By Cynthia Citron LONG BEACH, California –Is it too soon to pan a play about the Holocaust? Sadly, 65 years after the stories from the death camps shocked and horrified the world, the shock and horror revealed in Barbara Lebow’s 1989 play A Shayna Maidel” (Yiddish for “a pretty girl”) seems somewhat manipulative. The play is
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Cynthia CitronWASHINGTON D.C. (Press Release) — William Burns, the U.S. Under Secretary for Political Affairs, made the following statement on Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on U.S. policy towards Iran and the rest of the Middle East: Chairman Kerry, Senator Lugar, Members of the Committee: Thank you very much for the opportunity to appear
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Southwestern Jewish Press, July 9, 1954, Page 1 Her First American Doll First of the five displaced families and individuals slated to come to San Diego in 1954 arrived last week from Sweden. According to Dr. Walter Ornstein, chairman of San Diego’s Émigré committee, the Zajd family consisting
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Adventures in SD History, USACompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Bay City B.B. Woman Southwestern Jewish Press, June 25, 1954, page 6 Arrangements for the Annual Paid-Up membership affair have been completed and Mrs. Harold Gavin, chairman, announces that Thursday, July 1, 8:00 p.m. in the lounge of the Tifereth Israel is the date, time and place. All
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — What is the American goal in Afghanistan? To chase al Qaeda, degrade the Taliban, or protect the people from the Taliban’s depredations? Is it to provide consensual government under elected leadership, clean government and services to the people? Or maybe it is to kill bad guys? But what constitutes
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SAN DIEGO–Our favorite license plate sleuth, Melanie Rubin, spotted this one, translating from English, Hebrew and some license plate-ese to Greater Good. Given the fact that the owner is a Boston Red Sox fan, we assume that refers to first baseman Kevin Youkilis improving his already formidable batting performance each season. To view San Diego Jewish World‘s collection of Jewish license
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The following statement by the Quartet consisting of the United Nations, United States, European Unon and Russian Federation was issued on Monday in response to Israel’s decision to allow freer flow of non-military goods to Gaza: The Quartet re-affirms that the current situation in Gaza, including the humanitarian and human rights
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — If you’re a softie for a little bit of nostalgia, you might want to pack your snuggie, a thermos of warm coffee/hot chocolate and a warm blanket and head down to Balboa Park where Starlight Musical Theatre is presenting a robust production of the
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES– It takes a super-savvy conductor to lead a group of four extraordinary non-musicians (plus one actual violin virtuoso) through the intricate movements of a play about a string quartet, and Simon Levy is that man. Levy, longtime producing director and dramaturg of the Fountain Theatre, has done his usual fine-tuned job
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Cynthia CitronHAIFA (Press Release)–An international team of scholars from Israel, the United Kingdom, France, and Austria have presented a comprehensive radiocarbon-based chronology of dynastic Egypt, spanning two thousand years. This marks the first time that high precision radiocarbon dating has been used so extensively for this specific purpose in the context of this ancient civilization. In
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–The 17th annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Arts Festival: ‘A Joyous Celebration of Art and Soul’ spread its program across the June calendar offering a variety of art, dance, music and theatre. Here are some impressions of the programs yours truly was able to attend. The first offering, The
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Carol Davis, Eileen Wingard, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Southwestern Jewish Press, June 25, 1954, Page 4 Letter to the Editor Dear Mr. Kaufman Thos of us who attended the Israeli Day Celebration at Tifereth Israel Synagogue were very much impressed by the speaker, General Eliahu Ben-Hur and the supporting program. I wish to express my deepest
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Adventures in SD History, Middle EastHAIFA (Press Release)–Multiple sclerosis patients who directly confronted the stress of the Second Lebanon War suffered fewer attacks than those who chose to cope with the situation by focusing on feelings. This has been shown in a new study carried out by researchers of the University of Haifa, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and Carmel
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–It is appropriate to ponder the significance of one hundred thousand ultra-Orthodox demanding independence from the Israeli judiciary. While the Sephardim suffer discrimination in the ultra-Orthodox communities, only a few of their leaders made that point. It was more common for prominent Sephardi rabbis and politicians to join hands with the Ashkenazim,
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