By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — My mailbox gets its share of emails from people who find Ricky Gervais’s tasteless Anne Frank jokes to be, well, tasteless. I’vewritten about him before and the comments flew left and right, pro and con, and sometimes as many as 100 comments followed a Gervais post here. Recently, I […]
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Travel and Food
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Have I Got a Deal for You! Act Now! It’s true that I’ve talked about donor advised funds before… but it’s worth repeating! And, if you act by the end of the year, you can get an extra bonus! A donor advised fund (DAF) is a tax-efficient and convenient
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Palestine is poised to receive recognition as a state by the United Nations General Assembly. Someone has labeled this as its arrival to the level of a “virtual state” without membership in the United Nations or recognition as a state by the two governments most important, i.e., Israel and the
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastIslamic Jihad says it leaked IDF soldiers’ personal information (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The Islamic Jihad terrorist group in the Gaza Strip claims that it published more than 100 Israeli soldiers’ personal information on the Internet on Monday, according to Palestinian media outlets. The list of documents published online reportedly contains confidential information including the
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International
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Two outstanding vocal talents, Becca Myers, 16, and Celia Tedde, 15, joined forces for the first Musicians in the Making program under the auspices of the J Company. It took place in a packed Rehearsal Room of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus Sunday, November
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Eileen Wingard
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — I went to see The Sessions because it had generated a lot of buzz after winning the Audience Award at this year’s Sun Dance Film Festival. Based on the trailer I had seen, I knew it was about a paralyzed man named Mark O’Brien (John Hawkes) who sought
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Lawrence BaronNasrallah says Hezbollah capable of striking all of Israel (JNS.org) Hezbollah has the capability to hit Israeli targets “from Kiryat Shmona—and let the Israelis listen carefully—from Kiryat Shmona to Eilat,” representing the Jewish state’s northernmost and southernmost points, the Iranian-funded group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday, Reuters reported. Nasrallah’s statement came in the wake of
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International
By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California—When the La Jolla Playhouse promises a fourteen-foot tall robot, you better believe it delivers. And when they promise the sounds of the band Flaming Lips they deliver on that one too. And when they combine the two, hold on to your hats because former Playhouse Artistic Director Des
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Story and photo by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – With Veterans Day having been observed in the United States earlier this month—and warfare between Israel and Gaza having dominated recent headlines – Laura Simon told a luncheon celebrating her 107th birthday about one of the first times she thought about soldiers and wars. It was
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Wars begin with a bang. They may not end with sudden quiet. Sudden quiet is most unlikely when one of the sides is not the disciplined army of a state, but a collection of organizations and gangs, competing with one another, with members intense to show their heroic loyalty to a cause.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California–What could be more lacerating than a sister’s scorn? Especially if she sits on the board of a prestigious art museum and he is a struggling conceptual artist. That’s the premise and dilemma of Joshua Ravetch’s new four-part play One November Yankee, now having its world premiere at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood.
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Cynthia Citron
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — “It’s your problem!” or “It’s my problem!” or “The problem is not in you or in me, it’s in the relationship.” or “Solve the problem.” or “Learn to live with it.” or “Forget about it, because years from now it won’t matter.” And finally: “What problem?”
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Israel is currently in the verbally explosive situation of a political campaign that began hours, or perhaps minutes, after the end of a week-long military operation. Politicians, media personalities, and just released reservists are all over the map in their expressions. It is not difficult to chart them according to
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — In the midst of the battle between Israel and Hamas, I read a provocative article by Rabbi Daniel Gordis on “The Times of Israel” website (if you would like to read the original article, click here). Rabbi Gordis, who lives in Israel and is Senior Vice President and
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