By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–The 17th Annual Jewish Arts Festival, which runs from May 30th to June 21, spans the wide spectrum of the performing arts. Malashock Dance and Hot P’Stromi brought together modern dance and Klezmer at the Lyceum Space Theatre in downtown San Diego. I attended the performance on June 13th. What better
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By Cynthia Citron SAN DIEGO–Nestled at the foot of New York’s George Washington Bridge, way past all the trendy restaurants and the streets of neatly gentrified brownstones, on the UPPER upper West Side of Manhattan, is the neighborhood called Washington Heights. When I lived there as a child the community was made up, mostly, of
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Cynthia CitronBy J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida–Why does the Israel Navy’s killing civilian protesters on the high seas remind me of the brutal actions of the British Navy in combating the ships of Aliya Bet in 1947? There is no comparison in quantity or quality between the two events but both won the battle and
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Jewish History, Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday expressed appreciation to the United States Mission in Geneva for its condemnation of a Syrian diplomat’s statement alluding to the ancient blood libel against Jews. The League voiced outrage, however, that the president of the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) has yet to denounce the hateful
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By Donald H. Harrison SANTEE, California—On a frontage road of State Highway 67, a building in an industrial park bears the name “Museum of Creation and Earth History.” Initially developed by the Institute for Creation Research at Christian Heritage College in neighboring El Cajon, the museum offers exhibits in support of the belief that the
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Donald H. HarrisonCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Shavuoth Observed By Confirmation Services at Temple and Synagogue Southwestern Jewish Press, June 11, 1954, Page 1 Confirmation Services were held last Sunday at both Temple Beth Israel and Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Known as the Season of the Giving of the Torah and the Festival of the First
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California-The New York Times’ headline could have been “Turkey’s Islamist Government Is Just Doing the U.S. A Favor, Wink, Wink” instead of “For Turkey, an Embrace of Iran Is a Matter of Building Bridges,” by Sabrina Tavernise. With the imprimatur “News Analysis”, the NYTs bureau chief in Istanbul, Sabrina Tavernise, with
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Middle East, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Young playwrights Ali Viterbi, Leah Salovey and Sarah Price-Keating–saluted six San Diego “women of valor” in a Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival production on Sunday in which they and other talented actresses portrayed the women in six successive 10-minute segments. The composite sketch of female Jewry of San Diego celebrated
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Donald H. Harrison, Eileen WingardBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–Sometimes one wonders what the media, the pundits, the leftists, the Presbyterians, and most of Europe would all do if they did have not the Jews to examine and excoriate. Certainly it’s a collective straight line away from their own inexhaustible layers of racial hypocrisies, inquisitions, crusades, slave-trading, and discarding-all-principles-for-oil
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Middle East, USABy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Is it just me, or did you also wonder how these “peace activists” found the free time to join the mission defying Israel’s blockade? Did you also wonder how they could afford to travel the world for this purpose? Here’s the critical question: How could educated, compassionate people fail to
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Middle EastBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–Agnes Flynn’s dad doesn’t want her to go to the embankment to neck with Seamus O’Malley. But she does anyway and Seamus, in a fit of lust, bites her on the neck. No, he isn’t a vampire, but his bite affects her as profoundly as if he were. It transforms her
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Cynthia CitronChaim Weizmann Branch Paole Zion Southwestern Jewish Press, May 28, 1954, Page 9 The recent monthly meeting was devoted to a commemoration of our late beloved member, Sol Goodman. His friends and members of the Labor Zionist organization to which he was so especially devote have decided that a living tribute to his memory be
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California–Near the northwest corner of Gillespie Field is an annex of the San Diego Aerospace Museum, where visitors can hear lore and legends about aircraft from people who, in some cases, made them originally or who are helping to restore them to museum quality. Among the volunteers
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By Sara Appel-Lennon SAN DIEGO — Last June, University City High School student Zac St. Louis explored volunteering options for his Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project, coming upon The Ranchero Fund, which offers medical equipment to paralyzed patients with no health insurance. St. Louis learned that Rebecca and Niel Pollock started The Ranchero Fund after
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