The Jewish singers: Ari Borovoy
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From the Jewish library: ‘Flash Points’
Flash Points: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, by George Friedman, Doubleday, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — All too often history is taught and written as a series of events and dates. But when looking at it through the eyes of George Friedman, it becomes much more: a dynamic of moving tectonic plates involving
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Travel and FoodMusical nachas from a kid sister
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — After Attorney Randy Schoenberg’s recent talk at UCSD, I approached him to offer my sister Zina Schiff’s recent recording of his maternal grandfather, Eric Zeisl’s Brandeis Violin Sonata. “Oh, I already have it,” he responded, with a smile. “I listen to it all the time, it is so beautiful.”
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Travel and FoodI-8 Jewish Travel: A ceremony at the Immaculata
-Sixth in a series- Exit 2: Morena Boulevard, Immaculata Church By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — That such a man should be knighted by the Pope was not surprising. The retired colonel had donated substantial sums of money not only to the Catholic-run University of San Diego, but also to other universities founded under religious auspices, including
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Hershey Felder’s Great American Songbook Sing-Along was the first course of a kosher feast served up at the Balboa Theatre kicking off the 22nd Annual Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival. There was one man with a grand piano playing to a pretty full and appreciative house. Hershey Felder is
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Travel and FoodSome possible ways to spend your ‘bookcation’
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Tawian –If the Jews are sometimes called the People of the Book, then certainly we can also be dubbed the people of the books. We like to read. Why not? We like to write, too. Of course, the People of the Book nickname refers to the biggest book the world has
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Travel and FoodInjustice in Putin’s Russia
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder, Simon & Schuster, 2015, pp. 396. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Red Notice is a book worth reading. It chronicles the life of Bill Browder, the grandson of the late American Communist Party leader Earl Browder.
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Travel and FoodFrom the Jewish library: ‘Mr and Mrs. Disraeli’
Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli: A Strange Romance by Daisy Hay, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Though his name described his heritage, it did not describe Benjamin Disraeli’s belief. The family came from Italy to England where he was born in 1804. His father was a member of
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