California Teens Eligible for $36,000 Social Action Awards

SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) Do you know a Jewish teen who is changing your local community or the world? Now in the sixth year, the coveted Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards provide one of the most prestigious and rewarding opportunities for Jewish teenagers in the state of California. Recognizing a wide range of community service […]

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OnStage Playhouse mounts first-rate ‘Diary of Anne Frank’

By Carol Davis CHULA VISTA, California–“It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything that people are truly good at heart”. “It is utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering

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

Commentary: Germany successful in third effort to take over Europe

By Lloyd Levy LONDON– Europe is being convulsed by  the most remarkable and unwelcome events. The elected legitimate Prime Ministers of both Greece and Italy have been forced to resign.  They have been forced out effectively by diktat from the Germans, with France hanging on to the German coat tails in an attempt to retain some

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International, Lloyd Levy

College Avenue Senior Center tells December events

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The College Avenue senior center, operated by Jewish Family Service inside Beth Jacob Synagogue at 4855 College Avenue, has announced its schedule of events for December.  They are as follows: Brain Fitness Registration: The College Avenue Center offers the popular and fun PositScience, Brain Fitness program for the January session. Do

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San Diego Calendar

‘Bountiful’ are the destination and rewards of play at South Coast Rep

By Carol Davis COSTA MESA, California — The trip from my house in San Diego County to The South Coast Repertory Theatre in Orange County to see Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, took me about 90 minutes from door to door with medium traffic along the way. Carrie Watts’ (Lynn Milgrim) trip from Houston,

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

Situation normal: reasons for worry, reasons for celebration

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — headline in The Economist: “One side gets even lonelier . . . Binyamin Netanyahu gets brickbats from Palestinians and Israelis” http://www.economist.com/node/21536644 Visiting American relatives told us that their rabbi was saying “Israel is on a precipice,” and that members of the congregation must increase their political and economic support. Those

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East