Jews and chocolate: 500 years of sweetness
Sephardic Jews who were expelled in the late 15th century from Portugal and Spain learned about cocoa and the production of chocolate from the indigenous peoples of Central and South America and the Caribbean. Keeping...
Traveling Israel exhibit opens in Florida
On one side of the seating area on Sunday, Dec. 8, was a documented German cattle car used to transport Jews from Warsaw to their death in Treblinka. On the opposite side was a...
‘Hold These Truths’: A story we need to hear
“The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hit.”
This is a common Japanese proverb. Parents use it to teach kids to conform and respect authority, not to stand out or make waves....
‘The Last Five Years’ pulls heart strings
When most people think of musical theatre, they think of large casts with full orchestras, glitzy dance numbers and a love story with a happy ending. That is not this story. Jason Robert Brown’s The...
‘Bluish’ concert features Jews and African-Americans
From the creative muse of Yale Strom comes another concert with the intriguing title, “BLUEISH: JEWS AND THE BLUES.”
The multi-talented Strom, scholar-in-residence at SDSU’s Judaic Studies Department, has brought concerts combining his klezmer forces...
Time travel fiction dramatizes first Chanukah
Ah, the joys of time travel! San Diego author Marcia Berneger, a retired teacher, uses this device to imaginatively retell the story of the first Chanukah in A Dreidel in Time, a chapter book for children between the...
“Why we hate”: Steven Spielberg’s documentary that seeks the origin of hate
Xenophobia, holocausts, torture, aggression. Why do we hate humans, what is the origin of hate? These are the questions asked in the documentary "Why we hate". Steven Spielberg is in charge of this project...
Men Drool as Women Rule in New Play
Bad Hombres, Good Wives, a delightful new comedy at the San Diego Repertory Theater, is a cheeky take on Northern Mexico’s narco culture and the relationship between men and women. Written by Playwright in...
Jewish cartoon book delights
Have I Got a Cartoon for You: The Moment Magazine Book of Jewish Cartoons, edited by Bob Mankoff, 2019: Moment Books, 86 pages, $19.95.
Thirty graphic artists are featured in this delightful 86-page book of...
Noura and the problems of immigrant families
Jews of Eastern European ancestry are all too familiar with the pogroms that forcibly removed their forebears from their homes in the 1800s and continued through the Holocaust. However, Jews don’t hold the exclusive...