By David Amos SAN DIEGO–Here are some intriguing things to think about: Mozart lived to the age of 35; Schubert, 32, Beethoven, 57, to name just a few who had relatively short lifetimes. The list is long, but we should add to it here the names of Mendelssohn, Chopin, and Bizet. Can you think of […]
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Travel and FoodBy Robert Gluck/JNS.org If anyone can escape from the afterlife, it is Harry Houdini. Born Erik Weisz to Austro-Hungarian Jews, Houdini was arguably the greatest escape artist ever. Magic enthusiasts from around the globe gather annually in a predetermined city to celebrate Houdini. Since Houdini died on October 31, 1926, the gathering takes place on
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Travel and FoodBy Robert Gluck/JNS.org More than 25 years after it was first published, the graphic novel Maus continues to revolutionize both comics and representations of the Holocaust—and its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Art Spiegelman, remains on tour. By depicting “complex and complicated stories of intertwining human destinies acted out by mice, cats, pigs and dogs,” Maus turns
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Dubbed the “Start Up King,” world-renowned start-up expert, venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur Jonathan Medved will return to his native San Diego from Israel on October 22 to speak to local business leaders and business students at SDSU and UCSD on how to learn from Israel’s start-up culture to build businesses
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By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — The actual respect held by an organization of anti-Israel California professors who want to Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) toward academic freedom and open exchange of views is contradicted by their actual activities and speech. On November 6, the electorate of Californians will vote on whether to increase their
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego, on Wednesday, Oct. 17, announced the launch of the U.S. – Israel Center on Innovation and Economic Sustainability, supported in part by the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego’s Israel Studies Fund. The center will promote collaboration between
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Travel and FoodPHILADELPHIA (Press Release)–George Costanza Goes to Washington, a new e-book written by Bruce S. Ticker, depicts the shortcomings of our dysfunctional political process that enable too many George Costanzas to run our government. Seinfeld TV show fans will recall when George almost negotiated his way out of an offer to produce a television pilot for NBC,
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)—The Board of Directors of The Old Globe has announced the appointment of Barry Edelstein as Artistic Director. A nationally-recognized director, producer, author and educator, Edelstein will work together with Managing Director Michael G. Murphy to lead San Diego’s flagship arts institution. Both Edelstein and Murphy will report jointly to the Board of
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Michael Hess writes columns for the CBS MoneyWatch website, and a recent column headline caught me eye online: “Is your business a mensch?” I knew right then and there I wanted to contact Mr Hess over the Internet and ask him some questions about how he came up
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By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — There are those who make things happen, those to whom things happen, and those who say, “What happened?” Which one are you? Most people are a combination of these, but sometimes one tendency dominates to the point of dysfunction. The people who like to make things happen
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky BERLIN –While Israel has turned to the politics of election, we have been digging around in the dark roots of Varda’s history. They are deep in Germany. Her father, Erich, was a patriot until his death. He was proud of his father’s service in the German army during World War I (stationed on the
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Ira Sharkansky, Travel and FoodBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — Just to show you how some Jews in Britain use humor in a different way than Jews in the United States and Canada, there is a new humor book of Jewish jokes out now titled Michael Winner’s Hymie Joke Book. Yes, the author’s name is part of the
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If I’m Not Mistaken, That’s Bacon: Kosher guidance for confused Jews by Michelle Slade, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, North Charleston, SC.; ISBN 978-1-4776-2373-2 ©2012, $14, p. 47, including references By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California —Kashrut, the ensemble of Jewish dietary laws, has its basis in the Torah, the Five Books of Moses. Within the
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Travel and FoodBy David Amos SAN DIEGO –In my enthusiasm and involvement in serious classical music, it really all starts with the work of the composer. One of the Twentieth Century’s most important composers of symphonic music, Paul Creston, very correctly said that for music to take place, three elements must take place in this sequence: The
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