Travel and Food

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Juliana Maio is in love with life and it shows in her debut novel City of the Sun. She takes the reader back to the 1940s in a historical romance and sets her tale in Egypt during World War Two. As you read it and turn the pages,

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — State Sen. Marty Block’s office reports that after last Tuesday’s elections, the Jewish Caucus in the State Legislature will have nime members, one short of a minyan. All nine members are Democrats. Two members of the current Legislature–former Senate President pro tempore Darrell Steinberg and Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal– were required not

PARIS, France (Press Release)– U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that he and Jordan’s Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh “discussed the increasing tensions recently in areas across Jerusalem, and particularly surrounding the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. We condemn the terrorist attack in Jerusalem this morning that killed at least one person when a car was

French kitchenware company’s website lists Israel as ‘Palestine’ (JNS.org) The French kitchenware company Tefal, which is known for its nonstick pans, is directing customers to “Palestine” for a store that is located in Israel. Although Tefal’s Jerusalem store is located in the Atarot industrial zone, which is not under Palestinian sovereignty, the drop-down menu for

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Was it the Charger game or the community-wide Challah Bake that limited the attendance at the Daniel Pearl Memorial Program at Smith Recital Hall on the SDSU Campus? Whatever the reason, those absent, as evident from a sprinkling of empty seats, missed a remarkable evening, merging music, dance and

Haaretz cartoon depicts Netanyahu flying plane into World Trade Center (JNS.org) The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is drawing condemnation for publishing a cartoon depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flying a plane marked “Israel” into a building that resembles a World Trade Center tower. Underneath artist Amos Biderman’s cartoon, Haaretz provides a link to a story on

The Sweetness by Sande Boritz Berger, shewritespress.com, 2014, 978-1-63152-907-8, 301 pgs.,$16.95 By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California — Recently nominated by The American Library Association for its yearly Sophie Brody Award for Jewish Literature, this moving novel revisits one of the bleakest periods, not just in Jewish memory, but in world history.  In this debut work, Sande

Sweden officially recognizes a Palestinian state (JNS.org) Sweden on Thursday officially recognized a Palestinian state, with Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom saying that the “criteria of international law” have been met because there is “a [Palestinian] territory, a people, and government,” The Associated Press reported. New Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven had supported a Palestinian state

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Honky is coming to the REP, opening Nov 7 th. I recently spoke with its white playwright, Greg Kalleres. He grew up in an upper-middle class suburb of Indianapolis. There are very clear-cut lines dividing the demographics of neighborhoods in this society. Which side of “the tracks” you grow

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –Joe Kashnow, Baltimore native, enlisted in the United States Army in 2002.  He was stationed in Iraq with the 4th Infantry Division of Colorado.  He had a dream of becoming a Comanche pilot, manning helicopters.  One year later, Kashnow was the victim of roadside bomb.  By 2005, the young

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Ivo Lederer was a refugee in a group of European Jews given special passage by ship to the United States by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, and he later went on to became a well-known Russian and Eastern European scholar in America. He also gave the

Palestinians say they will not postpone U.N. Security Council petition (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Chief Palestinian Authority (PA) negotiator Dr. Saeb Erekat on Thursday denied reports that the Palestinians were willing to postpone by two months a petition to the U.N. Security Council calling for Israel to withdraw from the West Bank by November 2016.