Recently I learned, to some shock, that one of the people who helped make the Top Gun school at Miramar Naval Air Station famous–Ehud Yonay –had died of brain cancer on August 21 at age 71 in Israel. Yonay, a journalist and a student of the military, had written
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Donald H. HarrisonSean Savage/JNS.org Nov. 6 was a mixed night for Jews vying for a seat in the 113th Congress, as redistricting played a role in several key Jewish races. Jewish Democrats had varied success, while Jewish Republicans failed in their bid to join U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) as the lone Jewish Republican in both
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USAIDF: 3 mortars from Syria land in Golan (JNS.org) Three 82-millimeter mortar rounds fired from Syria landed inside the Golan Heights on Thursday, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), marking the third time in six days that Syria’s civil war affected the Jewish state. One mortat round fell near the Alonei Habashan community, about 700
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International
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –The Republican Party needs to be introspective at this time of our country’s history. As I think about the collapse of the Romney campaign for the Presidency, I think Gov. Romney missed several opportunities to win this election. Part of the problem has a lot to
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A reminder to the administration: the enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend. The friend of my friend is not necessarily my friend. And the friend of my enemy is not necessarily my enemy, but he may be not by my friend, either. Friends, in fact, are
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — A recent study entitled Israel and the Campus counted a disproportionate number of anti-Israel incidents occurring on University of California and other elite campuses. It said “the most serious problem faced on campus is not from student activities, but from faculty” who “habitually abuse their academic freedom and have
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