By 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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By David Amos SAN DIEGO–The 75-member Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will present a concert with the distinguished violinist Uri Pianka on Tuesday, January 27, at 7:30 p.m., in the synagogue’s Cohen Social Hall. He will play Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D Major. Who is Uri Pianka? He received the first prize at the
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Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — Most of my friends are upset that so many people are constantly tapping their smart phones, that even during meals with others they check for messages, neglecting the people sitting next to them in order to connect with someone—or something—electronically. I have seen teenagers sitting together in groups
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Travel and Food-Compiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The annual celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday prompted numerous officeholders to discuss his legacy and ways to carry his ideals forward. From Jewish members in the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and California Legislature there were these comments: U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer
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