By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — Up until this point, the seventh session of the class using the book of Genesis to explore the concept of leadership, my role as teacher was a very easy one. The students not only participated eagerly, but vied for opportunities to speak. Moreover, they invariably had a
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Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Strenghten Hamas and come close to destroying it. That, as best as a close outsider can determine, is what Israel is trying to accomplish with its bombardments and its negotiations. The problems in analysis and accomplishment should be clear. I’m making these guesses in Jerusalem, within site of the barrier
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastU.S. blocks UN statement ignoring Hamas rockets as cause of conflict (JNS.org) The U.S. has blocked the release of a United Nations statement on the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza because the statement failed to acknowledge that Hamas started that conflict by bombarding Israel with rockets. Erin Pelton, spokeswoman for the U.S. mission to the UN,
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InternationalRabbi Wayne Dosick, The Real Name of God: Embracing the Full Essence of the Divine; Publisher: Inner Traditions; Date 2012; ISBN-10: 1594774730: 224 pages; Price $19.95. Rating: **** ___________________________________________________________________________ Rabbi Wayne Dosick responds to the review below: https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2012/12/05/r-dosick-responds-to-book-review-of-the-real-name-of-god/ __________________________________________________________________________ By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Hassidic interpretations have an endearing quality that is often ignored by
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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Currently playing at the Hillcrest Cinemas, The Other Son places a switched-at-birth plotline in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. After Joseph, the son of an Israeli couple takes a blood test for service in the IDF, his mother and father are informed that he is not biologically related
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Lawrence BaronBy Bill Smearcheck, JINSA Policy Associate The performance of the revolutionary Iron Dome system in the ongoing defense of Israel from Hamas rocket attacks, dubbed Operation Pillar of Defense, has been so extraordinary as to be considered by all but the most hardline critics to have proven the efficacy of missile defense. By November
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Middle East
By David Amos SAN DIEGO–I would like to call to your attention to a very special concert which the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra will present at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. This is a program with strong Jewish content, and is titled Rebirth, Remembrance, Revelation. The Youth Philharmonic String Orchestra and String Ensemble, directed by Alyze Dreiling, is
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –We’re somewhere in the middle of the intermediate level of warfare routines well known to Israelis. We have been through Stage one: occasional violence directed at random against Israeli targets, civilians or soldiers Stage two: increased incidence of that violence Stage three: Break in the Israeli tolerance of inconvenience and occasional
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastObama sends Clinton to Middle East amid Israel-Gaza conflict (JNS.org) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is heading to the Middle East to foster negotiations to end the ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza. Clinton was set to depart Tuesday from Cambodia, where she was on an official Southeast Asia visit with President Barack Obama, according to
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International
By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Sexual abuse probably occurs in most societies as well as in American subcultures. How it is handled within any particular cultural grouping may differ, but in the end there is always a victim and a victimizer. The general perception among many in and outside of the Church is that
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Travel and Food
By Lloyd Levy LONDON –Gaza- again ! As the latest Gaza campaign unfolds, it is worth underlining some points that are not going to be mentioned in the anti Israel press in UK. If Gaza is so “isolated” as some would have us believe , how is it that they can get thousands
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastPress Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, March 22, 1957, Page 7 By Julia Kaufman “The body travels more easily than the mind, and until we have limbered up our imagination we continue to think as tho we had stayed at home. We have not really budged a step until we take up residence in someone else’s
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Listening to Israeli radio and television provides an advanced education in the military and political possibilities being considered in the midst of an operation. Invasion on the ground, more air strikes, increasing probability of civilian casualties as the IAF goes beyond the easy targets and into the neighborhoods where munitions are stored
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By Mimi Pollack ALPINE, California — Wild animals should not be behind cages! That might be your first impression when you see the pictures from Lions, Tigers, and Bears, an animal sanctuary here. However, did you know that there are more tigers born in captivity than there are in the wild? Did you know that
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