By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD — Timothy McNeil’s new play, Machu Picchu, Texas, now having its world premiere at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, is about an angry, dysfunctional family again, folks, but this time the intensity is mitigated by a cast that is uniformly excellent and a set designed by Michael Fitzgerald and Aidan Fiorito that […]
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Cynthia CitronBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — References to peace with the Palestinians have returned to the rhetoric of Binyamin Netanyahu. During the election campaign he tended to talk about the threat from Iran and its stooges, not about opportunities for peace. But in his acceptance speech in response to the request by President Peres that
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Middle EastBy Christopher Ruddy NEW YORK–It’s a cold Friday night last December and I am at the reception desk to see former New York Mayor Ed Koch at New York Presbyterian Hospital. “Ed Koch please,” I ask the young African-American fellow serving as the receptionist. “You’re here to see Mayor Koch!” he says rather excitedly to
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded and incinerated as it began its return descent to earth. Among the seven noble astronauts lost, from a wide range of backgrounds and creeds, was Israel’s first space traveler—Col. Ilan Ramon, a decorated Air Force hero and the mission payload
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Jewish ReligionBy Evelyn Gordon SAN DIEGO — It was an election whose results stunned pundits both in Israel and abroad, a “wide and deep repudiation” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as some hastened to claim. And elections, as we know, have consequences. So are major changes expected in Israel’s foreign and defense policy? In a
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Soille Hebrew Day School middle school students conducted their first ever A.C.E. Community Service Program- Day of Volunteerism, led by the Reuben Klamer ‘Game of Life’ Youth Leadership Council. A.C.E. stands for Achieving Chesed and Excellence, and ties in to the school-wide character development program, Successful Me. The A.C.E. Community Service Program
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San Diego CountyBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — For all the thunder about the “missing” J Street speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2009, watching it was almost a letdown. There is simply no “smoking-gun” anti-Semitism or anti-Israelism there, aside from a single reference to some policies working to the “single issue benefit of certain groups.” OK, yes,
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Shoshana Bryen, USABy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The Clybourne Park neighborhood in playwright Bruce Norris’s biting comedy is the very same neighborhood that the Younger Family of the late 1950’s, in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, was about ready to move into, in that groundbreaking drama so many moons ago. The Youngers are an
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcastwww.jns.org/news-briefs Fatah glorifies first female Palestinian suicide bomber on anniversary of her attack (JNS.org) On the 11th anniversary of the day she killed two Israelis and injured hundreds of others in a Jerusalem terror attack, Fatah called Wafa Idris—who according to Fatah was the first female Palestinian suicide bomber—a “beautiful flower,” Palestinian Media Watch
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InternationalBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — By a strange confluence of fortuitous happenstance this Shabbat, on which we read parashat Yitro, is also Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day celebrates a commonly held folk belief. If a groundhog emerges from its burrow on February 2 and sees its shadow, winter will linger for another six weeks.
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