By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — When you think of Holocaust movies, you conjure up the black and white images of corpses and and skeletal survivors preserved on film by military camera crews as they followed Allied troops liberating concentration and death camps. Feature films like The Pawnbroker or Schindler’s List employ the same
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Lawrence BaronSAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Words Alive, a leading San Diego literacy agency that fosters a love of reading amongst at-risk youth, featured Lou Dunst, a local Holocaust survivor, during a teen book group discussion at Juvenile Court & Community School (JCCS) Arcadia Community on Thursday, March 14, 2013. The Words Alive Adolescent Book Group (ABG)
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San Diego CountyBy Juda Engelmayer NEW YORK — I didn’t actually watch the whole program on The History Channel, as my penchant for televised versions of Biblical accounts kind of waned once I learned that Cecile B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” was not a literal depiction of what supposedly went down in Egypt some 3,500 years ago.
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Travel and FoodIsraelis skeptical about Obama spurring peace (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Sixty-two percent of Jewish Israelis say they do not believe that U.S. President Barack Obama can bring about a real breakthrough in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, according to a poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute on Tuesday. After pollsters divided participants by Israeli political party,
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InternationalPress Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, May 3, 1957, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman “Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves …” Thanks to the rain, the brown hills of San Diego are covered with green, splashed here and there with flame-colored bushes and yellow flowers. Even the bald mountains have
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$5000 Needed by Women to Reach Fund Drive Goal Southwestern Jewish Press, May 3, 1957, Pages 1, 6 One hundred eight five women contributed over $5,000 at the 3rd Women’s Division luncheon for $35 minimum givers chaired by Mrs. Irving Alexander and Mrs. E.A. Slayen, Co-Chairmen of the Women’ Division. Mrs. Myrtle Karp, dynamic woman
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy David A. Harris WASHINGTON, D.C. –To know why the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has proved so intractable, it’s worth reading the two op-eds published by The New York Times on March 13th, in advance of President Barack Obama’s much-anticipated visit to the region. The first, placed at the top of the page, was by Rashid Khalidi,
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Middle EastBy Alan Muskovitz DETROIT — Passover is fast approaching. The holiday commences on March 25th, which on the Jewish calendar is the 14th day of the month of Nisan; not to be confused with Nissan, which was a major manufacturer of luxury chariots back in 1445 B.C. As we celebrate our Exodus, we should be
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Travel and FoodBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES –He is a 23-year-old college graduate preparing to go to law school. He is verbose, awkward, and intensely focused. The sort of young man who will offer a 20-minute response to “Hello.” He has Asperger’s Syndrome. She is a recluse living in a fantasy world of her own creation, tied
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Cynthia CitronBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—When the opening of the new musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder warns you that the show you are about to see is a tale of revenge and retribution and that blood may spill and spines may chill, you may think this is an updated version of “Sweeney Todd”,
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Community Foundation and Leichtag Foundation have congratulated Charlene Seidle as the 2013 recipient of the J.J. Greenberg Memorial Award. Seidle, Senior Vice President of the Jewish Community Foundation and Executive Director and Vice President of the Leichtag Foundation, accepted the award at the Jewish Funders Network International Conference
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Travel and FoodReport: Israel to ask for U.S. military action on Syrian arm shipments to Hezbollah (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli leaders intend to ask U.S. President Barack Obama to act militarily to stop Syrian arm shipments to Hezbollah, the British newspaper The Guardian reported on Sunday. In return, the U.S. president will likely ask Israel to
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Retired symphony violinist Eileen Wingard gave members of her havurah (friendship group) from Ohr Shalom Synagogue a demonstration of that “old time religion” at her home Sunday evening, March 17. Wingard, a vegetarian, organized a potluck dinner assembled from fruits and vegetables mentioned in the Bible, ranging from lentil
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics does not operate like a Swiss watch. The image is outdated, but remains useful. The overwhelming majority of watches are electronic, run by batteries and tiny programs rather than by springs and cog wheels made and assembled by skilled craftsmen (or craftspeople) in Swiss villages. Word is that
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