Multiple local awards for ‘Iliad,’ ‘Allegiance,” ‘Parade’ and ‘Scottsboro Boys’

By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California — A total of 22 productions from nine theater companies were honored by the San Diego Theatre Critics at their annual awards ceremony and reception held Feb. 4 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, in La Jolla before an audience of nearly 500 people. Leading the way […]

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, The Arts

JNS news briefs: February 8, 2013

Israeli Chief Rabbinate tackles quandary of pastry fillings (JNS.org) Members of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s Kashrut Division called a meeting this week to discuss the problematic and potentially misleading shapes of an Israeli bakery staple, the puff pastry that is stuffed with various cheeses, meat or vegetable fillings, Israel Hayom reported. One such pastry, about

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International

The Chasid who refused to lie

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In preparing this week’s D’var Torah I came upon a Chassidic story whose conclusion puzzled me: Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshischa used to ask: “What is the difference between a ‘lover of truth’ and a ‘hater of lies?’” A “hater of lies” hates everyone, because there no one

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Jewish Religion

Finding the inner star: my role in ‘Gypsy’

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was submitted by a cast member appearing in J*Company’s production of GYPSY–A Musical Fable. For the 2012-2013 Season, J*Company  presents a tribute to Barbra Streisand featuring GYPSY, soon to be revived in a film featuring Streisand herself. The J*Company play GYPSY runs March 1-17. All productions take place at the

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 5, 1957, Part 3

Editorial: United Jewish Fund Drive– 1957 Southwestern Jewish Press, April 5, 1957, Page 3 With the opening of the 1957 campaign on April 1, San Diegans will participate in the effort to raise $295,000.00 — the largest goal in the history of drives in this Jewish Community. The devoted men and women who have voluntarily

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

Contradictions in administration’s Benghazi testimony

By Shoshana Bryen, Matthew R.J. Brodsky and Michael Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to testimony Thursday to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke with President Obama at the outset of the Benghazi attack during a pre-scheduled meeting, but not again until the attacks were over. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint

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Shoshana Bryen, USA

Are privacy laws needed for our DNA?

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — The growing ease of DNA sequencing has led to enormous advancements in the scientific field. Through extensive networked databases, researchers can access genetic information to gain valuable knowledge about causative and preventative factors for disease, and identify new targets for future treatments. But the wider availability of such information also has

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Leaks indicate Netanyahu may withdraw support for settlements

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –It shouldn’t come as a surprise that there’re signs, albeit faint, that the in-your-face bravado announcements about settlement expansion by the Likud Beiteinu Party Leader Binyamin Netanyahu before the elections last month were different from what we seem to hear from the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu after the

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Middle East

JNS news briefs: February 7, 2013

Philanthropist Lauder earns France’s highest honor (JNS.org) France on Wednesday awarded Jewish philanthropist and media mogul Ronald Lauder with its government’s highest honor. Lauder—president of the World Jewish Congress, owner of Israel’s Channel 10 television station, and son of cosmetics giant Estée Lauder—received the Legion of Honor from President François Hollande. “With you, France honors

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International