By Irvin H. Jacobs, MD, MPH, MFA LA JOLLA, California — This week’s portion (Naso) offers up two topics of some mischief and humor. The first is the “Judicial Water Ordeal,” (Numbers Ch. 5) ostensibly to deal with suspected unwitnessed adultery by wives. The two situations covered are respectively: a rumored affair that reaches the […]
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish ReligionBy Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK –In Burbank, California, amidst the famed New York Street sets at Warner Bros, filmmakers are shooting a new film entitled “The Latin from Manhattan,” about the wildly vivacious and roller-coaster life of Vanessa Del Rio – the world’s first Latina adult star. The film is set in the late 1970s
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –– StandWithUs commends the US Senate for passing unanimously a Resolution Condemning all forms of antisemitism on June 13, 2019. The resolution was announced five days after a gunman burst into a synagogue in Poway, Calif., during services marking the end of Passover, murdering a 60-year-old woman, maiming the rabbi and
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Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — Our Torah portion this week, Naso, describes the somewhat unusual lifestyle choices of a Nazarite. A Nazarite takes a vow of holiness, abstains from drinking alcohol, cutting his hair, and coming into contact with the dead. The vow is for a predetermined finite amount of time. Through abstaining
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Democratic U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris and Dianne Feinstein , both from California, on Thursday applauded the approval of a resolution condemning the recent anti-Semitic attack on worshipers at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue. S. Res. 231, Condemning the horrific Anti-Semitic Attack on the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San
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San Diego County, USABy Eileen Wingard ALISO VIEJO, California — The manuscript of Journey to Freedom languished for decades at the bottom of a pile of Dr. Bernard “Barney” Gilmore’s scores. It was not until after UC Irvine Music Faculty Professor Gilmore’s death, that his wife, while organizing his music for the archives at the UC Irvine Library,
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFrom Infinity to Man by Eduard Shyfrin, White Raven Publishing, © 2019, ISBN 978-1-911195-84-9, p. 122 plus notes and index, $24.99. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Kabbalah is esoteric Judaism, the mystical traditions handed down orally through the generations. Yet, Kabbalah is not a monolith, its concepts and structures evolve. In the introduction to
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Rabea Ali, president of the Muslim Students Association at Manhattan College, wasted no time challenging U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel’s advocacy in a campus speech for Israel when she asked, “And how do you find it in your humanity to support Israel when it is actively committing human rights
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIn memory of the great band leader and clarinet player Benny Goodman, who died on this day in 1986.
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Mayoral candidate Todd Gloria will bring his campaign to opponenet Barbara Bry’s home turf when he speaks July 17 at Congregation Beth Israel, where Bry is a member. Her forum will be hosted by the Beth Israel Men’s Club at a buffet dinner to be served at 6:30 p.m. at
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San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — This is an early and partial (i.e. neither complete nor impartial) attempt to comment on the second election in Israel this year, due next September. The immediate inspiration comes from a cartoon in Ha’aretz that shows the quartet that leads the main opposition Blue and White Party. Three of
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — There are many instances where both Jews and non-Jews tell stories with some variations on the same plot. In many of these instances, the Jewish version attempts to use its version to teach Jews proper behavior. The following is an example. Rip Van Winkle Washington Irving (1783-1859)
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO — A message from editor Donald H. Harrison: In an effort to better serve readers, San Diego Jewish World will be changing format over the summer. Currently we are updating and improving our daily subscription service so that an interactive summary of every article posted in the preceding 24 hours will be delivered
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