Travel and Food

By  Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–“When the Ark would journey, Moshe said, ‘Arise Hashem (G-d) and let your foes be scattered, let those who hate You flee from before You.’”  Numbers (10:35) When we raise the banner of Torah, and follow its ways faithfully, all problems and obstacles become mere details and can easily be […]

ASHDOD, Israel (Press Release)–Self-styled European human rights activists will be in for a big surprise this weekend when their eight boats try to illegally land on the coast of Gaza to break what they call Israel’s “illegal Israeli blockade” of the Gaza Strip.  “We will be there with our own flotilla of boats and signs

By  Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–The phone rings, it’s my daughter. “Mom, what are you wearing to the wedding?” “Remember the lovely two-piece, grey silk dress I wore at your daughter’s Bat Mitzvah?” “Mom, she was thirteen, she’s thirty-one!” “Oh,” I said. “It’s vintage!” And so I wore that dress at my grandson’s wedding

Editor, San Diego Jewish World: While having lunch this past Sunday at the Grand Del Mar (a Manchester property ) one of the people at the table mentioned that Manchester’s properties were being blacklisted by the UJF and Seacrest (Village Retirement Home) over his support for Proposition 8 (the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriages

CARLSBAD, California (Press Release) – The San Diego Jewish Music Series, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture will present in Carlsbad  A Classical Evening with Piano and Violin, featuring Victor Stanislavsky, piano and Asi Matathias, violin.  These two virtuoso Israeli musicians, Victor Stanislavsky and Asi Matathias, are emerging as an outstanding force in the

 LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– StandWithUs, the international Israel education organization is extending an invitation for a five-star VIP tour of Israel to Elvis Costello to coincide with his wife Diana Krall’s performance on August 4 at Israel’s Ra’anana Amphitheater.  StandWithUs is also offering to work around Costello’s schedule if that date is inconvenient.     The

HAIFA (Press Release)–The University of Haifa will award the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, to Shaykh Mowafak Tarif, the spiritual leader of the Druze community in Israel, during the University’s 38th Meeting of the Board of Governors, which will take place on June 1-3. The honorary doctorate will be conferred upon Shaykh Tarif

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has drawn attention to remarks by John Brennan, Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security, in a speech in which he referred to his favorite city as “al-Quds, Jerusalem.” Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem and an “Al-Quds Day,” originally started in Iran under Ayatollah

TAMPA, Florida  (Press Release)–For the second consecutive year, the New York Yankees have announced they will offer strictly kosher food offerings and Shabbat accommodations at their November 2010 Fantasy Camp. Glatt kosher food will be provided by Weberman Foods with OK supervision, and a Wednesday “Dream Game” will be played so Shomer Shabbat Jews can

 The Surrendered by Chang Rae Lee, Riverhead Books ( a division of Putnam), New York 2010, 469 pages, ISBN 978-1-59448-976-1, $26.95. By Gail Feinstein Forman SAN DIEGO–The Surrendered is award-winning author Chang Rae Lee’s newest novel. It’s a sensitively rendered epic reminiscent of Greek tragedies. Characters are at once swept away by life or passionately