By Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — For years family and friends have been urging me to write my autobiography. It always felt like such a daunting task, so I kept postponing even the idea of it. After a few columns about my early years in Paris and Beverly Hills were published, I was encouraged
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Travel and Food, USABy Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK –In Burbank, California, amidst the famed New York Street sets at Warner Bros, filmmakers are shooting a new film entitled “The Latin from Manhattan,” about the wildly vivacious and roller-coaster life of Vanessa Del Rio – the world’s first Latina adult star. The film is set in the late 1970s
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –– StandWithUs commends the US Senate for passing unanimously a Resolution Condemning all forms of antisemitism on June 13, 2019. The resolution was announced five days after a gunman burst into a synagogue in Poway, Calif., during services marking the end of Passover, murdering a 60-year-old woman, maiming the rabbi and
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Democratic U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris and Dianne Feinstein , both from California, on Thursday applauded the approval of a resolution condemning the recent anti-Semitic attack on worshipers at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue. S. Res. 231, Condemning the horrific Anti-Semitic Attack on the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San
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San Diego County, USABy Eileen Wingard ALISO VIEJO, California — The manuscript of Journey to Freedom languished for decades at the bottom of a pile of Dr. Bernard “Barney” Gilmore’s scores. It was not until after UC Irvine Music Faculty Professor Gilmore’s death, that his wife, while organizing his music for the archives at the UC Irvine Library,
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Rabea Ali, president of the Muslim Students Association at Manhattan College, wasted no time challenging U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel’s advocacy in a campus speech for Israel when she asked, “And how do you find it in your humanity to support Israel when it is actively committing human rights
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — This is an early and partial (i.e. neither complete nor impartial) attempt to comment on the second election in Israel this year, due next September. The immediate inspiration comes from a cartoon in Ha’aretz that shows the quartet that leads the main opposition Blue and White Party. Three of
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Middle EastBy Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra NEW YORK — Two weeks ago, a 29-year-old Roma woman was physically attacked in the middle of the day in Kosovo, after a false accusation spread that the victim had been kidnaping children. Social media provided a platform for hate speeches and misleading information, which often precipitates violence against
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Alon Ben-Meir, InternationalBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While there is little to laugh about when it comes to the subject of the Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal (Tom Dugan), began the one-man show with a joke. The longer the show went on, the more the actor revealed the character, and perhaps a trace of hubris, of Simon
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Eva Trieger, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – As the House Armed Services Committee considers the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) throughout the day on Wednesday, Congresswoman Susan Davis (CA-53) added key measures to the base bill. As a senior member of the committee, Davis influences policy changes and crafts key provisions each year in the bill.
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By Zev Bar-Lev SAN DIEGO – A student, let’s call her Ida, says: “I find the Hebrew language completely opaque, as if hidden from me by a thick curtain. I’ve memorized the whole alphabet, all the shapes & their sounds, but I can’t make much out of words, much less sentences—even with a bunch of
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Lawrence Krause ENCINITAS, California — As regrettable as it may be, the plan for two states to co-exist in peace on the land between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea is truly dead. Events on the ground have proclaimed its death. Failure to recognize its demise only strengthens the forces that killed it.
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Most people are convinced that there are comparatively few Jews in the world, only about 13.3 million in 2001, about 1.4 percent of the world population. Of these 4.9 million lived in Israel and 8.3 million outside the Holy Land. Logic would dictate that the actual
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International, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USAPHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Press Release)—The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) will be the premier East Coast venue for Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first-ever exhibition about the trailblazing associate justice. Based on the New York Times bestselling book of the same name and created in partnership with its
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