Books, Poetry & Short Stories

‘Anne Frank’ may be presented to Muslims in Urdu

By Navras J. Aafreedi. Ph.D KOLKATA, India –The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into seventy languages, including a few South Asian ones.  These include Hindi, the official link language of India and the fourth most widely spoken language with 341 million speakers; Bengali, the national language of Bangladesh and the fifth most widely […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ now in graphic format

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; graphic adaptation by Wayne Vansant, © 2019 published by Dead Reckoning, ISBN9781682-474601, 170 pages, $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If I suddenly had universal authority, I would order every world leader, every man or woman capable of summoning an army to fight

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International

The floods of Gilgamesh and the Bible

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — There are remarkable similarities between the biblical story of the flood and the more ancient version of Gilgamesh. The Babylonian epic Gilgamesh was written on twelve tablets around 2000 BCE and has survived in several versions. It was discovered in 1839 among the ruins of a

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion, Middle East

Zionism an important component of Wouk’s legacy

By Moshe Phillips PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Herman Wouk, the famed novelist who first became a household name for his 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning The Caine Mutiny died last week nearly 70 years after achieving fame. Besides his long career as a writer he was also a lifelong Zionist. This fact of Wouk’s love affair with the State of Israel has been completely absent from the many articles celebrating his literary

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Jewish trivia quiz: Herman Wouk, z”l

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Best selling author Herman Wouk died last week at the age of 103. Wouk, an Orthodox Jew, won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Caine Mutiny, and also wrote many Jewish-themed novels, including The Winds of War, War and Remembrance, and Marjorie Morningstar. Marjorie Morningstar told

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Pride and Prejudice with a comic twist

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO —  Big thanks to Kate Hamill for rewriting Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in such a playful and accessible way. The cast did justice to the snappy, buffoonish, coquettish roles that Hamill created. The playwright sought to deliver Austen’s feminist message and did so in a way that engaged the

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Contrasting the Bible with Greek mythology

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Greek and Jewish myths, reports and tales appear at first blush to be remarkably similar, but there are stark differences in how each culture views God, the world, the presence of evil, the worth of people, their duty, and their future. Psychologists have recognized that one

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

JCC poetry program features compassion and whimsy

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The Exhibit on Aging served as a fitting backdrop to the Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices program, held in the Gotthelf Gallery of the Lawrence Family JCC Thursday, May 2. The forty plus people who gathered were well-rewarded with inspiring poems by three senior citizens. Janice Alper and Dr. Irvin

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, Irv Jacobs, MD, San Diego County

Review: ‘A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir’

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Rabbi Dr. Marc D. Angel’s A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir reads like an engrossing novel. It describes the transition of the Angel family from an immigrant Sephardic community into an Americanized group over several generations. In the process, it “reminisces” about the immigrant generation,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion