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Sexual abuse of children in the Jewish community: difficult but important to face

Tempest  in the Temple:  Jewish Communities & Child Sex Scandals edited by Amy Neustein, Brandeis University Press, 2009, 272 pages, $35. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This is a difficult book to read, not only because it primarily is written for other academics, but because of the subject matter itself.  While we are cognizant that […]

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Amy Neustein, Donald H. Harrison

Looking at who wrote the Bible — from the scribes' viewpoints

Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible By Karel van der Toorn, Harvard University Press, Cambridge ISBN 978-0-674-03254-5, $18.95,  265 pages  plus 125 pages of notes and selected bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California — Who wrote the Hebrew Bible, that is, the so-called Old Testament? Jewish tradition says that Moses wrote

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Fred Reiss, EdD

Book on child sexual abuse in Jewish community wins award

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Press Release)–The Center for Child Welfare Policy of the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare (NARCCW) has announced the 2010 winners of the Pro Humanitate Literary Awards, North America’s premier literary awards for the field of child welfare. One book award and three article awards are conferred annually to authors from the

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Amy Neustein, USA

San Diego Jewish Profile: Bilingualism jumpstarted Loretta H. Adams’ career

Loretta Adams at home __________________________________________________________ By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California—The life and business success of Loretta Hirschfeld Adams illustrate how advantageous a bilingual education can be, especially for those of us who live in the southwestern United States. Adams, who established and later sold a company of nearly 300 employees  specializing in Spanish-language

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Book examines the images Jews have of their own bodies

The Jewish Body by Melvin Konner, Nextbook, New York; ISBN 978-0-8052-4236-2, $22.00, 255 pages * By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California–The Jewish people are obsessed with the body. While the Sumerians, Egyptians, Canaanites, and others prayed and sacrificed to idols, the embodiment of their gods, the Hebrews announced to the world that God is invisible.

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle East

Shirley Brody sculpture to be auctioned at JCC Talmi event

Companion story: Talmis’ visit to San Diego prompts special JCC programming By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California–“Dine With The Talmis,” the dinner prior to Yoav Talmi’s lecture, will include a silent auction for an abstract sculpture entitled “Musician” by sculptress Shirley Brody, a member of the planning committee for the dinner. The 20-inch high solid brass

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Eileen Wingard

Talmis' visit to San Diego prompts special JCC programming

  By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California–When word got out that Israeli conductor Yoav Talmi and his wife Er’ella would be visiting San Diego for a few days during the second week of January, JCC Program Director Jackie G’mach invited the internationally acclaimed maestro to speak at the Lawrence Family JCC under the auspices of

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Eileen Wingard, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USA

Elena Bonner tells Norwegians about their double standard

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson  MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–“You must read this,” a friend said, thrusting some typed pages into my hand. They contained the text of a speech given by Elena Bonner, the Jewish widow of former Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov, at the Freedom Forum held in Oslo, Norway, in May 2009. I read the typescript with

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, USA

OMA exhibit juxtaposes American dreams and realities

     Oceanside Museum of Art …. Photo: OMA _____________________________________________________ By Donald H. Harrison OCEANSIDE, California—The Jewish poetess Emma Lazarus is best known for the “New Colossus,” a poem that is engraved onto the base of the Statue of Liberty.  She expressed the promise that America held for immigrants in 1876, the American centennial year

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

Temple Solel offers buffet of Judaism to unaffiliated

By Donald H. Harrison CARDIFF BY THE SEA, California—The leadership of Temple Solel is helping to evolve the concept of Judaism as a spiritual buffet. First, the Reform congregation announced its Synaplex program in which on several Shabbat evenings throughout the year, congregants could go temple and find a number of simultaneous offerings – much

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, USA