Thanks to old New Rochelle High School alumni Bobby Brindisi and Amnon Markusfeld for forwarding this video.
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Parasha Nitzavim By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — This week’s Torah portion Nitzavim, is always read on the Shabbat before Rosh Hashana. It asks us where we stand as we enter the new year. The parasha teaches that G-d tells us, “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
The “letter” below has, of course, never been written; it’s a product of my imagination. Yet without a move along its lines, Israel won’t have a government and we may have to go to elections again, which is both ridiculous and scandalous. Avigdor Lieberman could save us from it. But will he?
Dear Jewish citizens of Israel,
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Middle East
Excerpt: I chose this book by Rebecca Cantrell because it promised to describe what life was like in Berlin in the early 1930s. I was not disappointed. Apart from the somewhat lurid plot of the novel, the book contains a vivid account of the way Berliners lived and loved at that time, the rising political power and physical presence of the Nazi party and – in a particularly sensational way – the life of the homosexual community there. (To read more, please click on the headline)
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
I could not possibly applaud enough the young men and women who flooded the streets in hundreds of cities around the world demanding from their government to take immediate and long-term action to combat climate change. By the same token, I could not condemn and denounce more vehemently Mr. Trump and many of his ilk, like Bolsonaro of Brazil, for their criminal disregard of the catastrophic peril that climate change represents. By denying the threat that climate change poses and its devastating harm to countless living creatures, they are systematically undermining any chance we still have of avoiding a terrible catastrophe, including a mass extinction of species the likes of which the modern world has never seen. (To read more, please click on headline)
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, USA
The thrust of this parasha is modeled after the format of an ancient covenant treaty. The scene is set in the Plains of Moab on the east side of the Jordan, shortly before the death of Moses. This is to be followed by entrance to the promised land under Joshua’s leadership.
A word about ancient covenants. Unlike modern times wherein parties sign an arranged legal contract, the ancients performed ceremonies, characterized by proclamations, writings of the terms, proclamations of blessings and curses, erection of steles, and sacrifices. Curses include acts that symbolized the fate of violators. They would cut up the body of an animal, then the parties passed between the pieces, symbolizing what would happen to either if he/she violated the treaty.
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
Items in this column include:
*A few of Bern Schwartz’s works now at Museum of Photographic Arts
*Jewish Federation’s Men’s Event Dec. 8 to feature comedian Modi Rosenfeld
*Political Dots and Dashes
*Cohn Group of Restaurants to temporarily manage four more eateries
*Mazel tov! Mazel tov!
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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food
Please impeach him for all his sins.
I’ve grown tired of his “wins.”
Nancy waited much too long
To avoid offending MAGA throngs.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Making It All Work: A Practical Guide to Hashkafah & Halacha in the Workplace by Avi Wasserman and Miryam Wasserman; Philipp Feldheim publisher; ISBN-10: 16802-50310; 538 pages; Price $25.00 By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The authors of Making It All Work present the Orthodox Jewish community with an interesting book about some
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiTelevision interviewer Barbara Walters was born this day (September 25) in 1929.
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By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin JERUSALEM — Judaism Reclaimed: Philosophy and Theology in the Torah by Shmuel Phillips, a rabbi and lawyer with a law degree from the University of London, is a book filled with interesting information inspired by his understanding of the views of Maimonides and Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. The book has
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Eileen Wingard CORONADO, California — This past weekend, a new music festival was initiated at the Coronado Library, and concert pianist, Gerald Robbins, brother of longtime Coronado resident, Bonnie Fox, helped launch the concerts by participating in two of them. At 1 p.m. Saturday, September 21, Robbins performed a solo recital on the Coronado
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Tim Nader and Howard Wayne SAN DIEGO — Tim Nader remembers: I first met Wadie Deddeh in the 1960s when, as our Assemblyman for Chula Vista, he came to my 6th grade summer school class at Halecrest Elementary. That visit was typical of Wadie – he didn’t care that we were all too young
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
As a bandwagon grew in Congress, Rep. Susan Davis on Tuesday joined fellow Democrats in the San Diego County delegation calling for an impeachment investigation of President Trump. Davis announced her support as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally launched an impeachment inquiry in the wake of accusations that Trump threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless that country investigated the son of former Vice President Joseph Biden, a candidate for the Democratic nomination. (Please click on headline to read more)
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Ken Stone, San Diego County, USA