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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

By Stanley Tiger SAN DIEGO — Can you present 4,000 years of Jewish history in 5 minutes? No, but in the coming 5-Minute Play Festival, sponsored by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, we are promised a theatrical glimpse into some of the many facets of the Jewish life. The brain child of SDCJC producer D.

  By Michael Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pledged $60 million in “non-lethal” aid to Syrian political opposition groups during a Friends of Syria meeting in Rome on Thursday. The assistance would go to liberated Syrian communities to “fulfil administrative functions” and provide basic services. The U.S. would also give

By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — Most people feel that divorce is more of a funeral than a musical, but the new Divorce Party the Musical: The Hilarious Journey to Hell…and Back! is determined to convince us that there is life after divorce. And that there is sex after divorce. This naughty musical, opening

  Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by Clayborne Carson ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — The book may be about ‘Martin’s Dream,’ but it is as much about Clayborne’s soul. In 1985, Professor Clayborne Carson, already a distinguished and credentialed researcher of the

  By David Amos SAN DIEGO — Do we want it to be all-candy for the ears, or do we want it to provoke us? To challenge us and create an emotional response? Would we accept to go to a theatre play, or watch a film, or read a novel where everybody is sweet, everybody