By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Although helping those in need is one of my fundamental guiding principles, I rarely give to individuals who solicit funds on street corners. When someone with a sign reading “Anything Helps. God Bless” walks by my car I usually look away. I am never sure whether such people
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Jewish ReligionJewish man who helped Sandy Hook children harassed (JNS.org) Gene Rosen, a Jewish man who found and sheltered six terrified children who had run away from the shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary school on December 14, 2012, is being harassed by phone and email by conspiracy theorists who believe that the Newtown shooting was
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman The following illuminating excerpt from Season of Life, published by Simon & Schuster, was submitted to ShulWeek by Josh Lintz, Kew Gardens Hills, NY: In today’s excerpt – as reported by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Marx, Gilman High School in Maryland has an unusual and highly successful football team. And
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Jewish ReligionBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — In an article published last week in the Times of Israel, Jessica Steinberg welcomed “a remarkable first for the Israeli film industry: Two local films were named Thursday among the five documentaries nominated for the Best Documentary Oscar.” The Gatekeepers directed by Dror Moreh and Five Broken Cameras directed
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Dan Fulop, Bob Breitbard: San Diego’s Sports Keeper,” AuthorHouse, (c) 2012; ISBN 978-1-4634-1020-9, 166 pages including notes and bibliography. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Sportsman Bob Breitbard devoted his life to recognizing athletes and to making San Diego a professional sports town. He was the man who built the Sports Arena (now called
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As President Obama stood with Afghan President Karzai to announce the “Afghanization” of the war, it seems appropriate to weigh the president’s words on the way out against his words on the way in. We were in Afghanistan, of course, long before he got there, but the president’s 2009
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Shoshana Bryen, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The San Diego Jewish Film Festival, announces its 23rd season with an 11-day run, February 7-17, 2013, featuring 47 films and shorts from 10 different countries. Heralded as the largest Jewish cultural event in San Diego, the festival expects to draw over 16,000 patrons to four convenient venues around the county:
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San Diego CountyBy Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California — They have done it again. Five hundred thirty seven elected officials in Washington and their thousands of aides, staff, lawyers, and lobbyists using tons of expensive modern equipment, could not produce, after months of bickering, mutual blaming and accusing, a just and lasting solution to the financial mess
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USAIsrael to open exhibit on biblical King Herod (JNS.org) The Jerusalem-based Israel Museum is scheduled in February to open an exhibit on the infamous biblical Jewish king, Herod the Great, the Associated Press reported. King Herod plays a significant role in Christianity, appearing in the Gospel of Matthew as the bloodthirsty tyrant behind the
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InternationalBy Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—-Some might deem Willy Russell’s 1980’s comedy Educating Rita dated and irrelevant. It is, however, very current and well, quite relevant given the current state of our much maligned public educational system. Russell’s play takes us to a University in the North of England at a time when some major
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–We were told that Israel’s prime minister tried to interfere in the US presidential elections last year by siding with Mitt Romney against the victorious Barack Obama. The latter has now returned the compliment by seemingly interfering in the Israeli elections. That’s the received and probably correct interpretation of the comments
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The Rabbi’s Cat, an animated French-language, English-subtitled film playing in a limited engagement at Landmark’s Hillcrest Theatre from Friday, Jan. 18 through Thursday, Jan. 24, is an adventure story in which a talking cat, his rabbi master, an Arab sheikh, an exiled czarist Russian and a Russian Jewish
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Alan Eisner WASHINGTON, D.C. — The furor that has surrounded the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be President Obama’s Secretary of Defense has shed a searing light on the way some political lobbies operate these days in Washington. Some seem to take their cue from a classic Monty Python sketch,“Nobody Expects the
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — U.S. President Barack Obama has been quoted as saying that “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are.” This report about the President’s sentiments did not come directly from the President, but has been filtered through a journalist reporting what the President said to him, or what he heard
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