By Rabbi Baruch Lederman 1. This year, the first night of Chanukah is Saturday December 8, 2012, at which time we will light one Chanukah light plus the shamash. The second night we light 2 lights plus a shamash. The third night we light 3 lights plus a shamash, and so on and so forth. 2.
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Jewish ReligionHamas to create Palestinian ‘Defense Ministry’ JNS.org (JNS.org) At a ceremony honoring Hamas terrorists, Interior Minister Fathi Hammad, who oversees Hamas’s police apparatus, announced plans to establish the first-ever Palestinian “Defense Ministry,” the Jerusalem Post reported. Hamas, designated as a terrorist organization by Israel, U.S., Canada and European Union, also operates as a
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InternationalSAN DIEGO — Thelma B. Menaker, an organizer and former commander of the Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary Post 185, died Nov. 21, 2012 at the age of 91. Born in Philadelphia she moved in 1974 to San Diego with her husband, Alfred, a World war II veteran who survives her.. Menaker worked for the
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San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Should Israelis worry about a lack of public support? For some time now we have not been popular with the crowds of Western Europe. Overall sentiment in the United States remains favorable, but not in the liberal wing of the Democratic party. Thomas Friedman writes about the contrast between Israeli
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I have known Peter Kubicek for several years now, and we often correspond by email, forwarding news links about all kinds of subjects, mostly on Jewish themes, from one Internet mail box to the other. Kubricek is in his early 80s and was born in Czechoslavkia in 1930.
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Travel and Food
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — I heard about the book Start-Up Nation; the Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle by Dan Senor and Saul Singer a couple of years ago but didn’t take too much notice. After all, the fact that Israel is a hotbed of innovation, high-tech industry and networking is nothing new to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Armando Pesqueira, the young Mexican conductor, who was on the podium for the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) concert Tuesday evening, November 20, proved to be an expressive maestro who brought the orchestra to new heights. In the challenging Brahms Symphony #1, the upper strings played with good intonation
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Eileen WingardTo The Editor: I appreciate the kind words of reviewer Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel about my new book, The Real Name of God: Embracing the Full Essence of the Divine. In a review written for a popular, non-academic publication, his numerous texts references and eight footnotes (!) quite evidently display his own erudition and learning.
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Jewish Religion
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–Iran has made common cause with similarly nasty countries around the world to promote an anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Western agenda. This includes the transfer of weapons as well as the training of terrorists who return to their places of origin ready and able to blow themselves up. While the U.S. focuses
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A considerable portion of the world is being nasty to Israel. The list of governments inviting the Israeli ambassador in their capital city to the halls of their foreign ministry for a drubbing includes virtually all of the European worthies, along with Australia and Brazil. The list may be
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastPA, writing to UN, calls Israeli construction plans ‘war crimes’ (JNS.org) Palestinian leaders delivered a harsh complaint to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday in light of Israel’s recent decision to move ahead with plans to build an additional 3,000 housing units in area E1 between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim, Israel Hayom reported. A letter
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International
By J. Zel Lurie DEL RAY BEACH, Florida — The most important fact about the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is that it was announced in Cairo by an American and an Egyptian, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi. The Israeli and Hamas representatives were nowhere in sight. Here is
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Jewish History, Middle East
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — The class devoted to the study of leadership, using the book of Genesis as a text, was proceeding well. On this, the ninth session, it reached a new depth. It did so by paying careful attention to the subtleties of the Hebrew language. Hillel, from his
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Jewish ReligionBy Steve Karras Much has been made of Matisyahu since he took clippers to his dangling beard and side-curls, 86’d the black fedora, and shockingly emerged from his Hasidic outer shell one year ago. Recent photos of the international hip hop reggae sensation now reveal a clean shaven, hip rocker, looking more like he came
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