NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Orthodox Union has launched a new OU Kosher phone App to search the kosher status of all OU products year-round, including a product’s special Kosher for Passover status. The free App is available for download for iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch, and Androids. To download this App, simply select “OU Kosher” from the
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Parade explores the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager, accused and convicted in 1913 of murdering thirteen-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia. Sensational journalism fanned the regional flames of bigotry and anti-Semitism, obscuring Leo’s innocence. After his death sentence was commuted, Leo Frank was taken by vigilantes and
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Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (WJC)–The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that a law that exempts Jewish religious students from the mandatory military service is unconstitutional and can therefore not be extended after it expires next August. With six justices in favor and three against, the controversial law, called ‘Deferral of Service for Yeshiva Students for whom Torah is
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The current uncertainty is profound, but presents opportunities as well as threats. Most of the attention is on Iran, widely assumed to be moving toward nuclear weapons, against the background of its leaders’ obsession with the destruction of Israel, raising the possibility of an Israel attack meant to avoid
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–More San Diegans will be able to raise chickens, miniature goats, and bees at home, and have more options for selling the food they grow on urban farms, thanks to new regulations approved by the City Council on January 31st. “More and more, we realize the important role urban agriculture can play
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced on Tuesday, Feb. 21, that her office has signed a partnership agreement with the San Diego Unified School District that allows both organizations to support student achievement through various activities and programs, including mapping juvenile crime around schools in order to streamline services to specific regions
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— The West Coast Premiere of Jake Heggie’s long waited Moby-Dick finally anchored at The Civic Center for at the opening night production on Feb. 18 and from my seat in row U it was a visually splendid sensation. From the time the theatre went dark and Donald Holder’s brilliant light
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Yaakov Lappin WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senior officials from the Obama administration have begun descending on Israel once again to ensure that Jerusalem holds off on an attack on Iran. That, at least, is the message the White House is seeking to generate. “The national security advisor [Tom Donilon] and the American intelligence head [James
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Middle East
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–When the founders of modern Zionism hoped that having a country of their own would make Jews like all other nations, they didn’t think that the Jews would adopt any of the despicable traits of the anti-Semites among whom they lived in dispersion. The aim of Zionism was not only to
HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Almost a decade after suspending its study abroad opportunities for students wanting to study in Israel, California State University has reinstated the program and chosen the University of Haifa as its location of its study abroad students in Israel. The Cal State Study Abroad Program is being reinstated in Israel
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — If racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination, then faithism is the belief that belief in different gods or Gods justifies spiritualism discrimination in terms of who goes to heaven and who goes to hell, among other religious beliefs. In the
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO — Reuvie Goodwin, son of Young Israel of San Diego activists Richard and Julie Goodwin, has been selected for the JOLT program of National Council of Synagogue Youth and is now raising money to finance his trip to Poland, Austria and Israel. The teen wrote “This is a very selective program which accepts
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Travel and Food
By Cynthia Citron VENTURA, California– It’s well worth the trip to the Rubicon Theatre, believe me. Tom Dugan is absolutely brilliant as the Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal. And completely Standing Ovation-worthy. Dugan’s one-man show is set in a replica of Wiesenthal’s office at the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna on the day of his retirement. As
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Cynthia Citron
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — President John F. Kennedy rarely spoke publicly about his personal faith, though he brilliantly and effectively defused the issue of his being the first viable Catholic nominee for the White House. It was an ignominious issue in 1960 (hard to fathom nowadays) and he mitigated it head-on at
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