By Mimi Pollack LA JOLLA, California — “Art is Time, Time is Life” is the name of a new exhibit by Rafael “Fallo” Mareyna that is currently on display at the La Jolla Library. Both “Art” and “Time” have played important roles in Mareyna’s life. He has had a talent for art, but didn’t really have […]
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International, Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyJewish Federation joins in International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration The Jewish Federation of San Diego County joins communities around the world on January 27th in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “On this somber day, we remember the six million precious men, women, and children who were murdered simply because they were Jewish,” said Michael
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK –Over the past three decades I wrote more than two hundred articles about Israel, envisioning it to be a democratic state, independent and free, a champion of human rights, a force of unity for world Jewry, united in its citizenry, admired by its friends, envied by its detractors, and above
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Alon Ben-Meir, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, DC. — If necessity is the mother of invention, Israel has come up with missile defense systems that meet its necessities and which others are now keen to deploy. On Israel’s southeast, the Hamas arsenal includes mortars and rockets including the upgraded Qassam, Katyusha, GRAD and the new
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has announced plans to present the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibition about Auschwitz ever exhibited in North America. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. is produced in partnership with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland and the international
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International, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USAWhy Mike Pence thinks Donald Trump is like Martin Luther King Jr. By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−On Sunday Mike Pence compared Donald Trump’s new proposal on border wall funding to Martin Luther King’s activist philosophy. To Pence, Trump is the White King (though not as white as Pence). Here’s why: * Both King and Trump
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Official release for Fanny Krasner Lebovits’ Holocaust memoir Tuesday, Jan. 22, was the official release date for Memories, Miracles & Meaning — Insights of a Holocaust Survivor by San Diegan Fanny Krasner Lebovits. Congregation Beth El, 8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, will host a book sale and signing for the 96-year-old author at 6 p.m.,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAA Time Out of Joint: A Journey from Nazi Germany to Post-War Britain by Roland Hill; The Radcliffe Press, 2007 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I picked this book up as its title is very similar to a novel of mine (both quoting Hamlet) and its subtitle describes a path very similar to the one
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, InternationalBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sandy Scheller and filmmaker Olena Zernychenko have been collaborating on a movie about Scheller’s mother, Ruth Goldshmiedova Sax, a Holocaust survivor who died at age 90 at the end of last year. “Ruthie” Sax had been a popular speaker throughout San Diego County, whose willingness to share her
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TICO to combine for concerts with Jewish Men’s Choir and pianist Jessie Chang The Jewish Men’s Choir, directed by Ruth Weber, will share a “Piano and Voice” program with pianist Jessie Chang, who will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #3 at two concerts with the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra. The first will be held at 4
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — A full-page ad in Monday’s Ha’aretz purports to speak on behalf of more than a million Israeli voters who demand a government of unity in place of the present seemingly dysfunctional setup. As none of the seven political leaders depicted in the ad are members of the current administration,
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Middle EastGood Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds: The Conductor Zubin Mehta, a documentary directed by Bettina Ehrhardt, English, German, Italian, 2016, 89 minutes, final movie of San Diego International Jewish Film Festival, to be shown at Reading Cinemas Town Square, 4665 Clairemont Drive, San Diego, on Sunday, February 17, 7:45 p.m. By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A short while ago we heard that 111 political parties had registered as candidates for the April election. Most are a motley collection with no chance of passing the lower limit for representation. Along with some destined for alliance, are some reflecting splits in existing groups. At the center of
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Perhaps the new Israel-bashing caucus in Congress will evolve into a more evenhanded throng. Perhaps. It would be nice if Democrats Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would become more reasonable when they talk Israel, but it is doubtful that will happen. They behave as if they
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