Seven ‘Women of Valor’ saluted at Jewish Arts Festival
Celebrating its tenth anniversary as an annual part of the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, this year’s Women of Valor featured seven outstanding local Jewish women, Jaqui Silver, Pianist and Educator; Allison...
‘Anne Frank: The Collected Works’ to be published in US
“Anne Frank: The Collected Works,” which consists of three versions of her famous diary and several letters she wrote to her paternal grandmother before the 15-year-old perished in the Holocaust, will be published in...
Moe Berg’s surprising double life
The Spy Behind Home Plate, a documentary on the life of Moe Berg by Aviva Kempner, opening June 28 at the Landmark Ken Theater, 4061 Adams Avenue, San Diego.
In baseball, an all-around player is one...
Israeli fencer makes history with European championship win
Israeli fencer Yuval Freilich, 24, took the gold medal in the European Fencing Championships in Dusseldorf, Germany on Tuesday.
Yuval Freilich, ranked 40th in the world, beat out Italy’s Andrea Santarelli, rank 13, to take...
Martin Feldstein, noted Harvard economist and political steward, dies at 79
Martin Feldstein ’61, a towering figure in economics who advised presidents across political boundaries and helped develop public economics as an empirical science, died Tuesday at age 79. He taught at Harvard for five...
Forget about the ‘Jewish home-run record’
The story is designed to appeal to baseball fans, as well as that curious subset of people who obsess about the role of Jews in America’s national pastime. Last week, Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan...
Toronto Raptors Jewish co-owner: Team will visit Israel if it wins NBA championship
The Toronto Raptors are one game away from winning its first NBA championship on Thursday, in addition to gaining a complimentary trip to the ultimate Promised Land.
The team’s Jewish billionaire co-owner, Larry Tanenbaum, told...
Israeli Jewish divorces up by 5% in 2018, with an 86% increase in one...
According to statistics issued by Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, the divorce rate among Israeli Jews rose by five percent in 2018, while soaring by 86 percent in one city.
In Gedera, 52 couples untied the knot...
Handwritten Hebrew letter by Joseph Trumpeldor to be sold at auction
For years, there has been a debate about whether Zionist hero Joseph Trumpeldor actually uttered the famous declaration attributed to him moments before he died of his wounds defending the Jewish settlement at Tel...
What it’s like to be the rabbi on the beaches of Normandy 75 years...
Exactly 75 years ago, Normandy was the site of one of the largest military invasions ever staged. Forever known as D-Day, June 6, 1944 marked the turning point of World War II, in which 156,000 American,...