Travel and Food

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI, Taiwan — Movies about food fetishes, chefs and food bloggers make for popular fare worldwide, from Mexico to Manhattan. And when Julie & Julia hit the silver screen last year, foodies across the globe were in some kind of Seventh Heaven. And as everyone knows, as the old saw goes, you […]

  The Eichmann Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt, Schocken, 272pp. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — It has been fifty years since the Adolf Eichmann trial. Deborah Lipstadt, renowned historian and professor, has written a new account of the Eichmann trial. Eichmann was one of the world’s most notorious war criminals. He sat in an

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — He was tall, lean, and carried a grim humanity about him.  James Arness, handpicked by John Wayne (who had better things to do in 1955), portrayed the signature Marshal Dillon, with dryness and few speeches, for twenty years.  Gunsmoke was longest-running network television drama in history and Arness

By David Amos  SAN DIEGO — One often hears at the end of a concert or recital second guessers as to the music just performed. The Mozart Sonata was played too fast, the Chopin Adagio too slow, and so forth. We all know that it is up to the interpreter, the soloist or the conductor

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Crowds rushing another nation’s borders with malicious intent and with screams of “Death to the Jews!” are not an echo of the Gandhi-inspired US Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.   Firing missiles ceaselessly into Israeli towns and schoolyards from Gaza while swearing the bloody destruction of

  By Dov Hartuv KIBBUTZ NAHAL OZ, Israel — When the young enthusiastic idealistic Jews left Eastern Europe during the first half of the twentieth century, they not only left behind their parents and families but also turned their backs on everything that represented their past as Jews of the diaspora. The majority of world

By David Amos SAN DIEGO – The earth, the sun, the planets and beyond. Such will be the theme of the next concert of the Tifereth Israel CommunityOrchestra in its programs of Tuesday, June 14, 7:30 p.m., and at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, the 19th. Both concerts will be held at the Cohen Social Hall

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–The very fact that writer and star Kristen Wiig, along with director Paul Feig, likely did not think about it makes their hit comedy Bridesmaids a resounding social statement.  The friendships, romantic entanglements, jealousies, and hilarities have to do with everything but one old stand-by: racial stereotypes. Continue reading on