By Peter Huessy WASHINGTON, D.C. — A small group of nuclear abolitionists are pushing for the United States to dramatically reduce its nuclear weapons and eliminate the strategic nuclear triad, which for half a century has maintained the peace. Global Zero, which bills itself as an international movement for the elimination of all nuclear weapons […]
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By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Guitar virtuoso, recording artist, and arranger, Gregg Nestor, has moved back to San Diego after living a number of years in London and Los Angeles. He has recently released five CDs. One of them, Dancing On Air, is a delightful collection of works based on folksongs. The recording opens
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Eileen WingardCARLSBAD, California (Press Release) — In a most unusual combination, distinguished Rabbi Hillel Silverman will officiate at High Holiday services with his Cantor Grandson Matthew Rutta in Carlsbad, California. To enhance the generational ties, the Machzor Prayer book being used was edited by the Rabbi’s well known father, Rabbi Morris Silverman, who achieved national prominence with
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Jewish Religion
The Forgotten Zionist: The Life of Solomon (Sioma) Yankelevitch Jacobi by Rodney Benjamin and David Cebon; Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-571-2, 248 pages including index, $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This is a loving biography, well researched historically by the son-in-law and grandson of Sioma Jacobi, who was an assistant to
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Donald H. Harrison
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Mitt Romney is being castigated for praising the culture that has allowed a democratic, (mainly) free market Israel, operating under the rule of law, to thrive amid decades of threat and periodic open warfare and a heavy defense burden. Actually, he’s being castigated for what his praise of Israel implies
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson ZIKHRON YA’AKOV, Israel — It’s over twenty years since my own children were teenagers, and it was with some trepidation that my husband and I agreed to leave our home and spend a week in Zikhron Ya’akov attending to our three grandsons while their parents took a well-deserved break abroad. Like everywhere
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The more things change, the more they stay the same. When Luis Valdez wrote Zoot Suit in the 1970’s, he could never have imagined that it would make as much impact today as it did when it premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in 1978. Zoot Suit is the
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky SAN DIEGO — Americans who identify with Israel, and who are looking for another reason to vote against Barack Obama, can find it in Monday’s headlines. “The White House: Romney must explain why he said that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.” Palestinians responded even more forcefully. Not only did they object
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — I am a worrier. My friends and family tease me about it. I sometimes worry about personal matters, and sometimes about professional concerns. More often, I worry about things that are going on in the community or in the world. I worry about the economy, and I worry
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Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Palestinians face an economic crisis more severe than the World Bank had anticipated; the Bank fears that the territories may become “ungovernable.” This is not actually new, but since the Bank in its panic is considering bypassing restrictions on money to Hamas, it is worth looking at the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, ISRAEL — Speaking to an often-cheering group of about 400 people in Jerusalem, Governor Mitt Romney gave a speech less notable for what he said that for the fact that the audience believed he was sincere in saying it. At a beautiful outdoor setting with the Old City in the background,
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Middle East
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — I had been looking forward to last week. Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse and Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz were opening in San Diego, and I knew both featured Jewish characters. Finally, I would have the opportunity to review movies currently playing in theatres for my column. Unfortunately, depicting Jewish
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Lawrence Baron
By Rabbi Ben Kamin LAGUNA WOODS, California– They call themselves “a synagogue without walls,” which was especially ironic and heartening when I first was interviewed by the leadership several years ago. My pastoral agency is called Reconciliation: The Synagogue Without Walls and—once the meeting warmed into a promising new relationship—one of the officers teased me:
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Jewish Religion
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Eight-grade San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) student Jonah Kohn has won in his age group at the Google Science Fair and became one of three overall winners July 23 in the Palo Alto competition as decided by an elite group of judges that included Nobel laureate Ada Yonath and Stephen Myers, the scientist heading
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