By Cynthia Citron VENTURA, California –Playwright/director/actor Tom Dugan is in the process of writing his sixth one-man show, The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln. “I’m not playing Mary,” he says, “but I could.” In the meantime, Dugan is busy preparing his successful show Nazi Hunter — Simon Wiesenthal, which ran at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 last […]
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Cynthia CitronSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Waters of Eden Board of Directors has passed a resolution stating that the Waters of Eden Mikvah and Educational Center would not build its facility at the base of Cowles Mountain, adjacent to Tifereth Israel. The Waters of Eden Board Resolution was based upon the financial feasibility of constructing the complex
Birth and Rebirth Through Genesis: A Timeless Theological Conversation, Vol. 1: Genesis 1-3 by Rabbi Michael L. Samuel, Aeon Publishing, ISBN 978-1-4563-0171-3 ©2011, p. 495, including excursuses, bibliography, and index; $20.70. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The biblical narrator of the first three chapters of Genesis, whoever he may be: Moses at God’s direction,
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–It is a struggle to decide who, if anyone, has a claim to U.S. foreign aid dollars. It is, after all, money earned by American taxpayers and sent to people who didn’t earn it, at least not in the traditional sense. Should it be used to encourage countries to
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Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Emunah (faith) and Bitachon (trust) are two bedrocks of Judaism. We have emunah and bitachon in Hashem, our G-d. The difference between these two related concepts can be illustrated by a joke, told to me by my colleauge Rabbi Dovid Max, Community Torah Center of Bucks County, Richboro,
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Jewish ReligionSAN DIEGO — Numerous press releases cross our desk concerning upcoming events in the Jewish community. As we get them, we’ll pass them onto you so you can add them to your personal calendars. ROSH CHODESH– Waters of Eden, Community Mikvah, invites girls over bat mitzvah and women to celebrate Rosh Chodesh Adar from
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JERUSALEM (Press Release)– The oldest couple ever to make aliyah landed in Israel on Tuesday from Baltimore. Welcome to Israel, Phillip and Dorothy Grossman, ages 95 and 93. They are part of a Nefesh B’Nefesh group with more than 40 other new immigrants from North America. The Grossmans immediately headed for their new home in Jerusalem.
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Middle East
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – After an extensive search process that involved numerous members of the San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) community, Board President Shari Schenk recently announced that Chaim Heller will be the school’s next executive director. Chaim will replace Larry Acheatel, who will be retiring in July after 12 years of distinguished
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San Diego CountyWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Former Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Kenneth L. Marcus, announced the launch of independent Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. www.brandeiscenter.com Marcus, director of the new center, is founding the Washington-based organization to combat campus anti-Semitism through civil rights litigation, legal research, and public
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USA
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— (If) life could be a dream, Sha-Boom we could all go back to our high school days and relive the past, ‘Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang …’ Roger Bean’s The Marvelous Wonderettes with musical arrangements by Brian William Baker and Michael Broth’s orchestrations is currently being given a “Sugar
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — In his short lifetime, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. collected a cadre of loyal and fervent friends and colleagues. The majority of them, including Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, Andrew Young, John Lewis, and Jesse Jackson, have been African Americans. A notable exception to this list of King’s inner
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USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Already Jewish Family Service has named the administrative wing of its Turk Family Center at 8804 Balboa Avenue for Jill Borg Spitzer. If some visitors walking down the corridor should chance to look up and ask, “What did she do?” how would they be answered? The community
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Donald H. Harrison
SAN DIEGO — Our chief license plate spotter, Melanie Rubin, saw these two license plates for titled grandparents. Dr. Bubbe evidently refers to a grandmother who has a doctorate, whereas HonZady, may well mean “honorable grandfather,” perhaps a holder of public office.
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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan – I do not accept Jeffrey Zaslow’s death. But before I explain why, or rather, as I am explaining why, let’s review how the tragic incident unraveled, how those several days happened, that is to say, the days leading up to that tragic, ill-fated day, the outcome of
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