SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Waters of Eden, San Diego Community Mikvah and Education Center, hosts its premier event, a multimedia stage production of “The Mikveh Monologues”. Written by best-selling author Anita Diamant (The Red Tent) and director Janet Buchwald, the play is an introspective tour of the ritual bath, redefined for 21st century usage, and a [...]
Compiled by Gail Umeham Personals Southwestern Jewish Press January 8, 1954 Page 3 Friends of Harry Goodwin will be leased to learn that he is again doing his expert repairs on fine china, glassware, silver and gold metals at his home, 1812 Tustin, B-2-1655. Harry has done work for the San Diego Fine Arts Society [...]
By Steve Hofstetter NEW YORK — I imagine it’s much more difficult to be a Jew on Christmas than it is to be a Christian on Hanukah. You don’t find many Hanukah specials about families getting stranded in an airport learning the true meaning of the menorah. But if there were lots of Hanukah specials, [...]
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized the Jewish National Fund (JNF) following reports that the organization, established by Jews and for Jews to rebuild Jewish national life in the biblical home of the Jewish people, has donated 3,000 trees to the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA) of Mahmoud Abbas for a [...]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — For those who have asked why JINSA has kept Honduras in the spotlight since June, this is why: small democratic countries trying mightily to exercise legitimate governance and self-determination deserve our vocal support even – or especially – when they do things the U.S. would prefer they didn’t. Honduras [...]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Come join us on Friday, December 11, at Congregation Beth Am for our unique Rock’n Shabbat dinner & service. Rock’n Shabbat is a community service held on the Second Friday of every month at 7:00pm. This service, featuring Yochanan Sebastian Winston and his band and the Beth Am Youth Choir, [...]
Compiled by Garry Fabian ** Catholic School Students write and perform moving play MELBOURNE – Year 8 and 9 at a Victorian country Catholic College recently wrote and performed a play “Our Shoah” which they presented to packed audience. The background of this that a teacher at the school was awarded a scholarship for a [...]
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –As readers of this column will have surmised by now, my husband and I are keen concert-goers. Israel abounds in opportunities to attend inspiring orchestral concerts, uplifting chamber performances, and impressive solo recitals. We try to attend as many of these as our energy and pocket allow, and these [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM—What has Israel contributed to the impasse in the peace process, and to the suffering of Palestinians? That is a question several have asked me, often with a follow up charging that I have not responded. I have responded, more than once. Those convinced of Israeli culpability either have not understood my [...]
HAIFA (Press Release)–University of Haifa students have joined the public fight for the release of Gilad Shalit and decided to make their final project for a course in the School of Political Sciences a campaign for Shalit’s release. A survey that the students carried out among 200 respondents as a preparatory step for the project [...]
