By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — It is rare for me to have a “Big Mac Attack.” While I did eat treif in my youth, I swore it off in my college years. I have observed Kashrut since then. Golden Arches no longer entice me. For me they do not exist. I pass by […]
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International, Travel and Food
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO- -It isn’t often that we get a chance to see a young, up and coming actor who is still in school and has time to perform, and perform well. How fortunate for us then that Dylan Hoffinger, a freshman at the School of Creative and Performing Arts (as a musical
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Christians in Iraq have been, and not for the first time, deliberately targeted in a major terrorist attack. Indeed, from Indonesia to Pakistan to Iraq, from the Gaza Strip to Egypt to Sudan to Nigeria, Christians are being assaulted, intimidated, and murdered by militant Muslims. Yet virtually never do
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We have had worse days. The not so friendly United Nations published its Human Development Index, ranking Israel number 15 among 169 countries. Norway is number 1 and the United States number 4. Israel scores higher than such decent places as Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Austria, and the United
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Second-year Fordham University Law student Michael Zimmerman loves to get his hands dirty. Each day Zimmerman and a handful of student volunteers tend to and harvest a small organic roof garden that he began on the top of the parish house at St. Paul the Apostle Church, next to the
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO – When fifth grade teacher Shani Abed of San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) shared with her two fifth grade classes the September 14 cover of Time Magazine displaying a daisy chain Star of David and the headline “Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace,” it caused some strong reactions among her students. “Many students
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Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Nov. 4, 2010) — As part of its ongoing commitment to cultural diversity and to celebrate Hispanic Heritage and American Indian Heritage months, Union Bank has partnered with KPBS to honor four extraordinary San Diegans during its 13th Annual Local Heroes Awards program. Recognized for exemplary leadership and dedication to serving their communities, these
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County
By Lloyd Levy LONDON– The early Zionists were intent on creating a new Jew, one who would not be beholdento the non-Jewish majority. The new Jew would be free of the Diaspora mentality, which was perhaps most famously described by the Zionist poet Bialik, in his poem “The City of Slaughter .” The poem describes how
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Lloyd Levy, Middle East
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel (Press Release)–What effect will the congressional elections have on U.S. foreign policy generally and Middle East policy in particular? It isn’t a matter of the individual candidates, since nobody lost or won who will have some big influence on U.S. policy in the next couple of years. The important factor
Will Obama be pragmatic or an idealogue in second half of term? Read More »
Middle East, USAROME (WJC)–Jewish leaders in Italy have criticized a TV series that portrayed wartime Pope Pius XII as working forcefully to save Jews from the Nazi onslaught as “unacceptable revisionism.” The feature ‘Under the Roman Sky’ was aired Sunday and Monday on the state-owned ‘RAI Television’. Set in 1943, it shows Pius remaining in Rome despite
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Travel and FoodJOHANNESBURG, South Africa (WJC)– A Muslim-owned company in Johannesburg has canceled an order placed by the South African Zionist Federation with comments saying: “Please don’t pay! Don’t contaminate our account with your blood money!” JTA reports that the organization had ordered conference bags from Saleys Travel Goods for a conference in March and had dealt with
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Travel and FoodTEHRAN (WJC)–Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for allegedly having committed adultery, escaped her execution on Wednesday after strong international protests, but still faces the death penalty. Ashtiani, whose case has captivated the world, might be hanged instead of stoned to death, human rights advocates said. The 43-year-old mother, was
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Travel and Food
Rabbi Baruch Lederman By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–“Yaakov ish tam yoshev ohalim … Yaakov was a simple man, a dweller of tents.” Yaakov did the basic simple things with consistancy and enormous dedication. He didn’t overcomplicate things, he did what needed to be done – whatever needed to be done. Sometimes the most simple
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund has announced that more openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) candidates won election to public office in the U.S. in 2010 than in any year in America’s history. At least 106 of the group’s record-breaking 164 endorsed candidates were winners as of Wednesday morning, including Providence,
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