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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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) – U.S. Customs and Border Protection today announced the signature of a Customs Mutual Assistance Agreement between the Customs agencies of the U.S. and Bahrain. This CMAA marks the 65th agreement of its kind between CBP and foreign customs agencies. The CMAA provides the legal framework for the bilateral exchange of
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Travel and FoodMUMBAI, 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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By Steve Hofstetter NEW YORK–I imagine it’s much more difficult to be a Jew on Christmas than it is to be a Christian on Hanukah. You don’t find many Hanukah specials about families getting stranded in an airport learning the true meaning of the menorah. But if there were lots of Hanukah specials, I’d be
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Travel and FoodLA 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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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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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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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — It is rare for me to have a “Big Mac Attack.” While I did eat treif in my youth, I swore it off in my college years. I have observed Kashrut since then. Golden Arches no longer entice me. For me they do not exist. I pass by
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO- -It isn’t often that we get a chance to see a young, up and coming actor who is still in school and has time to perform, and perform well. How fortunate for us then that Dylan Hoffinger, a freshman at the School of Creative and Performing Arts (as a musical
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — Second-year Fordham University Law student Michael Zimmerman loves to get his hands dirty. Each day Zimmerman and a handful of student volunteers tend to and harvest a small organic roof garden that he began on the top of the parish house at St. Paul the Apostle Church, next to the
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Travel and FoodROME (WJC)–Jewish leaders in Italy have criticized a TV series that portrayed wartime Pope Pius XII as working forcefully to save Jews from the Nazi onslaught as “unacceptable revisionism.” The feature ‘Under the Roman Sky’ was aired Sunday and Monday on the state-owned ‘RAI Television’. Set in 1943, it shows Pius remaining in Rome despite
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Travel and FoodJOHANNESBURG, South Africa (WJC)– A Muslim-owned company in Johannesburg has canceled an order placed by the South African Zionist Federation with comments saying: “Please don’t pay! Don’t contaminate our account with your blood money!” JTA reports that the organization had ordered conference bags from Saleys Travel Goods for a conference in March and had dealt with
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Travel and FoodTEHRAN (WJC)–Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for allegedly having committed adultery, escaped her execution on Wednesday after strong international protests, but still faces the death penalty. Ashtiani, whose case has captivated the world, might be hanged instead of stoned to death, human rights advocates said. The 43-year-old mother, was
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Rabbi Baruch Lederman By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–“Yaakov ish tam yoshev ohalim … Yaakov was a simple man, a dweller of tents.” Yaakov did the basic simple things with consistancy and enormous dedication. He didn’t overcomplicate things, he did what needed to be done – whatever needed to be done. Sometimes the most simple
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