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Stereotyped ‘Tortilla Curtain’ characters become bigots

March 27, 2012

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–T.C. Boyle’s best selling novel Tortilla Curtain has been adapted to stage by Matthew Spangler (he adapted the popular novel The Kite Runner into a stage play) and the San Diego Repertory Theatre is giving it its first airing. Now in a ninety-minute long (It seemed much longer to this viewer) […]

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Imagine if Israel followed Ha’aretz’s foreign policy

March 27, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM – Ha’aretz has long had a reputation as Israel’s most distinguished newspaper, read by the economic, political, and intellectual elites. Its language and the lack of a sensationalist front page are among the factors that make it the secular Hebrew language daily with the smallest circulation. It is also the most

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

In absence of facts, emotions are fanned in Trayvon Martin case

March 27, 2012

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — The problem is not what we know; it’s what we feel. We do not really know what happened: for the vast majority of us, it happened somewhere else (in the previously unknown town of Sanford, Fla.). We are relying entirely on the media with its pundits and professional

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USA

Advice for dealing with anti-Israel disruptions

March 26, 2012

by Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid LOS ANGELES — Over the past 10 years, we have repeatedly witnessed efforts to shut down guest speakers who present an Israeli perspective on college campuses and in communities. Typically, when sponsors publicize their upcoming Israel-related program, anti-Israel groups mobilize to plot to hijack the event and effectively silence

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USA

Two convictions announced in 1991 murders of two sailors

March 26, 2012

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced first-degree murder verdicts on Monday in a 1993 cold case in which two sailors, Eugene “Cliff” Ellis, 20, and Keith Combs, 23, were gunned down and left for dead in an Otay Mesa field. Leopoldo Chavez and Edward Elias – both 36 – were found guilty

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Travel and Food

Settlement giving Israel a big ‘migron headache’

March 26, 2012

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In order to avoid a bloody showdown with the settlers, the Government of Israel tried to work out something that looked like a compromise, even though it wasn’t. It sort-of abided by the decision of Israel’s Supreme Court that had ordered the dismantling of the illegal settlement of Migron by

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Middle East

Communist China maligns Dalai Lama with Nazi analogy

March 26, 2012

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — One doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. When one of the modern world’s most brutal and fascist nations — Communist China, run like a brazen bully by the Chinese Communist Party — equates the revered and freedom-loving Dalai Lama with the German Nazis of the Hitler regime

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International

The calumny against America’s middle class

March 25, 2012

By David Brin ENCINITAS, California — A deep irony, underlying our political season, is that the U.S. middle class…the biggest victims of the first decade of this century, are also being slandered relentlessly. The ongoing campaign of propaganda that democracy can’t work and we should turn to oligarchy has many threads. May I take

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USA

‘This Day’ a Sudoko-like puzzle for historian

March 25, 2012

This Day in San Diego History by Linda H. Pequegnat, Sunbelt Publications, 2009, ISBN 978-0-932653-90-1, $19.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There are 478 years between 1513, when Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, and 1991, the year of the death of

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Donald H. Harrison

Gravesite reflections on two Israeli sons

March 25, 2012

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — The soil of the graveyard tenders new meaning to the living, especially when men stand over the bones of their fathers. In Israel recently, I found a new and deeper affinity with my cousin, Amir. Effusive, kind-hearted, and carrying the mantle of young patriarch, Amir strongly resembles his

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Travel and Food

Americans increasingly picking their own charities in Israel

March 25, 2012

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — What we’ve surmised for a long time is now official: though the monies collected in the United States for Israel have doubled in the last 20 years (now about $2.1 billion annually), the traditional recipients (the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund, the World Zionist Organization, etc.) have decreased

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Middle East

Present lines, not those of 1967, should be basis of negotiations

March 25, 2012

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There are some among my readers who will view my ‘modest proposal’ as the same kind of ungodly satire as an earlier effort by that name. Almost 400 years ago Jonathan Swift published his Modest Proposal to deal with the problem of overcrowding and starvation among the Irish according to

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

‘Beau Jest,’ jest an ‘old fashioned love story’

March 24, 2012

By Carol Davis VISTA, California — James Sherman’s 1989 family comedy “Beau Jest” closes out the winter season at Moonlight’s indoor theatre, The Avo. It is just what the doctor ordered for a-laugh-a minute Jewish infused play sprinkled with a bit of good old-fashioned ‘common sense’ (if you will) and a cast up to the

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Widow and mother of Toulouse victims speaks out

March 24, 2012

By Chava Sandler JERUSALEM — My heart is broken. I am unable to speak. There are no ways for me to be able to express the great and all-consuming pain resulting from the murder of my dear husband Rabbi Jonathan and our sons, Aryeh and Gavriel, and of Miriam Monsonego, daughter of the dedicated principal

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Middle East

Stereotyped ‘Tortilla Curtain’ characters become bigots

Imagine if Israel followed Ha’aretz’s foreign policy

In absence of facts, emotions are fanned in Trayvon Martin case

Advice for dealing with anti-Israel disruptions

Two convictions announced in 1991 murders of two sailors

Settlement giving Israel a big ‘migron headache’

Communist China maligns Dalai Lama with Nazi analogy

The calumny against America’s middle class

‘This Day’ a Sudoko-like puzzle for historian

Gravesite reflections on two Israeli sons

Americans increasingly picking their own charities in Israel

Present lines, not those of 1967, should be basis of negotiations

‘Beau Jest,’ jest an ‘old fashioned love story’

Widow and mother of Toulouse victims speaks out

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