By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Dear Money Maven, My wife and I own quite a few savings bonds. I can’t even remember when we bought them. Should we keep these bonds or cash them in? With Interest, Irv Dear Irv, I can’t give you a definite answer without knowing more about your bonds. However, […]
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Sheryl RowlingBy Lillian Faderman SAN DIEGO — Americans have every reason to envy Israel’s enlightened policies toward their LGBT citizens. So it puzzles me deeply when I hear of LGBT groups lending their sympathy to opponents of Israel. The rights we have been fighting for and still have not fully achieved in the United States, LGBT
LGBT community should be natural ally for Israel Read More »
Middle East
Concord Stage Coach at Wells Fargo Museum By Donald H. Harrison SAN FRANCISCO – Joycee Wong missed the fourth-grade study week in Old Town San Diego when she moved with her family from Hong Kong to Chula Vista, California. Starting her U.S. schooling in fifth grade, she didn’t have the opportunity to learn very
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Donald H. Harrison
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Shout out another Hosanna or Mazel Tov to the gang at Cygnet. They’ve gone and done it again: producing a home run production of the Alan Menken (music) and Howard Ashman’s (book and lyrics) cult (gothic) musical The Little Shop of Horrors based on the film by Roger Corman
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Dan Bloom Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Propaganda comes in all sizes, and communist China wants a piece of Times Square in New York City now. Xinhua, the state-controlled propaganda agency of the Chinese Communist Party, has leased a longterm advertising logo space in Manhattan’s iconic Times Square, renting a huge LED sign called
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The first music that I heard on Israel radio this morning (Tuesday, August 9th, ט’ באב) was עַל נַהֲרוֹת, בָּבֶל–שָׁם יָשַׁבְנוּ, גַּם-בָּכִינוּ: בְּזָכְרֵנוּ, אֶת-צִיּוֹן. My old brain heard transformed that into Peter, Paul and Mary, “By the waters of Babylon, we sat down and wept when we remembered thee Zion . .
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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion
SAN DIEGO — Our champion Jewish-interest license plate spotter, Melanie Rubin, found one that wishes good health for five!
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Jewish Religion, Melanie Rubin
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Toward the beginning of the book of D’varim, Deuteronomy, Moses says to the people: “I cannot bear the burden of you by myself….How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering!” (Deut. 1:9-12) For the last couple of weeks all of us
As Moses was tired of bickering, so too are the American people Read More »
USA
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — It is not as dramatic a phenomenon in Israel as, say, the bold, treacherous discord ongoing in the Arab world. And certainly the thousands upon thousands of Israeli youth (and many older citizens) already have the freedom of assembly that their counterparts in Syria, Libya, Egypt and
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –There is no doubting the success of those who organized demonstrations in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and elsewhere in behalf of social justice. Activists and their friends in the media are reporting that more than 300,000 participated. Police estimates are 200,000. Whatever the accuracy of one or another, the pictures were impressive.
Israeli demonstrations a media success, but will they change anything? Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO —Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein is Hershey Felder’s personal love letter to Leonard Bernstein. Felder, the consummate master of bringing musical genius alive by adopting the persona of the masters and becoming them has been a treat for yours truly in the past. He has paid tribute to George
Felder dazzles with insights into Leonard Bernstein Read More »
Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — In years past, I’ve rejected the commemoration of Tisha B’av. Over time, the legend of what an awful day this is for the Jewish people has growth. It’s become the Friday the 13th of Friday the 13ths – except for the fact that I don’t believe in Friday the
Tisha B’Av — a holiday for victims, not for modern Jews Read More »
Jewish Religion
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –They are all special forces; every American killed in service to our country is a special force. There have been 1,725 Americans killed in Afghanistan and 11,541 wounded (3,649 not returning to duty within 72 hours) before Saturday. But actual Special Operations forces are something else. One website that works
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Shoshana Bryen, USA“Rameses – The Forgotten Star” by Christopher Woodward By Joel A. Moskowitz M D LA JOLLA, California –“Sic transit gloria mundi” (thus passes the glory of the world). Doug Henning was much admired only a few years ago. Who speaks of him now? Few would recognize the name Albert Marchinsky or Albert Marchinski. If you were told he
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