By his own assessment, being a rabbi who must give sermons before a congregation and empathize with congregants during times of their loss or emotional stress is a challenge that others might believe insurmountable given his high-functioning autism. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion
Playing through January 8, this show will have you clapping and singing along whether you want to or not. Against the backdrop of chart-topping hits like For Once In My Life; Since I lost My Baby; My Girl; The Way You Do The Things You Do, and of course the title song Ain’t Too Proud To Beg, the story of the Temptations’ rise to fame and the cost to their personal lives is narrated by the last surviving original member, Otis Williams, played by Michael Andreas. [Sandi Masori]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sandi Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — With all families, there comes a time when children reach a certain age and have to move out on their own. Frank and Monroe were at that age, and things were getting a little uncomfortable at home. They moved out Dec. 6 and are sharing a
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San Diego County
Published by BANG Showbiz English Mel Gibson is reportedly months away from shooting a sequel to his controversial 2004 film ‘The Passion of the Christ’. Jim Caviezel is said to be returning in the role of Jesus while Mel, 67, is apparently returning as director of ‘The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection’, according to Newsmax.
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USA
Published by Reuters By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Security Council members voiced concern on Thursday and stressed the need to maintain a status quo at the Al Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, days after Israel’s new far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir briefly visited the site. The decades-old status quo allows only Muslim
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Middle East
Published by Reuters By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Dan Williams and Aziz El Yaakoubi GAZA/JERUSALEM/DUBAI (Reuters) -Israel’s sharp tilt to what is likely to be the most hard right government in its history puts its new Arab allies in the awkward position of having to deal with ultra-nationalists while trying to do more than just pay lip
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Middle East
Published by Reuters (Reuters) -Intel Corp’s self-driving tech unit Mobileye Global Inc said on Thursday it sees more than $17 billion in revenues for its advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) products by 2030. Jerusalem, Israel-based Mobileye, which went public in October last year, is a top player in the ADAS market, which shares components with
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Israel
Published by Euronews (English) Iranian officials are furious after the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo published offensive caricatures of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Tehran announced on Thursday that it was shutting down a French research institute in the capital in protest of the publication of the cartoons. “The ministry is ending the activities
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Middle East
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — Heinrich Heine was loved and hated by the two nations to which he belonged. The Germans loved his lyrics and disliked his political poetry. The Jews liked to attribute his genius to themselves and disliked his conversion to Protestantism, which he often joked: “What do you want? I found
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Alex Gordon, International, Jewish History, Opinion
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Some people think that Maimonides was a deist. I am convinced that they are mistaken. There are some similarities between Maimonides and deists, just as there are similarities between Jews and Christians, but these similarities do not result in us calling Jews Christians. This becomes
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion
Published by Reuters By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Leading ultra-Orthodox Jewish figures supporting Israel’s coalition government on Wednesday criticised a visit by a far-right minister to a flashpoint holy site in Jerusalem, adding internal religious dissent to a cascade of foreign censure. One lawmaker accused National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir of “goading the entire
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Israel
Published by DPA Unknown vandals desecrated a Protestant cemetery in Jerusalem, damaging more than 30 gravestones, according to Israeli media reports. Israeli radio reported considerable damage to the Zion cemetery on Wednesday, with gravestones damaged and crosses broken. The Jerusalem Post, citing Jerusalem University College, reported that the perpetrators were two Jewish teenagers, saying the
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Israel
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — On Wednesday, January 18, from 7-8 p.m., the Congregation Beth Israel Men’s Club Speaker Forum presents, “Antisemitism in Visual Art Since the Middle Ages,” a lecture by Claudia Hercman. Hercman was born and raised in Buenos Aires, within the Argentinian Jewish community. She is a tour guide and translator. She
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Holocaust, International, Jewish History, San Diego County
By Bruce S. Ticker “Justice, justice thou shalt pursue…” – Exodus “The law is all we have…” – Newman, from “The Seven” segment in “Seinfeld” Team Bibi’s plans to transform Israel’s legal system boils down to a perversion of our most basic biblical teachings. They will forsake justice to feed their political appetites. Retired Rabbi
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA