July 2012

A more rapid way to learn Hebrew as a second language

By Yoel Ganor JERUSALEM — My wife, Orly, and I recently returned to  Israel after having completed a multi-city trip in the United States performing workshops for Hebrew-language educators.  We espouse a new approach to teaching the Jewish People’s ancient language, one that draws heavily on new technology and unconventional techniques. The Hebrew language is a

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Stan Lee and Stan Mack market their creativity at Comic-Con

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Amid fans dressed as Super-Heroes, Walt Disney characters, and inhabitants of the Star Trek and Star Wars universes, two Jewish men named Stan on Thursday, July 12,  assiduously worked the crowd, drumming up support for their latest ventures. Stan Lee, who as a Marvel Comic executive, brought forth

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Donald H. Harrison

Cultural Museum brings ancient Kumeyaay ways to life

            Story and photos by Mimi Pollack TECATE, Mexico — There are only 70 to 80 people left in Baja California who speak Kumeyaay, according to Michael Wilken Robertson, an anthropologist with a specialty in ethno-botany who is curator of the Kumeyaay Museum in this city hugging the U.S.-Mexican border. In a recent interview, Wilken

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Jewish History, Mimi Pollack

Israel grows stronger as neighbors unravel

  By Gabriel Max Scheinmann WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israelis understandably feel imperiled by the misnamed “Arab Spring.” Their country’s three-decade peace treaty with Egypt is under assault, its strategic alliance with Turkey has dissolved, and its closest regional ally, Jordan, is withering from domestic protests. The breakdown in political authority has flooded Israel’s borders with

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Middle East

A man of peace from Gaza

I Shall Not Hate by Izzeldin Abuelaish;  Walker & Company, New York, 2010. 238 pages. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Izzeldin Abuelaish is an amazing person. Being born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza strip did not deter him from becoming a spokesperson for peace everywhere in the world and,

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Travel and Food

Will Hollywood soft pedal messages to win China’s business?

 By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — Media mavens both East and West are locking horns in global discussions about the effects of Hollywood’s attempts to appeal to the ”Chollywood” market. Will China’s ”soft opening” (scare quotes mine) to the West create more opportunities for Hollywood studios to market their wares inside the communist behemoth,

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International

Yeru-Shalem Coalition seeks to harmonize Jerusalem and Diaspora

By Elan Ezrachi JERUSALEM — Cities most essentially belong to their residents.  The residents shape the character of cities in which they dwell.  The cities, in return, provide them shelter, employment, community and identity.  Jerusalem defies this traditional model. While 800,000 individuals can be labeled “residents,” there are literally millions of additional far-flung stakeholders around

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Middle East