Alan Safier’s one-man show perpetuates the legend of comics George Burns (born Naftaly Birnbaum) and Gracie Allen (Burns’s wife). JNS.org interviewed Safier on his play and author Lawrence Epstein on Burns’s Jewish background. By Robert Gluck/JNS.org Born in Cleveland—where George Burns and Gracie Allen were married—Alan Safier keeps the legendary comedy duo alive. Made up […]
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Travel and FoodBy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science in mid-October for their work in market design. Shapley and another researcher, David Gale, came up with the Gale-Shapley algorithm, which showed how 10 men and 10 women could be matched so that no two
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Science, Medicine, & EducationAbbas ignites controversy over ‘right of return’ remarks (JNS.org) Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas ignited a firestorm of controversy over the weekend, stemming from remarks that he made on an Israeli television interview that seemingly conceded the Palestinian “right of return.” In an English language one-on-one interview with Israel’s Channel 2, Abbas was asked
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International
By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –While a large part of American culture and bio-medicine is taken up with either living forever (or at least to 120 or more) or promoting youth culture at the expense of facing the realities of aging, author Daniel Klein has in mid-70s taken a few steps back in time to
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Imagine a dance highly formalized, without emotion, between partners who don’t even like one another, never mind pleasure or lust. That’s what we’ve been seeing the last few days around an interview given by Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazan, a.k.a. President of the Palestine National Authority, but not recognized as such
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan– For years, for over 60 years at least and maybe for as long as 100 years, scholars and graduate students in English-speaking countries have been using a term — “scare quotes” — that has now become embedded in the print pages and online blogs of daily journalism as well. What’s
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Travel and Food
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–Many people who read the front page of Haaretz one day last week while they were having their breakfast, including yours truly, suddenly felt sick to their stomach. In huge, black letters the main front-page headline read: ‘69% of Israelis Support Apartheid.’ The text of the article, which occupied
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Here is a recap of our bipartisan endorsements for national, state and local offices. In making our independent evaluations, we paid particular attention to American Jewish community concerns, both foreign and domestic. President — Mitt Romney U.S. Senator — Dianne Feinstein Congress, 51st District — Juan Vargas Congress, 52nd District
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Claire Ellman SAN DIEGO — Jan “June” Tuttleman served as the immediate past chair of Jewish Federation of San Diego County, 2010- 2011. She also served as Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy (formerly Women’s Division) President from 1999-2001, and served as a board member of the United Jewish Communities National Women’s Philanthropy and held the portfolio
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San Diego Calendar
By Natasha Josefowitz, PhD LA JOLLA, California –Every Friday at 3:00, about a dozen dogs have a puppy party at White Sands La Jolla. They congregate with their owners and other dog-loving residents on a large lawn for puppy play time. The dogs vary from tiny and young to large and older and everyone gets
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Is Palestine history? That is, have its various leaders lost the opportunity to make their place name into a country? Most likely yes, but it will not disappear soon from agendas of international politics. In other words, the idea will hang on, and provide stimulus to Palestinians and others feeling
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — When Abraham bargained with God to save the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, he prefaced his challenge by telling God, “Here I venture to speak to my Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.” (Gen. 18:27) With these words Abraham acknowledged the inadequacy of his position and
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Jewish ReligionDefense ministry official: Israel has no top-level contact with Morsi government (JNS.org) Israel currently does not have, and is unlikely to have in the future, any top-tier political ties with the Egyptian regime so long as Mohammed Morsi is in power, the head of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Diplomatic-Security Bureau Amos Gilad said Nov. 2, Israel
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International
With Great Power…The Stan Lee Story by Epix 1821 pictures, 2012, 80 minutes, ISBN 0788616153. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Stan Lee (né Stanley Martin Lieber) started in the comic business in the 1930s by perfecting the character “Captain America,” and watched the industry grow in the 1940s. He suffered a setback in the
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