By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — It is said that during the plague of 1606, when all public theatres were closed, Shakespeare wrote both Macbeth and King Lear. Producing theatre that is workable via Zoom has been the challenge of thespians in 2020-21. Playwright/Director Josh Ravetch of the Delaware Theatre Company has risen to […]
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
(JNS) Ambassadors to the United Nations representing Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco marked one year since the signing of the Abraham Accords at a ceremony on Monday in New York. The historic agreement that normalized Israeli relations with the UAE and Bahrain was signed at the White House on Sept. 15, 2020.
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International
Maimonides’ Hidden Torah Commentary — Exodus 22-40 by Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel; First Edition Design Publishing 2021; ISBN: 9781506-904610; 386 pages; $24.95. By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — “Maimonides’ Hidden Torah Commentary — Exodus 22-40″ is a very informative book. Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Chula
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. This week’s parasha begins with “Listen, O heavens, and I will speak! And let the earth hear the words of my mouth!” Ha’azinu and is one of the seven “songs” in Tanakh and is one of the shortest parshas in the Torah, with just 52 verses long, but is filled
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
The Paris Library, A Novel, by Janet Skeslien Charles; Atria Books 2020; 9781982-134198; 355 pages; $28.00. By Oliver B. Pollak LAGUNA HILLS, California – World War II is a magnet for fiction and non-fiction books about books, bookstores and libraries. The current zoom book talk circuit includes The Paris Library, A Novel by Janet Skeslien
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — They’re back! They’re back! I’ve just come from North Coast Rep’s production of Mark St. Germain’s “Dancing Lessons.” This piece was superbly directed by Richard Baird, and enacted by Christopher Williams and Leilani Smith. Baird has appeared on stage in many excellent North Coast plays, but he is
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) Despite the odds that California’s embattled Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will defeat an effort to recall him on Tuesday, Democratic organizations, including the Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) and the Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA), as well as the party’s leading politicians are not taking the race for granted. U.S.
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USA
Published by DPA Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stressed the need to maintain calm between Palestinians and Israel following talks with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Monday, according to the Egyptian presidency website. It was the first time in 10 years that an Israeli prime minister was an official guest of Egypt. “The president
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Middle East
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The University of California San Diego’s Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW) is returning this fall with a yearlong series of seven lectures that underscore the theme “Beyond the Great Silence: The Holocaust in Art, Memory, and Life.” Now in its 13th year as a collaborative project between the UC San Diego
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Jewish History, San Diego County
By Chris Jennewein SAN DIEGO — U.S. Capitol Police arrested an Oceanside man early Monday who allegedly was carrying a bayonet and machete in his truck near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. “This is good police work plain and simple,” said Chief Tom Manger. “We applaud the officers’ keen observation and the teamwork
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San Diego County
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — While the U.S. and the Europeans dawdle and vacillate at the JCPOA (Iran nuclear agreement) meetings – or non-meetings – in Vienna, Iran gets ever closer to nuclear weapons capability. This situation is very dangerous to Israel and the West. Europe and the U.S. are oblivious to this,
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA
By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — A tradition in some ultra-Orthodox communities before Yom Kippur is kaparot, the ceremonial swinging of a chicken over one’s head three times before slaughtering the bird. This act is a symbolic transfer of one’s sins to the animal, which is then donated to the poor. What other
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) After a generation in which Holocaust education has proliferated in the United States, it’s fair to ask whether all that lip service paid to the memory of the Six Million has done as much harm as good. Far from reinforcing the truth about the singularity of the attempt by the
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USA
By Eliana Rudee (JNS) Thousands of people took part in the Sixth Hungarian ‘Cholent Festival’ (“Sólet” in Hungarian) at the Újbuda outdoor theater in Budapest before the start of the High Holidays, organized by the Chabad Lubavitch organization Association of Hungarian Jewish Communities (EMIH). Jews and non-Jews alike gathered for the Aug. 29 festival, which
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and Food