By Rabbi Benjamin Herman MIAMI, Florida — In seeing footage of members of the Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn publicly burning masks has filled me with outrage and disgust. I recognize that this came in reaction to Governor Andrew Cuomo’s increasing restrictions largely affecting Orthodox Jewish communities where COVID is spreading like wildfire. Yet I […]
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven Melanie Rubin not only collects Jewish-interest license plates for us; she even has her friends and acquaintances do so. This one, mentioning the name of Elihu, whose biblical namesake appears in the Book of Job, was spotted by a friend of hers who is too modest to take
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire
“They want me to sit down and shut my mouth. But I never did do that very well.” -quote attributed to Teddy Roosevelt By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — When I interviewed Phil Johnson about his solo show in San Diego, A Jewish Joke, he mentioned that he had another project in
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California – The Book of Genesis is quite clear: God created time during the chaos of creation, measured by the motions of the moon and sun, equivalent to a lunisolar calendar. The Torah refers to days, months, and years quite often, but presents a calendar only once, in parasha Noaḥ,
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Depending on how you look at it, it has been the good fortune or the misfortune of Jews to reach measurable levels of success in numbers that are disproportionate to our percentage within the overall population. A tiny fraction of the American population, our people have a strong
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Donald H. Harrison, USA
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League is relieved by Facebook’s announcement that it was updating its hate speech policy to prohibit any content “that denies or distorts the Holocaust.” This comes after nearly a decade of ADL advocating for such changes and just weeks before the 2020 presidential election, where users have been
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Business & Finance, International, Jewish History, USA
By Yossef Ben-Meir MARRAKECH, Morocco — October 17 marks the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The commemoration of this day suggests that the way to end poverty is not a matter shrouded in mystery. In fact, its celebration denotes that, at a minimum, the manner to end poverty is most likely established knowledge.
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Business & Finance, International, Lifestyles, Yossef Ben-Meir
By Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg EDISON, New Jersey — I begin with a question that Jews have been asking for millennia. Why do they hate us? This year we saw a surprising rise in anti-Semitic attacks in America—attacks that never happened before on American soil. Rav Moshe Feinstein—the prime decisor of Jewish Law of the
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Bernhard H. Rosenberg-Rabbi, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USA
By Janet S. Tiger SAN DIEGO — Written after the contentious election in 2016, my one-act play Mixed Marriage was a winner in the 4th Annual SDC JCC Five Minute Shorts and has even more relevance today. It all started when I heard of friends – Jewish – where the husband and wife had voted for
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA, Videos
By Michael Laitman, Ph.D PETACH TIKVAH, Israel — Sally Davies, former chief medical officer for England, wrote for The Guardian that “Covid-19 is neither the first nor the last health emergency we will face. My fellow scientists estimate that we will face a pandemic or health emergency at least once every five years from
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LifestylesBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — California Proposition 15 would increase taxes on commercial and industrial properties worth more than $3 million by changing the method by which their tax liabilities are calculated. Under current California law, property is assessed on the basis of what the owner paid for it, and that value is
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Marcia Berneger SAN DIEGO — My brother, Marc Gold, is a professional cinematographer who owns and operates 24KT Sound & Video. His favorite subjects have always been weddings, bar mitzvahs and theater productions. Then Covid arrived and these venues disappeared. Marc had to repurpose himself and find new ways to help create special videos
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Marcia Berneger, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Videos
By Ira Spector SAN DIEGO — I like to ask people, “What is the greatest or most exciting thing that happened in your life?” Some of the answers I received were startling and unexpected. I once asked a woman barber cutting my hair this question. In her reply she recalled a memorable event in her
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Travel and Food, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Bond issues are the first measures on both the State of California ballot and on the City of San Diego ballot, asking respectively for the right to borrow $5.5 billion to finance stem cell research (Prop. 14) and up to $900 million to provide affordable housing (Prop. A). {See
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA