In honor of Roald Hoffmann
Nobel Prize winning chemist Roald Hoffmann was born this date (July 18) in 1937.
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Travel and Food250th celebration based on enduring American values
By Chris Jennewein Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — San Diego’s celebration of its 250th anniversary this week was a welcome reminder that what brings Americans together in 2019 is stronger that what divides us. While Washington was reeling from President Trump’s suggestion that four Congresswomen from immigrant families to “go back” to the
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Chris Jennewein, San Diego CountyDespereaux delights the child in all of us
Lean close, my friends. I’m telling you a story. By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — From the get go, we are charmed into the magical storybook world of Pigpen Theatre’s The Tale of Despereaux playing at the Old Globe through Aug 11. With a tight ensemble, poetry, puppetry and song, it is a tale
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastHow U.S. benefits with Israel as its strategic partner
By Shoshana Bryen inFOCUS Quarterly WASHINGTON, D.C. —One of the few points of unbounded bipartisan agreement in Washington has for decades been that U.S.-Israel security cooperation is right, good, mutually beneficial and worth every nickel spent on it. It is well–grounded in facts and acknowledged benefits to both sides. Today, however, support for Israel is
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USANotes on Torah reading for July 20, 2019
Numbers: Chapter 22, v. 2 through Chapter 25, v.9 (Balak) By Irvin H. Jacobs, MD, MPH, MFA LA JOLLA, California — The gist of this parsha is a story of an intended curse of the approaching Israelites by a fearful pagan ruler, through a seer named Balaam. (f1) Though there are lessons to be learned,
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish ReligionThe Forward’s Peter Beinart’s backwards thinking
By Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel –I write articles like this one because popular columnists such as Peter Beinart have the reach and the power to misinform many readers. In a recent article on the traditionally leftist and Jewish Forward site, Beinart has again revealed himself as one who gets it all backwards. His pedigree
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USACampus radicals churning out radical U.S. politicians
By Barry Shaw NETANYA, Israel — The new radical force in American politics has come to be represented by what is called “The Squad, ”four new and radical Democratic congresswomen who have used their gender and their ethnicity as a battering ram to force themselves and their radical policies to the center of their party.
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Barry Shaw, Middle East, USAUseful employment lessens radicals’ appeal to youth
By Caleb Tisdale MARRAKECH, Morocco — Attracting young people to radical, extremist ideas is not hard. Just ask the ISIS recruiters behind one of the most effective propaganda presences in the world. Extremist groups are so effective at recruitment because the target audience is easily identified and appealed to: those who are at the margins
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InternationalHumoring the headlines: July 17, 2019
A Racist True or False Quiz By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−President Trump tweeted today, “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” True: He doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. He has a racist mind, mouth, and political instincts. As far as bones go, he does have racist skeletons in his closet.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireJewish views of Satan and demons
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionRemembering Arthur Rothstein
Photographer Arthur Rothstein chronicled rural America during the Great Depression. We remember him on this his date of birth (July 17) in 1915.
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Travel and Food‘Welcome the stranger’: words U.S.A should live by
By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — A recent full-page ad in the New York Times really resonated with me, and I hope it registered with all Americans, Jews especially, as well. It was not selling a product or technology, but a long-held, seemingly endangered principle: welcoming the stranger. A tribute “with much love and respected”
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International, Joel H. Cohen, USAKumeyaay Nation honored on San Diego’s 250th
Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – A month after California Gov. Gavin Newsom apologized to Native Americans for the state’s early history of sanctioning murder of Indians and attempting the annihilation of their culture, the City of San Diego celebrated as the flag of the Kumeyaay nation on
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyPlay blames Nancy Reagan for indifference to AIDS
By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California — It’s been nearly 35 years since the beloved film star Rock Hudson died of a heretofore unknown disease called AIDS.At the time, Ronald Reagan, who had been a movie star himself (although not a beloved one) was president. Hereacted to news of the malady that was soon to
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA