By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO—Editor Don Harrison of this publication asked me to write an article about why I signed up with Rabbis for Obama. I’ve wanted to contemplate it for a while so that any attempt to respond would be based purely on positives. The national campaign underway is already contaminated with enough negativity
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USA
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — How much recent events have eroded U.S. security interests in Egypt depends on how deeply rooted those interests were in the first place. Although the Mubarak government did some things we wanted it to do, it did other things that were anathema. Mubarak, with U.S. complicity and Israeli acquiescence,
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryenwww.jns.org/news-briefs Romney, at GOP convention, slams Obama’s diplomatic Iran approach (JNS.org) Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, addressing the Republica National Convention on Aug. 30, said “every American is less secure today because [Obama] has failed to slow Iran’s nuclear threat,” slamming a current White House approach that maintains there is still time for diplomacy and sanctions to
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International
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — During one early visit to Israel, Judy and I entered a coffee store to buy a pound of ground coffee. We watched in amazement as the proprietor held a paper bag under a chute, opened the door, closed it, and placed our coffee on his scale: it weighed
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Jewish Religion
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—If twenty-five years of sustainability for a Broadway show aren’t something to crow about, I don’t know what is. I can’t recall the very first time I saw Les Misérables, based on the Victor Hugo 1862 novel and put to music, on a grand scale, by Claude-Michael Schönberg with Herbert Kretzmer’s lyrics
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN FRANCISCO (Press Release)- BlueStar, a San Francisco-based Israel Advocacy organization, has scheduled College Stay three-day retreats for high school students. The weekend-long program was developed to help transform Jewish teens into powerful pro-Israel advocates, spokespeople and opinion leaders – before they encounter anti-Israel challenges at college. Teens will spend the weekend with current college students and get an inside
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Travel and Food
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Through the pitch-black night, the captain sees a light dead ahead on a collision course with his ship. He sends a signal: “Change your course 10 degree east.” The light signals back: “Change yours, 10 degrees west.” Angry, the captain sends: “I’m a navy captain! Change your course,
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Travel and Food
Thirty Six by Kristopher White (art: George Zapata, color: Micki Zurcher); Fossil Creek Productions, 2012, ISBN 978-0-9853612-0-4; 132 pages, $18.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — With current movies often focusing on Super Heroes, each seemingly more glamorous and powerful that the next, Kristopher White has reached into Jewish tradition and legend to present
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Donald H. HarrisonKhamenei blasts ‘ferocious Zionist wolves’ at Iran-hosted NAM summit (JNS.org) Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking Thursday at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit host by his country, called Israelis “ferocious Zionist wolves who digest the Palestinian people.” United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who controversially decided to attend the summit amid the Islamic Republic’s growing
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InternationalPress Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, February 8, 1957, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman ‘Titles’ –Probably the most confused fields to the lay person are those of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. For that reason, the panel discussion sponsored by the Jewish Social Agency on “Titles” attracted a large attendance. If you are a “Lay in the
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — David Ben Gurion once said, “We will know we have become a normal country when Jewish thieves and Jewish prostitutes conduct their business in Hebrew.” A more up to date indicator of Israel’s normality, taken from recent news, is young Jews terrorizing Arabs. Are these occasions for “oy gevalt,” or simply
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By Isaac Yetiv , Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — The drafters of the US Constitution, fearing ” the rule of one opinion, whether of a tyrant or of a mob,” created a government structure premised on the idea that humans are fallible, fickle, and unreliable…and need to be feared. James Madison, who promoted this
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USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– It is hard to know whether Cole Thorpe, 11, will ever play professional baseball, or be one of the world’s greatest baseball fans like Andy Strasberg was and is, but there was one thing for certain on Tuesday evening, August 28, as the youngster choked up on
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Carol Davis CORONADO, California —Farce: sham, circus, mockery, travesty, absurd situation. Call it what you like, but See How They Run is all of the above. Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado has little gift for you as the closing months of summer make way for the seriousness of fall. It comes in the form
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast