Teralta Neighborhood Park Praises ‘Unity in the Community’

Teralta Neighborhood Park is remarkable in several ways: 1) It is built right over the Interstate 15 freeway between Orange and Polk Avenues in the City Heights neighborhood.  2) It now boasts a 270-foot long, 7 ½-foot high mural titled “Unity in the Community,” which features faces, activities, and landmarks of the diverse City Heights neighborhood.  3) It serves a largely immigrant community in which at least 30 languages are spoken, with four major language groups—English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Somali—incorporated into the mural. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Israel’s ‘Fired’ Defense Chief Hangs on as Netanyahu Hits Pause

Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Israeli defense chief whose dismissal by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brought the country’s constitutional crisis to a boil is staying in office until further notice, aides said on Tuesday, suggesting government indecision on how to proceed. Beset by three months of unprecedented protests against his nationalist-religious

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A Rational Understanding of Numbers and When Shabbat and Years Start

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The second weekly biblical portion in the third Book of Moses is called Tzav. The Torah addresses the five types of sacrifices mentioned in the prior portion. In the former weekly portion, the focus was on the people bringing the offering. Here it contains instructions for

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

San Diegan Is Social Media Voice of Baseball’s Team Israel

Avi Miller, a Baltimore native who investigated other parts of the USA before deciding to move more than a year ago to San Diego, was the clever communicator for Team Israel on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook during the recent World Baseball Classic.  [Donald H. Harrison]

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Kanye West Says Jonah Hill ‘Made Me Like Jewish People Again’

Published by uInterview.com Kanye West returned to Instagram on Friday with his first post of 2023, announcing that he “likes Jewish people again,” after seeing Jonah Hill‘s performance in 21 Jump Street. He continued, writing in the caption, “No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions

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Israeli Government Delays Disputed Judiciary Bill Amid Mass Protests

Published by Reuters By Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday delayed a decision on bitterly contested plans for a judicial overhaul until next month amid fears that Israel’s worst national crisis in years could fracture his coalition or escalate into violence. It was unclear how far the bill’s delay to the

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Jewish Trivia Quiz: Health Issues Among Haredi Men

By Mark D. Zimmerman A recent study at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Academic College confirmed that Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men have a higher rate of what medical problem than the general population? A. Spinal problems including herniated discs and sciatica, as a result of shuckling, the rapid front to back swaying that Haredi men perform while praying, to

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Jewish Life in San Miguel de Allende

By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA — San Miguel sits at 6200 feet in Mexico’s high central altiplano 146 air miles northwest of Mexico City. Passenger train service ceased many years ago. Volaris Airlines very efficiently flies 240 passengers the 1,735 miles non-stop from Oakland to Leon near Guanajuato. Everything costs extra, except a styrofoam

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B’Shalom: Proposed California Food Bans, Technology, Jewish Politics and Celebrities

Observant Jews will be ridding their household of food products with leavening in advance of the Passover holiday that begins the evening of Wednesday, April 5. While checking the labels, they might also want to see if any of the foods they are consuming contain brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, red dye 3, or titanium dioxide. Those are the chemicals that a bill (AB 418) by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) would ban from food manufactured or sold in California. The chemicals already are banned  as toxic by Europe, where some manufacturers have consequently reformulated products that had contained them. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Student Showcase Features Wide Range of Poetry, From Swings to Enlightenment

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Topics from swings to enlightenment were subjects for the student poets and writers from the San Diego Jewish Academy Middle School and High School, San Diego’s Torah High School and Portland, Oregon’s Jewish Academy Middle School who read their poems to more than 50 Zoom listeners, Tuesday evening,

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Should Israel’s Top Judges Be Ideologically Aligned?

By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — In a speech on the evening of March 23, 2023, after mass disruptions (a “Day of Paralysis”) were held throughout Israel, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu stated that his government was, “determined to responsibly advance a reform that will bring back the correct balance between the branches [courts &

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