Largest Jewish book sale in Southern California planned in November

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– What is believed to be the largest Jewish book sale in Southern California is planned at The 17th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, with continuing support from Founding Benefactors The Viterbi Family Foundation and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community

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Travel and Food

Plaudits for musicians Sara Kornfeld Simpson and Sonya Jacobs

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO —Musicians in the Making presented two outstanding young instrumentalists last Sunday afternoon in the Lawrence Family JCC’s Astor Judaica Library, Sara Kornfeld Simpson, flute, a student of Jill Coady, and Sonya Jacobs, clarinet, a student of Robert Zelickman. They were accompanied on the piano by Irina Bendetsky, former music faculty

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Eileen Wingard

Mahler’s life, Turkish immigrants, featured subjects of German Film Festival

By David Amos SAN DIEGO — two films which were part of the first San Diego German Film Festival on October 22 and 23 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. were absorbing, entertaining, and certainly worth my recommendation for you to pursue. The first film was titled Alamanya, Welcome to Germany. It

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Travel and Food

San Diego Jewish community gathers in honor of freed captive Gilad Shalit

By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — What price is a life?  That is the question that is being pondered around the world after the swap of Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit for over one thousand Palestinian prisoners.  But for one afternoon, the San Diego Jewish community put aside that question – for the most part. Through

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A Moving Tragedy

By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California –You might think that The Tragedy of the Commons deals with some sort of disaster that befalls Mr. and Mrs. Commons.  But no, the commons referred to here is that pristine public park set aside in a newly established village for the enjoyment of its inhabitants.  Early on, however,

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Cynthia Citron

Turkey balks at U.S.-led regional missile defense against Iran if Israel is involved

By Gabriel M. Scheinmann WASHINGTON, D.C. — This year, in a major breakthrough, Israeli Iron Dome batteries successfully intercepted scores of rockets and missiles fired from Gaza. Its 85% success rate has been a major deterrent of Gazan rocket fire and has propelled heated interest in the system by NATO countries and South Korea. These

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Middle East

Libyan dictator’s violent death depicts neighborhood in which Israel lives

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — You’ve heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. You’ve seen the pictures of Muammar Qaddifi’s death. Given the comments of Barack Obama and the analysis that appeared in the New York Times, I’m not at that sure that enough American understand what they have seen. Recall George W.

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Social protest in ‘Hair’ at Civic, and outside by ‘Occupiers’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — It didn’t take the observations of a rocket scientist to see the comparisons between the ‘Occupy San Diego’ movement outside the Civic Theatre and the 44-year-old (but revised) smash hit of the late 60’s Hair. Here’s what the young folks protesting the Vietnam war in the 60’s were railing

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Neighborly exchange reminiscent of a time before cell phones

By Rabbi Ben Kamin DEL MAR, California — In the scheme of things, against the news of the Libyan’s dictator’s death, the heartrending collective cri de coeur of the Occupy movement, the release of one soldier’s life for another thousand, the banalities of the endless presidential race, it probably doesn’t add up to very much.

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