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What we eat helps to forge our Jewish identity

December 25, 2009

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–One of the creepiest television programs on cable is “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.” Andrew (who is Jewish, of course) tours the world sampling unusual local cuisine. Some of his favorite dishes have been roasted Wallaby tail, raw crocodile eggs, and juicy cheese worms. While all of these […]

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This Chanukah, your child can receive the gift of Jewish reading

December 11, 2009

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–This week I was honored to be a member of San Diego’s delegation to the “First Ever Jewish Legacy Forum” in Tucson, Arizona. San Diego’s Jewish Community Foundation has been a pioneer in helping local synagogues and agencies promote legacy giving and the establishment of endowment funds. Tifereth Israel Synagogue

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We can’t change who we are, just control it better

December 4, 2009

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Judaism believes in teshuva, the human capacity for change. We are not the same human beings we were yesterday and tomorrow we will be different still. Judaism believes that human beings can grow and progress, and that today’s sinner may become tomorrow’s saint. Yet is absolute change ever

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The difference between Laban and Jacob

November 27, 2009

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–After Jacob leaves Laban and begins his journey back to Eretz Yisrael, Laban chases after him and accuses him of deserting him. Jacob explains his actions and Laban eventually decides to leave Jacob alone and returns to his own home. The Torah puts it this way: “Laban returned to his

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Berditchev rebbe learns value of persistence

November 20, 2009

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–Although the Torah records many details of the lives of Abraham and Jacob, not much is known about Isaac. Isaac seems to be a transitional figure whose exploits largely duplicate those of his father, Abraham. In Genesis 26:17, we learn that Isaac “dug anew the wells which had been dug

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Telushkin: Love your neighbor and yourself

November 15, 2009

By Jack Forman LA JOLLA, California–Rabbi Joseph Telushkin spoke engagingly with humor and insight on Sunday, November 8, to an almost-filled auditorium of San Diego Jewish Book Fair attendees at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center about some of the issues he examines in his most recent book, A Code of Jewish Ethics, volume 2

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Biblical Isaac understood love and marriage

November 14, 2009

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–The great opera diva Maria Callas once famously said: “Love is so much better when you’re not married.” Our patriarch, Isaac, would not have agreed! The Torah tells us that Isaac was taking a walk in a field when Eliezer returned from Aram-naharaim with Rebecca: “…looking up he saw the

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Jewish Religion

What we eat helps to forge our Jewish identity

This Chanukah, your child can receive the gift of Jewish reading

We can’t change who we are, just control it better

The difference between Laban and Jacob

Berditchev rebbe learns value of persistence

Telushkin: Love your neighbor and yourself

Biblical Isaac understood love and marriage

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