LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–David Amos and Erica Miner, on-air personalities for classical radio station XLNC1, will present a series of lectures at the Athenaeum in April on “crossover composers.” These two experts will examine the different genres in which Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky worked. Amos also is a music critic for San Diego Jewish […]

By Paul Greenberg LA JOLLA, California– The documentary film, William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, about the life and times of the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) Jewish attorney who is best-known for trying to help the oppressed in American society through the legal system, as well as defending rapists, terrorists, and assassins later in

HANIA, Crete, Greece (WJC) — Two Britons, one Greek and one American have been arrested in Hania, on the Greek island of Crete on suspicion that they carried out arson attacks against the town’s medieval synagogue earlier this month that caused significant damage. Three men – a Greek aged 24 and two Britons aged 33 and

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By Rabbi Will Kramer (December 24, 1971) Not long ago, we reviewed Sam J. Lee’s Moses of the New World the story of the life and work of Baron de Hirsch. It made us de Hirsch-conscious. In 1896, Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger of San Francisco admired Hirsch’s success in South America and hoped that Baja California