By Isaac Yetiv LA JOLLA, California–Years ago we were regaled with a “wardrobe incident” on TV : a female performer “inadvertently” uncovered her breast. Days ago, a similar kind of incident occurred. It was a “mike incident” (microphone kept on while speakers thought it was off) , showing the president of the United States whispering to the president […]
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USA
By Cynthia Citron SAN DIEGO — Not since Mel Brooks’ outrageous Springtime for Hitler has there been a Holocaust musical as ill-conceived and badly performed as No Time to Weep, now onstage at L.A.’s Matrix Theater. No Time to Weep is the autobiography of a sweet, eternally upbeat Czech poet, Lucy Deutsch, who survived Auschwitz, came
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Cynthia CitronSAN DIEGO — Two of the four candidates for mayor of San Diego are Jewish, although their political viewpoints are quite different. District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis is a Republican and Congressman Bob Filner is a Democrat. Craig Gustafson, a writer for U-T San Diego, has profiled both of them. Here is a link to his
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San Diego CalendarBy Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California — Unless you’re an aficionado of the ups and downs of the Russian Revolution of the early 20th century, it’s very hard to keep track of the players without a scorecard. Take the White Army. Anti-Communist, anti-Bolshevik, anti-Semitic, and loyal to the Russian Empire of the Tsar, they were
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Cynthia Citron
Staff Report SAN DIEGO — An era for the San Diego Jewish community came to an end Saturday morning with the passing of Gertrude (Gert) Shelley Thaler, who was pronounced dead of heart failure in the emergency room of Scripps Memorial Hospital. Born to pioneer San Diegans, George and Anna Shelley, Thaler was a graduate of San
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San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — Whimsy was a theme of Grossmont College’s two-day festival celebrating its 50th anniversary. An old-fashioned sock hop in the college’s gymnasium on Friday, April 13, looked back to the college’s founding in 1962, and students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends gave the “old college try” on
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– I’ve believed for a long time that the greatest danger that the Jewish state is currently facing doesn’t come from the outer threat of Iranian nukes but from within, particularly from the continued expansion of the settlements. I thought I saw ample evidence of it when my wife and I spent
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Middle East
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Dear Ricky Gervais and Karl Pilkington, Can you guys maybe start to leave Anne Frank out of your comedy routines? Okay, some of your fans are laughing, but I’m not: why did the Holocaust diarist become a subject for mirth? Yes, that Anne Frank, the teenage girl who
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Travel and Food
By David Brin ENCINITAS, California–The brilliance of Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, Prince Waleed and their clade really impresses me. Twenty years ago, they were subsidizing Rush Limbaugh and the neoconservatives to spread what’s become the core notion of today’s right. (Though it also crops up on the far-left!) The notion that assertions can trump facts.
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USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Wednesday morning, a day before Kofi Annan’s cease fire was scheduled to reach its final implementation in Syria, and a day after Syrian forces were supposed to withdraw from major population centers, I read on BBC’s Internet site that “Kofi Annan, says he has received assurances from Damascus that it
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International, Ira Sharkansky
By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California — Melissa James Gibson’s new play This is on stage at The North Coast Repertory Theatre in Solana Beach through the end of the month. Gibson’s play revolves around the lives of four 30-something best friends who are in mid-life crisis but have problems articulating what they want for
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — An intimate gathering of Navy officers, Holocaust survivors and an offical from the Los Angeles consulate of the Netherlands commemmorated the Holocaust at Naval Medical Center San Diego on Friday, April 13,with personal remembrances of Dutch and Polish victims. Held in the main auditorium of what also is
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–Spirits droop these days—there are mass shootings, racial flare-ups, and governmental genocides in Syria and elsewhere. We live with a sense of vulnerability as the climate behaves capriciously. Less dangerous but still burdensome, we endure an endless political polarization here in America that drives the presidential campaign, which also
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — In a show of support for Councilmember Marti Emerald’s reelection, more than 60 Latino leaders and community members attended a rally on Thursday in City Heights. “I am extremely grateful for the support of the people from so many diverse neighborhoods and communities in District 9,” Emerald said. “I believe
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