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Indian scholar barnstormed U.S. trying
to establish Jewish studies in India

{Editor's note: This article is reprinted with permission from the Fall 2008 issue of Kulanu, a newsletter devoted to the coverage of remote Jewish communities. The recent massacre in Mumbai, in which Jews and westerners purposely were targeted by Islamic terrorists, unfortunately corroborated Dr. Aafreedi's thesis that knowledge about the Jewish people is necessary in India to replace the many negative myths about us.}

By Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi

TEL AVIV—I was not born in a Jewish family, yet a tradition of my people’s
origin connected me to Israel. I grew up in a city in India where there
were no Jews, yet I got interested in them. Jewish Studies are not available in Indian universities, yet I found a way to research the Indian Jews and the probable remnants of lost Israelite tribes in India for my Ph.D. at the University of Lucknow, India.

I did not have the means to go to Israel for higher studies, yet I managed to get there through a scholarship from the Israeli Government and a grant from
the Tel Aviv University for my post-doctoral research on the “Traditions of Israelite Descent Among Certain Muslim Groups in India.” I could ill-afford to go to America to present the paper I produced as a result of my research at the conference of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association in Illinois in October 2007, yet I made it there, thanks to the financial help from the association and to the honoraria I
got from the lectures I gave, very kindly organized by Kulanu.

Muslims of Israelite Descent
I spoke at a number of venues in America during my three and a half month stay there. At the conference, I presented a paper on the“Traditions of Israelite Descent Among Certain Muslim Groups in
India,” viz., the Kashmiri in Jammu and Kashmir, most of whom are Muslim, and the three Muslim groups in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, viz., the Qidwai/Kidwai in Barabanki; the Pashtun/ Pathan in Malihabad (District Lucknow), Qayamganj (District Farrukhabad), Shahjahanpur and Rampur (also found elsewhere in India); and the Bani Israil in Sambhal (District Moradabad) and Aligarh.

All of these groups have had traditions of Israelite descent for centuries. Two of them, the Kashmiri and the Pashtun/Pathan, tracetheir lineage from the lost tribes of Israel. The Pashtuns/Pathans in India have largely lost their traditions of Israelite origin, yet it is still strong in their native places, Afghanistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
By the way, Pathans, Pashtuns, Pakhtuns and Afghans are names which are often used interchangeably. To be precise, those who inhabit plains and open plateaus are entitled to the name Afghan, which
has a far wider connotation than just being a subject of the modern state of Afghanistan, founded only in 1747. The northern highlanders call themselves Pakhtuns, while the southern highlanders are known as
Pashtuns. Unfortunately, Pashtuns/Pathans are the same people who largely fill the ranks of the Taliban today.

While the Qidwais/Kidwais trace their geneaology from a Sufi of Jewish descent, Qazi/Qadi Qidwatuddin of Rum (modern Turkey), who settled in India in 1191 CE, the members of the Bani Israil clan of Sambhal (District Moradabad) and Aligarh claim descent from a Jewish sahaabi (companion of Muhammad), Abdullah Ibn-i-Salaam. According to them, their ancestors settled in India a millennium ago to propagate and preach Islam.

Jewish Contributions in Film
My next presentation was at the Samuel Rosenthal Center for Judaic Studies, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where I spoke on the Jewish contributions to the world’s largest film industry,
the Indian cinema. Jews played a crucially important role when the Indian cinema was in its infancy by giving it most of its earliest and some of its finest female actors, in a country where it was considered
demeaning for women to indulge in performing arts. Most of these actors had come from the Baghdadi community, which settled in India in the 1830s. Sadly, these Jewish actors largely could not continue
with their successful film careers once the talkies were introduced, because of their lack of fluency in the local languages.

Establishing Jewish Studies in India
Between these two presentations, I met the Chicago Area Director of the American Jewish Committee, Emily Solof, with whom I shared my vision of establishing Jewish Studies as an academic discipline
in Indian universities. It is sad that a secular state like India, which has had a Jewish presence for more than two millennia and still has five Jewish communities, does not have Jewish Studies as an academic
discipline, while Islamic Studies is available at all major Indian universities.

Jews in India are politically insignificant because of their miniscule numbers, while the Indian Muslims (13% of India’s 1.1 billion people) are the second biggest Muslim population in the world after
Indonesia. Hence Indian politicians have feared losing Muslim votes if they introduced Jewish Studies. That is also the primary reason why India did not have diplomatic ties with Israel for 40 years, until the
Madrid Conference and the disintegration of the USSR.

It is time for Jewish Studies to be introduced into Indian universities with special emphasis on Indo-Judaica, and that such a center be established, preferably in Lucknow or Delhi, right in the center of the
Muslim heartland of India. Such a center could go far in the betterment of Jewish-Muslim relations,
eradicating the stereotypes of Jews that exist among Indians in general. (Indians generally know Jews
only through secondary sources that are often not fair to them, viz., the press and mass media, literature like the Merchant of Venice, and films like Mr. & Mrs. Iyer.) While most Indians are absolutely ignorant of Jews and tend to mix them up with Zoroastrians or Christians or Muslims, the Muslim Indians are just as antagonistic to them as the Muslims anywhere else in the world, because their perceptions of Jews are largely based on the misinterpretations of the Qur’anic references to Jews.

The center’s locationin India’s Muslim heartland would make it easily accessible to the Muslims there and help us change their negative perceptions. Also, this center could help to make the Afridi Pashtuns/Pathans there conscious of their putative Israelite roots and stimulating their interest in
tracing their probable Israelite ancestry.

Afridi Pathans
I next spoke at the third-oldest Jewish congregation in America, Mickve Israel in Savannah, Georgia, on the “Theory of the Israelite Origin of Afridi Pashtuns/Pathans.” Afridi is one of the biggest, and
politically one of the most influential, of the 60 Pashtun/Pathan tribes found in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Afridi were estimated at around 275,000 in 1962, and their present population is about 315,000. This is part of the total Pathan/Pashtun population of 20 million, as estimated in 1986. A sprinkling of Afridi Pashtuns/Pathans is also found in India, in Malihabad and Qayamgan, cities being marketed as international Jewish tourist destinations by Shai Bar Ilan Geographical
Tours and Eretz Ahavati Nature Tours of Israel ....

Afridis settled in India mostly between the years 1748 and 1761. Their tradition of Israelite origin finds mention in a number of texts dating from the 10th century till the present day, written by Jewish,
Christian, and Muslim scholars alike. Even modern scholars like the Israeli Shalva Weil consider them the “best candidates” for the status of the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. Jewish immigrants from Afghanistan testify to the prevalence of many Jewish rituals and customs among them, viz., the lighting of candles on Shabbat, keeping of long sidelocks, wearing of shawls resembling the tallith, circumcision on the eighth day after birth, and Levirate marriage.

Judaising Movements in India
The very next day I spoke on Jews and the Judaising Movements in India. Indian Jewry can be broadly divided into three distinct groups – numerically the largest, the Bene Israel, the smallest, the
Cochini, and the last to settle in India, the Baghdadi. Apart from these, two Judaizing movements have emerged in India, the Bnei Menashe in the northeast and the Bnei Ephraim in the south.

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Flight attendant remembers King Hussein


By Donald H. Harrison

SAN DIEGO—My son-in-law Shahar Masori is an Israeli-born flight attendant for Delta Airlines.  It’s attractive work as he flies to a variety of places, including to his native land, and when there is a long enough layover he can go sightseeing.  But the flight colleagues he meets are sometimes stories in themselves.

He recently met Cyndi Rhodes (at right) on an overseas flight.  A senior flight attendant, now in her very young looking 50s, she had worked for Royal Jordanian Airlines back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at a time when the late King Hussein used one of that airline’s 747s for regular globe hopping.  The king would occupy the upper deck of the jet, and other passengers would be unaware that his Royal Majesty and his entourage were aboard.

Rhodes, on the other hand, was one of the attendants assigned to serve the king and his party—a thrill for her back in 1978.  For the former San Diegan, who had  attended Patrick Henry High School and Mesa College before  becoming a flight attendant, meeting royalty was an eye-widening experience, she recalled.  One of her colleagues aboard the plane also was a certified nurse, who was assigned to the king’s cabin in case his diabetes should act up.

As a result of  the colleague’s association with King Hussein,  the monarch invited her and Rhodes on several occasions to dine at the palace. Such occasions were both exciting and at times humiliating, she said.  King Hussein was always a gentleman to her and her fellow flight attendant, but sometimes other Jordanian men talked to her as if she were nothing more than “eye candy,” or even worse, made unwelcome sexual advances, Rhodes said.  She said the way some men behaved towards her and her colleagues still makes her shudder today.

Rhodes related that when she signed a three-year contract to fly for Royal Jordanian Airlines, she thought that she would be based in New York City, and perhaps keep an apartment there.  Instead, she was required to live in Amman, where she and two other flight attendants shared a one-bedroom apartment, that  she said had “no running water, no heat—very primitive.”  Women did not go out in public unless they were escorted by a man, so life in Amman at times could be quite confining, she said.

Although King Hussein never discussed serious topics with his flight crew, he did take a friendly interest in their welfare and invited them to the palace to dine.  She said she met several members of his family there, but cannot recall meeting the current king, Abdullah II.  One of King Hussein’s favorite relaxations, she recalled, was watching old John Wayne movies on the royal VCR player.  “He had a whole wall of VCR tapes,” she said in a telephone interview.

The protocol at the palace was relaxed enough that Rhodes felt comfortable arriving in a pants suit, but there were some formalities: “You stood when he entered the room,” she recounted.  “When he sat down, we sat down.  We didn’t eat until he picked up his fork, and when he was finished, we were finished.  We walked behind him, not besides him… “

When the king reserved the Royal Jordanian Airlines cabin, he and his security people typically would arrive before the commercial passengers and be well settled in before general boarding started.  For security reasons, no one was allowed to mention that the king was aboard.  The flight attendants who brought food for the king from the lower deck galley were prohibited from engaging any other passengers in discussion, just in case they might let such information slip.   Sometimes, Jordanian security people would hover nearby as Rhodes went about her duties in the lower cabin, just to make certain there were no breaches of confidentiality, she said.

On the upper deck, she said, Hussein often would be joined by “princes and prime ministers” and his destinations might be to the United States (Royal Jordanian Air flew regularly to New York and to Houston) or to various venues in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.  The upper deck was set up as a lounge area, and the king had it provisioned with many books.  “He loved to read,” she said.

Jordan and Israel did not make formal peace until 1994, so Tel Aviv was one stop that never was on the itinerary.  However, said Rhodes, she did get to visit Israel once by car across the Allenby Bridge when she accompanied an American who was stationed in Amman.

After completing her contract, Rhodes returned to the United States and eventually was hired by Western Airlines, which subsequently merged with Delta.  The merger expanded the number of routes to which she might be assigned, so occasionally she is able to re-visit Israel.  Given some of her bad memories in Amman, she hasn’t sought to return there.

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Laban, Hitler and Islamic terrorists

SAN DIEGO--After marrying Rachel and Leah, fathering children, and acquiring wealth, Jacob decides to flee from his father-in-law, Laban.

In Genesis Laban is portrayed as a shady character. In Rabbinic literature he becomes the epitome of evil. So much did the rabbis despise Laban that they awarded him a greater place of dishonor in Jewish history than the Pharaoh of the Exodus. Every year during Pesach we read in the Haggadah: "While Pharaoh only intended to kill the boys, Laban sought to uproot the whole of Jacob's family, the Children of Israel."

For the rabbis, Laban represented the worst of the enemies of the Jewish people: those who sought not just to suppress them and their religion but to wipe them out of existence.

Sadly, Hitler was only one of the many Labans Jews have faced throughout our history. We witnessed that he and his vocation are alive and well last week in the murderous atrocities of the Islamic extremists who attacked India last week. They especially targeted Americans, Brits, and Jews.

What did Rabbi Gavriel and Rivkah Holtzberg and all of the other Chabad House victims in India have to do with the grievances of the terrorists? The only terrorist to survive, Azam Amir Kasab, was quoted in the Times of India as saying he and the other terrorists targeted the Chabad House to avenge the killing of Arabs in Israel.

Chabad Houses, which are located throughout the world, are religious and educational institutions, and not involved in political causes. The Holtzbergs were there to help Jews living in or visiting India to worship and learn and provided housing for travelers. But for anti-Semites. the distinction between Jews doing tzedaka versus political work is irrelevant (not that their attacks are justifiable in any case). As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said: "The hatred of Jews, the State of Israel, and Jewish symbols are still a factor that spurs and encourages such murderous acts."

We join with our Jewish brothers and sisters around the world and all people of faith and good will in mourning the Holtzbergs and all those who were murdered.  We also pray for the quick and full recovery of those who were injured.

Once again we are totally baffled by those who believe acts of terror, murder, and violence are appropriate ways to teach the world about the righteousness of their cause. As Shimon Peres, the President of the State of Israel, said at the Holtzbergs' funeral, "If the entire world doesn't join together as one person and say, 'Enough,' then the world is in danger."

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Sisterly love prevails over obstacles

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman

SAN DIEGO—Rochel and Leah were sisters who by circumstance seemed to be pitted against each other in that they shared Yaakov and competed over who would have the most children.  The truth is that despite what may appear to us on the surface, they were extremely loving sisters who sacrificed for each other. Rochel gave Leah the code she had worked out  with Yaakov in order to spare Leah of the humiliation of being shown up at the chuppah. In doing so, Rochel gave up her chance to marry Yaakov.

Later, when Leah was pregnant, she prayed to Hashem that the child should be a girl so that Rochel could be the mother of two of the tribes. She gave up the chance to have  another tribe under her in order to spare Rochel the heartbreak and humiliaton. Despite trials and tribulations, sisters have a powerful innate bond of love, which the following story  by an unknown author illustrates:

Dear Susan,  When Mom told me that she was pregnant, I was ecstatic. I imagined how wonderful you would be and how we'd always be together and how much you would look likeme. So, when you were born, I looked at your tiny hands and feet and marveled at how beautiful you were.

We took you home and I showed you proudly to my friends. They would touch you and sometimes pinch you, but you never reacted. When you were five months old, some things  began to bother Mom. You seemed so unmoving and numb, and your cry sounded odd --- almost like a kitten's. So we brought you to many doctors.

The thirteenth doctor who looked at you quietly said you will never walk nor talk.  Mom was shocked and I was furious. I thought it was unfair.

When we went home, I looked at you and realized that word will get around that you're not normal. So I did the unthinkable ... I disowned you. Mom and Dad didn't know but I  steeled myself not to love you as you grew. Mom and Dad showered you love and attention and that made me bitter. And as the years passed, that bitterness turned to anger, and  then hate.

And then one day, you defied what all your doctors said -- you crawled.

When mom saw this, she knew you would eventually walk. So when you were still crawling at age four, she'd put you on the grass with only your diapers on knowing that you hate  the feel of the grass on your skin. I would sometimes watch from the windows and smile at your discomfort. You would crawl to the sidewalk and Mom would put you back. Again  and again. Until one day, Mom saw you pull yourself up and toddle off the grass as fast as your little legs could carry you.

Laughing and crying, she shouted for Dad and me to come. Dad hugged you crying openly.

Over the years, Mom taught you to speak, read and write. From then on, I would sometime see you walk outside, smell the flowers, marvel at the birds, or just smile at no one. I  began to see the beauty of the world through your eyes. It was then that I realized that you were my sister and no matter how much I tried to hate you, I couldn't, because I had grown  to love you.

During the next few days, we again became acquainted with each other. I would buy you toys and give you all the love that a sister could ever give to her sister. And you would  reward me by smiling and hugging me.

But I guess, you were never really meant for us. On your tenth birthday, you felt severe headaches. The doctor's diagnosis --leukemia. Mom gasped and Dad held her, while I fought hard to keep my tears from falling. At that moment, I loved you all the more. I couldn't even bear to leave your side.

Just a month before you died, you made me draw up a list of things you wanted to do when you got out of the hospital. Two days after the list was completed, you asked the  doctors to send you home. There, we ate ice cream and cake, run across the grass, flew kites, went fishing, took pictures of one another and let the balloons fly. I remember the  last conversation that we had. You said that if you die, and if I need help, I could send you a note to heaven by tying it on the string of any balloon and letting it fly. When you said  this, I started crying. Then you hugged me.

That last night, with my tears flowing freely, I watched the bravest girl I had ever known finally stop breathing. Dad, Mom and I cried until I felt as if there were no more tears left.

You were my source of inspiration. You showed me how to love life and live to the fullest. With your simplicity and honesty, you showed me a world full of love and caring. And you made me realize that the most important thing in this life is to continue loving without asking why or how and without setting any limit.   Thank you, my little sister, for all these.

Dedicated by Gersham & Chavi Stein in honor of parents Jack & Sandy Stein.




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Yo-Ma-Co Club
Southwestern Jewish Press, May 26, 2008, page 6

By Lucille Weisel, Publicity chairman

Square dancing will be the feature of the next Yo-Ma-Co meeting on Wednesday night, May 24th, at the Highland and Landis Community Center.

Julius Feingold of Pomona will do the calling to the tune of his own special collection of records.

Mr. Feingold was a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Al Landis at the Yo-Ma-Co Valentine Party where we had everyone square dancing so successfully that they are all looking forward to a repeat performance.

A barbecue and wienie roast is in the offing, too—June 10th, to be exact. President Henry Goldy and Art Friedlander head the committee in charge of arrangements.

More than 35 percent of the Yo-Ma-Co couples were represented as workers on Magic Carpet Days.


Just For a Change: Cream Delight
Southwestern Jewish Press, May 26, 2008, page 6

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2 cups boiling water
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1 red apple, diced
1 pkg. (3 oz) cream cheese
½ cup walnut meats, broken
1 cup sour cream

Dissolve gelatin in boiling water, add salt and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. When slightly thickened, combine apples, sugar and remaining lemon jusice with one-half of gelatin.  Chill.  Whip the remaining gelatin with cream cheese, with beater, until it is creamy.  Add nuts, spread over firm lemon gelatin layer and chill one hour. Serve in small squares on greens topped with sour cream.


Labor Zionist: Chaim Weitzman branch of San Diego
Southwestern Jewish Press, May 26, 2008, page 6

By Bess Borushek

The first of a series of cultural and social evenings sponsored jointly by all the Labor Zionist groups was held on May 13th.  The high-light of the evening was the inspirational message delivered by Mrs. Eva Checkaway who left the same week for a month’s tour of Israel. She stressed the fact that while not disparaging the work of the countless numbers who helped build and establish the State of Israel, we must not slacken our efforts and continue to render every possible assistance so that the country may be stabilized and yet continue to absorb and integrate the many Jews who are seeking admission to Israel.

Florence Barach cultural chairman of Negba Pioneer Women, conducted the program in her inimitable manner and community singing was led by Cantor Miller.

The next literary and social evening of the Chaim Weitzman Branch is scheduled for June 18th at Tifereth Israel Synagogue.


News of the Fox
Southwestern Jewish Press, May 26, 2008, page 7

By John Kluchin

The Samuel I. Fox Lodge meeting of May 9th was an active one with most of the members entering into the discussions and business of the day.

A membership picnic will be held on June 4th at a spot to be selected at the next meeting. Each member is to invite a prospective member to the picnic as guests of the Lodge. Anyone wishing to attend please contact Stanley Yukon, Picnic Chairman at H. 6-9161 or G. 7-0791 or any Samuel I. Fox member.

Eddy Breitbard, Grand Lodge Executive, was present and spoke on the ADL Book, “Measure of Freedom.” All B’nai B’rith members were urged to read this well-written book on a subject close to all of us.

Nathan Raitzas and your columnist attended the Community Relations Committee meeting with representatives from other organizations and synagogue. This committee works along lines similar to ADL.

The “Fox Lodgers” bowling team are in 5th place.  The team bowls every Tuesday night and invites everyone to come out and root at the Tower Bowl. 

E. Max Cohen, Boy Scout Committee Chairman had the pleasure of seeing his son, Alving, given the Aleph award by Rabbi Levens for Boy Scout achievement.

A Resolution was passed favouring the Mission Bay Project Bond Issue to be brought before the voters on June 6th as the Lodge felt that this probject will be of great benefit to San Diego.

Wilfred Robbins was appointed ot act as Asst. Scoutmaster for Lodge sponsored Troop 99.

Our next meeting will be held June 13th. Readers and friends are invited as guests of the Lodge.


Jolly Sixteen Club
Southwestern Jewish Press, May 26, 2008, page 7

Casper Rancho in El Cajon will be the scene of a Barn Dance sponsored by the Jolly Sixteen on June 10th.

A delightful program is being planned by Chairman Eva Chenkin and her committee for an outstanding Country Dance.

Tickets may be obtained from any of the Jolly Sixteen members, and the price is only $1.00 plus tax.

The next meeting of the Jolly Sixteen will take place on Sunday, May 28th, at the home of Mrs. Arthur Glickman.

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Friday - Saturday, December 5-6, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 289)

INTERNATIONAL/ NATIONAL
Slain Mumbai Jews memorialized in special service held at Chabad at La Costa ... by Gerry Greber in Carlsbad
Pathological hatred of Jews, westerners spurred the Islamist terrorists in Mumbai ... By Rabbi Dow Marmur in Toronto, Canada
Mumbai: Deadly media euphemisms ... by Rabbi Abraham Cooper and Harold Brackman in Los Angeles
In Mumbai, and in Hebron, there are differences in Jewish beliefs and loyalties ... by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem

LIFESTYLES
Stories within us need to be shared... by Sara Appel-Lennon in San Diego

ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—May 26, 1950: J.C.R.A
—May 26, 1950: San Diego Birdie Stodel B’nai B’rith No. 92
—May 26, 1950: San Diego Bay City B’nai B’rith
 

THE WEEK IN REVIEW
This week's stories on San Diego Jewish World: Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday, Sunday
 

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Thursday, December 4, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 288)

INTERNATIONAL/ NATIONAL
Taking our ease in Iraq on the S.O.F.A. ... by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.

Labor party just doesn't work anymore... by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem

LIFESTYLES

Poised between the past and the future ... by Natasha Josefowitz in La Jolla, California

ARTS
Thursdays With The Songs of Hal Wingard:
—#3, Lament
—#4, Need You Alone

—#8, I Don' Wanna Keep You, Baby

COMMUNITY WATCH (Link to previous items)
Lawrence Family JCC: J*company “green” season teaches environmental responsibility

ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—May 26, 1950: Star Bakery Wins Fame With Bagels
—May 26, 1950: Inside AZA by Leonard Naiman
—May 26, 1950: You Name It by Lennie Klug

—May 26,1950: Beth Jacob Forms New Sisterhood
 
Wednesday, December 3, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 287)
 

 INTERNATIONAL/ NATIONAL

Killers from the swamp of hatred ... by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.
Battling terrorists a Sissyphean task ... by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem

The Jews Down Under ... A roundup of Jewish news of Australia by Garry Fabian:
—Nazi medical horrors subject of exhibit
—Hitler salute a bad mistake, soccer star admits

—Holocaust study course being developed

—Liberal synagogue celebrates major milestone

— Green light for contempt case, as Germany drops its demand for extradition of Holocaust denier Toben

—U of Melbourne, Hebrew University sign pact
—Rabbis ponder new IVF laws
—Intercultural visit to synagogue
—New leadership for Jewish Community Council
—Airport closure causes havoc for Jewish travellers
—Mumbai attack message to Obama?
 

ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—May 26, 1950: Our Task {Editorial on Jewish Community Center}
—May 26, 1950: Council of Jewish Women
—May 26, 1950: Hadassah Elects New Officers
—May 26, 1950: Pioneer Women Negba Club
—M ay 26, 1950: Fruit Cream Topping

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Tuesday, December 2, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 286)

INTERNATIONAL/ NATIONAL
December 1: a Gene Roddenberry kind of day with planets and politicians aligned ... by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego

Ancient olive tree now marks site where rocket attack victim fell on kibbutz ... by Ulla Hadar in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, Israel

ARTS
Ruth Ilse Klampert is a double survivor ... by Janet Tiger in San Diego

ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
May 26, 1950: Survey Exposes Neglect of Jewish Youth In San Diego
May 26, 1950: Open House for New Americans
May 26, 1950: Monster ‘Political Rally’ Wednesday, May 31st at Temple Center
May 26, 1950: Campaign Continues as Clean-Up Day Is Planned

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Monday, December 1, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 285)

INTERNATIONAL
Interfaith dialogue's benefits and pitfalls ... by Rabbi Dow Marmur in Toronto, Canada

ARTS
Xanadu: Greek myths on roller skates ... by Carol Davis in La Jolla, California

LIFESTYLES
Thunder, the bike, not just a ride ... by Sheila Orysiek in San Diego

ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
May 12, 1950: Home for the Aged

May 12, 1950: San Diego Bay City B’nai B’rith Chapt. 713

May 12, 1950: JCRA

May 12, 1950: The Jolly Sixteen Club

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Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School: Excellence 2000 class in motion at Soille Hebrew Day School

Sunday, November 30, 2008 (Vol 2, No. 284)

INTERNATIONAL
Olmert ouster Livni's only chance ... by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem

Two San Diego Chabad rabbis react to the slaughter of their colleagues in Mumbai ... by Rabbis Yeruchem Eilfort in Carlsbad and Chalom Boudjnah in San Diego

JUDAISM
The secret of this 'miser' was revealed.... by Rabbi Baruch Lederman in San Diego

ARTS
Stephanie St. James of Color Purple cast is granddaughter of Shoah survivor ... by Carol Davis in San Diego

ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
May 12, 1950: Al Hutler Attends Fair Employment Meeting
May 12, 1950: Observe ‘I Am An American Day’
May 12, 1950: Hadassah Evening Group
May 12, 1950: Jr. Pioneer Women, Shoshana Club

SPORTS
A bissel sports trivia with Bruce Lowitt... in Oldsmar, Florida

COMMUNITY WATCH (Link to previous postings)
Jewish Family Service: JFS Economic Crisis Response Program

Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School: Learning Parshat Chayei Sarah at Soille Hebrew Day School

Tifereth Israel Synagogue: All that Glitters: Open House/Trunk Show; Monday, December 8th at 6 p.m.

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