Jewish Student poets to read their works Oct. 16 in San Diego
The opening program of the eleventh season of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices will showcase student poets from the San Diego Jewish community. On Tuesday evening, October 16, 7:00 p.m. in the Astor Judaica Library, fourteen...
Surviving the Shoah by hook or by crook
This book came to me “over the transom,” that is, without any previous warning. Even though it is three years old, I’m glad that I had a chance to read and review it, as...
Novel relates a lesser known Holocaust experience
There are aspects of the story that are hauntingly familiar: A banging on the door and an arrest; people being crammed so tightly into boxcars that many have to sleep in cramped discomfort or...
Historian chronicles Hitler’s friends and fellow travelers
Former California Gov. Gray Davis, a liberal Democrat, and the Koch Brothers, billionaire businessmen and Libertarians often associated with conservative causes, would seem to have little in common. However, that is why digging into...
LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture At the 14th Street Y Presents Two Weeks...
At a moment when American and Israeli Jews are increasingly challenged to have meaningful and productive conversations about Israel and Zionism, LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture will present three Israeli-themed productions that address...
Joyce Forum Short Film Festival’s special joys
The Joyce Forum Short Film Festival is triply new. It will screen on October 6th and 7th at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC separately from the San Diego Jewish Film...
Holocaust survivor repays a debt in ‘The Last Suit’
Holocaust survivor Abraham Bursztein (Miguel Angel Sola), the protagonist in the Spanish language, English-subtitled film The Last Suit, has a promise to keep before his children in Argentina move him out of his house and pack...
Rereading Leon Uris’s ‘Exodus’
A conversation over the breakfast table with friends started with the question, “What book do you wish you had not read so you could read it for the first time?”
We pushed the concept to...
YIDDISH: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I & II
Now, for a limited time only (until Sept. 30), the CDs that accompany my textbook Yiddish: An Introduction to the Language, Literature & Culture, Vols. I and II will be available at a greatly reduced...
Timeless Chanukah story set in 1912 New York City
My mother Alice was born in 1912, the same year in which is set this timeless Chanukah story originated in the 1950’s by Sydney Taylor and retold today by Emily Jenkins and Paul O....