Travel and Food

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Neighbors, a play now having its west coast premiere at The Matrix Theatre, is an angry, nasty,  hateful, and thoroughly mean-spirited take on the “black experience” in America.  Its goal, I would presume, is to make its audience squirm and feel guilty.  Squirm, yes.  Guilty, not so much. Neighbors,

 WASHINGTON, DC  (Press Release)– Four inaugural fellows, including one from San Deigo,  have been selected to serve in a new overseas service initiative for BBYO alumni, the JDC-BBYO Global Service Fellowship, it was announced by The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and BBYO, Inc., the world’s leading pluralistic Jewish teen movement. This fall Ben Becker, Laura

LONDON (WJC)–The convicted Holocaust denier David Irving is set to lead guided tours of former Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz and Treblinka, the British newspaper ‘Daily Mail’ reports. The revisionist historian, who was convicted of Holocaust denial in 2006 by a court in Austria and sentenced to three years in jail, is scheduled to take

CARACAS (WJC)–The leadership of Venezuela’s Jewish community has met with President Hugo Chávez. The Jewish leaders raised the problem of anti-Semitism in state-owned media and asked Chávez to restore diplomatic relations with Israel. During a meeting at the presidential palace in Caracas, Salomón Cohen Botbol, president of the Venezuelan Confederation of Jewish Associations (CAIV), the

ATHENS (WJC)–As three Greek human rights activists are going on trial for speaking out against judges who acquitted a notorious anti-Semite and extreme-right politician in Greece, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) has called on the president of the European Parliament to send an official envoy to watch this trial in Athens. The WJC criticized the

By Cynthia Citron  LOS ANGELES –It’s difficult to imagine that a play based on atrocities committed during two decades of civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be construed as an entertaining evening in the theater.   Oddly enough, though, it is. The play s called Ruined and it is currently on stage at

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release)– Klezmer authority Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi will give a jazz concert mixing Yiddish, klezmer, jazz improvization and Afro-Cuban percussion at 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 12,  in the Saville Theatre on the campus of San Diego City College. Performers will include Jeff Pekarek on bass, Fred Benedetti on guitar, Tripp Sprague on

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Project SARAH (Stop Abusive Relationships At Home), a program of Jewish Family Service, will feature Leslie Morgan Steiner, New York Times bestselling author and columnist for the Washington Post at the Glatt Kosher Luncheon and Program recognizing Domestic Violence Awareness Month.  The event takes place at Congregation Beth Am, 5050 Del Mar

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO –“K’rachaim av al banim, kain Tirachem aleinu…”  Like the mercy of a father on children, may You (G-d) have mercy upon us… [Liturgy] A little girl and her father were crossing a flimsy bridge. The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter:”Sweetheart, please hold my