By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Hanna Armoni’s Are You Waiting for Eliahu?: The Story of a Woman Freedom Fighter, 1942-1948 (Yair Publishing, 2007) is a book with a difficult autobiographical story to tell. As a youngster living in pre-Israel Palestine, she joined the Lehi, one of several underground insurgency groups determined to oust the British […]
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Travel and FoodBy Norman Greene SAN DIEGO — If you are up for solving mysteries and maybe uncovering a few new ones, you can learn a great deal by visiting an old Jewish cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. For years. My late father would become very melancholy four or five days before the yahrzeits of his
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The Luminous Heart of Jonah S. By Gina B. Nahai; 413 pages. Akashic Books. $29.95 By Janice Steinberg SAN DIEGO– The term “magic realism” arose to describe the juxtaposition of the everyday and the fantastic in novels by Latin American authors like Gabriel García Márquez. In her first novel, Cry of the Peacock (1992), Gina B.
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Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO –It is said that lightning never strikes twice, but I don’t think Sophie Tuttleman would concur. Her earliest memory of her dad is the ambulance carrying him off just before he died of Hodgkin’s disease. Sophie and her little sister, Emma, developed an abject fear of losing their mother. Jan
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Travel and Food“It all started with a dame….” By Eric George Tauber SOLANA BEACH, California– They all start with a dame, a blond dame, a femme fatale who’s drop-dead gorgeous and in big trouble, desperate for help. The ubiquity of noir detective stories makes them easy targets for parody. Just listen to Prairie Home
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By Pat Launer SOLANA BEACH, California (SDONA) — A Jew and an Arab walk into a theater. Nope, it’s not a joke — though it’s teeming with them. “One Arab. One Jew. One Stage: Laugh in Peace” features two standup comedians who’ve appeared together around the world, hosted by Jews, Muslims and interested, open-minded others. Now,
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By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — As I’ve gotten older, I have found it more and more difficult to read about the Holocaust – it is simply too emotionally overwhelming. But something about The Family: Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century, by David Laskin, (Viking-Random House, 2013), caught my eye – and then
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