By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The New York Times has discovered racism in Israel. An Israeli response to such a revelation is “Mazal tov. You’ve discovered America.” The meaning does not deal with racism in America, which has been there since Columbus. In modern Hebrew, “You’ve discovered America” means you have said the obvious. What we […]
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By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Spain 1936. An army revolt against the democratically elected government sets off a civil war. On one side are the Fascists, led by General Francisco Franco. On the other side is a coalition of democrats both social democratic and liberal; communal nationalists; anarchists, Communists, and independent Marxists. The Western
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Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Two dogs, two cats, a mouse, a wolf, and a horse co-starred Monday evening, June 11, in Animals I Have Known, a production by Write Out Loud which also co-starred four humans, who read the animal tales at the Theatre at Old Town. With red light bathing the
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Stanley Rabinowitz, who helped comfort President Lyndon B. Johnson and the nation after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died in his sleep Friday, June 8, in the nursing facility of Seacrest Village Retirement Community in Encinitas Rabinowitz, 95, longtime rabbi of Adas Israel Hebrew Congregation in
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) eighth grade student Jonah Kohn was recently notified that he is one of five finalists in his age group out of a total 15 finalists in the 2012 Google Science Fair, which received thousands of entries from over 100 countries worldwide. Jonah’s project, “Good Vibrations: Improving the
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San Diego Calendar
Superman: The High Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero by Larry Tye, Random House, 2012, ISBN 978-1-58836-918-5; 409 pages including appendices and bibliography, $27. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Was Superman Jewish or Christian? Author Larry Tye lays out the claims for each religion in his history detailing the character, his history
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Donald H. HarrisonCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff S.I. Fox Lodge B.B. To Install Officers Southwestern Jewish Press, December 28, 1956, Page 5 The Jewish community is invited to the tenth annual installation of officers of the Samuel I. Fox Lodge No. 1747, B’nai B’rith, Tuesday, January 8, 8:30 p.m., at the Beth Jacob Center. A
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Veteran science fiction author David Brin (The Postman; The Uplift Trilogy; Earth) — also a guest columnist for San Diego Jewish World and the son of founding San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage publisher Herb Brin — has a new book coming out soon titled Existence and it’s headed for the stars.
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Not that he’s holding his breath, but there’s still a slim chance that Mat Kostrinsky may yet win a place in a runoff election against Scott Sherman in the 7th City Council District. Sherman’s 50.59 percent winning percentage does not include an uncertain number of the 88,000 “provisional”
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –The life of a spiritual leader is never easy—especially if you happen to be a man named Moses. Kvetching comes with the territory of working for a Jewish community. It’s a tradition. I am reminded of the old joke, “How many congregants does it take to screw
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By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California–It was recently reported , and we saw the pictures on TV, that a Planned Parenthood employee had helped, and encouraged, a woman to have an abortion because of the gender of the fetus. The woman didn’t want to give birth to a girl. My personal opinion about abortion
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By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Awaiting the performance of Victor Ullmann’s one-act opera, Der Kaiser Von Atlantis, on Friday evening, June 2, I recalled the other performances in San Diego of music created in the Nazi’s Show Ghetto of Terezin. On February 5, 1989, at the 54th Street Jewish Community Center, the JCC Music Committee
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Sonny Burl is a country music star who can fill a stadium with his voice and his guitar. You may never have heard of him, but he is the focal point of Mark Roberts’ play Where the Great Ones Run, now having its West Coast premiere at Theatre Theater in
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Cynthia Citron
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–A La Jolla planning group had three answers to Hillel of San Diego’s request to build a religious, intellectual and spiritual center on land it owns near the UCSD campus: “No,” “no” and “no.” There were three interrelated questions before the La Jolla Community Planning Association on Thursday evening, June
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