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December 2019

December 2019

COMMUNITY VOICES

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The Anti-Defamation League (“ADL”) is a civil rights organization that has been serving a vital purpose for 100-plus years. It is most unfortunate that...
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December 2019

IRVINE HEBREW DAY SCHOOL

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Encounters of like-minded people, at the right place and right time, can alter history. Such is the case with Andy Elster and Karin Hepner...
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December 2019

For Your lIstening PLeasure

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If you’re anything like my dad —you probably have no earthly idea what a podcast is let alone how to download one. As a...
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December 2019

A Matter of Taste and Terminology

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The old story of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen came to mind as I contemplated the theme of this column. An egomaniacal...
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December 2019

Nostalgia Strikes Back-

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It seems like yesterday we were chanting “bring back the 90s!” Now there’s another decade we can’t get over: the 1980s. It was a...
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December 2019

STAY INFORMEd

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“Pro-Peace, Pro-Israel”: it sounds good as a slogan, but the leftist lobbying group of J Street, that claims to be more progressive than AIPAC,...
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December 2019

Deja New

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I had the remarkable experience of recently entering the ‘Gates of Righteousness’, better known as Shaarei Tzedek Hospital. With overflowing parking lots, I was...
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December 2019

Cultivating Memory Despite Pain

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Neurologist Oliver Sacks described a patient with absolutely no memory and asked, “Does this person have a soul?” Underneath his question was the awareness...
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December 2019

Saying “Goodbye”

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My father Leonard (Lenny) Weinberger (89) had been in and out of the hospital over the past year for congestive heart failure. We got...
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December 2019

The Miracle of Hanukkah

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While standing on a rooftop garden overlooking the Pacific Ocean with a warm breeze blowing and the soft tones of ambient music in the...
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Synergy in the Shtetl

April 2021 Ilene Schneider -
When Jewish people moved to Orange County in the 20th century, they noticed that there were no Jewish neighborhoods. There were clusters of Jewish...
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Fresh Orange Jews

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According to the Jewish calendar, we are in the month of Adar and when Adar enters, joy increases! Why is Adar the month of...
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Orange County’s Jewish History- The Orange County Doll Ladies

April 2021 Dalia Taft -
B’nai B’rith, now known as Jewish Women International (JWI), began the “Dolls for Democracy” program in 1956 in conjunction with the interfaith, interracial organization...
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Remembering the Children of the Holocaust

April 2021 Debbie Meline -
When Pavel Friedmann, a young inmate at the Terezin Concentration Camp in 1942, wrote about the last butterfly he ever saw, he described a...
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