In this week’s Torah portion, we shall briefly compare the thoughts of Maimonides, Philo, and Spinoza on the subject of circumcision. We shall first mention some interesting citations from Philo, who spent considerable time explaining the rationale of Jewish precepts to the non-Jewish world. [Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel]
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
Police are searching for an unidentified African-American woman seen on surveillance video pouring gasoline in front of a Jewish school in Brooklyn, N.Y., before setting the liquid on fire. The incident occurred Thursday night at Yeshiva of Flatbush in a heavily Jewish neighborhood. [JNS.org]
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Travel and Food
Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker canceled a campaign fundraiser that would be hosted by a filmmaker whose Twitter profile picture was a swastika shape made up of syringes in protest of vaccine mandates, reported New York Post. [JNS.org]
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International, Jewish History, USA
Australia will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced at an international forum on Wednesday. [JNS.org]
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International, Middle East, USA
A Dallas County judge ordered that Jewish death-row inmate Randy Halprin should get a new trial after considering evidence that the judge who presided over his case was biased against Jews. [JNS.org]
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USA
Last week, at Friday night services, I had the great joy of watching dozens of second graders singing Hinei Ma Tov and Oseh Shalom while their parents and grandparents practically jumped out of their seats to get a better view. It was a truly joyful (and utterly chaotic) scene; the kind of community moment we have had so little of over the past 18 months. It has been quite a few years since my own children stood on the bimah singing their hearts out with their classmates, but I felt those parents’ joy; I felt the pride of the congregation in those 7 and 8 year olds. I felt what it meant to everyone in that room to have a beautiful, lively, multi-generational, chaotic, communal Jewish experience. And that experience was only possible through the tireless work of our Jewish communal professionals and lay leaders, who have continued to hold our community close and are bringing so much energy and creativity to Jewish experiences. [Heidi Gantwerk]
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Travel and Food
The Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego (JCF) recently launched the giv4 homelessness in San Diego fund, a novel approach to encourage everyone in San Diego to participate in the solutions to one of our region’s most challenging issues. [Jewish Community Foundation news release]
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San Diego County
Published by BANG Showbiz English William Shatner thinks the Duke of Cambridge has the “wrong idea” following his criticism of space tourism. Prince William said this week that entrepreneurs should be focusing on saving the planet we’re living on instead of investing billions into finding “the next place to go and live”, with the likes
Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — A Russian woman says in a new lawsuit that sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her early in 2019, in one of the few allegations to detail his crimes in the months before his arrest. Epstein, who died in August 2019 of an apparent suicide at a
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Shanda File
Published by BANG Showbiz English Howie Mandel has revealed how “consensual diarrhoea” led to him being hospitalised. The ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge – who was rushed to hospital on Wednesday (13.10.21) after he fainted in a Starbucks – has opened up on having a colonoscopy in the days before he collapsed. Speaking to his daughter
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Jewish Celebrities
Published by AFP Los Angeles (AFP) – US real estate scion Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with no possibility of parole for the killing of his best friend. Durst, a multi-millionaire who was the subject of an explosive HBO documentary entitled “The Jinx,” has always denied charges that he shot that
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Shanda File
Published by BANG Showbiz English Rachel Weisz is to star in ‘Seance on a Wet Afternoon’. The 51-year-old actress will join forces with helmer Tomas Alfredson, after he replaced Harry Bradbeer – who will remain as executive producer – as director on the motion picture. According to Deadline, Jack Thorne has penned the draft script
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Jewish Celebrities
Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer Just over a year ago, a deal was signed on the White House lawn between Israel and two tiny Arab Gulf countries. It was billed as a game changer in the Middle East. Called the Abraham Accords, the deal normalized relations between the Jewish state, Bahrain and the United Arab
Published by BANG Showbiz English George Takei has mocked William Shatner’s trip to space. The former ‘Star Trek’ co-stars have been locked in a feud for decades and now the 84-year-old actor has branded the 90-year-old star an “unfit specimen” to have been chosen to be the oldest person to get to the edge of
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Jewish Celebrities