By Joyce Schur CHICAGO — Protecting the welfare of our children supersedes the need to be considered their best-buddy. John Kass, a much admired feature columnist for the Chicago Tribune, recently wrote an article on the Penn State sex predator scandal, titled “Thankful to be the Worst Mom in the World”. It was a response to […]
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–Conductor David Amos chose, for the opening concert of the season, Nov. 17, familiar and beloved repertoire which both the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) members and the audience could thoroughly enjoy.The concert opened with Tchaikowsky’s Little Russian Symphony. From the opening notes of the solo French horn intoning a melancholy
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Eileen Wingard
By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California—Lest anyone forget, there is the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice tried and true “Jesus Christ Superstar” of the seventies and then there is the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice/ Des McAnuff “Jesus Christ Superstar” of the 20’s: 2011/2012 that is. Of course the lyrics (Tim Rice) and the music (Andrew Lloyd
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
CORONADO (Press Release)–Sanford Lakoff, PhD, will deliver lectures Dec. 14 in Coronado and Dec. 19 in Carlsbad on the situations in Iraq and in Israel. Lakoff’s lecture will take place in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on December 14 at 10:30 am. Five days later he will speak on the same subject
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San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Now that Americans and Israelis may have finished arguing about the campaign to bring emigrants back home, they are in full tilt about comments made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. At a “closed” but thoroughly leaked meeting of Israeli and Americans concerned with public affairs, she expressed deep concern
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
A Prayer for the Departed by Bill Broder, The Ainslie Street Project, ISBN 978-1-461-13893-8 ©2011, $12.95, p. 230 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The narrator of the TV show Naked City, a detective series about the 65th police precinct in New York City, which aired from 1958-63, ended each show with “There are
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Fred Reiss, EdDCHULA VISTA (Press Release)–Temple Beth Sholom in Chula Vista hosts a Latke Luncheon with Mexican Style, burritos, enchiladas. Bake Sale, Bazaar, face painting, much more, on Sunday, Dec. 18, beginning at 9 a.m. at 208 Madrona St. in Chula Vista * Preceding provided by Temple Beth Sholom
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Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — During Tata Twins: The Remix, a play modernizing the ancient Greek playwright Plautus’s The Twin Menaechmus and similar farces based on mistaken identities, we first meet “Lady Tata” (Stephanie Johnson) shouting the F-word as she emerges from her Hollywood mansion. Thereafter, not one of her spoken
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Donald H. Harrison
By Sheryl L. Rowling (Before I begin this column, I must apologize for my recent truancy as a columnist. Please have a little rachmones for me– I was busy attending conferences! As a result, I was able to fill my brain with tidbits that I hope you will find useful!) SAN DIEGO — We are
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Sheryl Rowling
Echoes of Eden, Sefer Bereishit, by Rabbi Ari D. Kahn, “Echoes of Eden,” OU Press, 386 pages, ISBN 978-965-229-499-9. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This is an eye-opening commentary on the Book of Genesis (Bereshit) which probably should be recommended for adults only. The interpretations delve into some of the underlying sexual content
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The story of those “return to Israel” advertisements has come to an end. It didn’t take long for the Prime Minister to get the message, and order them withdrawn. Not only had they insulted American Jews. They also insulted Christmas. One has to work to find insults in the video
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Evelyn Gordon WASHINGTON, D.C.–The media chatter that erupted in October about the possibility of Israel attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities sparked an immediate reaction: Both in Israel and abroad, opponents argued against such a strike, warning of various dire consequences. Certainly, Israel would prefer not to attack Iran: It would rather see Tehran’s nuclear program
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Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — I keep thinking about the heretofore anonymous suffering of the boys—now men—who live still in the legal and social shadows of the crimes allegedly committed upon them by “mentoring” role models at more than one major university. “Penn State” has become a another metaphor for heinous pedophiliac misconduct;
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –The old “gentlemen’s agreement” worked sub rosa to discriminate against Jews and preserve the homogeneity of neighborhoods or work places. General indifference permitted this. The new “gentlemen’s agreement” works similarly on many campuses to preserve the homogeneity of leftist and pro-Palestinian thought, again permitted by indifferent administrators. As many of
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