Jerusalem Quartet provides a musical treat

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Experiencing music in the Conrad, the new home of the La Jolla Music Society, was a rare treat. At the April 9 concert, featuring the Jerusalem Quartet, the audience basked in the sunshine of sound projected by the Israeli musicians. The music floated gloriously in the fine acoustics […]

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Eileen Wingard, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

OpEd: America’s major media is biased against Israel

By Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel —Too many American Jews are ignorant about what’s really going on in Israel. They think they are better equipped to determine Israel’s fate than Israelis are. I know where that comes from: “fake news” about Israel from the mass media. The majority of U.S. liberal Jews truly believe that

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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA

Junior high girl prepares for Anne Frank role

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A line formed after Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, spoke recently at Chabad of Poway.  When it was the turn of 15-year-old Bryn Williams to kneel next to the chair of the 90-year-old Schloss, they had a particularly animated discussion.  Williams, a veteran of the Pickwick Players

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Sometimes, “It’s Hard to Be a Jew”

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — As Jews are observing the Passover holiday this coming weekend, recalling a time when our ancestors left Egypt, the land of their oppression, we are witnessing a new kind of Exodus taking place today: Jews are leaving France in record numbers amidst the rising anti-Semitic attacks that have

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi