Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Normally museums and their fund raisers like to see the “dough” rise, but this was not the case Sunday at the San Diego History Center. Visitors to the Jewish exhibit at the San Diego History Center on Sunday learned the trick of making matzoh
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — I remember: only weeks after my father died in 1976, our family convened at the house for the annual Seder—the festive banquet of Passover. My father had always proudly led and meticulously directed the ceremonial meal, holding, reading, and chanting from the Haggadah –the book of blessings and
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Jewish ReligionAcclaimed actor Tim Pigott-Smith has passed away at the age of 70. Known to many as Sir Philip Tapsell from “Downton Abbey,” he had graced TV screens across the world since the 1980s when he was sprung into fame for his performance in “The Jewel in the Crown.” Pigott-Smith, who lived in London, had been
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International, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastHeir to the British throne meets UK Holocaust survivors during visit to Vienna, where he spoke about his ‘amazing’ relative saving Jews Auschwitz holocaust survivor Freddie Knoller speaks to the Duchess of Cornwall during her visit to The Jewish Museum in Vienna, Austria on the ninth day of the Prince of Wales’s European tour. Photo
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By Grant Arthur Gochin LOS ANGELES — My Grandfather, a simple man from a small village in Lithuania, regularly spoke of his murdered Lithuanian family, murdered, each and every one of them, for their crime of being born a Jew. The murderers were never individually identified, they were termed as amorphous “Lithuanians”. The Holocaust in
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International, Jewish HistoryDon Rickles, a comedian who became famous for making fun of anyone and everyone, died Thursday of kidney failure, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He was 90. Although Rickles, who also worked as an actor and once won a Primetime Emmy, may have passed, his legacy persists. Tributes were already rolling in Thursday afternoon, with
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We can argue if it really happened, but there’s no doubt that the Exodus is a great story, with or without Hollywood stars or best selling authors. Yet it has also been associated with problems. The association of Passover and Easter brought forth an increase in Christian animosity and violence. Too
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastSAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA) will debut in San Diego with a free Shabbat dinner and concert and klezmer concert by Yale Strom beginning at 7 p.m., Friday, at the Costa Verde Village Clubhouse, 8720 Costa Verde Blvd., San Diego. According to its founder, Jana Mazurkiewicz,
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Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CalendarFORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas inmate has won a 12-year battle with the state over access to kosher meals in prison. Inmate Max Moussazadeh dropped his federal lawsuit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after persuading the state to provide kosher food not only to him but to all Orthodox Jewish inmates in
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Jewish Religion, USAIsrael’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, held a Passover Seder at the UN with the participation of dozens of ambassadors from various countries. Danon told the ambassadors about the meaning of the Passover holiday and explained to them the holiday’s customs. Afterwards, ambassadors read excerpts from the Haggadah and ate the traditional holiday
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle EastFORT WORTH, Texas — Bernie Appel was known as Mr. RadioShack. Over a 34-year career that started before Charles Tandy brought the company to Fort Worth, Appel was credited with transforming the consumer electronics retailer from transistor radios and telephone jacks to computers and camcorders. Appel died Sunday. He was 85. The Boston native joined
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Obituaries & memorials, USAJERUSALEM (Press Release) – More than 150,000 needy Israelis and 200,000 needy Jews in the former Soviet Union, from all walks of life, will receive food and clothing for the Passover holiday, thanks to International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship). The Fellowship will distribute more than $2.8 million in Passover aid to needy Israelis, including
By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — The approach of Pesach inevitably evokes a bundle of memories, as many related to haggadahs as to matzah-ball soup For instance, one year a long time ago, we were expecting a big crowd for the first seder that night. That morning (hate to leave things for the last
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Jewish Religion, Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & SatireDarcus Howe, one of Britain’s most prominent anti-racism campaigners, has died in London aged 74. An uncompromising champion for racial justice and fierce opponent of police brutality, Howe was born in British-ruled Trinidad in 1943 and moved to the United Kingdom in 1961. He intended to study law at London’s Middle Temple, but abandoned his
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