By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — The recent resumption of rocket attacks from Gaza deep into the Negev was bound to get a forceful Israeli response, including targeted killings. The first of these has just cost the lives of three Hamas terrorists. Hamas acknowledges that they were members but denies that they were planning an
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO, April 2– “Count to three, and I’ll make the magic happen.” Grandson Sky, aged 4, dutifully counted. “One-two-three.” The television screen jumped to life, and an episode began of “The Land Before Time,” perhaps Sky’s most favorite show. It’s about dinosaur youngsters and their adventures. This one, telling the
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Donald H. Harrison
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Now that the New York Times tells us that the Muslim Brotherhood is really strong, organized, widely supported by the army, and capable of taking over Egypt–all the things I wrote at the time and the mass media denied–the Washington Post confirms every point I made during the revolution
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Middle East, USA
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California–Marc Lavry is one of the composers whose song “Emek” will be sung by the Congregation Beth Israel Sabbath and Festival Choir at the 4:00 performance of “Sing Out!” on April 3 at the Lawrence Family JCC. Sharon Russakoff, who will be singing in both the San Diego Jewish Women’s Choir/Sisterhood
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Eileen Wingard
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 HistoryBy 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 EastBy 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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