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Series will address the needs of the aging

August 24, 2019

LA JOLLA, California — Seacrest Village Retirement Communities, in association with the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, has announced it will be offering a series of discussions concerning issues facing elderly family members. The series has been titled “Navigating & Advocating for You and Your Aging Loved One: Medicare, Housing Options, Legal Matters, and More.” […]

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Happy birthday Steve Guttenberg

August 24, 2019

Actor Steve Gutttenberg was born this day (August 24) in 1958.

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

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Humoring the headlines: August 24, 2019

August 24, 2019

Presidential Prayers By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−“Our President, who was Chosen, hollow is your fame. You’ve made us numb, with Tweets so dumb, on Obama’s birth in Kenya and not here. Give us this day our daily dread, and imprison your enemies as you have asylum seekers. And lead us into stagflation, while failing to

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

San Diego Jewish Leaders Face Challenges Responding to Trump’s Tweets, New ‘Disloyalty’ Claim

August 24, 2019

This story was updated on August 26, 2019 By Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A week before the November 2018 election, 17 San Diego-area rabbis signed a letter denouncing Rep. Duncan Hunter‘s “fear mongering” attacks on the Palestinian ancestry of Christian opponent Ammar Campa-Najjar. They said the Republican congressman’s attacks on the

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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Ken Stone, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

The Ramban vs. Maimonides in theological debate

August 23, 2019

Nachmanides: An Unusual Thinker by Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin, Geffen Publishing House (c) 2018, ISBN 9789652-298874. By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most interesting books I have read in years is Rabbi Israel Drazin’s excellent primer on the Ramban, entitled, Nachmanides An Unusual Thinker about a brilliant rabbinic scholar

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Happy birthday Jeremy Schaap

August 23, 2019

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Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

This week’s Torah portion: Eikev

August 23, 2019

By Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — In our Torah portion this week, Eikev, we read about what traditional rabbis consider to be the biblical origin of Birkhat HaMazan, the traditional blessing that can be recited after a meal. The Torah teaches us that we should “eat and be satisfied, and bless the Lord our

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Jewish Religion

What did you call your grandma and grandpa?

August 23, 2019

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When Avrome David Goldberg of Little Rock, Arkansas died at the age of 93 in 2018, his local obituary noted that “Dave” — as he was called by everyone who knew him — was called ”Daddy Dave” by his two grandchildren Emma and Maya when they were kids.

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USA

Trump believes Jews can’t think for themselves

August 22, 2019

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — President Trump’s rebuke of Jewish “disloyalty” on Tuesday is disturbing on many levels, but primarily he was preaching to 5.7 million fellow Americans who he must think should be told what is best for them. Our president was patronizing any American Jew who does not go along with

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Bruce Ticker, Middle East, USA

Temple Shalom of Louisville: A love story

August 22, 2019

On October 21, 1961, I finished my bar mitzvah speech at Judea Center Synagogue in Brooklyn, thanking my parents for raising me as a Jew. Six months later, I interrupted our family’s Shabbat candle lighting to announce that I was finished with religion. [Michael Ginsberg]

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Jewish Religion, Michael Ginsberg, USA

Remembering Jacques Lipchitz

August 22, 2019

Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz was born this day (August 22) in 1891.

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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Area C’s terrorist links and financiers

August 22, 2019

-Third in a series; Click on Part I, Part II (c) By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C — Hundreds of millions of euros flow annually from European nations to fund illegal Palestinian settlements in Area C. Under the Oslo Accords, only Israel can issue construction permits. The current rapid expansion plan dispenses with any coordination with

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Edwin Black, International, Middle East

Worry over U.S. – Israel relations after Bibi, after Trump

August 22, 2019

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Is it possible that the U.S. president, considered by many to be more supportive of Israel than any of his predecessors, uses the terminology of anti-Semites? Have his Jewish daughter and her family not sensitized him to the fact that to question the loyalty of Jews has been the

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Middle East, USA

Rabbi/ Cantor Arlene Bernstein’s spiritual journey

August 22, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As Arlene Bernstein became less and less “observant”of halacha in her religious practice, she became more and more deeply involved in Jewish life. Today she is a cantor as well as a rabbi. And for the next year, she is serving as the Acting Senior Rabbi of the

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Donald H. Harrison, Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

Series will address the needs of the aging

Happy birthday Steve Guttenberg

Humoring the headlines: August 24, 2019

San Diego Jewish Leaders Face Challenges Responding to Trump’s Tweets, New ‘Disloyalty’ Claim

The Ramban vs. Maimonides in theological debate

Happy birthday Jeremy Schaap

This week’s Torah portion: Eikev

What did you call your grandma and grandpa?

Trump believes Jews can’t think for themselves

Temple Shalom of Louisville: A love story

Remembering Jacques Lipchitz

Area C’s terrorist links and financiers

Worry over U.S. – Israel relations after Bibi, after Trump

Rabbi/ Cantor Arlene Bernstein’s spiritual journey

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