By Sheryl Rowling Dear Money Maven: My husband and I were married in California in 2008 before Proposition 8 passed. Now that DOMA has been repealed, how do we file our tax returns? This is so confusing! Sincerely, Steven Dear Steven, I agree that the tax laws for same sex couples have been and are […]
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodBy Sheli Grumet SAN DIEGO — On Aug 28 2013, a map of the Middle East was handed out to an Arabic Class at San Diego State University. The class is taught by Professor Ghassan Zakaria, a respected professor at San Diego State. The map did not show the state of Israel, but instead, labeled
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By Aryeh Savir The Hollywood film industry maintained close ties with the Third Reich and collaborated with the regime, this according to a new book. The book, written by Harvard University doctoral student Ben Urwand, posits that Hollywood’s major studios not only passively accepted Nazi censorship, but further actively collaborated with Hitler’s propaganda machine to
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By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) culminated its 2013-14 season with a rousing All American Pops Spectacular. As the audience departed, following the sprightly rendition of “Stars and Stripes Forever,” they were smiling and uplifted. The musical feast of Americana included marches by Sousa, arrangements of folksongs, “Arkansas Traveler” and
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Travel and FoodBy Robert Gluck/JNS.org Growing up in a tough Minneapolis neighborhood, Sid Gillman overcame anti-Semitism to become one of professional football’s most important innovators. “Minneapolis, unlike (neighboring) St. Paul, was an anti-Semitic town. St. Paul was more welcoming to Jews. Sid’s wife was discriminated against because she was Jewish. Sid passed away, but I talked to
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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Perry Chen. You may remember hearing this name associated with Comic Con, two time Oscar winner Bill Plympton and Disney director, Rich Moore. But Perry Chen is an animator in his own right. He sketched himself onto the animation scene in 2011, with a collaborative animated short film entitled
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Travel and FoodTEL AVIV (Press Releases)–New findings from an archaeological excavation led this winter by Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef of Tel Aviv University’s Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology and Near Eastern Cultures prove that copper mines in Israel thought to have been built by the ancient Egyptians in the 13th century BCE actually originated three centuries later,
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Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO -A full house gathered in Balboa Park to monitor a conversation between Shakespeare scholars Barry Edelstein and James Shapiro, last Wednesday evening. Edelstein, the Old Globe’s Artistic Director walked over from the set of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to welcome Shapiro a friend of more than 20 years standing who
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By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Assertion. Is it a skill? Is it an attitude? Are we born assertive? Do we learn it as children? Can we acquire it as adults? Most of the literature on assertion assumes that people are unassertive because they don’t know how to be assertive—they lack the skill.
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Have you heard the one about the dancer who traded in her ballet barre to work in a bar? No? How about the one about the woman who slings one liners the way a cook in a greasy spoon slings hash? Rita Rudner happened upon the Comic World after
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By Sheryl Rowling Q: My son is the apple of my eye. I want to set up a Section 529 college savings account for him, but heard that the custodian controls the investments. I’m not an expert, but I’d like to control the investments. What can I do? A: Unfortunately, you can’t have your honey
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Astor Orphan by Alexandra Aldrich; Harper Collins, 2012, 259p By David Strom CHULA VISTA, California — Recently, I read an interview with Alexandra Aldrich published in the Forward. What interested me in the interview was that Aldrich, a member of the famous Astor family, was a Jew, an ultra-orthodox Jew. She had just written a
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Have you ever thought what it would be like to find yourself alone in a strange foreign city with no reference points, no human connections, no means of communication? That’s the position Anne (Mary Margaret O’Hara) finds herself in in filmmaker Jem Cohen’s lyric poem of a film, Museum
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Travel and FoodTEL AVIV (Press Release)— When’s the last time you heard prostitution and mothering mentioned in the same sentence? Prof. Einat Peled of Tel Aviv University’s Bob Shapell School of Social Work is willing to bet it wasn’t recently. In a new study, Peled and her co-researcher Tal Levin-Rotberg, a social worker at the Israel Health
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