Travel and Food

By David Amos SAN DIEGO — About two weeks ago, the San Diego Union-Tribune weekly supplement called American Profile included an article by Audrey T. Hingley titled Great American Composers. The title obviously perked my interest, but I found it disturbing and misleading on different levels. Here are the ten composers who were listed as […]

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Last year marked the return of political Nazism to Europe, declared Dr. Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, at a press conference to announce the results of the 2012 Anti-Semitism Worldwide Report published by Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry. Headed by Prof.

By Anav Silverman The Israeli beer industry includes a wide range of brewmasters from native Israelis to North American immigrants whose microbreweries can be found across the country from the Golan, Western Galilee and Jezreel Valley, to Ein Hod, Emek Hefer and the Negev. In the hills of Judea, Gush Etzion also has its very

By Anav Silverman It is often overlooked that Yiddish, the language spoken by millions of Ashkenazi Jews for nearly 1,000 years across Europe, played an important role in the formation of Israeli culture. For Professor Chava Turniansky from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, that point is very clear. The 75-year-old professor will be awarded the

By Rabbi Adam Simon On Sunday, April 21st, San Diego’s Jewish teens and young adults will have an amazing opportunity to learn about Israel, both modern and ancient, in an engaging and fun way. As part of the San Diego Celebrates Israel Festival, and thanks to the generous support of The Jewish Federation of San

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — When I heard from my brother in Israel that my mother died there very early Sunday morning, it was emotionally something like a comma. Hard to put the period down at the end of the sentence. And it was always just as hard for me to know exactly

By Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO –Dr. Daniel Pipes is a study in contrasts. He’s a Jewish American historian whose specialty is Islam and the Middle East. He’s a PhD who doesn’t work in academia. But perhaps no dichotomy is as jarring as his soft-spoken manner compared with his subject matter. Sitting across from him at

By Navras Jaat Aafreedi, PhD GREATER NOIDA, Uttar Pradesh, India — India’s only Academy Award winning screenwriter, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a European Jew, who was based in New Delhi for 24 years, from 1951 until 1975, when she moved to New York, passed away on April 3, 2013. She wrote for films directed and co-produced

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Our national pastime emanates from the great cities of this country, but you wouldn’t necessarily know that by looking at the uniforms. Whatever happened to the traditional visitors’ jersey in major league baseball? It is supposed to be gray and carry the name of the city emblazoned across

By David Amos SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will present one of its most eclectic programs ever on April 14 and 16. The traditional part of the concert is represented by two post-Romantic composers that are household names and their music reign as concert favorites. The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius wrote tone

By Ilene Lerner BOSTON –I first saw Tai Chi being done one sunny morning in the early eighties as I walked on the outskirts of a city park in San Francisco’s Chinatown. From the first moment, I was attracted and then transfixed as a large crowd of Chinese adults, many of them seniors, performed intricate

By Peter L. Rothholz/JNS.org                                                           Journalist Steven Pressman first learned of the 50 children rescued by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in 2002 from his wife Liz Perle, the Krauses’ granddaughter, who had possession of a formerly hidden and unpublished manuscript written by Eleanor decades earlier. That manuscript spelled out in detail the Krauses’ mission to rescue