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PARIS (Press Release)—The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has criticized the decision by key media outlets in Great Britain and the United States—such as the London Daily Telegraph, the New York Times, CNN, and NBC—to omit or blur the Charlie Hebdo cartoon images that, according to confirmed reports, motivated the reprehensible attack on the paper’s offices

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California–The seventh season of “Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices” will open Tuesday evening, January 13, at 7 p.m., in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC. Three local poets will be featured, Michael Mark, Lauren Ponder and Eleña Horvitz . Michael Mark, a native New Yorker, has had two published

PARIS (Press Release) — The American Jewish Committee (AJC)  is appalled by the terrorist attack on Wednesday, Jan. 7,  on the office of a French magazine. At least 12 are dead, and several of the wounded are in critical condition, after hooded gunmen shouting “Allahu Akbar” and “Avenge the prophet,” stormed the office of the

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — My mother and father, impossibly attractive as newlyweds, impossible as parents, are both gone. But I routinely meet them in too many nightmares of his premature death, her refusal to love, and their cosmic failure to live up to the imagery their three children would conjure up about them.

By David Amos SAN DIEGO — Many of us make resolutions at the beginning of the secular New Year. My personal ones are of no particular interest to you, but may I humbly suggest a few “word” suggestions for you to consider. We overuse some words to the point that they become ineffective, or at

The Baroness, the Search for Nica, Rebellious Rothschild and Jazz’s Secret Muse by Hannah Rothschild; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2012 (Editor’s Note: This book was reviewed last year for San Diego Jewish World by Sheila Orysiek.  Here is a link to her review.) By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The House of Rothschild, the semi-official

JEWHOOING THE SIXTIES: American Celebrity and Jewish Identity, by David E. Kaufman. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2012. 340 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Index. Paper, $40.00. www.upne.com. By Abraham Hoffman LOS ANGELES — “Jewhooing” is a term applied to a prominent person who is of the Jewish faith. Unlike “outing,” which identifies a person who though “in

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Norman Lear is92, and he’s not slowing down very much. His autobiography, Even This I Get to Experience, tells the whole megillah of his life and times as a comedy writer and sitcom producer Remember when Lear’s path-breaking show All in the Family debuted in 1971? He also produced Sanford

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

LA 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

People 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