Untethered The True Children of Cyrus By Joe Gandelman Editor-in-Chief, The Moderate Voice SAN DIEGO — There is a moment in 1974’s Godfather 2 when Michael Corleone sees the determination of Fidel Castro-led rebel forces. The scene is quick and later Michael notes it to the ill-fated crime bigwig Hyman Roth: “I saw an interesting […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Joe Gandelman, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Micha Goodman is one of the most interesting young scholars of Judaism in Israel today. His books on two seminal works of Medieval Jewish philosophy – Moses Maimonides’ Moreh Nevuchim and Yehuda Halevi’s Kuzari – have been best sellers in Israel, as has his third book on Deuteronomy, Moses’
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TULSA, Oklahoma (WJC) — Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose 1961 poem about the Nazi massacre at Babi Yar near Kiev helped to expose rampant anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, died Saturday at 84. Yevtushenko passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He had been a faculty member at the University of Tulsa since the mid-1990s.Some 34,000 Jews were
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorialsJust prior to Pesach (Passover), the National Library of Israel revealed that it had acquired the velum Prague Haggadah two months ago, when the library purchased the famed Valmadonna Collection of Judaica. The Haggadah was printed in Prague in 1556. A previous Haggadah was printed in 1526, but no copy survived. Several elements of the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle EastStockholm (dpa) – Bob Dylan at long last received his 2016 literature Nobel medal and diploma during a private ceremony at an undisclosed location in Stockholm on Saturday. Members of the Swedish Academy told broadcaster SVT that the rock legend received his award at a private ceremony shortly before he took the stage at the
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Fleeing From The Fuhrer: A Postal History of Refugees From the Nazis by Charmian Brinson and William Kaczynski; The History Press; © 2011; 191 pages including index; ISBN 9780752-461953; 17.99 British currency. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I must acknowledge cousins Herb and Susie Rheingruber’s kind gift of this book to me;
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryRedemption, Then and Now: Pesaḥ Haggada with Essays and Commentary by Rabbi Benjamin Blech; Menorah Books, Jerusalem, © 2017, ISBN 978-1-940516-73-8, p. 310, $24.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Considering the long arc of Jewish history, the Haggada, a book containing the Passover Seder, the traditional ordered meal recreating God’s redemptive acts through the
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish ReligionWith the release of a new book, Rachel Dolezal is once again embracing the controversy that emerged after it was revealed that the former NAACP leader was not, as she claimed to be, an African-American. Dolezal’s memoir “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World” was set to be released Tuesday.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAAfter tumultuous event at one college, former UN special rapporteur who accuses Israel of ‘apartheid’ and ‘ethnic cleansing’ sees premature curtailment of London book tour By Jenni Frazer LONDON — A British campus speaking tour came to an abrupt end on Tuesday for Professor Richard Falk, when Middlesex University canceled his appearance scheduled for Wednesday.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Middle EastLondon (dpa) – Writer Colin Dexter, creator of the Inspector Morse character who inspired a popular British television series, has died aged 86, his publisher said on Tuesday. “It is with immense sadness that Macmillan announces the death of Colin Dexter who died peacefully in Oxford this morning,” publisher Pan Macmillan said. Dexter was a
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Can you imagine shrinking to a tiny size and being able to walk through the pages of an interactive book? You stop on one page and you see photographs of Jewish pioneers, quotations from newspaper accounts about them, and perhaps a caption summarizing the high points of their
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego CountyRobert Silvers, the founding editor of The New York Review of Books and a towering patron of intellectual thought who championed writers including Norman Mailer and Joan Didion, has died at the age of 87. Silver died Monday at his Manhattan home after a brief illness, the literary publication announced. Under his guiding editorial hand,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USAHayim Nahman Bialik: Poet of Hebrew by Avner Holtzman; Yale University Press (Jewish Lives series); March 2017; 264 pages; ISBN: 9780300200669. By Rabbi Jack Riemer/JNS.org I have questions about some of the subjects that have been chosen for the Jewish Lives book series from Yale University Press. I wonder what Sarah Bernhardt or Benjamin
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastMichael Krasny’s ‘Let There Be Laughter’ offers funny jokes and insightful commentary as antidote to trying times By Renee Ghert-Zand You know how a lot of people have trouble remembering jokes? Well, Michael Krasny isn’t one of them. An English professor and the longtime host of the most-listened-to locally produced public radio program in the
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