Compiled by Gail Umeham Double Talk Southwestern Jewish Press March 19, 1954 Page 7 By Janet & Susan Solof Rochelle (Rocky) Goodrich really galloped and gobbled her way to her sixteenth birthday with many of her friends. First horseback riding and then dining with Rocky were Luanne Blumberg, Joan Borenstein, Joan Breitbard, Linda Douglas, [...]
By Randy Fadem LA JOLLA, Caifornia (Press Release)–Have you ever seen a Mozart clarinet concerto played on the forearm of a young man by his auditioning girlfriend? In Adam’s Wall, a delightful modern version of a Romeo and Juliet love story two college students, a young Jewish man and a young Lebanese woman, fall in love. [...]
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — The other day I saw on television some scientists who said that within our lifetime, we will be able to live till 150 and stay healthy. I’m in my early eighties and started contemplating living another seventy years. To my own surprise, that did not sound very [...]
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Here is something that President Obama and his advisers should consider before spending any more of their time nudging Israeli and Palestinian leaders to negotiate a peace. http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=167194 The details are not entirely clear, but reinforce the larger story of corruption in high places of the Palestine Authority, the lack [...]
JERUSALEM–President Obama’s State of the Union address dealt almost entirely with domestic issues, despite American troops active in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and now Yemen, as well as highly touted efforts with respect to Israel-Palestine and Iran. Also, the focus was heavily on the economy, and lightly on what had been his iconic health initiative. The [...]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Over the summer, the Government of Iraq accused the Government of Syria of harboring al Qaeda camps and permitting operatives to cross the border into Iraq to attack Iraqis and Americans-including the attack on August 19, 2009 that killed 95 people and wounded more than 500 in the heart of [...]
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–The suggestion by Gaza Palestinians that they were most attuned to Haitian suffering because-after all-they had suffered an Israeli “earthquake” was a disgusting attempt to equate self-inflicted ruin as a result of terrorism against Israel with the horrifying natural disaster that befell the Haitians. Nevertheless, it appears to have prompted a [...]
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–The Children of Israel after serving years of bondage, were now out in the world free. Being free, being a Jew out in the world presents its own challenges and opportunities. We have the ability to sanctify G-d’s name or to desecrate it. The following two articles, submitted by ShulWeek [...]
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Despite his role as the rescuer of Israel, the Torah takes great pain to de-emphasize the role of Moses in the Exodus. Credit for the miracles is given to God alone, Moses dies without entering the Promised Land, and no one knows where he is buried. This tradition [...]
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Yoav Talmi peppered his talk with humorous anecdotes as he described the development of orchestras in Israel, several coming into being because of the large influx of Russian-born musicians. The January 11 lecture in the JCC’s Garfield Theare drew a large and appreciative audience. When Talmi spoke [...]
