By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Nearly everyone knows a toe tapping, easy to hum along with melody by George Gershwin….but we are not quite as familiar with Ira, brother of the song and dance man. Ira’s life will be the subject of an upcoming musical created by Joe Vass, premiering October 17-20 and running
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Eva TriegerChavez defeats grandson of Jews in Venezuela presidential elections (JNS.org) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was re-elected Sunday, beating his opponent, Henrique Capriles Radonski, a Catholic whose grandparents were Jewish and Holocaust survivors. Chavez won 54.4 percent of the vote to Capriles’s 44.9. Radonski represented the Democratic Unity coalition, which combined 30 parties that oppose the Chavez
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InternationalIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces early elections, stresses advantages of speedy election cycle rather than lengthy process that could weigh on the economy. With snap elections, Netanyahu aims to prevent rival candidates from gaining ground, experts believe. By Shlomo Cesana and Mati Tuchfeld/JNS.org Now it’s official: Israel is going to the polls. Prime Minister
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Middle East
By Isaac Yetiv , Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In a previous commentary, I wondered if the incredible accumulation of blunders in the bloody assault on the US Consulate in Benghazi, that killed four Americans including a US ambassador, was due to ineptitude or lies. The passage of time and the emerging evidence have
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Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — Loyal readers of this weekly column will remember Richard, Leon, and Simon. They were the three young men who signed up for my class on the Book of Genesis, Sefer Bereshit, many years ago. I then used Genesis as the source text for an introductory course on basic
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By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — Just to show you how some Jews in Britain use humor in a different way than Jews in the United States and Canada, there is a new humor book of Jewish jokes out now titled Michael Winner’s Hymie Joke Book. Yes, the author’s name is part of the
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — It has been said that bad news comes in threes — and that has proven true with the recent deaths of Mervyn Dymally, Nancy Miller, and Gloria Penner All three of them touched my life, and I’d like to pay tribute here. The Associated Press sent me early
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Donald H. HarrisonSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Women of Reform Judaism Sisterhood of Temple Emanu-El will hold its Fourth Annual Holiday/Hanukkah Bazaar on November 4, 2012. It will start at 9:30 am and runs through 1:30 pm at 6299 Capri Drive near SDSU. Vendors will sell photographs, jewelry, pottery, scarves, purses, glassware, polymer clay artistry, kimono pillows, two local books,
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San Diego County
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO– God? Sex? Religion? “This play is not suitable for viewers who find any of the following objectionable: Gun violence! Bang! Bang! Women in the workplace! Yea! Soccer moms discussing scientific method! Criticism of Fox News! Candid discussions on religion and politics! Priests defending the Holy Trinity using perplexing analogies! Plane crashes!
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
If I’m Not Mistaken, That’s Bacon: Kosher guidance for confused Jews by Michelle Slade, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, North Charleston, SC.; ISBN 978-1-4776-2373-2 ©2012, $14, p. 47, including references By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California —Kashrut, the ensemble of Jewish dietary laws, has its basis in the Torah, the Five Books of Moses. Within the
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–“No incumbent has a particularly good debate,” observed Presidential campaign expert and UCSD Professor Sam Popkin. “However, you don’t turn an election around in one debate. Mitt Romney has the ball in his court. This is the time when people’s eyes were opened so he has to convince people he is
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USAAs the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, February 22, 1957, Page 5 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Honesty The birthday of a famous man is being celebrated on the day this issue reaches your home or office. George Washington is known for many things–first commander-in-chief of our armed forces, first president, and first
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy David Amos SAN DIEGO –In my enthusiasm and involvement in serious classical music, it really all starts with the work of the composer. One of the Twentieth Century’s most important composers of symphonic music, Paul Creston, very correctly said that for music to take place, three elements must take place in this sequence: The
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — I have been an avid reader of books about the psychology of religion since I was an adolescent. I remember going to the local public library and systematically taking out every book on the shelves that related to the topic of the human phenomenon of religious behavior.
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