SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Join Congregation Beth Israel on Wednesday, June 15, for its Men’s Club monthly speaker forum. This month the Men’s Club will welcome Heidi Gantwerk, President and CEO of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County. Heidi will provide an overview of Federation’s work. She will also provide an overview of […]
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San Diego County
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The title of the lecture given by Yivsam Azgad under the auspices of the Israel Translators Association was billed as “Translating Science.” Although I personally did not translate that kind of material when I worked as a translator, I have a passing interest in the subject due to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
(JNS) As spring gives way to summer, the live music scene is heating up in Jerusalem, and the first must-see concert of the season had an empowering twist. On Monday evening, June 6, international superstar Ishay Ribo played a sold out show at the Jerusalem Theater to benefit ADI Jerusalem, ensuring that the residential, rehabilitative
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — I was thrilled to discover, in my mailbox last week, the long-awaited CD of music by the American composer, William Grant Still, with my sister Zina Schiff as violin soloist and my niece Avlana Eisenberg conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Zina and Avlana recorded this magnificent
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Michelle Zangari opened a can devoid of any live worms when she warned that Orthodox Jews could be poised to seize control of Rockville Centre on Long Island, which was part of an eight-minute rant that drew condemnations against antisemitism from New York’s governor, senior senator and scores of
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — A court-ordered redistricting in New York has resulted in two current Democratic members of Congress having to run against each other, as the newly-drawn district borders now encompass both of their residences. Jerry Nadler’s 10th district is primarily based on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, while Maloney’s 12th
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Jerry Klinger It is called by some the “legend of the Little Dunkirk.” It was no legend. There are legends about the Jews in Denmark after the Nazi occupation of the country in April 1940. One popular legend was when the Nazis ordered all Danish Jews to wear the Yellow Star of David Armband,
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Holocaust, International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — When I lived in the U.S., I enjoyed the variety of architecture found in my neighborhood. Typically, the homes were colonial houses with their symmetrical front facades and accented doorways, split level homes with staggered floors, one-story ranch houses, and enchanting Tudors with pitched roofs, herringbone brickwork and touches of
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Gedaliah Borvick, Jewish History, Middle East, Travel and Food
By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), the English Romantic artist who lifted landscape and seascape painting to new and enthralling heights will never cease to amaze, inspire and make us question what we thought we knew about painting, about what colored pigment on canvas can do. “Turner’s Modern World” at
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA
By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — When Robin Williams was in Germany, he was asked by an interviewer, “Why do you think we have not so much comedy in Germany?” Williams pithily replied, “Maybe because you killed the funny people.” The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in cooperation
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Eric George Tauber, Holocaust, International, Opinion, USA
By Ira Sharkansky, Ph.D JERUSALEM — Israel’s relations with the Palestinians are truly messy. But they may last. How long? Who knows? Except with Gaza, there are no firm borders. Israel’s settlements, much beyond east Jerusalem, spread into the West Bank. Israel also enters the Palestinian areas in order to deal with individuals who threaten
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Opinion
By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — A recent issue of Psychology Today (April 2022) featured an article entitled: “Your Hidden Super Powers: Ten Ways You Are Stronger Than You Think.” As I read the piece, I was intrigued by how counter-intuitive these super powers seemed. The following eight stood out as particularly
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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz
Violinist Eileen Wingard was never the star of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. Such billings belong to conductors like Zoltan Rozsnyai, Peter Eros, David Atherton, Yoav Talmi, and Jung-Ho Pak, all of whom she played under during a career stretching from 1967 through 2004. Or perhaps the stars are donors like Irwin and Joan Jacobs, who in 2002 gave the San Diego Symphony an amazing gift of $120 million, the largest ever given to an orchestra in America. [Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
By Alex Gordon HAIFA, Israel — In 1919, the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to German scientist Fritz Haber “for the synthesis of ammonia from its constituent elements.” Ekstrand, president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, said that Haber’s discoveries were extremely important for agriculture and the prosperity of mankind. Scientists of
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Alex Gordon, International, Opinion