By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — My family’s association with soprano Ilona Domnitch goes back many years, to the 1980s, when my parents moved to Israel and were active in the activities of B’nai B’rith there. One of the projects which that organisation undertook at the time was to help new immigrants from Russia […]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Opinion
By Doron Krakow SAN DIEGO — This week saw the return of the JCC Maccabi Games®. In this, its 40th year, the Games drew 1,600 Jewish teen athletes from 57 delegations and 67 JCCs across Canada and the U.S., as well as delegations from Bulgaria, Mexico, and Israel, to San Diego for a week of
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Doron Krakow, Opinion, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USA
By Selwyn Isakow SAN DIEGO — This week we mark Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. So many tragedies have happened to the Jewish people on this date – the 9th of Av, including the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem by the Greeks, and 656 years later the Romans destroyed
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Opinion, San Diego County
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — First, there was the Revolutionary War’s “shot heard ’round the world” in 1775. Then, there was Bobby Thomson’s shot heard ’round the world to win the 1951 National League pennant for the New York Giants. But for San Diego Jewish World this past year, the focus has been
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Jacob Kamaras, Opinion, San Diego County
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — As Andrea Mitchell interviewed her on MSNBC last Thursday, Lina Abu Akleh took advantage of her forum to accuse Israeli higher-ups of ordering a soldier to kill her aunt, journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Mitchell asked Lina Abu Akleh during Andrea Mitchell Reports if the shooting was “intentional,” and the
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Colleges began offering “majors” and “minors” in sustainability in the first decade of the 21st century. Sustainability is taught as a multi-disciplinary program to approach complex problems, usually environmental. With that knowledge, it can offer various career possibilities. One of our son Saul’s best friends, Yonathan, majored in
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Middle East, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This publication held its first annual event on Sunday, July 31, at an afternoon reception in a private home with a sweeping panoramic view of the La Jolla coastline. Jacob Kamaras, San Diego Jewish World’s editor and publisher, emceed the affair at which Roz Rothstein, a co-founder and CEO
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Donald H. Harrison, Opinion, San Diego County
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israeli media have focused on the case of Rabab Abu Siam, an Arab woman, recently divorced, who was shot to death near her home in the city of Lod. She had been warned by police, who urged her to relocate. She did, but returned home to visit her three
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion, USA
By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I recently received an email from Dr. Dilip Jeste stating that after serving 36 years at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), including nearly two decades as director of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging (SIRA), he was retiring from the university. In this
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Natasha Josefowitz, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — It’s been a while since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, and a bit less time since the same Court invalidated New York’s law against concealed weapons. But enough time for states’ actions to take their own course. A number of states — mostly in the
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Ira Sharkansky, Opinion, USA
By Teresa Konopka SAN DIEGO — Why do we believe what we do? Is our religion any better than others? Street epistemology aims to find out. In contrast to evangelism where one tries to convert another to a belief, street epistemology is quite different in that it does not aim to sway anyone. It is
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Jewish Religion, Opinion, Teresa_Konopka
By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — In the first episode of season three of The Kominsky Method (2021), there is a funeral service for Michael Douglas’ character’s lifelong friend Norman Newlander (played by Alan Arkin). By far the most inconsolable mourner to give a eulogy is Newlander’s personal assistant of 22 years who, amid a hyperbolical
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Opinion, Sam Ben-Meir, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Samuel A. Alito Jr. tells “We the People:” “No support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion.” Not quite, Mr. Justice. True, our pre-amendment Constitution specifies no civil rights save a brief clause barring a “religious test” to hold public office. However, the Constitution’s Preamble
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — The following is my summary of an excellent lecture by Haviv Rettig Gur, a well-known journalist for The Times of Israel. Gur’s lecture brings something new to the Arab-Israeli conundrum. It’s a wake-up call for Palestinian Arabs, explaining that their belief that Zionism is the ultimate reason for
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Middle East, Opinion, Steve Kramer