By Rabbi Philip Graubart LA JOLLA, California — Not long ago a well-known Jewish female singer performed in my synagogue on a Saturday night. She was staying in town over Shabbat. In making the arrangements, she requested that she be put in a hotel in walking distance to an Orthodox synagogue. I was surprised because
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What’s Pushing Your Buttons? ATLANTA, Georgia — What motivates you? That’s the question I’d like to ask in this inaugural column on motivation. Are you motivated by fame, fortune or fear. Or is it something deeper that fans the flames inside of you. Perhaps you are like Jeanne Louise Calment whose burning desire enabled
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–On Sunday, April 11, the San Diego Jewish community will commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a special program at 1:30 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, open to the public. The theme of this event will be “Remember, Honor, and Teach: Liberation 65 Years Later.” Stephen Smith,
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Travel and FoodBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA–Neither the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nor Mahatma Gandhi whined when they were jailed. They knew they violated the local burg’s usually unjust laws; endured their punishment like adults; and never blamed the Jews. Not so the 11 overgrown delinquents who disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren’s speech
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Middle East, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Following is a speech delivered to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee meeting in Washington D.C. by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday: Thank you. Thank you for that welcome. And it is wonderful to be back at AIPAC with so many good friends. I saw a number of them backstage
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Middle East, USABy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–One of the thrills of dance – both to the dancer as well as the observer – is the momentary euphoria of suspension in space and the freedom of apparent flight. City Ballet of San Diego’s production on March 21 of Peter Pan at the Spreckles Theatre is a delight in
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Travel and FoodBy Vic Alhadeff SYDNEY, March 15 — It is easy to be sidetracked by the pace of politics in the Middle East and to lose sight of the big picture. The announcement that 1600 apartments will be built in East Jerusalem is a case in point. It was quickly followed by Israel’s Defence Minister threatening
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Okoronkwo Umeham, 73, has led a distinguished life in his native Nigeria; in the United Kingdom where he worked as a social worker; and finally in the United States, his country of citizenship, where he counsels troubled juveniles. Residents from the Eastern Nigerian village of Arochukwu,
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Donald H. Harrison, International, USABy Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM–For the past several years I’ve been putting out a light-hearted ’18 Ways You Know Pesach is Coming In Israel’ piece to describe the frenetic days leading up to Pesach in the holy city. This year, there are a few additional notable events that are driving the news cycles over here.
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Contrary to what we might have wanted to believe, Bernard Avishai’s reference, which I cited the other day, to General Petreus’ statement that the collusion of previous American administrations with Israel’s settlement policy has been harmful to US interests, seems to be widely accepted as accurate and significant, also in Israel.
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Travel and FoodHAIFA (Press Release)–Another small earthquake was felt in the north of Israel this weekend, prompting an Israeli official to note that his country “experiences a large earthquake every 80 years on average; the last occurred in 1927. We are now in the area of statistical error.” Dr. Avi Shapira, Director of the Israeli Ministry of
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.– Fairly authoritative sources have noted that Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, the U.S. Army general responsible for training Abu Mazen’s Palestinian security force/army, has become increasingly marginalized by the Fatah government. Last summer his staff was reportedly no longer directly involved in training or planning and had been “expelled” from the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Most people dread going to a funeral or to the dentist. Whenever I go to either, I have to give myself a pep talk. I repeat to myself the sage observation of Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal of Tifereth Israel Synagogue that helping to bury a person is one of the kindest
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By Joel A. Moskowitz, MD LA JOLLA, California — In anticipation of spending a Seder with our daughter and her family, I chanced upon a book that describes how one hundred and one famous and not so famous persons recall their experience on Pesach. Nancy Rips, a book commentator, has gathered a small volume, of
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