Travel and Food

By Elisa Greenberg LA JOLLA, California –This December, I  have the privilege of playing Yentl in J*Company’s production of Yentl.  It is the story of a Jewish girl and her thirst for knowledge, despite the fact that she lives in a society where women’s roles were confined to mothers and wives.  Yentl disguises herself as

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan —  My mailbox gets its share of emails from people who find Ricky Gervais’s tasteless Anne Frank jokes to be, well, tasteless. I’vewritten about him before and the comments flew left and right, pro and con, and sometimes as many as 100 comments followed a Gervais post here. Recently, I

By David Amos SAN DIEGO–I would like to call to your attention to a very special concert which the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra will present at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. This is a program with strong Jewish content, and is titled  Rebirth, Remembrance, Revelation. The Youth Philharmonic String Orchestra and String Ensemble, directed by Alyze Dreiling, is

By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Sexual abuse probably occurs in most societies as well as in American subcultures. How it is handled within any particular cultural grouping may differ, but in the end there is always a victim and a victimizer. The general perception among many in and outside of the Church is that

Editor’s Note:  San Diegans are receiving notes from their family members and friends who are in Israel at this time of grave crisis.  As we receive permission from the authors to reprint these letters, we will bring to you–from many perspectives–a running commentary. From Rabbi Bill Berk (In response to a letter from a friend

By Isaac and Marcy Blumberg SAN DIEGO — When we had our son three years ago, our Jewish friends told us we had to sign up for PJ Library and how wonderful the books were. From the first month of receiving the books in the mail, we realized they were right. We love to read

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –.Most of us parents imagine having to console our children—even when they are adults—at times of stress and angst for them. We listen, our hearts in a bit of atrophy, when they anguish with us about money, their jobs, and, sometimes, their marriages. But it’s not often that we

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — A new documentary by film director Alison Klayman, titled Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is screening now in Taipei. While the film has not been shown in mainland China yet, the controversial artist and photographer, Ai Weiwei, has seen it and gave it a big thumbs up, Klayman said.