Travel and Food

 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

LA JOLLA (Press Release) – The dates for the 10th Annual Used Book Sale of the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library, have been changed to June 9-11 and 13, 2010 during open hours at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, 1426 Executive Drive, La Jolla.  The Used Book Sale closes on

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–On Shavuos we rejoice as we appreciate our wonderful Torah. Our Sages tell us (Shabbos 88b)  that when Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses), was up on Har Sinai (Mount Sinai), receiving the Torah  from Hashem (G-d), the Angels were in an uproar. They complained Hashem should give them the Torah, not the

HAIFA (Press Release)–A new intervention, the result of a collaboration among researchers from the University of Haifa, City University of New York and Indiana University, was found to reduce the self-stigma and improve the quality of life and self-esteem among persons with serious mental illness. “Just like wheelchairs and Braille have increased social integration for people

ENCINITAS, California (Press Release)–Jewish Klezmer musicians Alexander Gourevitch and the Freilachs  will put  on free concerts at two branches of San Diego County Library on May 30.  At 1:30 p.m. the concert will take place at the Encinitas library, located at 540 Cornish Dr, Encinitas, CA 92024.  At 3:30 p.m. the concert will be held at