By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Only a day after the fire, and in the midst of haggling over responsibility, another sack of something plopped onto our table. When I first looked at my computer screen this morning, the article in the most prominent upper left hand corner of the New York Times web site was headlined “U.S. […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Brush Barry Brush by Linda Valderrama, R.D.H.; illustrated by Sudi Memarzadeh, Shirley’s Gil Publications, ISBN 978-0-578-06605-9 51195; 29 pages including brushing chart with stickers, $11.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This book is for parents and grandparents to read to preschoolers. Written by dental hygienist Linda Valderrama, who is a member of our
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) is to be congratulated for doing a great “mitzvah” by featuring the works of four unfamiliar composers, three of them alive today. All three living composers were present at the performances last month, at the La Jolla Country Day School, November 14, and at Tifereth
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Eileen WingardBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Inertia is a force in government as well as physics. It took World War II to create more than 100 new countries and rearrange the forces most important. Germany and Japan were the big losers. Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal were not far behind. The next big
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Take the intense drama of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, add the unique unmelody of a Stephen Sondheim-ish score, and set it in a jazzed-up version of the three-story house in August-Osage County, and you have a semblance of the excruciatingly moving madness of Next to Normal, the Tony
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Cynthia CitronBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The fire is not yet under control. The weather is changing, aid has come from numerous countries, and the prospects are positive. Now the noise of politicians and activists blaming one another is taking over the media that had been devoted to on the scene action and human interest. The weekend reminded
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — For the “Forever Plaids” their return to San Diego is a welcome sight. Just as a short trip down memory lane the musical Forever Plaid started at the Old Globe way back in 1991. The off- Broadway musical comedy, written by Stuart Ross hit New York in 1990 and became
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MITZPEH RAMON, Israel — I’ve never been to a passing-out parade at Sandhurst or West Point, and am not likely ever to go to one, but I have a sneaking suspicion that the ceremony at which my granddaughter was made an officer in Israel’s Air Force (no, she’s not a pilot) was
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–While the macro picture widely purveyed is global warming, the micro weathers determine who gets what. Europe is reporting record cold and snow, but it is still summer in this corner of the Middle East. Daily temperatures are ranging above 20 C (high 60s low 70 for Americans out of sync with the rest
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Wikileaks’ collection of American diplomatic cables has been on public display for several days. It is not easy obtaining direct access to the raw material, but enough has reached the media to get a feel for the content. If there is a great revelation that should surprise me, it has
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Ira Sharkansky, USA
By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California –There are some things we like to sweep under the rug because they are too painful to grasp, understand, think about or are just out of whack with our sense of right and wrong. Take for example what’s going on in Darfur, or Liberia (read Danai Gurira’s play Eclipsed
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Finding Words by Merle Feld, URJ Press, New York; ISBN 978-0-8074-1162-9, ©2010, $14.95, 86 pages. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Finding Words by Merle Feld, an award-winning author and playwright, is a book of poetry that pulls at the heartstrings. Feld’s poetry expresses her most intimate feelings on the significance of family and
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Fred Reiss, EdDBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The latest session of my seminar on public policy was devoted to “Israel in Comparative Perspective.” After noting that Israel is the lone country with a majority of Jews and the western democracy with outlays on security more than twice those (as a proportion of national resources) of the next most
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –Stipulating that we are not at all sanguine about this and acknowledging that the fact of the leaks may ultimately be more important than the result of the leaks, the first headlines from Wikileaks mainly confirm what we think we already knew, and some things we’re happy to think the
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Shoshana Bryen, USA