By David Brin ENCINITAS, California–The future comes rushing upon us so quickly, already I worry that the world portrayed in my freshly minted novel will be old hat long before the time it is set, 30 years from now. (Meaning that we need futuristic and open-minded thought experiments now, more than ever.) Try these items
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— The rivalry between Da Vinci and Michelangelo was a big deal back in 1504, Florence. Imagine pitting these two art giants of the Renaissance, one against another in a painting duel? Michelangelo was an up and comer and Da Vinci was already a well-established inventor, musician, writer and painter of
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Menachem Weiss PETACH TIKVAH, Israel — I have a good imagination. Sometimes I read about something and I can actually imagine that I am there, like the time I read about some kids spending the day at the beach. I could almost feel the waves and smell the air even though I haven’t been
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Travel and FoodEditor’s Note: Thích Quảng Đức was the Buddhist monk who set himself afire on June 11, 1963 at a Saigon intersection to draw the world’s attention to the abuses of South Vietnam’s President Ngô Đình Diệm. Self-immolations thereafter became a regular form of protest in South Vietnam. By Ira Sharkansksy JERUSALEM–We are seeing the reality
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Kavod Elementary Charter School, San Diego’s first and only Hebrew language charter school, will open this September in Clairemont (92111) with veteran charter school leader Cinda Doughty at its helm. Kavod Elementary was approved by the San Diego Unified School District Board of Education in late March. Kavod, the Hebrew word for
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San Diego County
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel SAN DIEGO — Comic-con came to a close on Sunday in San Diego! Some of my congregation’s members love dressing up for these conventions as Ninja-Turtles or as Captain America. As a child, I loved collecting comic books. I probably would not have learned to read as quickly as I did
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, San Diego Calendar
Photos and story by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — As my wife Nancy drove grandson Shor, 11, and me to the San Diego Convention Center, we noted that the car in front of us, a Saturn, had a vanity license plate that in symbol and letters announced its occupant was a Star Trek fan.
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Donald H. Harrison
A Candle in the Heart: Memoir of a Child Survivor by Judith Mannheimer Alter Kallman; Wordsmithy 2011; ISBN 978-1-935119010-1, 315 pages, price unlisted. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–This is an unusual Holocaust memoir because it moves from a child’s terror to her comfort, back to terror and then to reassurance, in a journey that
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Terrence C. Markin POTOMAC, Maryland — I worry that we may be on the verge of pushing another young Jew away from our faith. This saddens me more than I can say. She is my daughter. I remember vividly taking her to services as a baby and bringing her to Hebrew School at the
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Lawrence Block, master storyteller with a sense of Yiddishkeit and gumshoe charm, has fans all over the world, mostly in North America, where his detective novels have done very well over the years, and you might not know it, but he also has fans in Taiwan, where his
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Travel and Food
Editor’s Note: Loren Kantor often chooses Jews and Jewish themes as topics for his woodcuts. He’s agreed to share images from his work–and the stories behind them– with San Diego Jewish World. Actress Lauren Bacall is the first in this series. By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart were one
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of the lesser-reported stories from the Middle East, Palestinians are out in the streets ostensibly to protest the Palestinian Authority’s plan to meet with Israeli Minister Shaul Mofaz. However, Palestinian complaints are primarily focused on the PA’s increasingly authoritarian crackdown on internal Palestinian dissent, specifically on the internet and
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — A Long Way to Midnight is a work in progress, looking for producers to bring it to life as a staged production. On Thursday evening, July 12, I attended a first reading at the Community Actor’s Theatre. Because it was a first reading, it was like a rough
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Mimi Pollack
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO– It was reported in the international media that a huge, luxury Cineplex is being constructed in the suburban Israeli community of Kfar-Saba. I have some sensibilities regarding this matter. It’s not that I’m opposed to the admirable development that is a trademark of this miracle nation-state, its edgy high-tech
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Middle East