By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Just the other day, I was explaining the term “spoiler” to my ESL students. If you wrote a who-done-it called “The Butler did it,” no one would read it because it’s the mental gymnastics it takes to untangle a web of intrigue that makes it worthwhile. Now at […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — My week began with the stranger who walked into the local hairdresser’s where I was sitting and asked if the car parked further along the road was mine. It was. “Well, I’ve caused some damage to the windscreen,” he informed me. In the process of cutting branches off
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastYevgeny Kutik’s family fled the USSR’s institutionalized anti-Semitism with a suitcase of sheet music when he was 5. Now he tours the free world with a century-old violin By Matt Lebovic BOSTON — As a 5-year old refugee from the former Soviet Union, Yevgeny Kutik came to the United States with music in his veins.
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA“Twin Peaks” and “Seinfeld” actor Warren Frost has passed away at the age of 91. He died on Friday morning at his Vermont home after a lengthy battle with an illness, according to his son Mark Frost. Frost was best known for his role as town physician Will “Doc” Hayward on “Twin Peaks” and Mr.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABecause Everett Botwright has autism, the 6-year-old recently started refusing to eat anything if it wasn’t the meal that stole his heart: Star Wars themed Kraft macaroni and cheese dinners. Everett’s family became especially distressed when – after they had already bought all of the boxes that they could carry – their local Walmart discontinued
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & BroadcastNetanyahu says Arab states also threatened by Iranian nuclear ambitions but they ‘whisper things in the dark’ By Times of Israel staff Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, February 16, 2017 (Screen capture: Fox News) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he is speaking up on behalf of the whole
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By Beth Sarafraz The Jewish Press NEW YORK — “Ever since I was a little girl, people always asked me: ‘Do you know your parents are heroes?’ When I was growing up, everybody knew who my parents were. But in the last fifteen years their story has been forgotten.” So begins Operation Wedding, a new
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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAThe history of music is rich with sounds spurred by suffering. During the Holocaust, songs of defiance and belief helped captive Jews confront and temporarily alleviate their misery. Now, a long-lost recording from 1946 is providing a poignant new soundtrack for understanding life in the Nazi concentration camps and Jewish ghettos. Just after World War
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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsDoomed to Succeed: The U. S. – Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama by Dennis Ross, Fareerar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, © 2015, ISBN 978-0-374-70948-8, p. 408 plus notes and index, $30.00 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Did Obama’s communication to America’s UN ambassador, directing her to abstain on a vote condemning Israel
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, USAPresident Donald Trump is making “Saturday Night Live’s” ratings great again. NBC’s long-running late-night sketch comedy program is having its most-watched season in 22 years, thanks in large part to Alec Baldwin’s impersonation of the 45th president of the United States and, more recently, Melissa McCarthy’s devastating take on White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−While Michael Flynn frantically tried to destroy his DVD of From Russia with Love, the San Diego Jewish Film Festival is entertaining audiences day and night at a variety of venues in the city through February 19th. I had the honor to introduce The Last Laugh, a documentary about comedians and
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Lawrence Baron, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California –Humans have always been attracted to acts of graphic violence. In Roman times, the Coliseum was filled with people ready to be entertained by gladiators fighting to the death or Christians being eaten by hungry lions. A few centuries later, public beheadings were a popular entertainment—Marie Antoinette and
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Natasha Josefowitz, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodCapturing the Enigma; the Unsung Heroes of HMS Bulldog by Patrick Spencer; Published by Mouse Works Publishing By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — In May 1941, at a time when the Second World War was in full swing and the British forces were doing their utmost to block Hitler’s rampage across Europe, the battle to control
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, InternationalBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — What do you get when you combine a fabulous writer, a few brilliant directors and amazing actors? A theater company called The Roustabouts that promises to deliver the best our town has to offer. The theme of this new troupe is “an explosion of ideas. We want to inspire
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