By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Following recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, President Trump indicated a willingness to consider a number of laws to reduce gun violence, including improved background checks and red-flag laws, although he has since backed away from that support. Many rabbis and other Jewish scholars have […]
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — It might surprise most people to know that ecological themes form an important part of the Torah and Tanakh. For example: Genesis begins with an important ecological truth: “The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and
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By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — It is basic psychology that people cannot understand a subject unless they understand its opposite. In fact, this was the first lesson I learnt at Johns Hopkins in my first psychology class. Peter Kamara’s Ancient Roman Mythology contains a description of a Roman creation myth. It is
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By Moshe Dann The Jerusalem Post JERUSALEM — The last “book” of Torah, Devarim (words), is also called Deuteronomy because it contains many laws especially relevant to the conquering and settlement of Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) that were not presented in the first four books. It reflects the transition from the end of one
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastConductor/ composer/ muisican Leonard Bernstein was born this day (August 25) in 1918.
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
National Dog Day By Elona Baron as told to Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-National Dog Day is August 26th. Rather than growl about why dogs only get a day instead of a celebratory month, I want to provide sketches of famous dogs. Most are real, but some I imagined while waiting endless hours for my masters
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What Language do I Dream in? by Elena Lappin; HarperCollins, 2017, ISBN 9781554-684632. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France — As a bilingual speaker of Hebrew and English as well as having some knowledge of French and German, I was intrigued by the title of this book. But the beginning is something of a surprise, as
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By Peter C. Herman Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Now that public outrage has forced the retraction of the K-12 ethnic studies curriculum proposal because it contained way too much jargon (e.g., “cisheteropatriarchy,” “hxrstory,” and “accompliceship”), leftish propaganda, and the exclusion of such ethnic groups as Jews and Indian-Americans, we still have another
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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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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & EducationActor Steve Gutttenberg was born this day (August 24) in 1958.
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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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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
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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