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Young actors reflect on Landwehr’s wizardry
By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –A midlevel thrum filled the rehearsal room at the JCC as nearly seventy actors sat in clusters, largely defined by age, or perhaps by character, here a munchkin, there an Auntie Em. On this particular Sunday, Joey Landwehr had installed two assistants to oversee the commotion and arrange for
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Travel and Food‘Asher Lev’ paints a picture of a family in conflict
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Well, the superb Fountain Theatre and its resident genius-in-chief, Stephen Sachs, have done it again. They’ve mounted a just-about-perfect production: Chaim Potok’s classic novel My Name is Asher Lev, adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner. Set in 1950s Crown Heights, the Brooklyn home of the ultra-Orthodox Lubavitcher Jews,
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Travel and FoodYoung French artist causing stir at Yemin Orde
YEMIN ORDE, Israel (Press Release) — For Eitan, Yemin Orde’s 14-year-old artistic wonder, strengthening his confidence by expressing himself through his beautiful original oil paintings was important to helping him excel in his studies. Eitan and his family arrived in Israel from a small town in northwest France when he was a youngster. He
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Travel and FoodZOA: Israel has ‘legal grounds’ to settle Judea, Samaria
NEW YORK (Press Release)– On February 19 in Jerusalem, the LEGAL GROUNDS group, which is educating Israelis about and campaigning for Israel’s rights to all of the lands of the Jewish State, including the areas located beyond ‘the Green Line,’ presented its case at the Knesset. This was in the context of a discussion about
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Travel and FoodNFL right to develop policy on hate speech–ADL
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has welcomed reports that the National Football League is considering how to discourage the use of offensive slurs during the course of games. The NFL’s Competition Committee reportedly is contemplating a policy that would penalize a player 15 yards for using discriminatory language — including the
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Travel and Food‘Wiesenthal’ influenced by playwright’s father
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Many powerful lessons are learned first-hand. Others are absorbed through observation and osmosis. Still, other maxims are taught us by loved ones and internalized until they become like a codon in our own discrete DNA. Wiesenthal a one-man play conveys many things, but most pointedly, a rejection of collective
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Travel and FoodClinical study is promising for Type 1 diabetes patients
DENVER, Colorado (Press Release)– A clinical study on a promising treatment for Type 1 diabetes developed by a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher in collaboration with the University of Colorado Health Science Center had an “exceptional outcome” after an eight-week treatment of Alpha1-Antitrypsin (AAT). According to the study published in the Journal of
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Travel and FoodAlice Herz Sommer, Holocaust survivor, pianist
LONDON (WJC)- -Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor and a renowned concert pianist, died in London at the age of 110.She was born in 1903 into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague at a time when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and endured the city’s ghetto following the Gernan
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Travel and FoodOne-man show portrays Nazi hunter Wiesenthal
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES –Playwright/director/actor Tom Dugan is in the process of writing his sixth one-man show, The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln. “I’m not playing Mary,” he says, “but I could.” Instead, Dugan is busy preparing his successful show Nazi Hunter-Simon Wiesenthal, which ran at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 last year,for a run at
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Travel and FoodSightseeing and eating through Israel
By Steven Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –Those familiar with my articles have become accustomed to reading relatively detailed descriptions of our short visits all over Israel. What if you are planning a 10-day trip to Israel, with so much to see? It’s hard to work out and choose an itinerary. Linda, my wife Michal’s sister,
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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Like its director George Clooney, The Monuments Men is debonair and handsome, but there’s always a nagging suspicion beneath the surface that it could be more intellectually substantial. Commemorating the Allied team that recovered paintings and sculptures seized by the Nazis provides a different perspective on World War II
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Travel and FoodFree Hebrew stories for tots now available
LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– The Israeli American Council (IAC) has opened Sifriyat Pijama B’America’s (SP-BA) registration for the 2014-2015 school year. There are now 5,000 spots available for families to join the highly popular free Hebrew-language children’s book program on a first-come, first-served basis. Due to popular demand, IAC has made a total of 15,000
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Travel and FoodThe state of human kindness
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — We went to see the movie, Nebraska in Jerusalem’s Semadar cinema last Saturday afternoon. The auditorium, as well as the attached café, was full of secular Israelis of all ages and sizes enjoying the free-and-easy atmosphere there, untrammeled by the religious restrictions that characterize too many of Jerusalem’s
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