By Rabbi Ben Kamin COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho–While visiting here, I came across the news that out along the plains of Kansas, a grandiose vision of the pro-life movement is taking shape—on the backs of Jewish history and anguish. Pastor Mark Holick, who speaks for the proposed International Pro-Life Memorial and National Life Center, scheduled for […]
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USA
By David Brin ENCINITAS, California — Remember where you were when you heard or read about this. It’s important. In a breakthrough effort for computational biology, the world’s first complete computer model of an organism has been completed, Stanford researchers reported last week in the journal Cell. A team used data from more than 900
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Gary Rotto TORONTO, Canada –It was 20:00 and I was waiting at a restaurant for a chicken shishkebab. Make that a kosher shishkebab. Clearly I was not in San Diego County because other than when I join my parents at Seacrest Village Retirement Communities for Shabbat, nowhere can I find a restaurant that serves
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Opportunism and politics go together. Some call it dirty. Some say that it is the essence of civilization. One way to decide on important issues is the way they are doing it in Syria. On the other side of the border (wherever it is) is the way we do it
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Temple Beth Sholom in neighboring Chula Vista is changing its name to Temple Beth Shalom. What’s the difference between spelling the Hebrew word for peace with two o’s, or with an a and an o? Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel, spiritual leader of the Conservative congregation, said the double
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Donald H. Harrison, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — If you missed Agnieszka Holland’s In Darkness when it was in the theatres, rent a copy now that it is available on DVD or watch it on your On-Demand cable service. In my opinion it the best Holocaust film since The Pianist. My appreciation of it stems from three
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Lawrence Baron
By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California–Two men in love with the same woman. And, according to some reports, with each other as well. All living together in a 55-room mansion in the hills. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, as Kathrine Bates’ gripping drama The Manor so skillfully reveals. Set in Beverly Hills’ majestic Greystone Mansion, where many of the events actually unfolded, the play chronicles the
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Cynthia Citron
By Barry Rubin HERZLILYA, Israel — The tide seems to be turning in Syria. While the civil war is far from over, the regime is clearly weakening; the rebels are expanding their operations and effectiveness. There have also been more high-level defections. What does this mean and why is this happening? There are three main
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Middle East
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Jewish Social Service Agency Slates Panel Speakers at Annual Meeting Southwestern Jewish Press, January 11, 1957, Page 4 Dr. Walter Ornstein, President of the Jewish Social Service, a Red Feather Agency, is inviting all persons interested to the annual dinner meeting which will take place Wednesday, January 16,
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Adventures in SD History
By Lee-El Lewinsohn SAN DIEGO — In Israel, we live in a country surrounded by many unpleasant neighbors. Most not only do not love us, but would rather destroy us. So, unfortunately, we’re naturally skeptical when others not only offer to help us but openly express love for us. In 2009, I was drawn to
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Travel and Food
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Many people are interested in socially responsible investing. After all, aren’t we supposed to take part in tikkun olam? But, most people – and their advisors – don’t really know how to define or implement or socially responsible investing! “Socially responsible investing” (SRI) means investing based on personal
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and Food
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — While almost all earlier news reports of the tragic terrorist bus bombing in Bulgaria that killed Israeli tourists last week noted that the suicide bomber whose image was allegedly caught on security cameras at the airport was sporting ”long hair, a t-shirt and Bermuda shorts,” few if
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Middle East
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The Aurora massacre ought to shock us out of our collective lethargy. Among the questions we are asking, we wonder: How can a young a brilliant medical student, who originally dedicated his life to helping people turn into a killing machine? What happened to his concern
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson LA CREUSE, France –The village where we are currently spending our summer is a place where almost all its inhabitants are either retired, absent or dead. The memorial plaque in the centre of the village commemorating those who died in the two world wars lists 37 names for WWI and 5 for
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International