Carlsbad shooter ‘will be held accountable’ – Dumanis

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis announced on Friday a jury has found Carlsbad school shooter Brendan O’Rourke sane at the time he shot children seriously injuring two girls at Kelly Elementary School in October 2010. “The community was deeply shaken by this school shooting and today’s verdict means the defendant will be held accountable for

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Travel and Food

Christian students tell reactions to Survivor’s talk

TECATE,  California — Holocaust concentration camp survivor Rose Schindler traveled from her home in San Diego to Tecate, a town that sits on the U.S-Mexico border in the eastern portion of San Diego County, on Thursday, March 8 to share her experiences with students at the Tecate Christian School. “She was amazing and touched many hearts, both

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Mishnah could teach TSA a lesson about dignity

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel SAN DIEGO — At our downtown TBS Jewish business ethics class, we discussed an interesting subject dealing with the problem of suspicion. The beginning of Parshat Pikudei (Vyakhale-Pikudei), Moses presents a complete inventory of  all the items that he and the priests collected for the Tabernacle (Exod. 38:21) Moses gives

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

Panetta disrespected Marines fighting in Afghanistan

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was to address a mixed U.S.-Afghan audience at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan only weeks after six American solders were killed by Afghan soldiers, and days after an American soldier allegedly killed 16 Afghan civilians. That circumstance alone would ensure a tense atmosphere, but the decision

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Another kind of Holocaust denial: denying that it’s over

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Saul Singer is the author, together with his brother-in-law Dan Senor, of the widely acclaimed, Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. I’m pretty sure that he hasn’t read of my book, Beyond Survival or even heard of it.  Nevertheless, he almost quotes from it. Hence these reflections.

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Middle East

The rabbi’s second family

  By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Fifteen years ago there was a family from New York who lost their father. Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel ztl, Rosh Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim, had a particularly fond relationship with the deceased father and took it upon himself  to ensure that his orphans would have a fatherly figure

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Jewish Religion

Manners and reverence taught through Torah study

Torah Tapestries: Shemos by Shira Smiles, Feldheim Publishers, 2012, Jerusalem, ISBN 978-159826-002-1, Price Unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Jewish educator Shira Smiles utilizes the various parashot from the Book of Exodus to pass on wonderful lessons for daily living, while teaching some useful Hebrew vocabulary. For example, in analyzing the portion known as Va’eira, she

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Donald H. Harrison

Netanyahu’s speech hints attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In a speech before the Knesset, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu compared himself to David Ben Gurion, who declared Israel’s independence in 1948 against the urging of foreign governments, and to Menachem Begin, who decided to attack the Iraqi nuclear facility in 1981, against the advice of the United States. To

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East