By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Like most people familiar with Yiddish, even people who are second or third or fourth generation non-Yiddish speakers, I know what “nu”means, nu? But it turns out that there’s more to “nu” than I knew. A lot more. Here’s my story for today: I was minding my own
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Travel and FoodBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — If one needs a reason to get on a trail – searching for chocolate is a better reason than most. In On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao, (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2013), Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz and
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Jewish History, Travel and Food
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — This city’s Jewish Arts Festival is now in its 22nd year. At the helm is Todd Salovey, Associate Artistic Director of San Diego REP. I recently spoke with Salovey at his home. EGT: Mona Golabek: The Pianist of Willesden Lane, which won the Critic’s Circle Award for best one-person
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — San Diego Jewish World would like to acknowledge and thank the 40 byline writers who, in April, contributed to our diverse run of stories on a variety of topics here in San Diego County,California; elsewhere in the United States; and abroad. They were: Rabbi Rafi Andrusier Laurie Baron Caren Besner Edwin Black
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Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – For reporters and photographers covering groundbreakings and ribbon-cuttings, such events can tend to blur together in that there often is little to differentiate one from the other. For the participants however, these events can be important milestones marking the beginning of new chapters in their corporate lives
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
Editor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.” Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA
By Steve Kramer TEL AVIV — In the first part of this series, we toured Jerusalem with my brother Charles, who was visiting from America. Next, we traveled with him to Tel Aviv. What was very special about Charles’ trip was the timing. As we entered Tel Aviv in the early afternoon, we were
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food