JNS News Briefs: August 28, 2012
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International49 years ago, Martin Luther King told his dream to the nation
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –None of them who planned it—and it was not very well planned—were certain it would succeed. Nor was it some kind of new idea. A. Philip Randolph, the wiry, erudite, socialist equivalent of MLK one generation earlier, had actually conceived of mass march on the capital, one that would
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USACorrie and Migron cases challenge Israel
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– Israeli courts dealt with two separate cases on Tuesday that touched related features central to the country’s history and–perhaps–to its future. In one, a lower court in Haifa dismissed a suit by the parents of Rachel Corrie, seeking to force Israel to admit responsibility for her death on a battlefield in Gaza
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastHelping a preschooler grow in school and at home
Sixth and last in a series By Donald H. Harrison TECATE, Mexico — Not all the teaching that goes on at the Rancho La Puerta health spa here is by the ranch’s exercise instructors or professional lecturers. A lot of it occurs serendipitously. Guests who have the choice of sitting at large group
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Donald H. HarrisonAdventures in San Diego Jewish History, Jan. 25, 1957, Part 3
* Jewish War Vets Auxiliary Hold Card Party, Jan. 29th Southwestern Jewish Press, January 25, 1957, Page 5 The Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary will hold a membership luncheon and card party on Tuesday, January 39th, at noon at the North Park Club, 3927 Utah. The luncheon will be catered by the club who promises
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBiography reintroduces Rachel Beer, ‘First Lady of Fleet Street’
The First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life of Rachel Beer, by Eilat Negev and Yehudah Koren, pub., Bantam Books, New York. 349pp. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — A new book, The First Lady of Fleet Street, is about the life and times of Rachel Sassoon Beer, a woman who died in the
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Travel and FoodPediatricians find benefits of circumcision outweigh risks
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The anti-circumcision advocates are probably not happy about the latest news to come out of a study conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which reveal the health benefits deriving from male circumcision far outweigh the risks. According to the report, researchers formed a task force
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Science, Medicine, & EducationHigh Holy Days no time for election-year politics
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —Last week, I received an email from the Reelect-elect Obama campaign. The President is urging rabbis to help re-elect the President. The email contained the following information and assertions: Obama for America today announced the launch of Rabbis for Obama, a campaign initiative to engage and mobilize grassroots
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USASouth African BDS – or Just BS?
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The government of South Africa has defined the State of Israel as not including Beersheva, Yad Mordechai, Acco, Afula, and Nahariya. It creates an “Arab Enclave” in Jaffa not governed by Israel. It reduces the borders of Israel in two places to points on a map — one in
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenJNS news briefs: August 27, 2012
IDF develops innovative bulletproof grenade JNS.org The bulletproof grenade was developed following a March 2010 incident on the Gaza Strip border in which two IDF soldiers were killed when a bullet hit a grenade lodged in the vest of one of the soldiers, causing it to detonate. “After that incident, we were ordered to develop
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InternationalAdventures in San Diego Jewish History, Jan. 25, 1957, Part 2
Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, January 25, 1957, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman Father of the “Bird” — Fathers and mothers of “Blue Birds” are flying all over town these days delivering cans of peanuts which their young daughters have sold via the telephone for the Camp Fire Girls. * This is news! The story
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Adventures in SD HistoryNotes from the Woodcutter: Harry Houdini
By Loren Kantor Editor’s Note: Loren Kantor often chooses Jews and Jewish themes as topics for his woodcuts. He’s agreed to share images from his work–and the stories behind them– with San Diego Jewish World. Magician Harry Houdini is the fifth topic in the series. STUDIO CITY, California — His name is synonymous with magic,
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastTheologian urges interreligious dialogue among women
Fifth in a series By Donald H. Harrison TECATE, Mexico — It was typical for the Rancho La Puerta health spa here that on the week that my wife Nancy and I visited , she was among the 80 percent of the guests who were women, while I was among the remaining male 20
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Donald H. HarrisonTwo names not used,that of God and Israel’s nuclear weapon
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The status of nuclear weapons in Israel bears some tantalizing resemblance to the status of the Almighty in Judaism. Those concerned with the history and role of God can click here, and continue further for as many years as the interest or life continues. It is risky in the extreme to summarize
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East