By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — When I first landed on these colorful, picturesque shores about a decade or so ago, one of the first dishes I sampled at the local dumpling joint was something the waitress called “shalom pow.” At least, to my non-tonal and 1950s Hebrew School ears, it sure sounded like […]
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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO – Edgar Allan Poe once remarked, “A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.” Short films adhere to the same rule. The acting, editing, plot, and soundtrack should all contribute to a vivid portrait of a character, the essence of a situation, or
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Lawrence BaronBy Amnon Ben-Yehuda SAN DIEGO — Americans have an information gap on Israel. I keep up with events and news from Israel by logging in daily to the Hebrew version of the Israeli papers Ha’aretz and Yediott. Between the two I can read opinions by columnists ranging the political spectrum but with emphasis to the
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Among the more moderate responses to Ehud Barak’s proposal to withdraw some 30,000 Israelis from the West Bank (i.e, leaving aside those whose response was “absolutely crazy”), is the warning that planning must be better than in the case of the unilateral withdrawal from Gaza. For the sake of argument,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego Mesa College will host The Courage to Remember, a traveling exhibit produced by the Museum of Tolerance from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, November 5 through 16, 2012. Admission to the exhibit is free and the public is invited to attend. After more than 20 years of international acclaim and a
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San Diego Calendar
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration was wrong when first it said that what happened in Cairo and Benghazi was a spontaneous gush of righteous Muslim indignation. After days of insisting that a snippet of YouTube trash was responsible — not U.S. policy and certainly not the U.S. government — and that
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Shoshana Bryen, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish Community Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeff Silberman as its new Board Chair. Jeff succeeds Emily Einhorn who led the Foundation for a two-year term and continues on the Foundation’s Board and Executive Committee. Jeff’s leadership experience spans seven years as a Foundation board
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San Diego County
By Carol Davis VISTA, California—“Sweeny Todd”, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler (based on Christopher Bond’s 1973 play) is not your usual run-of-the mill happy musical. It’s dark, bloody, broody, deliciously wicked and gruesome in tone and look and it is revenge-driven. At times it is sprinkled with some pretty
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Maxine Dovere/JNS.org NEW YORK—Danny Ayalon anticipates dramatic changes for Israel, the Middle East and Europe, giving a decade as his time frame. In an exclusive conversation with JNS.org on Sunday morning in New York, Israel’s deputy foreign minister said that, while it is unrealistic to expect any nation dependent on Arab oil to jeopardize
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Middle East
By Lloyd Levy LONDON–On this Yom Kippur, we are unfortunately reminded of the year 1973. Many of us of course having a vivid recollection of the events in that year, when Israel was ambushed at “ prayer” and only escaped by the skin of its teeth . Yet in many ways it is more reminiscent
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Lloyd Levy, Middle East
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California– Some of you may think that today’s lesson on forgiveness will be a little boring. If so, I ask that you please forgive me. Just like a picture says more than a thousand words, parables, too, also convey lessons that are timeless as they are obvious, requiring
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Not all life issues are black and white. In fact usually they are not. We need the Torah sage to enlighten us. Only the wisdom gained through years of delving in the Torah can guide him. He can then help us see things in a different light
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Jewish ReligionLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–A capacity crowd of more than 60 people filled the library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center in La Jolla last Wednesday, Sept. 19, for a lively discussion of “The Truth about the Jewish Vote.” The event was the inaugural public program of J Street San Diego. J Street is
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USA
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — With the Judgment pending (perceived as a moral threshold by most Jews, a time for cleansing souls), Yom Kippur is really one of the rare times of the year when our spiritual community actual ponders evil straight on. Most of the year, we’re thinking about good works.
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