By Robert Gluck/JNS.org On Feb. 14 each year, many Americans attend screenings of “Casablanca,” rent the movie, or view it in another way for Valentine’s Day. As time goes by, the Jewish influences on the Oscar-winning 1940s romantic film become more apparent. Jews involved in the production of “Casablanca” include Murray Burnett, the author of […]
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By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org The new George Clooney film, The Monuments Men, tells the thrilling story of U.S. military personnel who during World War II risked their lives to rescue paintings by the likes of Rembrandt, Picasso, and Chagall that the Nazis had stolen. But for Connecticut civil rights attorney Bill Bingham, the story is
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–AJC deplores the abominable treatment of gays in Nigeria. The harassment, imprisonment and torture of gays, sanctioned by a Nigerian law enacted last month, was the focus of a major front-page story in the New York Times of Sunday, Feb. 9. “Nigeria’s unforgiving attitude towards gays violates the most basic human rights
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By Roberta R. Seid, Ph.D and Roz Rothstein LONG BEACH, California — The recent California State University (CSU) Trustees bimonthly meeting took an odd turn. Amid pressing discussions about budgets, improving student success, and other education issues, anti-Israel boycott activists at the January 29, 2014 meeting interjected the subject of Jews and Israel. They made up almost
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– “Jewish Poets – Jewish Voices” will continue in the Astor Judaica Library for the sixth year with three Tuesday evenings—beginning on Tuesday, February 18 at 7 p.m. in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (JCC), 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla. The three featured authors
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By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — When words are not only unnecessary but may get in the way of delivering a beautiful, haunting, dark message, they are left out. When a story is so universal that we need not attach a face to the experiences, the camera omits the visage. Such is the
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (WJC) – The World Jewish Congress on Thursday, Feb. 6, called on the Greek party Syriza to withdraw a candidate for a regional governorship who made anti-Semitic statements about Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, and the country’s new public broadcasting channel NERIT. “Syriza should withdraw the candidacy of Theodoros Karypidis for governor of
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By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –Ever meet someone who just seems to know how to make lemonade out of lemons? When the glass is half empty, someone that can see the space as free to fill with a fine wine? This very optimism and desire to find humor, promise and possibility is in our
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Travel and FoodBy Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–A study carried out by the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture found that the cost of fruits and vegetables in Israel are lower – sometimes even significantly lower — when compared to prices of fruits and vegetables in the United States and Western European countries including France, Germany and Britain. Eleven fruits and
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has praised actress Scarlett Johansson for her moral stance in resisting the extremist, anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) group’s pressure to drop her endorsement of SodaStream, the Israeli company which operates a factory in Ma’ale Adumim in Judea, a city of 50,000 Jews directly adjacent
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release)–AJC (American Jewish Committee) is appalled by the anti-Semitic statements of a Syriza Party candidate for upcoming elections in Greece. Theodoros Karypidis, who is running for governor of Western Macedonia, claims that Greece’s new public broadcasting channel, NERIT, has Jewish roots and that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s recent visit to the Thessaloniki
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — At the end of the day, who are we? Are we defined by our past? By our hopes for the future? Or by the ideals we strive to live by? These are the questions raised in Crumbs from the Table of Joy playing at the Moxie Theatre through
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Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California –This is not your father’s sukkah! Joshua Foer fondly remembered the nearly annual sukkah construction in his parent’s home, though he learned that he was in the mere 5 percent of American Jews who do so. When nostalgia set in, this secular Jew had a flash of inspiration.
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