By Rabbi Simcha Weinstein Rabbi Simcha Weinstein NEW YORK– They call me the “Comic Book Rabbi.” Given the chance to choose my own “superhero” nickname, I’d have picked something more dynamic, like “Super Jew” or simply “The Rabbi.” (Imagine The Thing, but with a kippah.) I come by my humble nickname honestly, though. My first […]
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush Administration undertook domestic security and foreign policy decisions to cope with the threat to American interests we understood to have emerged: colored threat levels, airport security changes, the provisions of The Patriot Act at home, and better intelligence coordination and the wars
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Shoshana BryenSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Dr. Eliza Slavet discusses some of the ideas in her book Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question during Friday evening services, April 16, at Congregation Dor Hadash. What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)- Assemblymember Marty Block will welcome First Lady Michelle Obama to a visit of the New Roots Community Farm, a sustainable food project located in the San Diego community of City Heights at 54th Street and Chollas Avenue at 1pm on Thursday, April 15. “I’m very excited to welcome the First Lady
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—No one knows for sure how he spelled his name—was it Joao Rodrigues Cabrilho or Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo? No one knows for certain his nationality. Was he Portuguese or a Spaniard? Where he was born is a mystery. So is where he died. And the name he gave
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–He ain’t stupid. Stubborn is not all that bad. Neither is pressure. The subject is Barack Obama. Signs are that he is backing off from saying that he expects early compliance with his demands on Israel and Palestine. “. . . even if we apply all our political capital to that issue,
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JCF donors sign Book of Life in sancturary of Congregation Beth El SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–On the Sunday before Passover, the Jewish Community Foundation honored a group of new signers to inscribe their names in the Book of Life. Individuals and families are eligible to sign the Book of Life by promising to establish a
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–“From My Hammock,” a tongue-in-cheek essay about gardening by the late Jewish writer Bernard Levin will be among the short pieces read at Write Out Loud’s presentation of “Rhapsody in Bloom,” a collection of stories about the garden, at 7 p.m., Monday, April 19 at Old Town Theatre. Tickets for the one-night
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — If it appears during fall that it has been snowing in the California Native Plants Garden at Grossmont College, don’t bother checking the thermometer or calling the Guiness Book of Records. The white precipitate isn’t snow at all, but in fact is a
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Donald H. HarrisonSACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – Assemblymember Marty Block (Democrat, San Diego) on Tuesday announced that, in partnership with Assemblymember Ira Ruskin (Democrat, Redwood City), he is leading an effort to honor Holocaust survivors and World War II veteran concentration camp liberators during a special ceremony in the Capitol on April 19, at 12:00 p.m., as part of Holocaust
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HAIFA (Press Release)–An emotional first-time meeting took place at the University of Haifa between two survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp: Miriam Yahav, 83, and Nahum Bendel, 82. The two became connected five years ago, in 2005, when Yahav spontaneously stepped up to the stage at a ceremony in Poland commemorating 60 years of the liberation
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Middle EastBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — One of the unique aspects of dance among the art forms is that it affords us the opportunity to observe not only its fruition, but also its creation. It willingly lends itself to a public birth: the dancers, the choreographer and the audience all participating in the process. John
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By Gerry Greber LA JOLLA, California — San Diego’s Jewish community on Sunday, April 11, held its largest commemoration of the Holocaust in 65 years to remember and honor those who were victims or liberators during the Holocaust. Organized by Michael Bart, a son of Holocaust survivors, the ceremony at the Lawrence Family JCC paid
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AUSCHWITZ, Poland (Press Release)–Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, flanked by Israel’s former Chief Rabbi and government ministers, led a group of over 10,000 on the annual March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and death camp in Poland, marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, Monday (April 12). “It is easy to say that the lessons of Auschwitz
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