Commentary: Reason for Israel's enemies to rejoice: Jews are fighting each other

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Currently the most pressing religious war in these surroundings is not between Jews and Muslims or Christians, but among the Jews. As is typical of this recurring conflict, the weapons involved are not explosives. This round of conflict has not escalated beyond nastiness and disinformation. But those are sufficient to heat […]

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 17, 1954, Part 7

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staffSouthwestern Jewish Press, September 17, 1954, page 12 Some surprises in American Jewish History By Rabbi Lee J. Levinger In this tercentenary year we are going to hear many times the central themes of American Jewish history.  We shall be told how this community has grown in three-hundred years

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Book Review: With so many recipes, where’s one for taiglech?

Jewish Home Cooking by Arthur Schwartz,Ten Speed Press, $35 Jewish Holiday Cooking by Jayne Cohen, John Wiley and Sons, $32.50 By Marc Yaffe BETHESDA, Maryland–The two Jewish cookbooks that are being reviewed here were both runners-up for the 2009 James Beard Awards in their individual categories.  Clearly I am guilty of a certain hubris for

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 17, 1954, Part 6

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff March of “Dimes Raises $60,000 in Drive Southwestern Jewish Press, September 17, 1954, Page 10 The 1954 Emergency March of Dimes in San Diego County has been an unqualified success, Jerry Rudrauff, March of Dimes chairman, announced today. The Emergency drive to raise funds for the care of

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Moonlight’s “Oklahoma!” is OKLA… OK!

  By Carol Davis   VISTA, California– What’s not to like about Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!? ‘Nuten Honey’, especially if you’ve been to Vista to catch Moonlight’s production of it. It’s upbeat, funny where it needs to be funny, rousing where it needs to be rousing and overall just plain damn solid entertainment. Moreover the

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 17, 1954, Part 5

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staffSouthwestern Jewish Press, September 17, 1954, pages 8, 13 Tercentenary Gallery: Builders of American Jewry and the Jewish Community Center By Bernard Postal That the builders of the American Jewish community, which now begins its Tercentenary year, and the principal founders and leaders of the Jewish Community Center movement,

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Jundullah movement terrorizing eastern Iran

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Thursday, July 15,  was designated “Revolutionary Guard Day” by the Iranian government. The same day, two bombs exploded in a mosque in the city of Zahedan, in southeastern Iran. According to Iranian reports, two suicide bombers entered the mosque and detonated themselves, killing 30 and injuring more than 100 people. The

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

The mystical pull of Jerusalem

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — This Shabbat has a special name. It is called “Shabbat Chazon,” after the first few words of the Haftarah. The Haftarah contains the dire prophecy/vision (“chazon”) of the prophet Isaiah concerning the impending destruction of Jerusalem. Isaiah’s prophecy is traditionally read on the Shabbat preceding Tisha B’Av, the

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