New CD captures cello and piano performance true to Beethoven's genius

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–Bridge Records, a new  label, has produced some adventurous recordings. In 2007, the company introduced a collection of songs by Sefan Wolpe (1902-1972), an unheralded genius whose lyrics were in German, Yiddish, Hebrew and English. There followed other Wolpe albums such as a children’s puppet show tale, Lazy Andy Ant.  Additional

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Eileen Wingard

Was the Holocaust the legacy of the Church's teachings?

Six Million Crucifixions: How Christians Teachings About Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust by Gabriel Wilensky, Qwerty Publishers, San Diego, CA. ISBN 978-0-984-33467-4, ©2010, $27.95, p. 309, plus appendices. Available in Kindle edition  By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Twenty-two of the highest ranking Nazi Party officials were tried from November 20, 1945 to October 1,

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Fred Reiss, EdD

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, February 4, 1955, Part 1

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff B.B. District Grand Lodge President To Attend Joint Meeting February 4 Southwestern Jewish Press, February 4, 1955, Page 1 San Diego will be honored by a visitation of the District Grand Lodge President of B’nai B’rith, David A. Chertkow of Canada, on Monday, Feb. 14, at 8:15 p.m.,

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Adventures in SD History

Commentary: Transnational loyalties have affected many religious groups

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The issue of Islam touches a problem with ancient lineage that appears in modern societies that pride themselves on diversity, and suffer from conflicts with people who are both outsiders and insiders. Josephus describes the civil war between Judeans who identified with the culture of the Romans, and those who rejected any

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Commentary: Efforts needed to rescue Arabs and Haredim from Israeli poverty

Part two of a series on poverty in Israel; to read part one, click here. Ephraim Guttman illustrates both the face of poverty in Israel and a solution. Dressed in the uniform of the ultra-Orthodox — the requisite black suit and white shirt, which makes no concession to the scorching summer heat — he does

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Middle East

ADL condemns attack on Muslim taxi driver in New York City as a 'brutal hate crime'

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) strongly condemned the stabbing of a New York City taxi driver in an apparent anti-Muslim hate crime, calling the attack especially disturbing amid the current atmosphere of elevated anti-Muslim sentiment surrounding the Ground Zero controversy. Michael Enright is accused of stabbing Ahmed H. Sharif after entering

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Words of controversy: It's 'Ground Zero Mosque' to some, 'Cordoba House' to others

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM– The Ground Zero Mosque as its opponents call it, or Cordoba House according to its promoters, has become a mirror of  politics in the United States and elsewhere, and not always the best of those politics. Bottom feeders in New York see strong opposition as their best road to a nomination.

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East