So you think you can dance? Check out ‘Burn The Floor’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Broadway/San Diego’s Burn The Floor will only be at the Civic Theatre for a short while longer. That’s a shame. It’ s a dance enthusiast’s paradise watching the company move at incredible speed with impeccable precision and style. Burn the Floor is dubbed an international ballroom dance extravaganza. It includes

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

Obama signs legislation improving veterans’ benefits

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Releaase) – House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner announced that the President has signed H.R. 3219 into law.  The Veterans’ Benefits Act of 2010 improves and modernizes certain benefits administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for veterans and their families.  Filner said, “This new law is the result of numerous

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USA

Yudof names Barton to UC council on campus climate, culture and inclusion

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Richard D. Barton, a partner in the law firm of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP,  has been appointed by Mark Yudof, University of California President, to serve as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture, and Inclusion.  The Council is comprised of 18 community representatives and

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

Avraham would have been proud of bridge builder’s spirit

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Avraham grew up in a world where the norm was idolotry. His father was a card carrying idolator. That was the family business. But Avraham, through his penetrating insight and  honest analysis, realized that this norm was wrong. Despite the social  mores, despite fierce, even violent resistance he held on

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Jewish Religion

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch decries anti-Semitism and delegitimization of Israel

NEW YORK (Press Release) — In remarks at a dinner where he was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his stalwart support of Israel and his commitment to promoting respect and speaking out against anti-Semitism, media magnate K. Rupert Murdoch described in stark terms what he sees as an “ongoing war against the Jews” and

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USA

San Diego Jewish Book Fair: Mosab Hassan Yousef, ‘Son of Hamas,’ who speaks Nov. 3, made 180 degree turnaround

Son of Hamas, by Mosab Hasan Yousef with Ron Brackin, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,  264 pages, 2010. By David Strom SAN DIEGO — Human beings are complicated and because of this, life is interesting. If you are raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, grow up in an Orthodox community, go to Orthodox religious schools, play

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Middle East

Israeli scholar: Ahmadinjad’s visit intended to warn other Lebanese not to oppose Hezbollah

HAIFA (Press Release) — “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Lebanon is intended to remind all of Lebanon’s denominations that Iran will not tolerate any harm to Hezbollah’s power and status,” says Dr. Soli Shahvar, Director of the Ezri Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa. Hezbollah was established as a branch

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Travel and Food

Common stress can lead to unified group reactions

TEL AVIV (Press Release)–Anxiety, or the reaction to a perceived danger, is a response that differs from one animal or human to another ― or so scientists thought. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are challenging what we know about stress, and their study has implications for helping clinicians better treat victims of terrorism or

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Science, Medicine, & Education

U.S. agrees recognizing Jewish character of Israel a legitimate demand

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WJC) — the United States sees as legitimate Israel’s demand that Palestinians and other Arab states recognize Israel’s Jewish character, a State Department spokesman has said. P. J. Crowley was asked by reporters during a briefing about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to extend a partial settlement building freeze in exchange for the Palestinian leadership’s

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Middle East

Rabbi, bishops debate cause and effect in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

ROME (WJC)–At a synod of Catholic bishops dealing with the Middle East , Rabbi David Rosen said  “Christians in Israel are obviously in a very different situation from their sister communities in the Holy Land, who are part and parcel of a Palestinian society struggling for its independence and who are inevitably caught up in

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Travel and Food

Turkey withdraws from OECD tourism conference in Jerusalem

ANKARA (WJC)–Turkey will not attend this year’s tourism conference of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is to be held in Jerusalem later this month. Culture and Tourism Minister Ertuğrul Günay spoke to reporters on Tuesday and confirmed that Ankara would not be sending representatives to Israel for the conference despite prior

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Middle East