By Gary Rotto EL CAJON, California–Hanukkah came a day early for me. On Thursday, I had the pleasure of watching the first San Diego Jewish Academy Middle School Girls Soccer game of the year. I’ve coached soccer for 8 years. Soon after embarking on my coaching “career”, SDJA decided to initiate a Sports Booster Club.
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK — The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has launched a unique website with Israel’s Ministry of Tourism dedicated to Chanukah. The site, http://chanukah.goisrael.com, allows virtual “travelers” to log on and light candles for each night of the holiday. With each candle “lit,” visitors to the Chanukah website will be able
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Each revelation of a “secret” Iranian nuclear-related capability hides another secret. Western threats, and threats of threats, and threats of even bigger threats have had no impact. After the September revelation of Iran’s “secret” uranium enrichment facilities, JINSA suggested that the Western powers stop threatening and start supporting the Second
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO– When Patrick Page and Paige Davis stood at the top of the stairs looking across the theatre from one another singing the opening number in the inaugural performance of the Tom Jones (book and lyrics)/ Harvey Schmidt (music) musical, I Do! I Do! (They also wrote the Fantasticks) in the
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JOINS IN—Eitan Frysh, a senior at San Diego Jewish Academy, joins with singers of the Israel Defense Forces at Friends of the IDF campus appearance. _____________________________________________ By Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO, California–What can you say when a concert experience runs the gamut from deeply moving to bizarrely surrealistic to profoundly annoying to just plain fun?
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Middle East, USACORONADO, California (Press Release)–What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel that have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? Writing on the eve of the Holocaust, Freud proposed that Jewishness is constituted by the inheritance
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San Diego CalendarBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA– So, a religious group for aspiring attorneys claims the right to discriminate. A law school refuses to accept the organization if it will not accept gays and other so-called heathens. The victims of this group’s discriminatory policies are unlikely to seek membership in this organization. There is a joke in
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By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida–Sometimes you live too long and know too much. I celebrated my 96th birthday last week so I was around when East Jerusalem and the West Bank of Jordan were conquered by Israel in 1967. I learned from an aide to Teddy Kollek what he and Moshe Dayan were
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Salita at Ha Kotel _____________________________________________________ JERUSALEM (Press Release)—World renowned Orthodox Jewish American boxer Dmitriy Salita – “the Star of David” – visited Israel for the first time with his wife as a guest of the Aliyah organization Nefesh B’Nefesh. The 27 year old North American Light Welterweight Champion from Brooklyn, NY, has been enjoying his
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Middle East, USABy Peter Eisner LA JOLLA, California–Sol Price, the founder of Price Club and the acknowledged father of warehouse superstores who was a life-long advocate of liberal politics and quietly gave millions to charity, died at his home in La Jolla, California, on Monday at the age of 93. His family said he had been in
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Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, USAJudy Lash Balint provides us with a link to her story about a Jewish bride and a father who were arrested for seemingly praying on the Temple Mount. Ulla Hadar, our Shaar Hanegev bureau chief, spotted this piece on Yahoo.com about how peaceful life has become in the wake of Operation Cast Lead on Nahal
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday condemned the desecration of two menorahs in Suffolk County over the weekend, the latest in a series of menorah vandalisms on Long Island in recent weeks. According to authorities, a menorah at the entrance of Raynor Beach County Park in Ronkonkoma was broken and left on
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–The arson attack on a mosque in the West Bank village of Yasuf is an unspeakable outrage and a profound embarrassment to the entire Jewish people. Those responsible for the attack damaged not only a peaceful holy place, but the possibility of Jewish-Moslem reconciliation. What is most disturbing of all is that
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)—The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on MOnday urged the government of Moldova and the leadership of the Orthodox Church to punish those responsible for uprooting a Hanukkah menorah on a main public square in Moldova’s capital, Chisinau, and replacing it with an Orthodox cross. A video shows an Orthodox priest, identified by the
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