By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Emmanuel Lubezki won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for the film The Revenant. Lubezki, a Jewish-Mexican with family roots in Bolshevik Russia, has now won this award three years in a row (having previously won for Gravity and Birdman). When Leo DiCaprio won the Best Actor award […]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Terry Miller is a teacher at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in the Paradise Hills neighborhood of San Diego. I first met Terry when she was the drama teacher at Pershing Middle School and I was a grad student at SDSU. She allowed me to workshop
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastIDF rescues 2 Israeli soldiers mobbed in Qalandiya refugee camp (JNS.org) Five Israeli Border Police officers were injured when security forces entered the Qalandiya refugee camp, north of Jerusalem, on Monday night to rescue two non-combat soldiers who had accidentally driven into the area and were attacked by a local Palestinian mob that stoned
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Middle EastBy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — The headline in the April 20, 1946 edition of the New York Times read “Poison Bread Fells 1,900 German Captives in U.S. Army Prison Camp near Nuremberg.” What the Times did not report nor know was who the perpetrators were. As World War II was ending, survivors trickled out
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International, Jewish History
ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) — The Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities held its 38th Annual Gala, “Silver Screen” at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla on Saturday, Feb. 27, with Esther Fischer and Linda Platt serving as Gala Co-Chairs. The event was attended by 350 guests and raised over $450,000 to be used for the
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By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON –“Anti-Semitism,” wrote Stephen Eric Bronner, author of the engaging book A Rumor About The Jews, “is the stupid answer to a serious question: How does history operate behind our backs?” For a wide range of ideological extremists, anti-Semitism is still the stupid answer for why what goes wrong with the
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Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Men’s Club of Beth Israel hosts Dr. Barry Graff, Ph.D. as a guest speaker at its March 16 Dinner Forum. Dr. Graff’s presentation will focus on “Families and Family Business.” Attendance at this Dinner Forum has been scheduled as a “Men Only” program. Dr. Graff is an organizational consultant
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San Diego CalendarBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — In the children’s nursery song the cheese stands alone. Hi-ho the derry-o, the cheese stands alone. In the Jewish home it is the mother who often stands alone, because her children frequently see her as opinionated, pushy, stubborn, and embarrassing. As seen by those children who grow up to
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The British Prime Minister David Cameron upset quite a few of us with this. “I am well known for being a strong friend of Israel, but I have to say the first time I visited Jerusalem and had a proper tour around that wonderful city and saw what had happened
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Meant To Be by Rabbi Marvin Hier; Toby Press, LLC; © 2015; ISBN 978-1-59264-389-9; 342 pages including photo sections and index; $29.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This memoir tells the story of the founding of the Yeshiva University of Los Angeles, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Moriah Pictures, and the Museums of Tolerance in
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — I’ve been doing research lately on the Oscars. Although I have my favorite films, I realize that my criteria differ from the members of the Academy who not only respond to the merits of the films themselves, but to publicity campaigns waged by the studios, sentimental sympathies for popular
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Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & Broadcasthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Bergner
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Travel and FoodLife Along the Silk Road, by Susan Whitfield, 2nd edition, University Press, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — The book opens with several explanatory sections: a “Preface to the Second Edition,” a “Note of Transliteration and Names,” an “Introduction,” a “Prologue,” and a map spread across two pages. The map is arresting. It shows
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories