By Rabbi Dow Marmur TORONTO, Canada — The most cited call for Jewish survival after the Holocaust came from Canada. The late Emil Fackenheim, University of Toronto philosophy professor, argued that the tragedy the Nazis inflicted on the Jewish people had given rise to a new commandment to be added to the biblical 10: in
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Middle EastBy Harold J Karpin MELBOURNE — General Sir JohnMonash, born of migrant parents is said to have become Australia’s greatest son. General Sir John Monash died on the 8th October 1931. He was held in such high regard that his funeral saw over 300,000 people turn out to witness the procession. It is said that
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A headline in today’s Ha’aretz, “From New York to Tokyo, demonstrations in more than 900 cities and 80 countries against capitalism and in behalf of social reform. In Tel Aviv they blocked streets.” Another item reports that a Reuters survey in the United States found 38 percent viewing the demonstrations
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Sgt. Nadav Weinberg of the Israel Defense Forces will discuss the code of ethics to which Israeli soldiers are sworn, at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 24, at the Lawrence Family JCC. “Ethics of the Israel Defense Forces” details the training and service of Nadav Weinberg, an Israeli-born American who volunteered
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — The God of Isaac is an irritatingly unconvincing play, despite the earnest charm of its leading man, Adam Korson. Korson plays Isaac Adams, a Jewish journalist in Chicago happily married to his blonde “shiksa goddess,” a badly wigged fashion model played by Corryn Cummins. Isaac, like so many
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SAN DIEGO — Sometimes, it’s not the license plate, but the bumper sticker which attracts Jewish interest, as our occasional correspondent Harry Jacobson-Beyer found out on his West Coast vacation swing. This bumper sticker sounds a bit like a well known television commercial. Do you think perhaps they were milking the joke?
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Travel and FoodBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Of all the things we think we know about William Shakespeare, most of them are guesses, or assumptions, or just plain made up. In actual fact, even though the writings of many of his contemporaries have survived through time, there is not a single piece of paper ever discovered
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Israel for Beginners: A Field Guide for Encountering the Israelis in Their Natural Habitat by Angelo Colorni, author, and Avi Katz, illustrator, Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 9789652294838, 146 pages, No price listed By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—You may like and hate this book at the same time. Some of the short articles on different
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — For the last several years we have included in every daily minyan, Shabbat, and holiday service a prayer for the captured Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit, and the captured American soldier, Bowe Bergdahl. At the conclusion of this morning’s service I announced that, God willing, soon we will no
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By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Israeli creativity is not only relegated to start-up technology. One young Israeli musician, pianist Eliran Avni, has come up with a new creative concept in concert programming. He calls it a Shuffle Concert and, instead of a fixed program, the listeners are handed a large menu with musical
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –He is ever so slight, frail-looking, and, in many ways, the physical antithesis of the perceived, muscular modern Israeli soldier. In fact, Israel Defense Forces originally labeled him almost too delicate a young man to even be inducted into its lauded Army, someone with “a low medical profile.” But
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The Rubin family search for Jewish-interest license plates is expanding. Melanie Rubin, our prime spotter in San Diego, has recruited her mother, Penni, as a license plate sleuth. She found BSIMCHA in her home state of Ohio.
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Jewish Religion, Melanie RubinCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, August 24, 1956, Page 5 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Paying Attention Psychologists frequently have a difficult time administering a test to the young child for the youngster’s interest span is so short that he can sit still for
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — I told you so. A short while after finishing my column on politics (Every day you may have to eat –), Israel’s leadership proved it was up to the task. In a dramatic announcement timed for the evening news, including an on-camera announcement by the prime minister, we heard the
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