Theater presents two other ‘make believe’ tales by Peter Pan creator

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–Playwright James M. Barrie is most famous for his familiar and much-loved fantasy Peter Pan.  However, he also produced a large body of other literary works that include two quaintly delicate playlets: Rosalind and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.  These two are currently being staged in a delightful twosome titled

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Cynthia Citron

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, June 29, 1956, Part 1

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World S.D. Hebrew Home Elects New Officers At Meeting Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Pages 1, 4 Maxwell Kaufman, publisher and editor of Southwest Jewish Press was elected to the Presidency of the San Diego Hebrew Home for the aged for the year 1956-67. Over 150 people were present

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

The shameful western ‘don’t botherhood’ of research

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — In 2003, I and the publication I edit, the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA) Journal, became the world’s biggest story for two or three days. Last week I became a “story” without knowing it until later. First, the 2003 experience. An Iraqi-American author submitted a good article

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International, Middle East

Our Homes, Our Sanctuaries

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — A bird’s nest, a wolf’s den, a bear’s cave, a dog’s kennel or cardboard box, a person’s room or house or apartment or castle–these are the sanctuaries, the safe places where one retreats to bear and raise one’s young, to hide from predators, to seek refuge from

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Natasha Josefowitz

This will captcha your imagination: Did computer recognize Hebrew speaker in Taiwan?

By Danny Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — There I was, minding my own business, as usual, working not out of my wireless cave that day, but in my local internet cafe, since I don’t own a computer and do all my email and surfing chores at the rent-a-computer cafe down the street from the place

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Red Cross takes a stand on Shalit; CNN, NYT taking sides for Gaza

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the Flag & General Officers Program in Israel, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) asked the Israeli government why it gives Hamas a “free ride” from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). We wrote, “You let/enable/assist the Red Cross in doing its humanitarian work in the

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen