By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal JERUSALEM– During this final week of studies at the Shalom Hartman Institute students had two unique opportunities: tiyulim (tours) of areas of Israel and the West Bank which reflected the material we studied, and a VIP visit to the recently redesigned and refurbished Israel Museum. I chose to participate in the […]
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By Rabbi Baruch Lederman Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Pinchus in his famous episode and the daughters of Tzelofchod in theirs, had the courage to not follow the norm like sheep. They weren’t afraid what people might think. They did what was right, not what was convenient, not what everyone else was doing. Our
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Jewish ReligionCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Jewish Center News Southwestern Jewish Press, July 13, 1956, Page 5 On Wednesday, July 18th, the registration for the Youth Camp will close for the season. Boys and girls, 13 to 17 years of age, have been participating in a Youth Camp experiment three days a week for
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—This past weekend had me settled in the Uptown/Hillcrest area catching two very different shows but both worthy of mention. Diversionary Theatre and Moxie Theatre have teamed up to mount the U.S. Premiere of Canadian playwright Michele Riml’s new play Poster Boys. Just down the street @ 6th and Penn Ion
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Students at San Diego Jewish Academy’s (SDJA) Golda Meir Lower School raised $756 to help the people of Japan after devastating earthquakes and floods ravaged their country in March of 2011. Initiated and inspired by SDJA’s fourth grade class, students as young as four years old took action to help those
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By David Amos SAN DIEGO– Somehow, on a worldwide basis, we have developed the tradition of playing lighter orchestral music during the summer months. It could be that this is stimulated by the warmer weather, the shorter attention spans, or competition with other outdoor activities. I look at it as the opportunity to entertain the
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Muhammed is one of my pool friends. For some years we have bantered between ourselves and with others about this and that, occasionally about politics. Recently he told me about his work with the Civic Forum Institute. This is an organization of Palestinians, with international financial assistance, involved in the promotion
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Middle EastHAIFA, Israel (Press Release)–Alongside the ox, sheep and goat, the list of ungulate animals permitted for consumption in Deuteronomy includes the aqqo, dishon and zemer but what exactly are these species? Could it be that part of the Israelite diet included rhinoceros, bison and giraffe, as some interpretations have offered? A new archaeozoological study has
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Jewish ReligionTEL AVIV – After 10 years as executive director of the Peres Center for Peace, Dr. Ron Pundak is leaving the organization dedicated to building trust between ordinary Israeli and Palestinian citizens and person-to-person diplomacy with the Arab world. No reason was given in an announcement from Peres Peace Center president Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, but San
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some of the top leadership of the organized Jewish community of San Diego turned out for a service to memorialize Steven Weening, 64, and to comfort his wife, Leslie, who had been a long-serving executive assistant to the director of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, and
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountyNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has been widely quoted onits position on Israel’s internal anti-boycott law, which strongly implied ZOA is completely against it. ZOA’s position is much more nuanced than that, especially after fully examining this new Law today (Wednesday) as we promised to do. Israel is under existential threat from
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Middle EastWashington, DC (Press Release) – Leaders from The Jewish Federations of North America weighed in Wednesday on the ongoing budget and debt ceiling negotiations and urged the Senate Democratic Steering Committee in a special meeting to protect programs that support vulnerable U.S. populations and the Jewish community at large. Many critical programs are under threat
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USABEERSHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– A new study conducted by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev reveals that a vast majority (81 percent) of Israelis support joining the European Union (EU) and more involvement with European organizations. “The results also show that there is widespread misperception about the Israeli public’s real attitudes toward the EU,” explains BGU’s
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