By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –On Wednesday evening I returned from attending this year’s Rabbinical Assembly International Convention. For the first time, this annual gathering of Conservative-Masorti rabbis took place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Although the convention was held in the suburb of Summerlin in a quiet hotel far from the famed Las Vegas […]
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Jewish Religion
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — The Money Maven needs to take a break for “tax season.” Luckily, the Passover Fairy has agreed to answer your questions. The Money Maven will return next time! Dear Passover Fairy, When I fork over silver dollars to the kinder for finding the afikomen, can I get a tax
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO — The dedication of Louis Rose Point on March 24, 2011–the 204th birthday of the pioneer Jewish settler– was captured on videotape by Edward Zeiden, who donated his work to the Louis Rose Society for the Preservation of Jewish History. Following is that videotape, beginning with an introduction by Norman Greene, president of
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — One of the many surprises that awaited me when I came to serve as a rabbi in Canada was that at Kol Nidre, the holiest night of the Jewish calendar, I was expected to dispense investment advice to the worshipping congregation. It was called the Israel Bonds Appeal. The
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Middle East
By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California — It’s a hoot! And with this one, the performers are having as much fun as the audience. It’s Rockin’ With The Ages 3 – the Musical, presenting a cast between the ages of 60 and 86 with the energy and stamina of teenagers. They bounce and high-kick and twist
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Cynthia CitronCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Happy New Year! Southwestern Jewish Press, January 6, 1956, Page 5 With the Christmas and New Year holidays in the past, we have nothing else to contemplate except another year. Let’s look around and see what happened in 1955 in our community. “ Ne new Synagogues were built,
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — The New York Times reports that the Palestinian Center for Human Rights “took the unusual step this week of condemning the building and storage of anti-Israel rockets in densely populated areas, a practice that has led to injuries and deaths of civilians.” “Unusual” isn’t quite the word for it. The
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Middle East
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Nowadays, Western officials and journalists seem to think that if you are a Middle East dictator and people start demonstrating you might give up, pack your bags, let your Swiss banker know to get the money ready, and make a run for it. That’s an illusion. The question is really: Who are the people
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International, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu isn’t the only prime minister who avoids the media out of fear of exposing his unpopular policies; Canadians, for example, are also familiar with the phenomenon. It was, therefore, surprising that Wednesday, March 30, he offered himself to a half-hour live interview “in the hot seat” by a
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Middle East
Pitching in the Promised Land by Aaron Pribble, University of Nebraska Press, 2011, 238 pages including epilogue and acknowledgments, $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — It’s hard to imagine how putting bats in the hands of the people of the Middle East could bring peace to the region, but author Aaron Pribble is
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–the fruition of several educators’ work was realized March 24 when three San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) high school students took home top honors at the 2011 Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair by winning the prestigious Sweepstakes Award. In addition, two of the six available invitations to the Intel Science
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI, TAIWAN — A retired Oregon pastor writes in a new book about his life as a Methodist missionary professor in Taiwan in the 1960s that a Jewish Holocaust survivor was Martin Luther King’s German-language PHD exam tutor at Boston University in 1950s. Now I am on a newsroom quest to find
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Board of Education on Tuesday, March 29, formally approved a sister-school agreement between Cabrillo Elementary School here and the Grundschule of Neuhaus-an-der-Oste, Germany, thereby making partners of schools in the hometown of Louis Rose and his adopted home in San Diego. Rose, an entrepreneur who
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –American core principles as articulated by President Obama are indeed a prescription for intervention everywhere – despite his firm denial. “America cannot use our military wherever repression occurs…. we must always measure our interests against the need for action.” But, he said, “We had a unique ability to stop that
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Shoshana Bryen, USA