By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –They were not always close as little girls—that three year gap put the younger, Debra, at a social disadvantage with Sari. When Debra, with pinwheel eyes and theatrical exuberance, entered the esteemed Shaker Heights High School, Sari was already a senior and a celestial presence in the theater department.
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (SDJW) — SDSU History Prof Lawrence Baron, who was the longtime director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies and is considered an expert on how Jews have been portrayed in the movies, has announced tht he will retire from the university faculty at the end of the current Spring semester. In a
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Without any initiative on my part, the comments about events in Israel that friends receive from me appear on several websites. One of them is the San Diego Jewish World. The piece I wrote about the attack on the Baptist Church in downtown Jerusalem resulted in the following letter by the spiritual
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Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life by Joseph Rubenstein. Yale University Press, 2011, 225pp. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — In his book, A Revolutionary’s Life, Joseph Rubenstein wrote a well-researched biography of Leon Trotsky that is neither a fawning nor a completely derogatory view of this twentieth century revolutionary. His book is rich in detail
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Travel and FoodHOLLYWOOD (Press Release)–Academy Award nominee Jonah Hill will be honored with the 2012 IFF Achievement in Film Award at the 26th Awards Gala of the Israel Film Festival taking place on Thursday, March 15 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California. Restoration, which was directed by Yossi Madmoni, will have its Los Angeles premiere as the
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By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –Congressman Bob Filner, together with PETA, wants to replace with simulators military Corpsmen’s “live tissue trauma training” on pigs. Filner’s proposal is a “pig in a poke”, experience and science does not support his drastic change in military training. But, Filner is running for mayor of San Diego and this
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Travel and FoodBy David Amos SAN DIEGO — I am sure that many of you, as I did, enjoyed one, several, or many of the wonderful offerings of this year’s San DiegoJewish film festival. Aside from the films I reviewed in my last column, I was able to see and appreciate other worthy features. Luckily, this year,
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Parade explores the true story of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory manager, accused and convicted in 1913 of murdering thirteen-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia. Sensational journalism fanned the regional flames of bigotry and anti-Semitism, obscuring Leo’s innocence. After his death sentence was commuted, Leo Frank was taken by vigilantes and
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–More San Diegans will be able to raise chickens, miniature goats, and bees at home, and have more options for selling the food they grow on urban farms, thanks to new regulations approved by the City Council on January 31st. “More and more, we realize the important role urban agriculture can play
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO — Reuvie Goodwin, son of Young Israel of San Diego activists Richard and Julie Goodwin, has been selected for the JOLT program of National Council of Synagogue Youth and is now raising money to finance his trip to Poland, Austria and Israel. The teen wrote “This is a very selective program which accepts
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO — Numerous press releases cross our desk concerning upcoming events in the Jewish community. As we get them, we’ll pass them onto you so you can add them to your personal calendars. POETRY CONCERT– Poet Jerome Rothenberg teams up with Yale Strom’s sextet to present a free concert, “The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,” commemorating
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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Stories about the Wise Men of Chelm convey profound wisdom about the human condition, told through the medium of irony, sarcasm and dark humor. Here is one of my favorite stories. In the town of Chelm, two Rabbis were once seen arguing late into the night about
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO — Numerous press releases cross our desk concerning upcoming events in the Jewish community. As we get them, we’ll pass them onto you so you can add them to your personal calendars. ROSH CHODESH– Waters of Eden, Community Mikvah, invites girls over bat mitzvah and women to celebrate Rosh Chodesh Adar from
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan – I do not accept Jeffrey Zaslow’s death. But before I explain why, or rather, as I am explaining why, let’s review how the tragic incident unraveled, how those several days happened, that is to say, the days leading up to that tragic, ill-fated day, the outcome of
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