Travel and Food

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

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