By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The slaughter of innocents in Syria bothers Israelis no less than it bothers others. Perhaps it bothers Israelis more, insofar as it is happening next door. Syria’s capital is less than 200 miles from Israel’s capital, and less than 50 miles from the Israeli border. What happens there has spilled over […]
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By Eileen Wingard SANTA MONICA, California –Since its inception in 1955, under the visionary leadership of Sylvia Kunin, the Young Musicians Foundation has nurtured a long list of outstanding concert artists and conductors. In the past several weeks, I personally attended performances by four YMF competition winners, Violinist Zina Schiff in recital in San Francisco,
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Eileen Wingard
By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California—The West Coast premiere of playwright J.T. Rogers’ Blood and Gifts is now in a solid but wordy production at the La Jolla Playhouse. Not that the words aren’t important, it’s just that the first act of this two-hour plus thriller (as it is marketed) takes too long to get
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
EL CAJON, California (Press Release) – La Mesa attorney Ron Oberndorfer has been elected to chair the Foundation for Grossmont & Cuyamaca Colleges, the fundraising organization for the two East County colleges. Oberndorfer will begin his term July 1 to lead the foundation, which was incorporated just over a year ago, and continues the work
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San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Illegal immigrants from Africa remain on Israel’s front burner. Minister of Interior Eli Yishai has made a high profile effort to arrest several hundred from South Sudan, and send them on free flights home, each with 1,000 Euros to get started in their old/new country. 123 have already left. Weekly
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — I was blessed with the good fortune of having been born as a Jew in the United States of America. I have often reflected upon the meaning of that good fortune. I was born just months after the outbreak of World War II and have often been haunted by
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Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — For some time now, I have clandestinely carried a ball club in my memory—a club, a city and a patch of old ball yard. Time, faded careers and even the emergence of third-generation retro-ball fields named with corporate icons have failed to tarnish the image of Crosley Field
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Travel and Food
A Universe from Nothing: Why is there Something Rather than Nothing? by Lawrence M. Krauss; ISBN 978-1-4516-2445-8 ©2012, $24.99, p. 202 The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe is Not Designed for Us by Victor J. Stenger; ISBN 978-1-61614-443-2 ©2012, $28.00, p. 341, including notes, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — At least four Democrats and four Republicans will serve on the San Diego City Council, with the swing-vote contest being in the 1st Councilmanic district between Democratic incumbent Sherri Lightner and Republican challenger Ray Ellis. There is a heavy concentration of Jews in the district, and the election
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Yaakov Lappin WASHINGTON, D.C. — Recent developments on Israel’s southern borders have illustrated the direct relationship between the changes sweeping Arab lands and mounting threats to Israel’s national security. This past weekend, as Egyptians went to the polls, terrorists operating in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula fired two Grad rockets into southern Israel. The projectiles
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Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, January 11, 1957, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman London-U.S.A. A friend of mine occasionally shares London newspapers with me. Last week I gave their “Sunday Times” a thorough going-over. I noted that out of twenty-five cinemas listed in the amusement section, twenty-two had
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — What was so revealing at the time of his painful thrust into the national spotlight was the media refrain about “Motorist Rodney King.” It was as though the unlucky young man was in constant motion, agitated, seeking a place to alight, and ultimately homeless. It was 1991, Los
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USA
By Cynthia Citron BURBANK, California — No matter how intently you pay attention, No Way Around But Through doesn’t make a lot of sense. Billed as a “dark romantic comedy,” this new play by actor/playwright Scott Caan is intermittently comic but persistently cranky rather than dark. As for romance, Caan, who plays Dano on
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Cynthia Citron
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel –Awell-organized, well-equipped group of terrorists has attacked Israel from Egyptian territory Monday morning, possibly the second such Egyptian-assisted assault in a week. An armed squad of two men—said to be Hamas, though this is not confirmed—crossed the border after travelling 30 miles from the Gaza Strip through Egyptian territory. They
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Middle East