Travel and Food

SAN DIEGO — Sometimes, it’s not the license plate, but the bumper sticker which attracts Jewish interest, as our occasional correspondent Harry Jacobson-Beyer found out on his West Coast vacation swing.   This bumper sticker sounds a bit like a well known television commercial.  Do you think perhaps they were milking the joke?

Conversations with My Ancestors by Andrew Sanders; Gefen Publishing House; 308 pages; no price listed. By Norman Manson SAN DIEGO–Genealogical research has become all the rage in recent years, aided by such institutions as the Mormon church, which possesses vast files of ancestral information. Family trees, going back several generations, have sprouted in abundance, including

Fourth in a series LUBLIN, Poland — A group of about 20 survivors and 2Gs (Second Generation) took a trip out of Warsaw and into the countryside. It was 8 a.m., and Agneishka S. was our guide. We didn’t know what to expect and so we girded our loins for what we knew was going

Third in a Series By Jeanette Friedman Jeanette Friedman WARSAW, Poland — When the World Federation announced that this year’s meeting would be in Poland, many 2Gs (children of survivors), survivors and child survivors were angry. They didn’t want to spend a nickel in the country where their families suffered so brutally, and saw all

 By David Amos David Amos SAN DIEGO — Do you agree or disagree with the following “arguments”? *Modern music is not modern, and is rarely music. (We are talking about the classical, symphonic and chamber variety, not popular music). *It represents an attempt to perpetuate a European musical tradition whose technical resources are exhausted, and

By Rabbi Ben Kamin Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –With the Judgment pending (perceived as a moral threshold by most  Jews, a time for cleansing souls), Yom Kippur is really one of the rare times of the year when our spiritual community actual ponders evil so  stanchly.  We’re not that intrigued by sins, sinners, satanic

By Steve Hofstetter NEW YORK — It’s not embarrassing to meet a girl online. It’s embarrassing to meet a girl at a bar. Imagine knowing the only reason you have a girlfriend is because you met her when she was drunk and now she feels trapped. Tell that story to your 8-year-old son one day.

By David Strom Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, Scribner, New York. 2010, 468pp. SAN DIEGO — On a warm day in July of 1966, two magazine journalists writing about the liquor industry and Prohibition wondered what Sam Bronfman’s role was during the Prohibition era. Most of the time when Sam answered that