By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel SAN DIEGO — Comic-con came to a close on Sunday in San Diego! Some of my congregation’s members love dressing up for these conventions as Ninja-Turtles or as Captain America. As a child, I loved collecting comic books. I probably would not have learned to read as quickly as I did […]
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, San Diego Calendar
Photos and story by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — As my wife Nancy drove grandson Shor, 11, and me to the San Diego Convention Center, we noted that the car in front of us, a Saturn, had a vanity license plate that in symbol and letters announced its occupant was a Star Trek fan.
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Donald H. Harrison
A Candle in the Heart: Memoir of a Child Survivor by Judith Mannheimer Alter Kallman; Wordsmithy 2011; ISBN 978-1-935119010-1, 315 pages, price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–This is an unusual Holocaust memoir because it moves from a child’s terror to her comfort, back to terror and then to reassurance, in a journey that
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Terrence C. Markin POTOMAC, Maryland — I worry that we may be on the verge of pushing another young Jew away from our faith. This saddens me more than I can say. She is my daughter. I remember vividly taking her to services as a baby and bringing her to Hebrew School at the
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Lawrence Block, master storyteller with a sense of Yiddishkeit and gumshoe charm, has fans all over the world, mostly in North America, where his detective novels have done very well over the years, and you might not know it, but he also has fans in Taiwan, where his
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Travel and Food
Editor’s Note: Loren Kantor often chooses Jews and Jewish themes as topics for his woodcuts. He’s agreed to share images from his work–and the stories behind them– with San Diego Jewish World. Actress Lauren Bacall is the first in this series. By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart were one
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of the lesser-reported stories from the Middle East, Palestinians are out in the streets ostensibly to protest the Palestinian Authority’s plan to meet with Israeli Minister Shaul Mofaz. However, Palestinian complaints are primarily focused on the PA’s increasingly authoritarian crackdown on internal Palestinian dissent, specifically on the internet and
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — A Long Way to Midnight is a work in progress, looking for producers to bring it to life as a staged production. On Thursday evening, July 12, I attended a first reading at the Community Actor’s Theatre. Because it was a first reading, it was like a rough
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Mimi Pollack
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO– It was reported in the international media that a huge, luxury Cineplex is being constructed in the suburban Israeli community of Kfar-Saba. I have some sensibilities regarding this matter. It’s not that I’m opposed to the admirable development that is a trademark of this miracle nation-state, its edgy high-tech
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Middle East
By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — It was revealed by whistleblowers that the Department of Justice had sold, or given, 2000 weapons to the Mexican drug cartels which ended up killing one American Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, and hundreds of Mexicans. This ill-conceived, and apparently ill-executed, adventure involved spending taxpayer money –we
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USA
By Audrey Jacobs SAN DIEGO — This week I witnessed a miracle. I stood together with more than 400 Christians and Jews of all ages holding hands in prayer for Israel in downtown La Jolla. This was at the “Israel Miracle: How a Small Nation has Changed the World” event created in just six days
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The “West Bank” is a tricky place legally, politically, and semantically. There is one semantic conception that it is everything on the west bank of the Jordan River, all the way to the Mediterranean. More limited and conventional is the notion that it is the area between the Jordan River and
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California — North Coast Repertory Theatre is having fun this month with the George Haimsohn and Robin Miller (book and lyrics) and Jim Wise (music) 1968 tongue-in-cheek musical Dames at Sea that is set in the 1930’s as a takeoff on the big dance shows of the Busby Berkeley musical
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD –So there’s one cast (the Kinsmen). Then there’s another (the Thanes). And then there are the Hurlyburlys. It’s the Antaeus Company’s way of making sure that if an actor is called away in the middle of a run to star in a film by Ron Howard or a TV show
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Cynthia Citron