By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO– “It is required you do awake your faith.” To Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director of the Old Globe and the director of this production, this is the central theme Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale. Ten years ago, when he directed this play in New York, the concepts of jealousy and loss were […]
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Samantha, the third among our four children in a hyphenated family, departed Sunday, Feb. 16, for six months abroad—in South America. She’s been there before; the mosaic of Mapuche cultures, the agrarian hills and low-lying villages, the Polynesian footprints, the vineyards, the quad-gods and mingled human-animal cosmology, the
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By Robert Gluck/JNS.org Amid the celebrations and hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ arrival in America and their appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” the man Paul McCartney called “the fifth Beatle” is not often mentioned. But experts say that without him, the Beatles as we know them would not have existed. That
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By Anav Silverman TEL AVIV – Along with the much needed rain that drenched Israel this past weekend, Tel Aviv experienced a different kind of rain – chocolates galore – at the city’s annual Chocolate Festival. From chocolate shwarmas and kebabs, to chocolate jewelry, sculptures, and even a chocolate spa, the festival took place at
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Travel and Food–Developing News Story– EILAT, Israel –Across the border in Taba, Egypt, a tourist bus exploded en route to Israel on Sunday, Feb. 16. Initial reports indicate that five people were killed, including the bus driver and four South Korean tourists who had gone to see Saint Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. Most of the
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BERLIN (Press Release)– AJC condemned as a blow against artistic freedom the Berlinale decision to award British film director Ken Loach “The Honorary Golden Bear for Lifetime Achievement Award.” The Berlinale, the second largest film festival in Europe after Cannes, is co-sponsored by the German government. “It is a disgrace that a prominent German film
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NEW YORK (Press Release)–A rabbi, educator and scholar who has led interreligious efforts on behalf of the Reform Judaism movement and has spearheaded Catholic-Jewish dialogue in Chicago has been appointed the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Director of Interfaith Affairs. Rabbi David Fox Sandmel, Ph.D., who most recently served as a Senior Advisor on Interreligious Affairs for
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JERUSALEM (WJC)– Actress Natalie Portman is facing protests from disgruntled residents in Israel who are unhappy over her plans to shoot a movie there. The Jerusalem-born US star is working on her directorial debut, A Tale Of Love And Darkness, based on the book by Israeli author Amos Oz, and she has chosen to film
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Tom Seidler will be the featured speaker at the February 19, Men’s Club of Beth Israel Dinner Forum. Seidler hails from “baseball royalty.” He is a grandson of Walter O’Malley and a member of the third generation of the O’Malley family that took over ownership of the San Diego Padres in
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By Randy Fadem MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay–A previously unknown Yiddish book, Zichronot Fun Yiddischen Legion (Memories of the Jewish Legion) by Moshe Krel, written, published, and printed in Montevideo, Uruguay in May, 1938, was discovered by this author at the Astor Judaica Library, Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, in the Spring of 2012. The Library donated
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JERUSALEM (WJC) — Several Israeli ministers have accused Martin Schulz, the German president of the European Parliament, of spreading lies about Israel in his speech before the Knesset on Wednesday. Industry, Trade, Labor and Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett and other members of Bennett’s Jewish Home faction walked out of the Israeli parliament chamber
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Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — Hearing terms like “bug juice,” “arts and crafts time,” “bunks,” and “head counselor ” conjures up one mental picture: Summer Camp. However, imagine to these terms are added “social action”, “Democratic process” and “nonviolent resistance.” Filmmaker and stand up comedienne, Katie Halper, described her current offering for the San
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Travel and FoodThanks to Harry Jacobson-Beyer of Louisville, Kentucky, who forwarded this 1951 video of the Weavers singing a song “from the new land of Israel.” Pete Seeger is playing the banjo.
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LOS ANGELES (Press Release)—In response to the escalating number of seniors struggling to put food on the table, MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger (MAZON) has launched a new initiative, in partnership with the Association of Jewish Family & Children’s Agencies (AJFCA), designed to help low-income, food-insecure seniors get the nutrition assistance they need. More
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