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‘Just kidding’: Trump comforts Bibi over his tsuris

March 3, 2019

By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — President Trump has offered Benjamin Netanyahu moral support as the Israeli prime minister faces charges of corruption. In a letter obtained from knowledgeable sources who asked not to be identified, the president empathizes with the man he addresses as ‘Bibi” and offers some suggestions for fighting the accusations […]

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Rashida Tlaib’s hypocrisy toward racism

March 3, 2019

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA –U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s jabbing accusation during the Cohen hearing must give us pause: “I’m saying that in itself it is a racist act.” So should U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s statement of Dec. 23, 2016: “Earlier this fall I joined Senate colleagues urging the Administration to uphold its position opposing

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Middle East, USA

Does the Torah mention life after death?

March 3, 2019

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida –The Bible says nothing about life after death. It does not mention heaven or garden of Eden as a future abode of reward and Hell as a place of punishment after death. Maimonides states in his work Chelek that heaven is not an area where the good

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion

Havdalah ~ Zalman Pollack

March 2, 2019

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Travel and Food

Waiting for another ‘On the Beach’

March 2, 2019

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I sometimes call myself a Jewish-American climate activist of the literary kind based in Taiwan, but I am not a novelist or a literary critic. Instead, as a 70-something expat in Asia working the runway climate change beat as a reporter and a blogger, I focus on trying

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The World We Share, Travel and Food

Tale of the beauty queen’s daughter

March 1, 2019

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — It’s difficult to watch Barra Grant portray her mother in the biographical play that she authored without remembering the devastating biography that Christina Crawford wrote about her own mother, Joan.Grant’s mother was Bess Myerson, the only Jewish girl ever to be named Miss America, and the title of Barra’s play, Miss America’s Ugly Daughter, establishes the tone

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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Lecha Dodi ~ Multiple performers

March 1, 2019

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Travel and Food

Weekly Torah portion: VaYakel

March 1, 2019

By Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — In our Torah portion this past week, VaYakel, Betzalel is singled out amongst all of the artisans of Israel to build the Mishkan, the tabernacle that the Israelites carried with them through the desert. The Torah then tells us that Betzalel was filled with “Ruach Elohim” a divine

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Jewish Religion

Charges against Netanyahu upend his plans

February 28, 2019

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Netanyahu’s decision to have elections next April and not in the Fall, when they were due, was an imaginative way of delaying, perhaps even evading, being indicted for bribery and related charges. Had Mr. Netanyahu waited till the end of the year, when elections would have had

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Middle East

Yemenite Jewish medley

February 28, 2019

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Travel and Food

A Ballad in the Key of 4G

February 28, 2019

(c) Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is deeply personal. But what I have experienced should resonate with the entire Jewish community—the one we know and the one to come. In the whirlwind that seizes me and all who are communally aware, I have reached a new and stunning personal location, wedged between the searing

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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Latino Film Festival has diverse offerings

February 28, 2019

By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — I think one can learn a lot by being exposed to other cultures and ideas. It is good to be inclusive rather than exclusive. We need bridges of understanding, not walls. The San Diego Latino Film Festival, now in its 26th year, offers a wide variety of films from

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International, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

True or False on the new tax laws

February 27, 2019

By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — The new tax laws are here and they are very confusing. Rather than list out a bunch of boring rules, I thought I’d try to clarify some of the common misconceptions. Charitable contributions are no longer deductible. FALSE Charitable contributions do not reduce your income taxes if you don’t

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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and Food

The mysterious Gabriel at North Coast Rep

February 27, 2019

By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel SOLANA BEACH, California — Last December I reviewed the movie Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society on this website. It took place on England’s Guernsey and Channel islands just off the coast of France during World War II . I learned then that Winston Churchill considered these islands indefensible and removed

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Just kidding’: Trump comforts Bibi over his tsuris

Rashida Tlaib’s hypocrisy toward racism

Does the Torah mention life after death?

Havdalah ~ Zalman Pollack

Waiting for another ‘On the Beach’

Tale of the beauty queen’s daughter

Lecha Dodi ~ Multiple performers

Weekly Torah portion: VaYakel

Charges against Netanyahu upend his plans

Yemenite Jewish medley

A Ballad in the Key of 4G

Latino Film Festival has diverse offerings

True or False on the new tax laws

The mysterious Gabriel at North Coast Rep

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