SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Cindy Marten, the superintendent of city schools, will address a dessert reception of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club at 7 p.m., Sunday, August 18. The public is invited to attend Marten’s talk in which she has been asked to discuss security at the city’s schools as well as any recent […]
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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education
By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — Anyone interested in Israel and the Jewish community in America, and who realizes the major news outlets often get it wrong, should take a look at Victor Rosenthal’s blog from Israel called “Abu Yehuda.” Victor started out in Fresno, where he was active in the Jewish community, and where he
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Middle East, USAOscar-winning screenwriter Frederic Raphael was born this day (August 14) in 1931.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast
SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release)– The following is a statement from AMCHA Initiative Director Tammi Rossman-Benjamin on the California Board of Education’s decision to rewrite the proposed Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum: “We are pleased the State Board of Education has recognized the severe problems with this curriculum and agreed to go back to the drawing
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Alon Ben-Meir, PhD NEW YORK — Climate change is real and is visible for all to see. The scientific evidence is overwhelming, and denying that climate change is already upon us, especially as the president and his party does, flies in the face of the indisputably dire consequences that will be inflicted on
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Alon Ben-Meir, International, The World We Share, USA
Va’etchanan By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — The first word of this week’s parasha, Va’etchanan, means “I pleaded.” Moshe pleaded with Hashem to see the Land of Israel. Hashem heard his pleas, and the answer? “No.” How many times do we plead, pray, even beg Hashem for an outcome and it doesn’t go
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
Torah parsha “Va-Ethannan”-Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11 By Irv Jacobs LA JOLLA, California The most memorable passages in this parsha are the Ten Commandments, the classic epitome of Jewish contribution to Western civilization. But are the Commandments original? Do these famous lines have precedents in earlier ancient cultures? In fact, the ideas of the Commandments made an early appearance in
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO –When I walked into the theatre, I greeted the House Manager with a kiss and she said, “I hope you brought your dancing shoes.” I did and I’m glad. She was right. “Our music is part of America’s DNA.” The number 33 1/3 refers to the speed of long
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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastEthics Professor Felix Adler was born this day (August 13) in 1851.
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Jewish History, USA
By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President Trump would like the High Holy days and other Jewish religious holidays to be observed earlier in 2020 than in their usual season, and is taking steps to implement his idea. In a series of tweets just leaked, he gave two reasons for urging a change: to
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — Abu Safiyeh, is a representative of the PLO’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the Gaza Strip. He was arrested after he published a Facebook post criticizing Hamas’s corruption. Here are some of the things he wrote that got him thrown into Palestinian prison by Hamas:
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Barry Shaw, Middle East
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — I’ve often contended that had there not been a State of Israel, Judaism would by now been confined to museums. Enclaves of Orthodox Jews would perhaps continue to practice their ways in the manner of the Amish in the United States. The majority would assimilate. I’ve now come to
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Middle East
Two Who Survived: Keeping Hope Alive While Surviving the Holocaust; Rose & Max Schindler’s story, written by M. Lee Connolly; MRS Publishing © 2019; ISBN 9781738-19877; 179 pages including glossary; $21.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – There is a romantic notion in popular Judaism that everyone has a bashert – a special person
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A young man, Dvir Sorek, religious, a bit short of going from his Yeshiva to the army, was killed as he walked the path from the bus stop to his settlement. It demonstrated, once again, that roadside killings in the West Bank are the most popular targets for Palestinian terrorists.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East