By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a crucial divide between PR and straight talk, between red lines, bottom lines and spin. Last week we cautioned against mistaking Israel’s bad PR for bad policy, and faulted people who respond to Israel based on how things look in the media rather than for what they […]
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The grand opening of the Cosmopolitan Hotel & Restaurant in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park will be commemorated with a free public festival on Saturday, July 10, featuring an open-air night-time circus. The day-long event will begin at 1 p.m. with live entertainment including strolling actors, musicians on stage, and
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)–As Prime Minister Netanyahu arrives for his 5th set of meetings with President Obama, the headline in one newspaper is, “Obama mum on Bush’s borders for Israel,” noting, “The White House has declined to publicly affirm commitments made by President Bush to Israel in 2004 on the final borders
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The second of the two Shakespeare plays being mounted on the Lowell Davies Festival Stage is his comedy/farce Taming of The Shrew directed by Ron Daniels. Every now and then companies like to dust off this misogynist piece and see how funny they can make it by just being
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California—As the 4th of July pinwheels, sparklers, cloud bursts and other pyrotechnics lit up the Poway-Rancho Bernardo area, the 9-year-old boys behind me kept up a running commentary: “That’s the biggest one yet… That’s the loudest! …. That’s the coolest! … That’s the highest! … Oh, that’s so awesome.” Occasionally,
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Cities are places where people of different backgrounds and outlooks come together and make do with one another. Jerusalem is no different, but it is also different. Prominent groups in the population are Arabs, about 30 percent, and ultra-Orthodox Jews, about 30 percent of the Jewish population. For Jerusalemites who are neither
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–What a better way to kick off the Old Globe’s summer outdoor Festival than to mount a stunning production of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy King Lear staring Robert Foxworth and directed by Adrian Noble formally of the Royal Shakespearean Company? None that I can think of thank you. Now
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–There may be 20,000 persons marching along the roads from northern Israel toward Jerusalem, led by the family of Gilad Shalit. He is the soldier who was seized from the Israeli side of the Gaza border four years ago, and has since been the subject of on-again, off-again negotiations to
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Israel’s first Bedouin Arab diplomat, Ishmael Khaldi, said on Thursday that the granting of American asylum to Mosab Hassan Yousef points up that Palestinians in Gaza are far from universally favorable to Hamas, the terrorist organization that has ruled the territory since 2006. Yousef, 32, son of
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — One of our more difficult endeavors is to find a balance between being so challenged that we lose sleep over it and being so bored with a familiar routine that we are depressed. What makes people satisfied with their lives is the opportunity to grow, gain mastery, and have
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Natasha JosefowitzBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The dismissal of General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan is not as seismic as some are contending, but it is significant. The comparison with Truman and MacArthur is not appropriate. MacArthur acted against presidential policy, and helped create the military and political disaster of Chinese entry into the Korean War. McChrystal and his
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Ira Sharkansky, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a strange conversation, a journalist called to ask how badly Israel’s image had been damaged by the flotilla incident. Our first thought was, “Not as badly as if the precedent was set for ships to land in Gaza without Israeli inspection, or if the millions of Euros in
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By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California–In Annie Weisman’s world premiere Surf Report now playing at the La Jolla Playhouse in the Mandel Weiss Forum, the waves have yet to break, the water’s flat, the surf is receding and the rip currents are enough to drag you down. Yup, all that and the characters are as
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & BroadcastEditor’s Note: JINSA Reports referred to below are published as columns by Shoshana Bryen in San Diego Jewish World By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –To mark the occasion of 1,000 JINSA Reports beginning in 1995, we have finished reformatting and posting them on our website – www.jinsa.org. Please take a look and let us know
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