By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — After Torah School on Wednesday, Judaica teacher Cheryl Katz, told me about her experience teaching her students about parashat Nitzavim: “You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God…to enter into the Covenant of the Lord your God….” (Deut. 29:9-11) She was trying to explain […]
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Jewish ReligionBy Jeffrey F. Barken/JNS.org Speaking over lively klezmer music in a Krakow café, Canadian author and freelance journalist Menachem Kaiser wonders if Jewish readers are comfortable with the term “Jewish fiction.” Kaiser is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in Lithuania, where he teaches creative writing. His story, Din, was recently published alongside several prominent
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Travel and FoodBy Israel Hayom and JNS.org Israel stepped up security after a controversial American film, Innocence of Muslims, sparked protests at U.S. embassies in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. In Libya, U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other diplomats were killed. Several dozen protesters from the Islamic Movement’s northern branch demonstrated outside the U.S. Embassy in
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Middle EastSome U.S. counties late in sending ballots to voters in Israel (JNS.org) Several U.S. counties are planning to send out absentee ballots to registered voters living abroad later than is required by federal law, essentially rendering these votes irrelevant, Israel Hayom reported. In a statement issued by iVoteIsrael— a group of American expats living in
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — An Israeli should be careful in criticizing the United States. One reason is pragmatic. The United States–like all the rulers of empires in the past–holds our fate in its hands. True, the United States does not aspire to rule in the fashion of Rome or latter day Britain, but the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy David P. Goldman The Obama administration is baffled by the Egyptian government’s response to the Sept. 11 attack on the American embassy in Cairo. It took President Mohamed Morsi two days to denounce the assault on the embassy, and even then he placed the blame on a hitherto unnoticed clip posted on YouTube rather
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By David Brin ENCINITAS, California — Let’s start with a simple wager. During this election please count the number of times that Republican candidates actually run on their party’s record. How often do they speak of their periods in power, which were far more extensive than the Democrats’? Any statistically measurable accomplishments or proved positive effects?
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USA“Remember the days of old; consider the generations long past. Ask your father and he will tell you, your elders, and they will explain to you.”—Deuteronomy 32:7 By Dr. Erica Brown/JNS.org It’s that time again: a new Hebrew year is upon us. It’s time for the Jewish year in review based on a mandate
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Jewish ReligionBy Ben Cohen/JNS.org If you’re looking for an online aggregator of Israel-bashing articles, you could do a great deal worse than visit Open Zion, the website edited by the darling of America’s Jewish far left, Peter Beinart. All the obsessions of today’s anti-Zionists are neatly organized there, in the form of hand-wringing tracts about Rachel
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By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—North Coast repertory Theatre in Solana Beach is celebrating its 31st season. For this, a big Shout Out is due. On the occasion of this birthday, they are also mounting the San Diego Premiere of Steve Martin’s adaptation of Carl Sternheim’s 1911 Die Hose or translated, The Underpants. Tantalizing? Titillating?
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Nancy, my wife and co-publisher, and I both are absolutely certain that the grandmother of our columnist Bruce Kesler made wonderful mandelbread, and that Bruce has been faithful to her recipe. So we imagine that if Nancy accepts Bruce’s challenge to a mandelbread cook-off, anybody who comes
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Donald H. HarrisonObama says Egypt neither ally nor enemy as protests spread to Yemen (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) As violent anti-American protests spread to Yemen on Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama said the U.S. “would not consider Egypt an ally, but we would not consider them an enemy.” In his first interview since the murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris
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InternationalBy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture has brought us a rare opportunity to meet three Russian scientists who have immigrated to the United States. For each of these gifted and dedicated individuals, their arrival accompanied the freedom of expression in multiple arenas. The Gotthelf Art Gallery will display
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Eva TriegerBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It is pathetic that a film so bad could involve deaths and the likelihood of more turmoil and bloodshed. Spend a few minutes looking at the trailer of what is call the Muhammad Movie, or as long as it takes to conclude that it is no better than juvenile in
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