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 FoodDENVER, 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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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 FoodBy 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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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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Steve Kramer, Travel and FoodBy 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 FoodLOS 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 FoodBy 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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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When I read in the local newspapers here that a Jewish novelist born in 1950 in Guatemala was coming to Taipei to attend the recent Taipei book fair as a guest speaker, I quickly sat down and typed out an email and asked if I could interview him
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Travel and FoodIt happened two years ago, in 2012, but it’s a lot of fun: Muscovites and visitors flash dancing to “Putting on the Ritz” by American-Jewish composer Irving Berlin.
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TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust historian Prof. Saul Friedlander and artificial intelligence pioneer Prof. Marvin Minsky are among the winners of the 2014 Dan David Prize, which annually bestows three awards of $1 million each. The prizes are granted for “proven, exceptional and distinct excellence in the sciences, arts and humanities that
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Travel and FoodBy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org In the Exodus story, Moses decides to rescue his people after he hears God speak to him through the burning bush. But when New York City-based artist Jan Aronson imagined the famous episode in which Moses must decide which path to take in life, she didn’t see a magic fire, but
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Travel and FoodBy 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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