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Ryan Braun again selected as top Jewish player in baseall

NEWTON, Massahusetts (Press Release) –  For the second consecutive year, Milwaukee’s Ryan Braun has been named Most Valuable Jewish Player of the Year by Jewish Major Leagues, Inc. (“JML”), the not-for-profit baseball history organization that produces Jewish baseball cards and Hall of Fame programs honoring Jews in the game. Craig Breslow of Oakland, who worked in […]

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No fan of Soros, ADL criticizes Beck’s comments about him

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Nov. 10. criticized as “completely inappropriate and offensive” remarks by Glenn Beck on his radio and television programs, in which he inaccurately connected George Soros, who was then a young boy, to the actions of others in sending Jews to death camps during the Holocaust. On his October

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Roberta Grossman to take San Diego Jewish Film Festival attendees behind the camera

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release)– The 21stAnnual San Diego Jewish Film Festival will present Roberta Grossman as its first Real to Reel lecturer on January 9 at 7 p.m. at the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre.   Real to Reel is a lecture series that focuses on different aspects of filmmaking. Grossman is the director of

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Obama in Jakarta may have been laying groundwork to acknowledge Mideast peace process failure

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–What can we make of the following? Speaking in Indonesia, alongside the leader of that country, Barack Obama said that the planning of new housing in East Jerusalem was not helpful to the peace process. He went on to say that both sides must take the difficult decisions necessary to produce a

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San Diego Jewish Book Fair: ‘Accidental Anarchist’ humorous and informative

The Accidental Anarchist  by Bryna Kranzler, Crosswalk Press, 2010. By David  Strom SAN DIEGO–The only grandfather (Zaydah) I knew died when I was seven. My memories of him are very slim and dim. What I mainly know about my Zaydah is what my older siblings have said about him over the years. To them, he

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Obama remembers ‘Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jews and Muslims protecting each other…’

MUMBAI, Nov. 6 (Press Release) — U.S. President Barack Obama, on his visit to India, remembered the 166 people slain in the Nov. 26, 2008,  terror attacks on various hotels and a Chabad house in Mumbai.  He gave the following attack at the Taj Mahal Hotel, which was one of the terrorists’ targets.     Following is the text of his remarks THE PRESIDENT: 

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’13,’ a musical about growing up and ‘bullying,’ on tap at LFJCC

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–J*Company Youth Theatre will present the high-energy musical 13 with music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan English and Robert Horn.  The production will run December 3-12 at the David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre in the Lawrence Family JCC, Jacobs Family Campus. Twelve- year

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‘Celebrate Balanchine’ program an artistic credit for City Ballet

    By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — City Ballet of San Diego’s “Celebrate Balanchine” program on November 7, 2010 was an ambitious endeavor – not flawless – but another notch in the Company’s escutcheon of accomplishments. The Company is still based in the historic jewel box of a theatre, The Spreckels; however, the exigencies

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San Diego Jewish Book Fair: Nazarian tells of a childhood caught between two cultures

By Yvonne Greenberg LA JOLLA, California– In her new book, Life As A Visitor, Angella Nazarian, a Jew, recounts leaving her native land of Iran at age eleven with her mother and older sister to visit her two brothers in Los Angeles for presumably a two-week visit because of the violent 1979 Iranian Revolution. Because

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