Editor’s Note: In this eight-part series, Eva Trieger shares with us some of the perils of dating. -First in a series- By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — After the demise of my 18-year relationship to my husband, I began to grow up. I found myself on the opposite side of the country, nearly 3,000 […]
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Eva Trieger, Lifestyles, San Diego County, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The name, Alhambra Sephardic Music Ensemble, evokes visions of the Moorish citadel, the Alhambra, which still stands in all its radiant glory in Granada, Spain. There, In the 11th century, the Jewish Talmudic scholar, poet and statesman, Samuel Hanagid served for thirty years as minister to the Berber
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Eileen Wingard, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson TROYES, France — Several years ago I was told that I really ought to visit the French town of Troyes (pronounced ‘Trois,’ like the number three in French), since it is a charming medieval town. It is also the birthplace of Rashi, the great twelfth century commentator on the Bible and the
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish Religion
By Douglas Parisi GARDNER, Kansas — We live in a time where we need to educate ourselves and our family on unfortunate events. It’s important to empower your loved ones to take action in active shooter situations, even amidst pangs of fear. This information is designed to highlight important conceptual aspects of readiness training. The
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Parasha Re’eh Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — This Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh Elul, begins the season of “cheshbon hanefesh,” a sacred task involving an “accounting of the soul.” It’s no coincidence, of course, that the parasha we read, Re’eh, begins: See (look), I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse: the
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
Re’Eh Deuteronomy Chapters 11:26-16:17 By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California — This parsha focuses on blessings and curses, in anticipation of behavior after entering the promised land. I have chosen a few passages, clashing with, or at least puzzling to, modern sentiments. I. Deuteronomy, Ch. 12: vv. 2-3 Moses commands, “You must destroy all
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Professor Chaim Waxman, a prominent and highly respected sociologist of contemporary Orthodoxy, has made a superb assessment of the history, development, and current and future situation of Orthodoxy in his relatively short but comprehensive 178-page book, Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy, with 48
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish ReligionMidrash Psalms 118:17 When you are asked in the world to come, “What was your work?” and you answer, “I fed the hungry,” you will be told, “This is the gate of Adonai, enter into it, you who have fed the hungry.” By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While the above is certainly a
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Travel and FoodOpera star Richard Tucker was born this day (August 28) in 1913.
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Caroline Kirk MARRAKECH, Morocco — This country’s belief in the strength of pluralism has energized me and shown me that difference can serve as a strength for any country, whether it is religious or secular, large or small, developed or developing. I was told that there are spiritual answers to the question, “Why Morocco?”—every
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International, Jewish Religion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Formally, Iran isn’t at war with Israel. But what about informally? The random reflections below are variations on this question. Hamas and the splinter groups in Gaza, inspired and supported by Iran, are attacking Israel. Though they suffer infinitely more than the Israelis when Israel retaliates, they seem determined
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Middle East
By Rabbi Benj Fried Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A Times of San Diego article portrayed the major leaders and clergy in the San Diego Jewish community as passively mum in the face of President Trump’s anti-Semitic portrayals of Jewish Democrats as disloyal and vicious attacks on Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar. The article
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USAAuthor/ Playwright Ira Levin was born this day (August 27) in 1929.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Is Gaza controlled by Hamas? And is Hamas the terrorist organization widely claimed? Or is there some degree of trust? Or at least an effort at communication between Israel and Gaza? We hear that there are 12,000 Gazans allowed into Israel. Some are business people, seeking deals. Some are workers,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East