SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — SDSU History Prof Lawrence Baron, who was the longtime director of the Lipinsky Institute for Judaic Studies and is considered an expert on how Jews have been portrayed in the movies, has announced tht he will retire from the university faculty at the end of the current Spring semester. In a
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Travel and Food
-First in a series- By Donald H. Harrison BORREGO SPRINGS, California –Diana Lindsay’s excellent illustrated book Ricardo Breceda: Accidental Artist prepared my wife Nancy and me to see the amazing giant sculptures of prehistoric and imaginary animals standing, feeding, nursing, or fighting in vast private stretches of land owned by Dennis Avery, heir to the
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSAELM — The latest nonsense to come out of the summit of American government is that there is “no hard evidence that Iran has decided to build a nuclear bomb.” By some reports, American analysts are talking about “absolute certainty” as a standard for concluding that Iran is intent on nuclear weapons.
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Ira Sharkansky, USA
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Without any initiative on my part, the comments about events in Israel that friends receive from me appear on several websites. One of them is the San Diego Jewish World. The piece I wrote about the attack on the Baptist Church in downtown Jerusalem resulted in the following letter by the spiritual
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Travel and Food
Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life by Joseph Rubenstein. Yale University Press, 2011, 225pp. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — In his book, A Revolutionary’s Life, Joseph Rubenstein wrote a well-researched biography of Leon Trotsky that is neither a fawning nor a completely derogatory view of this twentieth century revolutionary. His book is rich in detail
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Travel and FoodHOLLYWOOD (Press Release)–Academy Award nominee Jonah Hill will be honored with the 2012 IFF Achievement in Film Award at the 26th Awards Gala of the Israel Film Festival taking place on Thursday, March 15 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California. Restoration, which was directed by Yossi Madmoni, will have its Los Angeles premiere as the
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Liam Neeson has always been one of my favorite actors in Hollywood. His films have often been stimulating, entertaining, and often contemplative. His latest film, The Grey, disturbs me for many reasons. It is surprising to see Hollywood produce a movie that portrays
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –Congressman Bob Filner, together with PETA, wants to replace with simulators military Corpsmen’s “live tissue trauma training” on pigs. Filner’s proposal is a “pig in a poke”, experience and science does not support his drastic change in military training. But, Filner is running for mayor of San Diego and this
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Travel and Food
By Rabbi Michael Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Last Halloween, two atheists decided to poke some adolescent fun at the expense of Catholicism and Islam. One person dressed up as “Zombie Pope” and the other dressed up as “Zombie Mohammed.” Their behavior was outrageous. This is what happened afterwards. A Muslim man named Talaag Elbayomy
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA
By James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israel, the United States, and Europe share grave concern over the Iranian theocracy’s politics and its serial use of violence in pursuit of its goals. The Islamic Republic formally declared war on the west and is the major state sponsor, funder, and trainer of terrorism, including plotting terror in
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Middle East
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Lisa Kron is a political animal. I can identify with that. When her leading character, Ellen, smartly played by Aubrey Saverino, is glued to CNN and/or MSNBC to catch all the political talking heads speaking her language, I get it. And it becomes abundantly clear, as the projections of the still
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Representatives of the Sami minority in Norway came to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem earlier this month to learn how Hebrew is taught to students from around the world. Their goal is to apply similar teaching methods to revitalize the endangered Sami languages so they can pass them on to future generations.
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Science, Medicine, & EducationCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Resolutions To Be Presented Before the 23rd Annual Meeting of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego December 8, 1956 Southwestern Jewish Press, November 30, 1956, Page 5 I–Peace in the Middle East — With the Question of permanent peace in the Middle East now on the agenda
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM–Shimon Peres is one of the greatest presidents Israel has ever had. Even the Israeli public that so mistrusted him in his long career as a politician has come to appreciate the dignity he bestows on the many ceremonial events he attends and the good image of Israel he projects abroad.
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