By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — City Ballet of San Diego’s “Celebrate Balanchine” program on November 7, 2010 was an ambitious endeavor – not flawless – but another notch in the Company’s escutcheon of accomplishments. The Company is still based in the historic jewel box of a theatre, The Spreckels; however, the exigencies
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Travel and FoodHAIFA (Press Release)–Preschool-aged children who demonstrate fearless behavior also reveal less empathy and more aggression towards their peers. This has been shown in a new study that was carried out at the University of Haifa’s Faculty of Education. “The results of this study show that fearless behavior in children can be identified and is related
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Science, Medicine, & EducationBy David Kroll SAN DIEGO — This week’s parsha was Chayey Sarah, the life of Sarah, a text which actually begins following the time of her death. As compared with other parshas which involve a great many subjects and topics, Chayey Sarah deals with only three: The negotiation between Abraham and Efron the Hittite for
Jews and money: an essay on an old stereotype Read More »
Jewish ReligionBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Living alongside the Arab neighborhood of Issawiya has its moments. Items from the weekend’s news: Israelis accompanying an Australian tourist made a wrong turn into the neighborhood, and narrowly escaped a lynching. In another incident, neighborhood folks stoned an ambulance that entered the area to tend a resident who had been injured
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Yvonne Greenberg LA JOLLA, California– In her new book, Life As A Visitor, Angella Nazarian, a Jew, recounts leaving her native land of Iran at age eleven with her mother and older sister to visit her two brothers in Los Angeles for presumably a two-week visit because of the violent 1979 Iranian Revolution. Because
San Diego Jewish Book Fair: Nazarian tells of a childhood caught between two cultures Read More »
Travel and Food
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — It is rare for me to have a “Big Mac Attack.” While I did eat treif in my youth, I swore it off in my college years. I have observed Kashrut since then. Golden Arches no longer entice me. For me they do not exist. I pass by
A kosher ‘Big Mac attack’ in Buenos Aires Read More »
International, Travel and Food
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO- -It isn’t often that we get a chance to see a young, up and coming actor who is still in school and has time to perform, and perform well. How fortunate for us then that Dylan Hoffinger, a freshman at the School of Creative and Performing Arts (as a musical
Hoffinger shines in ‘Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins at Diversionary Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — Christians in Iraq have been, and not for the first time, deliberately targeted in a major terrorist attack. Indeed, from Indonesia to Pakistan to Iraq, from the Gaza Strip to Egypt to Sudan to Nigeria, Christians are being assaulted, intimidated, and murdered by militant Muslims. Yet virtually never do
Attack on Baghdad Church part of pattern of Muslim hostility towards Christians Read More »
Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We have had worse days. The not so friendly United Nations published its Human Development Index, ranking Israel number 15 among 169 countries. Norway is number 1 and the United States number 4. Israel scores higher than such decent places as Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Austria, and the United
Israel may be in for a period of international calm Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
NEW YORK (Press Release) — Second-year Fordham University Law student Michael Zimmerman loves to get his hands dirty. Each day Zimmerman and a handful of student volunteers tend to and harvest a small organic roof garden that he began on the top of the parish house at St. Paul the Apostle Church, next to the
Fordham Law student is an urban farmer atop a parish house Read More »
Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO – When fifth grade teacher Shani Abed of San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) shared with her two fifth grade classes the September 14 cover of Time Magazine displaying a daisy chain Star of David and the headline “Why Israel Doesn’t Care About Peace,” it caused some strong reactions among her students. “Many students
San Diego Jewish Academy fifth graders send protest letters to TIME Read More »
Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Nov. 4, 2010) — As part of its ongoing commitment to cultural diversity and to celebrate Hispanic Heritage and American Indian Heritage months, Union Bank has partnered with KPBS to honor four extraordinary San Diegans during its 13th Annual Local Heroes Awards program. Recognized for exemplary leadership and dedication to serving their communities, these
Gracia Pick, Marjory Kaplan, Ellen Beck among 12 ‘Local Heroes’ Read More »
San Diego Calendar, San Diego County
By Lloyd Levy LONDON– The early Zionists were intent on creating a new Jew, one who would not be beholdento the non-Jewish majority. The new Jew would be free of the Diaspora mentality, which was perhaps most famously described by the Zionist poet Bialik, in his poem “The City of Slaughter .” The poem describes how
Hail Lieberman and Netanyahu, self-confident Jews Read More »
Lloyd Levy, Middle East
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel (Press Release)–What effect will the congressional elections have on U.S. foreign policy generally and Middle East policy in particular? It isn’t a matter of the individual candidates, since nobody lost or won who will have some big influence on U.S. policy in the next couple of years. The important factor
Will Obama be pragmatic or an idealogue in second half of term? Read More »
Middle East, USA