Travel and Food

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

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI, Taiwan — New Hitler lookalike dolls are for sale at 7-ELEVEN convenience stores in Taiwan today. Seems as if images of Adolph Hitler, the German Nazi dictator, have a special place in the marketing hearts of Asian advertising agencies and PR mavens. From Japan to India, from Taiwan to Vietnam, images

97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman, Smithsonian Books, $25,99 By Marc Yaffe BETHESDA, Maryland — If you were raised in New York City, are well passed the mid-century mark, and are Jewish, you can’t help but harbor your own special memories involving the Lower East Side, in its day the largest Jewish enclave in this country.

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — When he recently passed Trevor Hoffman’s formidable record of 601 saves, New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera maintained his hallmark reserve and quiet dignity. Pete Rose was always a bit histrionic about his all-time record-breaking (4,256), games played (3,562), and at-bats (14,053). No one is likely to ever