By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — We have been hearing a lot lately about the dangers of the Internet. Not long ago, thousands of Orthodox Jews gathered in a large sports stadium to publicize the negative consequences that exposure to the Internet has in store for adults and children alike. Most of the
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Jewish Religion
Old Lives and New: Soviet Immigrants in Israel and America by Edith Rogovin Frankel, Hamilton Books, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7618-5784-6, pp 207. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — I am going to have to unlearn old reading habits. Someone — was it a parent, or a teacher? — told me when I was a
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Donald H. HarrisonDETROIT, Michigan (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Tuesday, Aug. 28, expressed outrage and horror at an alleged anti-Semitic hate crime against a student at Michigan State University. The student was knocked unconscious and had his mouth stapled shut by two men at a party, after the men allegedly asked the student if he
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USA
By Judy Lash Balint JERUSAELM — Back in March 2003 when Rachel Corrie was killed while trying to prevent Israel from clearing ground to expose terrorist hiding places, I interviewed several International Solidarity Movement (ISM) people who were present in Rafiah that day. Having lived for many years in Washington State where Corrie attended
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Middle EastLaws and a culture of guilt about the legacy of the Nazis have kept expressions of Jew-hatred on the margins of German society. But with judges and doctors and others openly attacking Judaism, it’s apparent Germans are increasingly undeterred by such factors. By Jonathan S. Tobin/JNS.org When a court in Cologne, Germany ruled in June
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California —One of my favorite lines from Simon and Garfunkel’s greatest hits reads: Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you (Woo, woo, woo) What’s that you say, Mrs. Robinson Joltin’ Joe has left and gone away (Hey, hey, hey…hey, hey, hey)
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East
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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USABy 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 East
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. Harrison
* 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 History
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 FoodBy 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, & EducationBy 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, USA