By Rabbi Jeffrey Lipschultz WILDWOOD, New Jersey — Memorial Day is approaching and as many take out their BBQ pits and contemplate a three-day weekend and the beginning of summer we Jews begin to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Shavuot is also called the holiday of weeks because we have been counting down
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Travel and Food
By Sandy Golden SAN FRANCISCO– A visit here turned out to be even more special than we had anticipated. We knew before we went that it was going to be special because we were flying there to be happily reunited with our very dear friend and former resident of San Diego, world-class concert violinist Zina
A trip for the ears, eyes, tastebuds and soul Read More »
Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Federation of San Diego County is proud to announce the dedication of the Alexander Joseph Viterbi Arts Center in Sha’ar HaNegev, Israel, on June 26. Over the past ten years, the Federation and San Diego Jewish community have contributed more than $10 million to the embattled region, which is
By Leah R. Singer SAN DIEGO –The 19th Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival kicked off last week with a host of different productions. This year’s festival, which runs through June 7, features everything from baseball to Klezmer to Spanish language performances. Todd Salovey, who has been the Jewish Arts artistic director
Jewish Arts Festival entertains, unites community Read More »
Travel and Food
By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida –A few years ago a veteran Labor member of the Knesset, who had lost her seat in the debacle of Labor in the ’09 elections, told me: “Netanyahu can’t make any peace moves so long as his father is alive.” I thought she was jesting until last week. Perhaps
Finally, an Israeli unity government Read More »
Middle East
By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK –It is an old word, and it describes a behavior that has been around since the very beginning of history. Yet the word seems to me to be used more and more frequently these days, and the behavior it describes has gotten out of control. The word
Curbing the bully within ourselves Read More »
Jewish Religion
By Cynthia Citron BEVERLY HILLS, California — In my view, it’s cause for rejoicing when a play is beautifully written and is performed by actors who are at least as brilliant as the writing. Mostly because it doesn’t happen all that often. Two new shows demonstrate what I mean. Love Struck, which opened at the
‘Love Struck’ and ‘Synthesthesia’ offer some new theatre approaches Read More »
Cynthia Citron-Staff Report- Kurt Sax, 89, a former president of Temple Beth Sholom in Chula Vista who had been in ill health since his first stroke six years ago, died Friday, May 11 at La Jolla Nursing and Rehabilitation, after celebrating Shabbat for the last time. His daughter Sandi had helped him on with his
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Gussie K. Singer Chapter for City of Hope will honor Sherry Berman Ahern with the prestigious “Mother of the Year” award at its annual luncheon May 24, 2012 at the San Diego Bayfront Hilton. “Sherry’s passion for finding a cure for diabetes compliments the major milestones and current research taking
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By David Bedein JERUSALEM — On Holocaust Remembrance Day, people in Israel stand in silence to recall the victims murdered by the Nazis and their allies. Tragically, the Palestinian Authority’s curriculum and media still carry the legacy of Haj Amin Al Husseini, the former Mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the Palestinian Arab community, who forged
PA textbooks incorporate Mufti’s & Hitler’s genocidal visions Read More »
Middle East
The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler’s Volkswagen, by Paul Schilperoord. RVP Publishers, New York, 2012. 274pp. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Josef Ganz was the main engineer and inspiration for the VW Bug. Why have we not heard of this amazing man? What kept him out of sight?
Is there a Jewish Connection to the VW Beetle? Read More »
Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This column is immodest, and is likely to provoke condemnation. It makes an appropriate nod in the direction of Jonathan Swift’s classic of a slightly different name. It also fits within my concern for politics, and the plight of Americans, old enough to vote and do other things, who are not
What’s the next political debate? Masturbation? Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, USABy Matthew RJ Brodsky WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the Syrian uprising now past its one-year anniversary, it’s long past time to take stock of the carnage. More than 7,000 people have been killed to date by the Assad regime, as it has unleashed war on its own people. The spark that lit the fire was
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International
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — City Ballet of San Diego’s world premiere of the full length Romeo and Juliet at the Spreckels Theatre on May 13, was a triumph for the Company but especially the resident choreographer, Elizabeth Wistrich and the Company’s ballerina, Ariana Samuelsson. This drama in three acts gave Samuelsson the
Classic ‘Romeo and Juliet’ a triumph for Wistrich, Samuelsson Read More »
Travel and Food