National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene plans a big bash to celebrate its 95th anniversary

  By Jeanette Friedman NEW YORK –I’ve often told the story of how my father—a yeshiva bochur from Munkacs who loved the Yiddish theater—tied his cousin (female) to the back of his motorcycle and headed into Prague from Presov to see drama queen Ida Kaminska. When he got back to Presov, his uncle gave him […]

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Palestinian intransigence helps Israel with White House

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Zionists of the world, relax. Your allies are the Palestinians. They will protect you even from the White House of Barack Obama. Again the Palestinians have said no to efforts of White House emissaries to extract what they can from Prime Minister Netanyahu. He proposed to negotiate toward a Palestinian state with

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Middle East, USA

J*Company wraps up Rodgers and Hammerstein season with 'Cinderella'

 LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The award-winning J*Company Youth Theatre, a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, is pleased to announce its production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA, the first ever made-for-television musical.  The production will run May 6-16, 2010, at

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Why would U.S. want Afghan pilots trained in Lebanon or Syria?

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — The U.S. Department of the Army put out a request for information on “Afghanistan National Army Air Corps English and Pilot Training.” The Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training & Instrumentation (PEO STRI) is conducting market research by seeking sources with innovative business solutions to (1) train and certify

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Middle East, USA

San Diego’s historic places: archaeology at Mission San Diego

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Chief docent Janet Bartel removed a barrier and stepped into the archaeological dig area at Mission San Diego, beckoning others to follow. Two sets of shallow pits, with a dirt walkway in between, were on the southwestern side of the mission quadrangle. Approximately at the middle of the inner

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

A moral code for those people and companies making headlines and the rest of us

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — On Mondays and Thursdays, the market days of times gone by, we read the Torah during daily minyan. We normally read the first three aliyot of the parasha of the approaching Shabbat. On Thursday a member of our minyan nudged me during the Torah reading and said, “I

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Jewish Religion

A Jewish license plate–and a pretty one at that!

SAN DIEGO — Our license plate-spotter-in-chief Melanie Rubin found this Hebrew transliteration meaning “Pretty One.”  The intriguing question, of course, is whether the license plate refers to the driver, the car, or to the language in which the sentiment is expressed! We add ‘Yofi 1″ to our online collection of Jewish-interest license plates.  If you

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Travel and Food

Poizner announces arrests in alleged auto collision scams

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced on Wednesday the arrests of eight suspects in connection with an auto fraud ring case.  The individuals arrested under Operation Hit and Run are suspected of faking traffic collisions and filing fraudulent personal injury claims with insurance companies. Since October 2009, 11 suspects were arrested in connection

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