By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ It’s that time of year again when movie reviewers prepare their lists of the ten best films they’ve seen over the past twelve months. I hesitate doing this knowing there are many Jewish films I won’t see until their local premieres at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival. DOCUMENTARIES: Finding […]
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –Write Out Loud and the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture have announced that “an evening of Jewish stories,” will be presented at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19, in the Samuel and Rebecca Astor Library of the Lawrence Family JCC, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. Among the secheduled stories, authors
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Travel and FoodPeople of the Book: Five Hundred Years of the Hebrew Book From the Beginning of Printing Until the Twentieth Century by Akiva A. Aaronson, Feldheim Publishers, Nanuet, NY; ISBN 978-1-59826-956-7 ©2014, $39.99, p. 231, including appendices, indices,bibliography, and glossary By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Communicating orally is an endowment of nature through such organs as the
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series, in Coronado, and Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies, in Carlsbad continues their season of free lectures with Professor Joellyn Zollman. Her lecture titled, “It’s Deli-cious! A Historical Exploration of American Jews and Delicatessen” will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of
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Travel and FoodBy Joe Gandelman SAN DIEGO — Get ready for our already ugly and violent 21st century to be the century of soft targets for terrorists. The number of places where people feel safe will diminish as terrorists pick new venues to increase body counts — and grab more of that new and mainstream media publicity
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Joe Gandelman, Middle East, Travel and Food, USATEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release) – Want to determine how a couple falls in love? In Israel? A group of Tel Aviv students is utilizing the latest interactive video technology to tell a love story and give Israeli tourism a boost. The Tel Aviv University students are part of the StandWithUs Fellowship, an Israeli campus
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By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–Jeremy Dauber, is a professor of Yiddish literature at Columbia University, Director of Columbia’s Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, teaches in the American Studies program and has written several books within these special areas of study. The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: the Remarkable Life and Afterlife of the Man who
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Richard Quest is a popular news reporter and desk anchor for CNN, and while his name doesn’t sound Jewish, the British lawyer and journalist is Jewish. I once asked him a few years ago by email what kind of of ethnic name ”Quest” was, and he told me
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Whenever Hollywood gets set to make a movie about stories from the Hebrew or Christian scriptures, there is always a public debate when the movies open about who should play the roles of God or Moses or Noah or Esther or Deborah. Should the actors be white people or
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Even if we don’t formally celebrate Christmas, we in the Jewish community honor and venerate its true meaning and implication. Though this December holiday season has been too often co-opted by commercial anxiety and undeniable stress, we recognize the feelings of hope and serenity that are at last realized
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By Sam Litvin SUSIYA, Israel — It was a most unusual heat on a December morning in the hills south of Hebron. The white rocks stacked in serpentine order reflected light heavenward while the green patches in between them soaked up the rays. The light disappeared inside the ancient caves and cisterns of the old
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Editor’s Note: Janet Tiger, a San Diegan, is a member of the Jewish community who has written, produced and acted in numerous dramatic presentations. She shares her story with us on the night of Chanukah’s seventh candle. ©Janet S. Tiger all rights reserved (A man comes onstage, he is wearing a yarmulke, dressed from the seventies,
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By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In 2006, Ronald Lauder (heir of the Estee Lauder cosmetic fortune) paid $135 million to the owners of “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer” painted by Gustav Klimt. Commissioned by her husband, the painting was part of the art collection on display in their palatial home during the era of the glittering
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — The Oscars telecast on February 22 is most likely to be a toned-down event from the usual fare in the wake of the massive international hacking of the Sony Picture Entertainment computer system. Whereas past Oscars presented millions of TV viewers worldwide with ribald jokes and trendy selfies
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