The Stein family communicates in music. Birthday parties were always marked by jam sessions. Instead of playing geography on family road trips, the Steins would play “repeat that harmony.”
Dinners inevitably turned into a cappella performances. And a severe blackout during a spring storm became the impetus for the formation of a family band, The Rolling Steins.
The son of a Hamas founder served as a spy for Israel\’s Shin Bet security service, Haaretz reported.
Railfest 2010
Train enthusiasts of all ages are invited to celebrate a weekend of riding the rails. Events include frontier gunfighters, vintage train rides, model train displays, crafts, food, a family murder-mystery dinner train and more. 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Also March 28. Sponsored by the Fillmore & Western Railway and the Santa Clara River Valley Railroad Historical Society. Fillmore. (805) 524-2546. title=\”fwry.com\”>fwry.com.
Tefillah, sports, study sessions and even a dance — the four-day youth convention on Nabugoye Hill in late January was almost like a typical United Synagogue Youth (USY) convention, according to the three Southland USYers who traveled to Uganda to help run the event.
Dubai is seeking at least 26 people it suspects of involvement in the assassination of a Hamas official in a killing police say they are near certain was an Israeli hit.
The mullahs who run Iran celebrated the 31^st anniversary of their revolution Feb. 11^th by “punching” the West with claims their regime has produced 20 percent enriched uranium. While 90 percent enriched uranium is considered weapons grade, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims that too is on the way and declared that Iran was a “nuclear state.”\n
When our Israelite ancestors participated in the Exodus from Egypt, they liberated themselves from much more than just slavery and Pharaoh’s taskmasters. By means of the Ten Plagues, which dismantled the Egyptian pantheon, the Israelites witnessed the defeat of the Nile god, Sun god and Pharaoh’s (false) god complex. Crossing Yam Suf (“Sea of Reeds”), they left behind 400 years of Egyptian-influenced preconceptions about religious faith.
Temple Aliyah in Woodland Hills is hoping to help shore up Temple Beth Haverim, a Conservative Agoura Hills synagogue in Chapter 11 bankruptcy that is in danger of losing its property. But the assistance being offered isn’t financial, and those involved in the negotiations since Jan. 5 say discussions are focused on an alliance, not a merger.
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