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By Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California — Nicknamed the ADHD Festival by Director D.Candis Paule, the audience was warned, “If you don’t like what you’re watching, wait about three minutes and it’ll be over.” She was of course referring to the 2nd Annual 5 Minute Short Play Festival. About 125 people gathered at the Encinitas library […]
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Editor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.” Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Eve Gerstle expects to be sitting in Copley Symphony Hall on the evening of May 7, as a special guest of Conductor Murry Sidlin, watching the performance of the multi-media Concert-Drama, The Defiant Requiem. This remarkable lady, who is celebrating her 101st birthday, has a particular interest in this work.
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish HistoryBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Kim Kardashian toured Armenia to visit the home of her ancestors and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Who would have thought that President Obama and Congress would be challenged to keeping up with the Kardashians? * Volunteer police deputy Robert Bates apologized to the family of Eric
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Jewish and Israeli history is replete with both tragic and joyful events, and in fact the life of a Jew living in Israel is something of a roller-coaster existence, taking us from the depths of sorrow one day to the sublime heights of joy the next, whether it’s
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Middle East
Deb Bowen and Cassie Brown, A Walk With Esther; Never Forget Publishing, 2015, $10. Order via http://www.abookbyme.com/Pages/default.aspx By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Many years ago, while I was serving a congregation in Rock Island, Illinois, I was privileged to work with a number of Jewish and Christian professionals in designing one of the
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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Passover is one of the three pilgrimage festivals of Judaism. In ancient times, during the seven days of the holiday, Jews came to the Holy Temple to make sacrifices. Today, there is no Holy Temple, but Israelis and Jews from the Diaspora fill the city with thousands of
Fighting organized anti- Semitism on campuses Read More »
Middle East, Steve Kramer, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Marco Rubio announced his candidacy for president by criticizing the President “for looking backwards” and having “forgotten that when America fails to lead, global chaos inevitably follows.” To set an example of how he will break with the past and restore American power, he promised to invade Cuba. * Responding
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–“How come you didn’t run our press release?” Every editor has heard the question. But not every editor answers. Although we have more than 50 regular writers, we have only one person–me–who is editing San Diego Jewish World and posting the stories. All of us are volunteers. In that I
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — The 1930s clearly marked one of the bleakest periods in European history and more pointedly in Jewish history. As Nazis gained momentum and attempted a mass extermination of this small segment of Europe’s population, two young men in Cleveland, dreamed up an antidote to the sense of impotence
‘Superman’ vs. the Nazis in Holocaust play Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego CountyLincoln and the Jews: A History by Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell, St. Martin Press, New York; ISBN 978-1-250-05935-6 ©2015, $40.00, p. 227, plus appendices and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Abraham Lincoln died on Saturday, April 15, 1865. Most Northerners and many Southerners, particularly those who understood the ramifications of having a new,
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History, USABy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Rabbi Baruch Rock, the newly appointed head of Judaic Studies at the San Diego Jewish Academy and the current rabbi of Congregation Orot Hacarmel, was the first featured reader at the March 31 Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices evening in the Astor Judaica Library. This was an evening devoted to the
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish ReligionBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO–Following are some nursery rhymes for Campaign 2016 Hillary, Billary, Doc This time there’s no Barack. You’ll take the heat But not defeat. Unless Warren joins the flock. * Sing a song of Ted Cruz His campaign has begun. One of many schnorrers From Sheldon Adelson. Bibi’s right, Barack’s wrong. Protect
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Responding to a petition submitted to the “We the People” website, President Obama called for banning coercive conversion therapy for minors from the LGBT community. Although GOP presidential hopeful (or some may say hopeless) Ben Carson asserted that the resort to conversion therapy should be a matter decided by a
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire