By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s hard to believe after a week of Gilad Shalit, but there are other happenings in this world that we share with the goyim. Today it was only necessary to reach page 12 in Ha’aretz to find something happening outside of Israel and its immediate neighbors. News from over the
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, presents “Family Day,” a collaboration with Nierman Preschool, on Sun., November 6, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Family Day is part of the 17th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, sponsored by The Viterbi Family
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO–This region, it appears, is more than ready for Sarah Ruhl’s quirkiness. It’s not that we have not yet been exposed to her plays. We have indeed. The San Diego Repertory Theatre downtown has produced two of her works, The Clean House and In The Room Next Door (or the vibrator play”) to critical
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – While the world fixes on developments in the Israel-Palestinian conflict—such as Tuesday’s trade of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, some with blood on their hands— other important developments in the Middle East go unrecognized by the world media, especially a growing rivalry
Malcolm Hoenlein, coming to San Diego, cites confluence of factors in Shalit deal Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The San Diego Israeli and Jewish community rejoices today over the release today of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (pronouncer Gee-laad Sha-leet), who has been held in captivity for over five years. Hamas, the terrorist group that now governs Gaza, violated all civilized standards by abducting him from Israeli territory near Gaza
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO — The following offer from Jewish National Fund to plant for free a tree in Israel in honor of Galid Shalit’s release was received Tuesday morning, October 18, at San Diego Jewish World, and verified by telephone with the public relations department of JNF in New York City: Plant a tree for FREE
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Middle EastBy Yvonne and Paul Greenberg SAN DIEGO — In response to frequent requests from Congregation Beth Israel congregants to worship in their own synagogue during the High Holy Days and because of the very special nature of the synagogue”s 150th anniversary year, afternoon and evening services on Yom Kippur were moved from its traditional downtown
A congregational break-the-fast that ended a half century without one Read More »
San Diego Calendar
By Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO — It would be understandable if Linda Bennett, whose daughter Marla was murdered in a terrorist bombing at Hebrew University in 2002, were opposed to the prisoner exchange deal that brought Gilad Shalit back to Israel. But she said she believes, along with most Israelis, including some whose own children
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–As I am beginning this column, it is 6 AM and the radio is reporting the many details of the transfer of prisoners toward their exchange for Gilad Shalit. It is not the excitement that put me to work this early. Generally my old bones achieve the rest they need earlier than
Questions remain as prisoner transfer begins Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — It seems that many are dismissive of the ‘Occupy’ movement that is proliferating in American cities and some foreign communities as well. It was described as “mobs” by at least one leading Congressman who derides the movement. Not. It’s an amalgam of socially disenfranchised low-income people, unemployed professionals,
‘Occupy’ movement is Civil Rights movement of today Read More »
USABy Lillian Faderman and Roz Rothstein LOS ANGELES -Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas formally asked the United Nations on September 23 to recognize a Palestinian state. And on September 28 the application was passed to a standing committee that must now review whether to return to the pre-1967 borders. Abbas’s bid doesn’t just violate past
New Palestinian state would be anti-Semitic and homophobic Read More »
Middle East
License to Murder by Alex Grobman, Balfour Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-933267-24-1; $15.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The title License to Murder may give the impression of an exciting detective novel, but in fact, this is a 98-page essay with 39 pages of end notes about the devastating effect that the czarist forgery,
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Carol Davis CARDIFF BY THE SEA, California — Write Out Loud has a unique mission: to read literature aloud to live audiences – short stories, poems, and other short subjects come to life – as talented actors bring the stories “off the page” to the delight of the audience. Theatre critic Pat Launer called
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Rabbi Dow Marmur TORONTO, Canada — The most cited call for Jewish survival after the Holocaust came from Canada. The late Emil Fackenheim, University of Toronto philosophy professor, argued that the tragedy the Nazis inflicted on the Jewish people had given rise to a new commandment to be added to the biblical 10: in
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Middle East