Shoah survivors with parallel stories plan meeting
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — After this website published a news article headlined “A Tale of Two Holocaust Survivors” on March 17, Tomi Reichental, who was one of the two men mentioned in the...
View ArticleCli-fi as an academic discipline
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Jewish writers did not invent science fiction, but they played an important part in its evolution as both editors and foot soldiers. David Brin, one of America’s top...
View ArticleAlan Dean Foster brings out a cli-fi anthology
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When I heard recently that the well-known sci-fi novelist Alan Dean Foster was one of the contributors included in a new anthology of science fiction stories titled...
View ArticleLaw school professor writing cli-fi novel
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — He’s the author of academic books about law and justice, he’s very concerned about climate change, and he’s Jewish. Brooklyn born, he lives now in Nashville. Meet...
View Article‘Game of Thrones’ and climate change
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — With the fifth season of the HBO hit series Game of Thrones starting this week, the Reuters News Service in London published a story the other day asking in the...
View Article18 reasons he’s chai on Judaism
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I don’t often go in for listicles, but this one time I felt I would delve into the online meme, just to see where it might lead. Here, based on a lifetime of living...
View Article‘Chloe and Theo’ brings idealism to Cli-Fi
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — There’s a new movie in town, well, not yet, but it’s “coming soon,” as they say in the movie biz, and it’s called Chloe and Theo. The co-star is an Inuit man from...
View ArticleThe ‘everything change’ bagel and Margaret Atwood
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Everyone knows what an “everything bagel” is, and if you don’t it’s time to Google it both as a news item and a photo image so you can see the round bread with a...
View ArticleEnergy sources harbingers of mass culture
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Barry Lord is a Canadian visionary, an independent scholar and the author of a very important book that came out last year titled “Art & Energy: How Culture...
View Article‘Bleisure’ travel? Blah!
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I am not a connoisseur of words by any means, and my working vocabulary is actually quite limited, but everyone once in while as I navigate the internet, I come...
View ArticleMelody made Israeli song’s meaning clear
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — One day last February I was surfing on the Internet for nothing in particular, just a nice sunny day in Taiwan and I was in the mood for some music. By complete...
View ArticleSome possible ways to spend your ‘bookcation’
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Tawian –If the Jews are sometimes called the People of the Book, then certainly we can also be dubbed the people of the books. We like to read. Why not? We like to write, too....
View ArticleWriter contends U.S. owes world a climate apology
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Edward L. Rubin is a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School and a former dean there. He is also the author of several important academic books, among them...
View ArticleSDJW thanks its May contributors
SAN DIEGO (SDJW)—San Diego Jewish World acknowledges and thanks those writers and photographers whose bylines appeared during the month of May on its website. They were: David Amos Laurie Baron Caren...
View ArticleHere’s a ‘Trap’ worth running into
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I live on a crowded, subtropical island in the Western Pacific, on the opposite side of the “Pacific Pond” from readers in San Diego. And just south of Taiwan is the...
View ArticlePope, Washington Times popularize climate issues
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — With Pope Francis delivering his well-received global appeal for fighting climate change before it is too late, titled Laudato Si (Praise Be), the...
View ArticleThe Pope deserves a mazal tov
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –While Pope Francis’ recent ”cri de coeur” over man-made global warming and climate change sounds like the first chapter in a cli-fi novel, it’s never going to end up...
View ArticlePope, rabbis agree: world must deal with climate
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — It’s summertime and in many parts of the Lower 48, it’s hot. In Alaska, it’s not so hot, and it rains and drizzles a lot, especially in Juneau. But the summer of 2015...
View ArticleSDJW thanks June, early July contributors
SAN DIEGO (SDJW)—San Diego Jewish World acknowledges and thanks those writers whose bylines and photo credit lines appeared during the month of June and the first few days of July on its website. They...
View Article‘Heatstroke Line’ imagines war between U.S., Canada
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –When I spoke to my professor friend Edward L. Rubin earlier in the year about a novel he was writing titled The Heatstroke Line, he told me an interesting story about...
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