ENCINITAS, California — The Center for Jewish Culture (CJC) in collaboration with the House of Israel and A Culture of Peace proudly presents Yemen Blues — with Ravid Kahalani in a San Diego premiere performance at La Paloma Theatre, Encinitas, Sunday, March 1, at 7:30 pm. The show is being sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. Hailed […]
Yemen Blues to perform March 1 in Encinitas Read More »
Travel and FoodBE’ER SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – In what is called the MIT-Israel-BGU Seed Fund, the two universities recently approved five joint research proposals for funding, supporting new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). BGU and MIT signed the agreement last May
Ben-Gurion University, MIT collaborate on 5 projects Read More »
Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thomas Friedman of The New York Times does not want Israel mucking in American policy-making toward Iran, and so counsels Prime Minister Netanyahu to cancel his planned speech to the U.S. Congress. He seems to believe Iran’s determined march toward nuclear weapons and genocidal rhetoric about Israel, in fact,
Obama, news allies ramping up ‘blame Israel’ rhetoric Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I get mail almost every day, but not a lot of mail, just enough mail. While some people tell me they get over 100 emails a day and are swamped with correspondence, I just get two or three emails per day, and it’s easy to keep up with
Early baseball cards painted by little Moishe Read More »
Sports & Competitions, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — One must be wary of generalizing about Jews. Not only are we individualistic, perhaps more than most other ethnic/religious groups, but different communities of Jews have been developing in their own ways over the course of 2,500 years. Since World War II there have been changes more pronounced that in
Many kinds of Jews in Israel, Diaspora Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USATEL AVIV (Press Release) — The Doomsday Clock, which measures the likelihood of global catastrophe, last month ticked a minute closer to “midnight” — the apocalypse. The symbolic clock was set to 11:57 by a board of atomic scientists featuring 17 Nobel Laureates, who warned that the planet, beset by climate change and nuclear proliferation, faced
Frequency of lightning strikes key to climate change Read More »
International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We ShareBy Sheryl Rowling LA JOLLA, California — A prior year’s audience favorite, Gloomy Sunday was scheduled only one time at the 2015 San Diego Jewish Film Festival. If you missed the film this time (coincidentally on shown on Sunday morning, Feb. 9), you will have to resort to Netflix. This was the third time I’ve had the
‘Gloomy Sunday’ depicts love before the Nazis Read More »
Travel and FoodBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, a Grammy nominee for this year’s Best New Artist, has what Jewish connection? A. Israeli horticulturists at the University of Haifa have developed a breed of azalea which is resistant to petal blight, a common plant disease. They have named this new breed the
Jewish Trivia Question: Grammys 2015 Read More »
Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireIDF destroys remnants of Hamas terror tunnel near southern border (JNS.org) The Israel Defense Forces has destroyed the remnants of a large terror tunnel stretching between the Gaza Strip and Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Israel-Gaza border, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said Monday. The tunnel was first discovered during Operation Protective Edge last summer, and
Jewish news briefs: February 9, 2015 Read More »
International, Middle East, USAISTANBUL (WJC) — Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said his government would not succumb to “the Jewish lobby, the Armenian lobby or the lobby of the Turkish-Greek minority”, a sentence he said in regards to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s words two weeks ago that members of the Gülen movement had joined forces with the Mossad.
Turkey’s P.M. denounces Jewish, Armenian, Greek lobbies Read More »
Travel and FoodMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (WJC)–Uruguay’s government has confirmed reports that Iranian diplomat Ahmed Sabatgold, 32, had left the country after being suspected by Uruguayan security forces of collecting intelligence about a building housing Israel’s new embassy in Montevideo since December, and helping to plant a bomb nearby. Sabatgold served as a political adviser in the Iranian Embassy
Uruguay names bomb- planting Iranian suspect Read More »
International, Middle EastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — And so once again, only two years after the previous election, Israel’s long-suffering population has been thrown into the maelstrom of another election campaign. Though perhaps “maelstrom” is too strong a term to describe the boredom and drudgery of being exposed to another round of groupings and regroupings
Israel elections again? How depressing! Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East
SAN DIEGO–Now here is a license plate rife with possible interpretations. Eran is a Hebrew name, which comes from the word meaning “awake.” So one possible interpretation of this license plate spotted by our maven, Melanie Rubin, is that someone named Eran “ate” — and we’re glad he did because we wouldn’t want him
Jewish interest license plate: Eran 8 Read More »
Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire