By Rabbi Baruch Lederman The bombing at Sbarro’s restaurant is a distant memory to most people. Not so to the Lavie family. Mrs. Lavie and her four children were all wounded in the August 2001 bombing. Far worse than the physical injuries they sustained, however, are the emotional scars that linger in the form of […]
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SAN DIEGO — Our license plate-spotter-in-chief Melanie Rubin found this Hebrew transliteration meaning “Pretty One.” The intriguing question, of course, is whether the license plate refers to the driver, the car, or to the language in which the sentiment is expressed! We add ‘Yofi 1″ to our online collection of Jewish-interest license plates. If you
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced on Wednesday the arrests of eight suspects in connection with an auto fraud ring case. The individuals arrested under Operation Hit and Run are suspected of faking traffic collisions and filing fraudulent personal injury claims with insurance companies. Since October 2009, 11 suspects were arrested in connection
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Travel and FoodENCINITAS, California (Press Release)–Congregation Beth Am and Temple Solel will host a traditional Lag B’Omer Bonfire at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. Please join the congregations for bonfire, kosher BBQ, beach and buddies on May 2 from 4pm-6pm. There is no charge for this event, but reservations are appreciated. Please bring your own blankets and beach
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If you ask Jules Feiffer how he likes L.A., he will launch into a story about the time he spent 90 minutes driving around in traffic, becoming so lost and frustrated that he fled back to New York, thus forfeiting a substantial paycheck by abandoning the job he had
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A small collection of plaques and monuments occupy the “Gateway to Presidio Park” near the corner of Taylor Street and Presidio Drive. As cars hurtle from the Interstate 8 Freeway to Old Town San Diego, or back, this gateway is an easy place to miss, but it
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –The combined parshiot of Tazria and Metzora deal with different types of skin disease that are found on people and fungus that grows in their homes. The Torah tells us that these afflictions are sources of ritual impurity and designates the different rites that must be carried out in
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Jewish Religion, Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO—The Hebrew month begins with the new moon. It is a time of renewal. This symbolizes the fact that we can always make a new start. We can always shed off our crusty cynicism, and recapture the purity and sincerity of our youth. If we allow ourselves to reflect, there
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Travel and FoodJERUSALEM–My wife Varda has not been this happy since she violated Obama-Clinton prohibitions by hanging new curtains in the living room of our French Hill home. Her smile, along with a loud “Aha,” came with the news that Uri Lupolianski had been arrested for involvement in the Holyland scandal. According to the charges, he had
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By Rabbi Simcha Weinstein Rabbi Simcha Weinstein NEW YORK– They call me the “Comic Book Rabbi.” Given the chance to choose my own “superhero” nickname, I’d have picked something more dynamic, like “Super Jew” or simply “The Rabbi.” (Imagine The Thing, but with a kippah.) I come by my humble nickname honestly, though. My first
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Dr. Eliza Slavet discusses some of the ideas in her book Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question during Friday evening services, April 16, at Congregation Dor Hadash. What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–“From My Hammock,” a tongue-in-cheek essay about gardening by the late Jewish writer Bernard Levin will be among the short pieces read at Write Out Loud’s presentation of “Rhapsody in Bloom,” a collection of stories about the garden, at 7 p.m., Monday, April 19 at Old Town Theatre. Tickets for the one-night
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Travel and FoodSACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – Assemblymember Marty Block (Democrat, San Diego) on Tuesday announced that, in partnership with Assemblymember Ira Ruskin (Democrat, Redwood City), he is leading an effort to honor Holocaust survivors and World War II veteran concentration camp liberators during a special ceremony in the Capitol on April 19, at 12:00 p.m., as part of Holocaust
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Harvard University Prof. Susan Rubin Suleiman will lecture Friday, April 30, on the experiences of murdered novelist Irene Nemirovsky, a Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism, but still was sent to Auschwitz under Nazi laws. Suleiman, who served as scholar in residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in San Diego, has
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