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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The second cohort of nearly 100 Taglit Fellows convened last month in San Diego for four days of learning with experts in Jewish, Israel, and experiential education. “Taglit Fellows” is the professional development program launched in 2014 by Taglit-Birthright Israel and implemented in partnership with the iCenter for Israel Education as an educational intensive for

  By David Amos SAN DIEGO — There are plays that entertain, others that instruct, and  others that inspire.  Many are combinations of all of the above. These are the ones that point to times in history when horrible mistakes have been made. They enlighten us, and possibly plant the seeds of preventing these events

By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–In her memoir An American Bride in Kabul,” Phyllis Chesler, (Palgrave Macmillan Publishers 2013) relates how while in college in 1961, at the age of twenty, she fell in love with an educated, handsome, sophisticated, charming, wealthy man.  He was a Muslim from a prominent Afghan family – she was the

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Rabbis come in all varieties, and their diversity in ideas and wisdom widens the communities they minister to. For Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, a close brush with a medical emergency changed his life and made him a better man. I know Rabbi Wolple

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 25th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, finished its ten days of screenings. The Festival showcased over 96 of the best contemporary Jewish themed films from around the world celebrating

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — You’d think that after 70 years they’d have used up all the possible Holocaust stories.  But they keep coming up with new ones. Now, from Poland, the site of the largest and most infamous of Nazi concentration camps (Auschwitz) comes Ida, the story of a Jewish Girl’s coming of

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The following predictions of which films will win Oscars this Sunday should not be construed as a list of my favorite films from the previous year.  An election by the members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences determines the winners.  As in any election, they are

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Cellist Maya Beiser was the star of the show in the La Jolla Symphony’s impressive concert February 7 at Mandeville Auditorium. The gifted Israeli instrumentalist, dressed in a short black dress with long sleeves and high black boots, her wavy black tresses framing her beautiful face, did not look