Remembering Ze’ev Jabotinsky
Zionist revisionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky died this day (August 4) in 1940 at the age of 59.
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Travel and FoodJewish gay comedian Jason Stuart speaks out
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Steve Martin said of comedy, “It’s all in the ti-ming.” (He put the accent on the second syllable.) Well, if that be so, the time is now for Jason Stuart. The actor, stand-up comic and lecturer has also become a published author. This weekend celebrated a book signing
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast‘After the Wedding:’ A tale of love and grace
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — It is virtually impossible to review the beautiful new film After the Wedding because to reveal any of the plot would inevitably unravel all the rest of it. It’s a convoluted story, filled with twists and turns, secrets and surprises, impeccably presented by three extraordinary actors: Julianne Moore, Michelle
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Travel and FoodLewis, Warren, and the New York Times pile on Israel
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — The ongoing anti-Jewish/anti-Israel movement is finding enablers in credible people and institutions in America. Namely, civil rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis; Sen. Elizabeth Warren; and The New York Times. The use of enablers is sure to inch our nation closer to the political debacle that has
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Middle East, USAA Kansas woman deduces she’s Jewish
By Rosalea Hostetler HARPER, Kansas — As a little girl growing up on a small Kansas farm, I loved books at an early age because my Mom or Dad read them to me. The first one I remember was about Baby Moses in the bull rushes. I can still see the drawing of a baby
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USAWhen our Sky ‘met’ Albert Einstein
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Our cousins, Harry and Sherry Jacobson-Beyer of Louisville, Kentucky, paid us a visit, bringing along their 14-year-old grandson, Ethan Jacobson, of Fairhope, Alabama. Together, with Nancy’s and my grandson, Sky, 12, we visited the Reuben E. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park. The boys went off in
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USARemembering Leon Uris
Author Leon Uris, whose most famous novel was “Exodus” was born this day (August 3) in 1924
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Travel and FoodWeekly Torah portion: Matot/ Masei
By Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — This week we read the double portion of Matot and Masei. The Torah lists each individual stop that the Israelites made during their forty years of wandering in the desert. The text doesn’t tell us what happened at each one of those places, or if anything of any
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Jewish ReligionIsraeli volunteers help Palestinians with medical issues
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A chance remark made by one of my fellow-pupils in the weekly German-language class I attend in my neighborhood retirees’ club aroused my curiosity. Thus I learned about the activities of a group of Israelis who have made it their mission to assist Palestinians whose children require advanced
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationRemembering Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres, who served as both prime minister and president of Israel, was born this day (August 2) in 1923.
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Travel and FoodTherapists’ play- acting helps quarreling couple
By Irv Jacobs, M.D. SANTA FE, New Mexico — Greetings from New Mexico’s state capital, where this week I am attending the annual “Creativity and Madness” Conference by The American Institute of Medical Education, at the Santa Fe Convention Center. The theme of these conferences is largely to explore in detail the lives of high
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Science, Medicine, & EducationOcasio- Cortez trivializes the Holocaust
By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO –Although Rep. Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t understand it, most Jews do understand how inappropriate it is to compare our Southern border to a concentration camp. An editorial in Wednesday’s L.A.Times, however, supports Cortez’s allegation and does it in the name of the Jewish community. The writer identifies himself as a Jew to
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