By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Noah Baird recently was signed for his third six-month contract appearing on Broadway in Matilda: The Musical which isn’t bad at all for a 10-year-old boy from Carlsbad, whose kvelling grandparents–Ed and Sue Cherlin and Steve and Carol Baird–live in San Diego County. Fans of local theatre may […]
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAUkrainian president expresses solidarity with Israel during visit (JNS.org) Israel on Tuesday welcomed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on an official state visit, by honoring his commitment to stand with Israel and by signing several bilateral agreements focused on developing and strengthening scientific and technological cooperation. In an address, Israeli President Reuben Rivlin praised the strong
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Middle EastHitler admirer is new mayor of Ukrainian city KONOTOP, Ukraine — Jewish citizens in this northeastern Ukraine city of 92,000 are increasingly worried following the election of Artem Semenikhin, an admirer of Adolf Hitler and a member of the extreme-right Svoboda party, as the town’s new mayor last October. According to reports, Semenikhin has made no effort to
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InternationalBy Kenneth Bandler WASHINGTON — The American Jewish Committee (AJC) strongly condemns Lehava leader Bentzi Gopstein for his incendiary words threatening Christians in Israel, and urges Israeli authorities to take appropriate actions against him. “The boundless hatred that infuses Gopstein and Lehava is a chilul haShem, a desecration of Judaism, contrary to the founding values
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Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –After some difficult weeks in which my other half was obliged to attend to structural damage to property of ours caused by an incompetent contractor working for a neighbor, I managed to persuade him to book us a weekend in a hotel by the Dead Sea, so that I could
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Scattered Among the Nations by Bryan Schwartz, Joy Sand and Sandy Carter; Weldon Owen publisher, Visual Anthropology Press, 251 pages, cover price $60. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –I’m going to rearrange the sequence of Bryan Schwartz’s narrative and photography book so that we can always travel toward the east, almost around the world,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionPlan dropped to honor Hungarian anti-Semite BUDAPEST. Hungary (WJC) — Following an international outcry, plans in Hungary to erect a statue in honor of the late Bálint Homan, who drafted anti-Jewish laws prior and during World War II, were finally withdrawn. The City Council of Székesfehérvár voted against the proposal of the private Bálint Homan Foundation to
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International, Jewish HistoryDavid’s Sling defense system passes final test (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel’s David’s Sling missile defense system passed its final test and will become operational in 2016, the Defense Ministry announced Monday. David’s Sling is designed to intercept medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles fired from ranges of 40 kilometers (25 miles) to 300
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — In recent days I’ve received e-mails from a right-wing settler arguing–with a supporting attachment authored by Moshe Feiglin–that the young men accused of killing an Arab family are innocent, have alibis, and are being denied their rights by the police and courts, Another e-mail from an American Jew, with a
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel —If I were a progressive, left-wing liberal (I’m decidedly not), I might say the following: * BDS – you know, the byword used by us progressives to put Israel in its place – is going great guns. If you’ve forgotten, it stands for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel,
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Middle East, Steve KramerUnlikely Soldier: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler’s Army by Georg Rauch, Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2006, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — As a nineteen year old male living in Vienna during World War II, there was no way Georg Rauch could escape being conscripted into the Nazi military machine. At first he thought
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — While we hear daily of terrorist attacks against Jews not only in the West Bank settlements and Jerusalem, and not only if they’re in uniform, but also against citizens going about their daily business in the center of the country; while international bodies pass all kinds of resolutions against Israel;
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Middle EastBy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — Benny Gantz is an Israeli general. When you look at him and you listen to him you have the same reaction. There’s a certain confidence, a polite swagger as he establishes himself behind the podium as the keynote speaker at the Federation Men’s event. There’s that baritone voice with enough
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For a creative and innovative Jewish man from the Boston area, Hannukah was always a great holiday — but with just one thing missing. That thing turned out to be “The Mensch on a Bench” and he created it. Meet Neal Hoffman, the 30-something interfaith dreamer with a
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Jewish Religion, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA