Travel and Food

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

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

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.

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

By Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — Tell me the story of your life, and I will tell you how healthy you are most likely to be in the next few years. No, it’s not a joke. There are two ways to tell your story: one is with a positive spin—emphasizing the good things that happened