Travel and Food

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — It’s not just television and movies that often portray women in a poor light. Print newspapers and magazines are part of the problem, too. Many of the important feminist leaders of the 20th century, from Gloria Steinem to Betty Friedan, were Jewish , and this is no coincidence, […]

By Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES –Although the UC San Diego student government voted last week for divestment from corporations doing business with Israel, the UC regents, who set investment policy, will not even consider the divestment resolution. After the student bill passed, UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla reiterated that “divestment is not the

By Juda Engelmayer NEW YORK — I didn’t actually watch the whole program on The History Channel, as my penchant for televised versions of Biblical accounts kind of waned once I learned that Cecile B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” was not a literal depiction of what supposedly went down in Egypt some 3,500 years ago. 

By Alan Muskovitz DETROIT — Passover is fast approaching.  The holiday commences on March 25th, which on the Jewish calendar is the 14th day of the month of Nisan; not to be confused with Nissan, which was a major manufacturer of luxury chariots back in 1445 B.C. As we celebrate our Exodus, we should be

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Community Foundation and Leichtag Foundation have congratulated Charlene Seidle as the 2013 recipient of the J.J. Greenberg Memorial Award. Seidle, Senior Vice President of the Jewish Community Foundation and Executive Director and Vice President of the Leichtag Foundation, accepted the award at the Jewish Funders Network International Conference

By Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO — Local college campuses are an active battlefield in a global war to deligitimize Israel and shame its supporters. You could be excused for not knowing this if you don’t go to school, work in higher education, or are otherwise directly affiliated with one of the universities in town, but

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — On the evening of Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 Associated Students of UCSD passed a symbolic resolution urging the UC regents to divest from an expansive list of American companies who do business with Israel.  The student organizations at UCSD representing the Jewish and Israeli communities strongly condemn the passing of

By David Amos SAN DIEGO– The motto of San Diego Jewish World, “there is a Jewish story everywhere,” came to life last weekend when my wife and I visited Texas for four days. The main reason for the trip was to attend the Bar-Mitzvah of the son of my cousin. They live in Austin, and the

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Bart Giamatti, the Yale president who became the short-lived commissioner of baseball in 1989 (as well as its laureate) spoke and wrote lyrically of the game’s enduring magic and bucolic hold on the American imagination. (So brutally ironic that this academic poet of our national pastime succumbed to

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Katori Hall was 28-years old when she wrote the imagined sequence of her play, ‘The Mountaintop’—now in its West Coast premiere at the San Diego Repertory Theater. Although she hails from Memphis, and recalls her mother’s anguish on the night of April 4, 1968, when Dr. Martin Luther