Remembering Ira Levin
Author/ Playwright Ira Levin was born this day (August 27) in 1929.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWho is calling the shots in Gaza?
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Is Gaza controlled by Hamas? And is Hamas the terrorist organization widely claimed? Or is there some degree of trust? Or at least an effort at communication between Israel and Gaza? We hear that there are 12,000 Gazans allowed into Israel. Some are business people, seeking deals. Some are workers,
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastNatasha’s Memoir: Life in NYC, N.J., and Israel
This is another installment in author Natasha Josefowitz’s memoir By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Back from our business trip/honeymoon in South America, my husband Sam’s apartment was in a basement on the west side of New York City. The small windows were right under the ceiling. We had a view of people’s
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Middle East, Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABook offers tips and facts about DNA testing
Seed of Israel: DNA Guide To Tracing Your Jewish Ancestry by Joshua Robbin Marks, 48 pages including endnotes; available on Amazon.com for $14.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Perhaps your friends or relatives have told you that they did a DNA test and found out about their ancestry, and now you’re wondering whether
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & EducationOpEd: Trump tries to move Jewish voters to the right
By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — Sad to say, President Trump has just blown any chance (admittedly, next-to-zero, or less) of establishing political détente with me. He did it with an all-too-typical wild-and-woolly statement that many considered startling, even offensive. Count me among them. Trump issued a challenge to Jewish voters, aimed at getting
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Joel H. Cohen, USADance Nation Steps into the Surreal
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — There’s plenty of drama in dance studios, especially when there are competitions coming up. It’s a lot of pressure to put on these kids and rivalries among friends complicate their relationships. The characters are “tweeners,” children in their pre-teen years filled with rambunctious energy, insecurities and curiosities navigating
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastRemembering Peggy Guggenheim
Art collector Peggy Guggenheim was born this day (August 26) in 1898.
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsFormer U.S. Attorney Litman to speak Sept. 18 at CBI
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Harry Litman, a former United States Attorney for western Pennsylvania and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, will address the Beth Israel Men’s Club at a 6:30 p.m. dinner buffet Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the temple, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. Litman teaches Constitutional Law and National Security Law at both the UCLA
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San Diego Calendar, USAJewish Trivia Quiz: Gun Control
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Following recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, President Trump indicated a willingness to consider a number of laws to reduce gun violence, including improved background checks and red-flag laws, although he has since backed away from that support. Many rabbis and other Jewish scholars have
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & SatireMassive tree planting program may save planet
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — It might surprise most people to know that ecological themes form an important part of the Torah and Tanakh. For example: Genesis begins with an important ecological truth: “The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and
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International, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, The World We Share, USAComparing the biblical and Roman creation stories
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — It is basic psychology that people cannot understand a subject unless they understand its opposite. In fact, this was the first lesson I learnt at Johns Hopkins in my first psychology class. Peter Kamara’s Ancient Roman Mythology contains a description of a Roman creation myth. It is
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International, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionDeuteronomy: The Book of Jewish Sovereignty
By Moshe Dann The Jerusalem Post JERUSALEM — The last “book” of Torah, Devarim (words), is also called Deuteronomy because it contains many laws especially relevant to the conquering and settlement of Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) that were not presented in the first four books. It reflects the transition from the end of one
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastRemembering Leonard Bernstein
Conductor/ composer/ muisican Leonard Bernstein was born this day (August 25) in 1918.
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsHounding the Headlines: August 25, 2019
National Dog Day By Elona Baron as told to Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-National Dog Day is August 26th. Rather than growl about why dogs only get a day instead of a celebratory month, I want to provide sketches of famous dogs. Most are real, but some I imagined while waiting endless hours for my masters
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Lawrence Baron, The World We Share, Trivia, Humor & Satire