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<...: Hanukka,h: SomeJewish Leaders See Darker Side to the Festival ofLights t1rd Hanukkah taken on this larger-than-life religious ruling Greek culture and insisted that they be commercialization." ~t{?~~if"wR~gAw significance because it coincides with Christmas." allowed to retain th Jewish way of life Th story of Hanukkah began 2,100 years ago Dosick, who leads the Conserval!ve congregauon "But some modern cholars claim that many when the Greeks controlled Syria. The Greeks had C omplamts of commerc1alizat1on of the holidays apparently are not hm1ted to Chnstmas. A Solana Beach rabbi. frustrated with journalists and teaches courses in the Jewish faith at the trad1t1ons that we think of as Jew1 h, such as the followed a policy of religious toleranre until UnivelJily of San,lljego, said the holiday has been dre1del, them elvesorigmated from adopting the Antiochus IV came to power. Ant1ochus drove the comrnerc1alized mmuch the same way Chnstmas maJQnty culture," said Levin. Jews out of the1rown temple tn Jeru alcm and had a

calling hts synagogue about Hanukkah, wailed at the fifth reporter who telephoned, saymg, "Call back when the real important Jew15h holidays come." Hanukkah I of minor importance in the Jewish calendar relative to the High Holy Days of Yom K1ppur and Rosh Hashanah. the Day of Atonement and Jewish ew Year "I just wi h that people would call m relation lO the m~r holidays," Rabb Wayne Dosick of the Congregation Beth Am aid The festival begins this evemng with the hghtmg of the first of eight candles of th Hanu kah menorah, or candelabra. One candle is added each evening through next Friday. "Hanukkah tn the JeW1Sh calendar 15 really a very minor festival, " Doslck said. "It has been celebrated as aminor festival throughout the Jewish e'neralions. Only in the last hundred years or so has

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has, with the exchanging of gifts and celebrations, and it has done so "probably in response to the way Christmas has been commercialized." "This has been part of our sojourn here in America. We live in a Christian society, and each December our kids are bombarded by the glitz and glimmer and tinsel," Dosick said. "We have, in e cnce, responded to our kids' watching their friends and neighbors getting gifts and decorating their houses and all these exciting things." The commerc1ahzalion has upset more than a few Jewish leaders. ''Some people feel that the very essence of Hanukkah is the rejection of the idea that Jews need to give up Jewish ways and acculturate to the majority religion," said Rabbi Martm Levm of the Congregation Beth El in La Jolla. In the story of Hanukkah, Jews refused to assimilate Into the

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ab orbed traditions and even values from the maJQnty culture that were m accordance with Judaism's essential messages, and the idea of giving gifts, the focus around children, and decorating a home to highlight a festival are things that by th mselves do not contradict Judaism, and are thmg that are welcomed tn Judaism," Levm said, Leonard Rosenthal, associate rabbi of the Conservauve Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Carlo , said the commerc1ahzation of Hanukkah, although d1sappolntmg, is not a sign hcant issue amongJ ws. "More of a concern for us is that Jews will remember our other holidays with equal celebration end equal importance," said Rosenthal. "Smee it's not a maJor holiday, I'm not as concerned that the message of the holtday will be lost m the

Asmall Jewish family called the Maccabees Jed a ragtag rebellion against the Greeks, eventually evicting them from the country in 165 B.C. After their victory, they rededicated the Jerusalem t mple, but only one day's supply of oil remained tn the EtE:rnal Light, and it would take eight days for a sanctlf1ed oil to be produced. The hght, however, continued to burn over the eight days. The miracle of the 01! lamp, however, has been challenged by modern scholars w}lo believe that rabbis 150 years after the Jews' victory made up tl)e story, Levm said. The ruling dynasty that followed th overthrow of the Greeks eventually became cruel, and the rabbis wanted to divert attenl!on from that part of their history by fabricating the story ot the 01! lamp, the scholars say.

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me that question (about Mal- colm). I have been asking myself over the last three weeks what my answer would be. Each time I gave myself a different answer," he said. "(But) there is nothing going on right now - nothing like it was a couple of times in the last couple ofyears.n City Manager John Goss said he was not informed that Harron was leaving until Friday morn- ing. He was surprised and dis- appointed to see that Harron had decided to leave the city, he said.

ness dealings and his govern- mental post. Malcolm called for Barron's dismissal but could not rally enough s~pport on the council to oust the attorney. Malcolm's activities are pre- sently being investigated by the FPPC. Harron said that the conflict between the two is not the main cause for his leaving the city. "I knew everybody would ask

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Harron, 41, in Ocean Beach with his wife and two young children. He may be best known by the public for his battle with Coun- cilman David Malcolm. In mid-1988 Malcolm and Har- ron faced off after Harron sent a Jett.er to the Fair Political Prac- tices Commission outlining al- leged conflicts of interest that Malcolm had between his busi- lives

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•by Nevada-Reno lot of our ball game . . Plu they hit som hots When you get a 10-poUlt I ad, ~ou can shoot the three-pomt hot with a lot more confidence than when It a rup-and-tuck ball game" Seruor forward John Jerome, who fouled out, again led USO, scormg 18 and grabbmg four rebounds Teammate Anthony Thomas a guard forward, scored 15 and halsix rebounds, and senior forward Craig Cottrell, who did not start, scored 11 H rrln led all rebounders with 10 USD, which ha I t two straight 1 11 play next Thursday agamst VIS: illng W tern Kentucky • evada R~no IS 7 -2 gamst the Tor ro and th1 s ason ha beaten three te ms from tbe1r league the West Coa t Conference Last mght' game at- tracted a cro d of 775 ____/ t up hove

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C1¥ s'Y!omey who battled Malcolm takes law firm job By David Hicks Slaff Writer CHU~ VIS~A - City Att.orney Tom

of regulations that are now being adopted for ~vernmen_t approvals.•. .I'll ctually be starting wo~k ma~ area where they haven't done hmuch, he said. "They impressed upan me. t at they have a real commitment to ethics." ~arron will give the city three months notice and begin his new job on April 1 of next year. H~ earned his law degree from the Uni- versity of San Diego in 1975. In 1!177 he t on fKl'ard at the city as assistant city at::'r. ney, and was promoted to city attorney in 198~. As_ of January, 1990, the city will be paying him about $91,000 a year, he said. Please see C ty: A-5

Harron is l:avm~. Chula Vista after 12 ye~rs ofseMce t.oJom a private law firm h said. , e . "This has been a wonderful job for me It is ~~lly a great advantage to have had this po~ition. You get exposed to a lot of work ,, said Harron on Friday morning. • 1'.he downtown San Diego law finn ofPro- cop,\ Cory, Hargreaves and Savitch ap- proac ed Harron several weeks ago in search of an attorney versed in th mental • e govern- . Processes involved in land use and gettin? approv~ls for developments. "I will be taking clients through the maze

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(3-7) USD has 3lfi days off before re- turning for practice Christmas night in preparation for Thursday's home am against Western Kentucky "We ran into a buzz saw tonight," said Egan, "although we did some of 1t to ourselv . We did it to ourselves by not bandhng the pr ure nd they played awfully loose once they got the lead n Th pre ure enabled Nevada- Reno to ma e a 12-0 run early in the first half, giving the Wolfpack an 18-6 dvantage eight minutes into the gam on the way to a 47-31 halftime lead •It ms like everytime we've used th pr we've bad good suc- c ith it," said N~yada-Reno Pica c ce TOREROS: E"'} Col. 2

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Barnhard, Anthony Thomas and Randy Thompson in place of Kelvin Woods, Craig Cottrell and Gylan Dot- tin to hake things up. Thomas made the best of it, scoring a season-high 15 points. Cottrell came off the bench "Hindsight being what it is, I'm not too sure I did the ngbt thing," said Egan. "I had good intentions when I thing. Who knows? It looks like it was d'd ·t I ted us to t ft th' 1 1 . wan ge a er 15 The move did accomplish some- "I told the kids I needed them to play with a lot of enthusiasm and emotion and they did," said Egan. •·we played harder tonight than we have in a lot of bal~mes. Maybe it thing. to score 11. kind of a dumb move."

and 10 three-point attempts a night. The Tor ros should have realized lt was going to be one of those nights hen Nevada-Reno guard Kevin Soares mad both of hJs three-point tl mpts in the first half. Soares into th gam 3-for-22 from ' we·ve always av raged a lot of three-pomters, but we haven't made 1d Stevens. "We're not a bad pomt shooting team. We'll take what you give us. San Diego's one of contammg-type teams where they take away the drive and they don't give y11u easy layups. For- lunately we bit the outside shot - cam tbree-pomt range lot'" thr th Egan may have inadvertently h lped the Wolfpack by juggling his and that helps"

It was about this time USD discov- ered it couldn't hit the broad side of a barn. The Toreros shot 31.9 percent from the floor to the Wolfpack's 53.1 The shooting discrepancy was em- phasized when the Toreros missed five straight shots on one trip down eva a- eno ma Y got a rebound. The Wolfpack wasted little time getting the ball in the hands of Franklin, who wasted little time making another three-pointer for a 76-54 lead with seven minutes percent. th fl bef N d R f' 11 e oor ore

The Toreros may have tried too hard at times. They were instructed to concentrate getting the ball inside to center John Jerome following Tuesday night's 79-64 loss to Eastern Washington. That they did. With little Said Egan: "They backed off ev- erybody, and said, 'You're not going success. ou re going somep ace else.' We bad just emphasized after Eastern Washington that we had passed up Jerome, so let's get it in- side. It was one of those things. They dared us to shoot." Jerome, who led USO with 18 points, did everything he could to make something happen inside. Fi- nally, the Toreros realized they had t J y • · J o erome.

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