By Marcia Berneger SAN DIEGO — My brother, Marc Gold, is a professional cinematographer who owns and operates 24KT Sound & Video. His favorite subjects have always been weddings, bar mitzvahs and theater productions. Then Covid arrived and these venues disappeared. Marc had to repurpose himself and find new ways to help create special videos
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Marcia Berneger, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Ira Spector SAN DIEGO — I like to ask people, “What is the greatest or most exciting thing that happened in your life?” Some of the answers I received were startling and unexpected. I once asked a woman barber cutting my hair this question. In her reply she recalled a memorable event in her
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Travel and Food, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Bond issues are the first measures on both the State of California ballot and on the City of San Diego ballot, asking respectively for the right to borrow $5.5 billion to finance stem cell research (Prop. 14) and up to $900 million to provide affordable housing (Prop. A). {See
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
By Michael Laitman, Ph.D PETACH TIKVAH, Israel –Online antisemitism is nothing new but now it seems to be widely targeting our vulnerable youth more than ever before. Hidden under false identities, haters freely reveal prejudice, bigotry, and antisemitic views across virtually all the unruled space of social media. Teenagers who identify as Jewish complain of
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Lifestyles, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Ira Spector SAN DIEGO — I went one year to the annual professional women’s tennis matches held at La Costa Country Club. La Costa was a client of my company. We made all the signs at the tennis center including the scoreboards on the tournament courts. Once when I had a crew working at
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San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food
NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday issued a new study showing a dramatic spike in anti-Asian sentiment and conspiracy theories about the spread of coronavirus in conversations on Twitter in the days immediately following the president’s first tweet about his positive diagnosis on October 2. The new study of Twitter conversations
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International, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This has been a year when numerous women candidates have come to the forefront and our endorsements for the State Legislature reflects that. To begin with, we are happy to endorse State Sen. Toni Atkins (D-San Diego) for reelection. There is no arguing the fact that she is
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I have read at least one daily newspaper almost since I could read. At my parents’ home in London we had the luxury (which we took for granted) of having a morning newspaper put through our letterbox every morning, so that it was there on the mat, waiting
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Lifestyles, Middle East
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Ernest Bloch’s Baal Shem Suite is music that fits the High Holidays. The first movement, Vidui, is the Yom Kippur confessional prayer; the second movement, Nigun, encompasses cantorial pleading with the Heavenly Power; and the final movement, Simchat Torah, reflects the joy of receiving the Torah. My sister, concert
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Marcia Berneger SAN DIEGO — Simchat Torah is almost here! This Saturday evening we begin the celebration of Simchat Torah. This is a joyous holiday that celebrates the reading of the very last words of the Torah. But the Torah is like a never-ending circle. Once we finish reading it, we immediately begin again.
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Jewish Religion, Marcia Berneger, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Richard L. Cravatts BOCA RATON, Florida — When a provocative Tiktok video uploaded by Nerdeen Kiswani, a second-year student at CUNY law school, went public recently, the anti-Israel sentiment of the clip came as no surprise to those who were aware of Ms. Kiswani’s long record of toxic activism. In the video, Kiswani is
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Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Legislation signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom concerning how California deals with consensual sexual relations between adults and minors—often referred to as “statutory rape” – has flared up as an issue in the mayor’s race between Assemblyman Todd Gloria, who voted for the measure, and City
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
Does this Holiday have Soul (or is that sole) or What?! By Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — It is time to dig deep into those closets and pull out those old dancing shoes! Simchat Torah is upon us! This holiday epitomizes and serves as the climactic conclusion to the Sukkot Holiday, known as
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Jewish Religion, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Last night’s debate between Harris and Pence was far more civil than the first presidential debate. As Trump’s vice president, Pence serves as the Blander and Chief. * A fly landed and sat for 2 minutes on Pence’s hair. What substance could attract a fly so long? * Although Pence