SAN DIEGO — We’ve written about Melanie Rubin and her eagle eye for spotting Jewish interest license plates. Well, now her mother, Penni Rubin, who lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, has caught the bug. We can’t tell whether this license plate was meant to be plural or possessive, but we know it’s Yiddish for grandpas.
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Jewish ReligionLA JOLLA, CA (Press Release)– Goodbye Memories, an original play by San Diego playwright Anita Yellin Simons, will be presented Jan 21-23 by the J*Company youth theatre at the Lawrence Family JCC. The production is a collaboration with the San Diego Jewish Academy and will be directed by Emily Calabrese. Goodbye Memories sheds new light
J*Company to produce new play on Anne Frank’s life Read More »
San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyTEL AVIV (Press Release) ― Working out can help you shed pounds ― but that’s just the beginning. New research from Tel Aviv University has found that “endurance exercises,” like a Central Park jog or a spinning class, can make us look younger. The key, exercise, unlocks the stem cells of our muscles. Prof. Dafna Benayahu
Want to look prettier or more handsome? Exercise! Read More »
Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodBy Audrey Jacobs and Michael Lurie SAN DIEGO — As they light the candles for Hannukah, the Jewish festival of lights, Jews recall the central message of this happy festival – renewing their faith as a free people in their homeland, the land of Israel. Hannukah commemorates the events of over 2,100 years ago, when the
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Middle EastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—The Jewish Federations of North America applauded the unanimous passage of a Congressional resolution Wednesday, Dec. 1, to support programs that meet the distinct needs of aging Holocaust survivors. Spurred by information gathered by The Jewish Federations of North America and Jewish Family Service agencies, Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Frank
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USA
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — In all the excitement over the Wikileaks story, I want to remind people that there’s another big story being ignored. You will be reading about it in the mass media in two or three months. The Obama Administration has messed up its attempts to get Israel-Palestinian negotiations going. The
Obama administration has bungled in Middle East for two years now Read More »
Middle East, USATEHRAN (WJC)–Officials in Iran are upset after discovering the outline of a Star of David atop the roof of the headquarters of Iran Air, the Islamic republic’s national airline, the Arab news channel ‘al-Arabiya’ reports. The six-pointed star was discovered by a Google Earth user recently, over three decades after the building was constructed by
Discovery of leftover rooftop Star of David on Iran Air building upsets officials Read More »
Travel and FoodRAMALLAH (WJC)–The Palestinian Authority (PA) has removed a controversial report claiming that the Western Wall in Jerusalem is not holy to Jews from its official website. The paper by a senior PA official had sparked world-wide criticism and was condemned as incorrect and provocative, including by the US government. The five-page ‘study’ was authored by
Palestinians withdraw report contending Kotel not Jewish Read More »
Middle EastJERUSALEM (WJC)–Tamir Pardo, a former deputy director of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency Mossad, has been tapped by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as successor to current Mossad Director Meir Dagan. Pardo has worked in the organization for much of his career. In a statement Netanyahu praised the new director’s “decades-worth of rich experience in the Mossad”.
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Wikileaks’ collection of American diplomatic cables has been on public display for several days. It is not easy obtaining direct access to the raw material, but enough has reached the media to get a feel for the content. If there is a great revelation that should surprise me, it has
Thus far, Wikileaks seen as more embarrassing than harmful Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Sanford Lakoff, professor emeritus of political science at UCSD, will deliver lectures for the Agency for Jewish Education at locales in Coronado and Carlsbad in December. First, at the Coronado Library at 10:30 a.m. Dec. 15, Lakoff will deliver a “Mid-East Update.” According to an AJE spokesperson: “The U.S. effort to
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyNEW YORK (Press Release) — Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Tuesday, Nov. 30, welcomed the strong condemnation by the Obama Administration of a report issued by a senior Palestinian official claiming that the Western Wall is an Islamic Waqf and refuting Jewish claims to the Western Wall. The
Obama administration denounces Palestinian claims of no Jewish connection to Kotel Read More »
Middle East
By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California –There are some things we like to sweep under the rug because they are too painful to grasp, understand, think about or are just out of whack with our sense of right and wrong. Take for example what’s going on in Darfur, or Liberia (read Danai Gurira’s play Eclipsed
‘Ruined’ at La Jolla Playhouse a must see Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastVISTA, California (Press Release)–Congregation B’nai Tikvah is holding its first annual “Iron Bubbes” Latke Challenge at its Hanukkah Celebration on Fri, Dec. 3 at 6:30pm. Contestants will be competing for the title of “Best Latke” and a Gift Certificate to “Sur La Table.” Judging this traditional Jewish fare will be by local restaurant celebrity, Big John Haedrich founder
Latke contest at B’nai Tikvah to be judged by restaurateurs Read More »
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