Former envoy to Israel is new Italian foreign minister
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2011
Italy’s new government includes a former ambassador to Israel as its foreign minister.
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November 16, 2011
My Single Peeps: Esther H.
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2011
Esther walks into Starbucks to sit down with me, recognizes a young guy at the table next to us and gives him a hug. “He’s my acting coach.” She sits down, continuing, “I noticed people come off kvetchy [in the column]. I want to come off on a higher level. On a sophisticated level.” Her accent is the Jewish Bronx of the 1940s.
In N.Y. play, echoes of anti-Semitic discrimination and the horrors of an African war
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2011
At the start of “Rash,” Jenni Wolfson appears onstage in a green peasant skirt and khaki top to the sound of cascading gunfire. Her long brown hair is unceremoniously pulled back with a black scrunchie. From a trunk she pulls out a flak jacket and puts it on.
Jewish teen rapper’s album tops Billboard chart [VIDEO]
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2011
A Jewish teen rapper has had his first album debuted at the top of Billboard 200 chart.\n
What ‘Unity Pledge’? Wasserman Schultz attacks GOP candidates on Israel foreign aid
Jonah Lowenfeld
November 16, 2011
Avner’s ‘Prime Ministers’ to be adapted for two U.S. films
Tom Tugend
November 16, 2011
Two American producer-directors, on opposite coasts, are in the process of turning Yehuda Avner’s book “The Prime Ministers” into separate films.
Walk for friendship, fundraising
Lauren Bottner
November 16, 2011
The Friendship Circle of Los Angeles, which provides programs to more than 150 Jewish children with special needs, will hold its second annual Walk4FriendshipLA 3K walk at Rancho Park on Nov. 20.
Santa Monica’s Planet Raw goes kosher
Jewish Journal
November 16, 2011
Kosher foodies have a new option in downtown Santa Monica. Raw foods restaurant Planet Raw recently adopted kosher certification by Kosher Vegan Raw, which oversees the vegan and raw foods industry.
Waving the Zionist flag at Santa Cruz
Ben Harris
November 16, 2011
On the third floor of the Baskin Engineering building at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is going over points of Hebrew grammar.
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