Travel and Food

Mimi’s Ark: Adventures of Wildlife Photog Roy Toft

  By Mimi Pollack RAMONA, California — Many of us lead mundane lives, but not Roy Toft. This amiable, 55 year old wildlife photographer has had enough adventures for many lifetimes!  Originally, his major was wildlife biology at California Polytechnic University, but a camera, a Canon AE1, given as a graduation gift by his father,

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Mimi Pollack, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Israeli cuisine? It includes foods of many immigrants

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Isn’t Israeli food characterized by falafel, hummus and tehina?  If you are drooling, licking your lips and nodding in eager anticipation of spicy, fried chickpeas with heady spices, think again!  Film Director Roger Sherman has created a mind-blowing, gut busting culinary travelogue for the 27th San Diego Jewish Film

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Eva Trieger, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Israelis, Americans tour Southern California attractions

Editor’s Note:  San Diego Jewish World’s staff photographer Shor M. Masori, a teenager himself, joined Israeli and American teens on a whirlwind 10-day tour of Southern California attractions; the program an offshoot of the ongoing cooperation between the San Diego Zoo and the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo.  The Israeli teens were all Jerusalem Zoo volunteers, while

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori, Travel and Food, USA

Sydney’s iconic Opera House set for 150-million-dollar makeover

Sydney (dpa) – The Sydney Opera House, Australia’s top tourist attraction, is set to receive a 150-million-dollar renovation over the next six years, the state government said Thursday. Changes will be made to the concert hall, the foyer and the entrance, said New South Wales state deputy premier Troy Grant, who unveiled the new working

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and Food

I-8 Jewish Travel: Desert View Tower

-70th and Final Installment in a Series- Exit 77 In-Ko-Pah Park Road, San Diego-Imperial County Line, California By Donald H. Harrison JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, California — The dogs that greet visitors at the entrance to the venerable Desert View Tower are alive, if sleepy in the hot sun, but there are many other animals nearby

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Profile: Lori Palatnik, the driving force behind JWRP

By Toby Klein Greenwald JERUSALEM — I’ve been following Lori Palatnik for years, on Aish.com and through the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project (JWRP). I was curious about this fireball “out-reacher,” so when I saw they were holding another Israel trip in May, I made an appointment to interview her to find out where she came

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International, Middle East, Toby Klein Greenwald, Travel and Food, USA

Exhibit shows resistance to Nazis in the Creuse

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson GUERET, France –In this far-flung corner in the middle of France lies an agricultural region where villages and hamlets, and mainly isolated farms, nestle in the verdant hills and valleys. The area is not distinguished by being near to the sea or anywhere near any mountains, and this in fact is its distinguishing feature. Because of

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International, Travel and Food