By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — There’s talk of elections in Israel in 2012. One indication is that the primaries in Likud – the party of Prime Minister Netanyahu that in the end will decide when to call an election if it’s ahead of the four-year mandate, as it would be in 2012 – have […]
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO –Once a year the San Diego theatre critics get all dressed up and have a party honoring all those we write about throughout the year. This is the tenth year we will have been at this and we know this will be the best party yet! (We say that every
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most colorful figures of the 18th century, who almost single-handedly raised the morale of the Jewish people, was a man named R. Yisrael ben Eliezer, a.k.a., the famous “Baal Shem Tov,” (literally, the “Master of the Good Name.”) When one looks back in
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By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–My resolution not to write so often lasted only a few hours, until I found myself enraged by a television report about Heredi extremists in Beit Shemesh. We’ve known about the Beit Shemesh community for some time. Religious friends from the US and a secular Israeli colleague initially settled there, then
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –This time I travelled to Israel in the company of Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel Prize winner in economics. Not in the flesh, of course, but with his bestseller, Thinking, Fast and Slow. The book has much to teach on many subjects. Inter alia Kahneman seems to be implicitly supporting
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This is a complex world with many players and numerous conflicts. So what else is new? In this holiday season when wise commentators summarize what happened, what is happening, and what will happen, it is appropriate to remind ourselves of the obvious, trivial, and continuing realities. We members
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–A benevolent calendar coincidence, occurring every few years, brings us on Dec. 24 to the shared lighting of solstice calendars by both Christians and Jews. The solar and lunar calendar cycles have intertwined, and so this Christmas Eve will share the fifth night of Hanukkah, 5772. The circumstances should work
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Jewish ReligionCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, October 5, 1956, Page 6 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Effective Study Methods While it is too early in the school term for parents to look for report cards or other signs of achievement from their children’s school program,
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Grandson Sky is an energetic four-year-old. With only a little coaxing he will clean up whatever room he left looking like it was subjected to a hurricane. But I’m not certain that he is ready to absorb the lesson at the downtown Children’s Museum that the world
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO —Every year at this time, I feel that the opera season is ready to give me another early holiday gift. Before we know it, it will be January 28th and opening night of Richard Strauss’ fiery Salomé. In mid February the long awaited west coast premiere of Moby Dick by
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO – Word has been received here of the death of Rabbi Joel Goor, former spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Israel. His daughter, Beri, said in an email to Stan Schwartz, president of the Jewish Historical Society of San Diego, that the funeral will be held on Monday, Dec. 26, at 11 a.m.
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Our sages taught that the entire point of lighting a Chanukah Menorah is pirsumei nisa, “to publicize the miracle of Chanukah.” To accomplish this they instructed that the Menorah be lit at dusk, the time people returned from work in ancient times, and placed outside the front door
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Jewish Religion
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, October 5, 1956, Page 4 By Julia Kaufman “The Happier The Time The Faster It Goes” — For those who missed or forgot Part I of my saga of the west, we left our hero and heroine on Rt. 395 headed for Reno
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur ASIRA AL-QIBLIYA, Palestinian Authority — I’ve heard many Jews who live inWest Banksettlements tell journalists that, despite the toxic politics, they’ve good relations with their Palestinian neighbors. But that’s not what I heard last Wednesday in Asira Al-Qibliya, a Palestinian town of some 2,500 people south of Nablus and close to
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