JERUSALEM (WJC)–Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has given his backing to a proposal which would require any non-Jew taking Israeli citizenship to swear allegiance to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state”. The proposal has angered Israel’s Arab minority, which makes up a fifth of Israel’s population. The new law will mainly apply to Palestinians married […]
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Middle East
JERUSALEM (WJC)–A municipal committee has approved a plan to fundamentally change the layout of the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem’s Old City. An underground plaza and tunnel would replace the existing main entrance at the Dung Gate. The ancient Roman highway that begins at the entrance near the Old City’s Silwan neighborhood, which leads to
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Middle East
God’s Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine by Michael Largo, HarperCollins Publishers, New York; ISBN 978-0-06-173284-3, ©2010, $16.99, p. 536 plus appendix. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –By-and-large, encyclopedias are boring to read. As the old saw goes, their plot
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Fred Reiss, EdD
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— Neil Simon and The Old Globe have had a good working relationship over the years. There was a time when Simon tried out some of his new works (Jake’s Women, Rumors) before taking them to Broadway. Last year Executive Producer Lou Spisto announced that The Old Globe would be
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By David Amos SAN DIEGO — In my many years of involvement in music, in all its phases, as a performer, writer, promoter, lecturer, critic, and broadcaster, I have heard comments from other music lovers which reflect their music world, as they see it. I am both frustrated and amused at some of the empty
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Travel and Food
CORONADO, California (Press Release)– The Agency for Jewish Education has announced the lineup of its Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series. Lawrence Baron, SDSU, will kickoff the monthly series. Baron’s lecture will take place in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on Oct. 20 at 10:30 am. His lecture is titled, “Haven from the Holocaust: Oswego,
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–The brilliant columnist for The Jerusalem Post, Caroline Glick, recently lamented the lack of civil rights pertaining to Jews when it comes to the Middle East. She was referring to the built-in onus imposed on the building of settlement communities in Judea-Samaria (the West Bank) and the self-righteousness of other
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Middle East
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO –One thing about the musical revue Smokey Joe’s Café there isn’t much not to like about it. For those of you who might never heard the names Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, for sure you’ve heard their music. Think “Hound Dog”, “Stand by Me”, “There Goes My Baby”, “Jailhouse Rock”, “Fools
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The Old Globe theatre complex is a busy place these days. The Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage is hosting Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound (to be reviewed) in repertory and the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre is mounting the west coast premiere showing of Pulitzer
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Lasker Lodge News Southwestern Jewish Press, April 1, 1955, Page 3 By Lou Levitz Lasker Lodge’s annual Father and Child’s Night is being planned this year for the first Monday in May. It will be manned by Sam Bennett and Herb Reder. Local TV talent will entertain. As
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyROME (WJC)–The Vatican’s official newspaper, the ‘Osservatore Romano’, has deplored jokes by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi about Jews, saying they offended “the sentiments of believers and the memory of the six million victims of the Shoah”. Days after Berlusconi told a youth rally an apparent joke about Adolf Hitler, he emerged from his Rome
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Travel and FoodJERUSALEM (WJC)– The governments of Britain and Spain will not send delegates to a tourism conference later this month hosted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) because it will be held in Jerusalem. Israel’s Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov (Yisrael Beiteinu) was quoted by ‘Haaretz as saying: “OECD officials demanded that we not
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Travel and FoodBEIRUT (WJC)–Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s upcoming visit to Lebanon has stirred controversy in the Middle East, and even some Lebanese leaders view it as a provocation meant to serve the Iranian leader’s future plans for war. Ahmadinejad is set to visit Lebanon on 13 October, where he will “officially recognize it as an Iranian base”
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Barney Cashman is frumpy, lumpy, and awkward with women. And so is John Combs, the actor who plays him in Last of the Red Hot Lovers. Coincidence? I think not. Because if there is one thing that director Howard Teichman prides himself on, it’s his impeccable casting. And with
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Cynthia Citron