Travel and Food

By Rabbi Ben Kamin  ENCINITAS, California — This morning in Columbus, Ohio, my lifelong friend Harley’s mother, Noami, will be buried near her husband, Bernie.  Harley and I, who met 46 years ago during a regional synagogue conclave, are now both without parents.  We are each 62 years old and we are growing old with

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-California) is spearheading a drive in the House of Representatives to boost federal funding for medical research. In a bipartisan letter to House appropriators, 168 Representatives joined Davis in urging $32 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). “San Diego is a national leader

By Sheila Orysiek  SAN DIEGO — In 1937, Mendel Cohen, a Jewish carpenter living in Jerusalem met Abdullah, the King of Jordan, at the home of the High Commissioner of the British Mandate Authority in Palestine.  The Commissioner was leaving for England and Cohen was helping him to pack.  Many of the items were delicate

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Age doesn’t stop Elliot Tiber from penning his memoirs, and now in his 80s, he just keeps writing and writing. His new book, After Woodstock covers his life after the famous Woodstock concert, from 1969 to 1999 and with an epilogue bringing readers up to the present day. First some