By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–When the local director for a homeless rescue agency called on me to participate in yesterday’s interfaith vigil, I was glad to accept. Then I felt embarrassment while learning in the communications that sixty-one homeless persons had died on the streets of San Diego since the last annual vigil and […]
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USABy Joel A Moskowitz MD and Arlene S Moskowitz JD LA JOLLA, California– The son of Ariel Sharon was the opening attracton for the San Diego Jewish Book Fair at the Lawrence Family JCC. On a table to the left of the lecturn was a single lit candle fronting a photo of Ariel Sharon. Before
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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — One of the pleasures of attending the Nov. 6 performance of City Ballet of San Diego is the continuity of taste and purpose which has guided and built the Company. A few years ago a decision was made to make the Spreckels – a gem of a classic theater –
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Brodsky SAN DIEGO (Special)–Israel has over 2,000 soldiers who put their lives on the line by coming to Israel and joining the IDF, even though they have no family in Israel. Their dedication is amazing, and many of them have virtually not enough money to live on. These Lone Soldiers need a little
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Jewish History
By David Amos SAN DIEGO–One of the most rewarding times in being involved with a performing arts organization is when choices have to be made in what will be programmed and presented to the public. In the case of musical groups, at any level of professionalism, many factors have to be carefully weighed, such as
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San Diego County
By Carol Davis COSTA MESA, California — The trip from my house in San Diego County to The South Coast Repertory Theatre in Orange County to see Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, took me about 90 minutes from door to door with medium traffic along the way. Carrie Watts’ (Lynn Milgrim) trip from Houston,
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — headline in The Economist: “One side gets even lonelier . . . Binyamin Netanyahu gets brickbats from Palestinians and Israelis” http://www.economist.com/node/21536644 Visiting American relatives told us that their rabbi was saying “Israel is on a precipice,” and that members of the congregation must increase their political and economic support. Those
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — So once again British hooligans managed to disrupt a concert given by Israeli musicians in London, this time one given by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the Proms last September. This follows a similar interruption of a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet at the Wigmore Hall earlier in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The desert is the subject and dessert will be the repast at a reception planned for 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 29, for Prof. Pedro Berliner, director of Ben-Gurion University’s Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, at the home of Dr. Sergio and Ariela Berkstein. Berliner will be joined at the
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Doug Gladstone ALBANY, New York — Like a lot of Jews, I’m of the opinion that you can’t have justice for yourself unless other people have justice as well. That’s especially true now that we’re in the month of Heshvan, which is widely considered to be Jewish Social Action month. As the author of
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — David & Lisa by James Reach is the featured production of the Pickwick Theatre Nov 11-13 and 18-20. The play is a strange, appealing, and utterly fascinating telling of two mentally disturbed adolescents: David, who is tortured by his mania against being touched, and Lisa, who has a split personality.
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Waters of Eden is the Community Host for the San Diego Jewish Book Fair program The God Upgrade: Finding Your 21st Century Spirituality in Judaism’s 5,000-Year-Old Tradition with author Rabbi Jamie Korngold, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. Founder of the “Adventure Rabbi” a Boulder,
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Travel and FoodBy Daniel Halper WASHINGTON, D.C. — Earlier this week, the majority of member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) – whose self-stated mission is “to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information” – voted
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release) … A nationwide survey of the American people released today by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that anti-Semitic attitudes have risen slightly in America, demonstrating once again that “anti-Semitic beliefs continue to hold a vicegrip” on a small but not insubstantial segment of America. The ADL survey found that 15
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