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Famed Washington D.C. rabbi dies in San Diego County

June 11, 2012

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz, who helped comfort President Lyndon B. Johnson and the nation after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died in his sleep Friday, June 8, in the nursing facility of Seacrest Village Retirement Community in Encinitas Rabinowitz, 95, longtime rabbi of Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation in […]

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Student puts his teeth into sound

June 11, 2012

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) eighth grade student Jonah Kohn was recently notified that he is one of five finalists in his age group out of a total 15 finalists in the 2012 Google Science Fair, which received thousands of entries from over 100 countries worldwide. Jonah’s project, “Good Vibrations: Improving the

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San Diego Calendar

Superman: Was he a Jew or a Christian?

June 11, 2012

Superman: The High Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero by Larry Tye, Random House, 2012, ISBN 978-1-58836-918-5; 409 pages including appendices and bibliography, $27. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Was Superman Jewish or Christian? Author Larry Tye lays out the claims for each religion in his history detailing the character, his history

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Donald H. Harrison

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Dec. 28, 1958, Part 3

June 10, 2012

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff S.I. Fox Lodge B.B. To Install Officers Southwestern Jewish Press, December 28, 1956, Page 5 The Jewish community is invited to the tenth annual installation of officers of the Samuel I. Fox Lodge No. 1747, B’nai B’rith, Tuesday, January 8, 8:30 p.m., at the Beth Jacob Center. A

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

Brin’s ‘Existence’ shoots for the stars

June 10, 2012

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Veteran science fiction author David Brin (The Postman; The Uplift Trilogy; Earth) — also a guest columnist for San Diego Jewish World and the son of founding San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage publisher Herb Brin — has a new book coming out soon titled Existence and it’s headed for the stars.

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Science, Medicine, & Education

There’s still a chance Kostrinsky can make runoff

June 10, 2012

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Not that he’s holding his breath, but there’s still a slim chance that Mat Kostrinsky may yet win a place in a runoff election against Scott Sherman in the 7th City Council District. Sherman’s 50.59 percent winning percentage does not include an uncertain number of the 88,000 “provisional”

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Donald H. Harrison

Torah’s stand against racism is relevant for today

June 9, 2012

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –The life of a spiritual leader is never easy—especially if you happen to be a man named Moses. Kvetching comes with the territory of working for a Jewish community. It’s a tradition. I am reminded of the old joke, “How many congregants does it take to screw

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Stop government funding of Planned Parenthood, Solyndra

June 9, 2012

By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–It was recently reported , and we saw the pictures on TV, that a Planned Parenthood employee had helped, and encouraged, a woman to have an abortion because of the gender of the fetus. The woman didn’t want to give birth to a girl. My personal opinion about abortion

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USA

Holocaust victim Ullmann’s opera was well performed

June 9, 2012

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Awaiting the performance of Victor Ullmann’s one-act opera, Der Kaiser Von Atlantis, on Friday evening, June 2, I recalled the other performances in San Diego of music created in the Nazi’s Show Ghetto of Terezin. On February 5, 1989, at the 54th Street Jewish Community Center, the JCC Music Committee

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Eileen Wingard

A family’s feud makes for poignant theatre

June 9, 2012

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Sonny Burl is a country music star who can fill a stadium with his voice and his guitar. You may never have heard of him, but he is the focal point of Mark Roberts’ play Where the Great Ones Run, now having its West Coast premiere at Theatre Theater in

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Cynthia Citron

La Jolla Community Planning Association to Hillel: “No! No! No!”

June 9, 2012

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–A La Jolla planning group had three answers to Hillel of San Diego’s request to build a religious, intellectual and spiritual center on land it owns near the UCSD campus: “No,” “no” and “no.” There were three interrelated questions before the La Jolla Community Planning Association on Thursday evening, June

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Skullduggery in the IDF’s top echelons?

June 9, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — You have heard of of the Lyndon Johnson-Robert Kennedy feud, and Watergate. Those cases were separate, involving two clusters of individuals in different political parties, with four years intervening between the end of one and the onset of the second, and another two years until Watergate produced the resignation of President

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Some facts about Israel’s illegal immigration problems

June 8, 2012

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — international media usually seeks out and features negative news about Israel or exaggerates it or treats it in a biased manner. So, too, on the issue of African immigrants to Israel. There is a natural, and commendable, empathy for peoples in dire straits or whose experience, by large stretches

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Middle East

Judaism is a democratic religion

June 8, 2012

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO– Judaism is a very democratic religion. Although Kohanim once had a special role in the Temple sacrificial rites, they never were the sole conduit to God. Then, as now, God was directly available to every Israelite. We learn this from the Biblical story of Eldad and Meidad. We learn

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Jewish Religion

Famed Washington D.C. rabbi dies in San Diego County

Student puts his teeth into sound

Superman: Was he a Jew or a Christian?

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Dec. 28, 1958, Part 3

Brin’s ‘Existence’ shoots for the stars

There’s still a chance Kostrinsky can make runoff

Torah’s stand against racism is relevant for today

Stop government funding of Planned Parenthood, Solyndra

Holocaust victim Ullmann’s opera was well performed

A family’s feud makes for poignant theatre

La Jolla Community Planning Association to Hillel: “No! No! No!”

Skullduggery in the IDF’s top echelons?

Some facts about Israel’s illegal immigration problems

Judaism is a democratic religion

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