Combined Israeli-Diaspora team to attempt qualification for World Baseball Classic

TEL AVIV (Press Release)– Israel has been invited to participate in a new 16-team Qualifying Round for the 2013 World Baseball Classic. The invitation comes from WBCI (World Baseball Classic, Inc.).  Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Player’s Association together created the event, first held in 2006.  This will be the third Classic, […]

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Outpouring of emotion, gratitude, marks anniversary of Jerusalem’s reunification

By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — The amplified wail of the muezzin from the Al Aksa mosque on the Temple Mount couldn’t drown out the celebrations that rang  out over Jerusalem Wednesday night. From every corner of the Old City, youthful voices joined in singing all the classic Six-Day War songs as the city celebrated the

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Middle East

Giving baby the attention its brain needs

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D.   LA JOLLA, California–Just what we need: another difficult, if not impossible, dilemma for working parents! As if juggling home and career is not frustrating enough, research has uncovered the importance of staying home with a newborn or at least providing one-to-one contact on a daily basis by a good childcare

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Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & Education

Psychotherapy for the haredim

Nachas Ruach: Torah-Based Psychotherapy and Tools for Growth and Healing by Dr. Naftali Fish, Targum Press, Brooklyn, NY; ISBN 978-1-56871-50099-9 ©2011, $29.95, p. 304 plus bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., founder and medical director emeritus of Gateway Rehab, in Pittsburg, PA, relates in an opening letter to the book Nachas

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

‘A Chorus Line’ zestfully returns to San Diego

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—San Diego Musical Theatre has just launched its third and final show of its second season with a fine production of the dance tribute to end all dance tributes to all dancers, A Chorus Line. In 1975 the Marvin Hamlisch (music), Edward Kleban (lyrics), James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante (book) and

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

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 28, 1956, Part 2

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Arlene Solof Weds Southwestern Jewish Press, April 27, 1956, Page 2 Mr. and Mrs. William Solof announced the marriage of their daughter, Arlene Joyce, to Mr. Fred Hamilton on Friday, April 20, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Arlene is a graduate of Hoover High and attended U.C.L.A. in Los

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

Skirball exhibits trace Jewish involvement in magic

By Joel  Moskowitz, M D, FAPA, FAAP LOS ANGELES –Many  know that Houdini was Jewish and his real name Erich Weiss, son of an itinerant Rabbi.  But who is Jewish of the following? David Copperfield, Max Maven, David Blaine and Teller of the team, Penn and Teller?   All of them!  David Copperfield was born David

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Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

JWV leader navigates patriotic and religious cross-currents

    By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—As the California commander of the Jewish War Veterans, Allen Miliefsky kept a busy patriotic and inter-religious schedule on Memorial Day.   At Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, he and JWV Post 185 commander Rick Nathanson laid a wreath at the Casket of the Unknown, and later dedicated  a small monument

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County