By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California — If you are old enough to remember Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee’s browbeating of prominent intellectuals in the 1950s, you may be excused for thinking that the play Hellman V. McCarthy refers to the Wisconsin Senator’s vicious attack on the political views of the celebrated playwright […]
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JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin visited the Tel Aviv offices of Google, to mark international ‘Safer Internet Day’. The President met with senior management of the company in Israel, including Meir Brand, Chairman of Google Israel, and Prof. Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, at Google and the Managing Director of Google’s R&D
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Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — After my animated and upbeat interview with Joyce Axelrod, I was looking forward to a spirited and playful morning at the Joyce Forum. I was completely caught off guard, not because of anything Joyce said or promised, but simply because I anticipated an array of fun, lively shorts that
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday, Feb. 9, urged the Urban Outfitters retail chain to remove a tapestry currently being sold in stores that is “eerily reminiscent” of the prisoner gray and white stripes and pink triangles that gay male prisoners were forced to wear in Nazi concentration camps. “Whether intentional or
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League present the documentary Defiant Requiem. The movie will be shown in the David & Dorothea Garfield Theater at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus (4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla) on Thursday, March 12 at 7
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Travel and FoodENCINITAS, California — The Center for Jewish Culture (CJC) in collaboration with the House of Israel and A Culture of Peace proudly presents Yemen Blues — with Ravid Kahalani in a San Diego premiere performance at La Paloma Theatre, Encinitas, Sunday, March 1, at 7:30 pm. The show is being sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. Hailed
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Travel and FoodBy Sheryl Rowling LA JOLLA, California — A prior year’s audience favorite, Gloomy Sunday was scheduled only one time at the 2015 San Diego Jewish Film Festival. If you missed the film this time (coincidentally on shown on Sunday morning, Feb. 9), you will have to resort to Netflix. This was the third time I’ve had the
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Travel and FoodISTANBUL (WJC) — Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said his government would not succumb to “the Jewish lobby, the Armenian lobby or the lobby of the Turkish-Greek minority”, a sentence he said in regards to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s words two weeks ago that members of the Gülen movement had joined forces with the Mossad.
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Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California–With a tee shirt advertising “Old is the New Black” Ari Seth Cohen introduced his documentary featuring seven aging New York fashionistas. Each of these beauties had her own style, panache, and comportment, but all shared a joie de vivre and an obvious delight in wearing her style—loud and proud.
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–President Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.c. on Thursday, Feb. 5. Some of his comments s THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Well, good morning. Giving all praise and honor to God. It is wonderful to be back with you here. I want to thank our co-chairs, Bob and
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