Jewish Fulbright scholar teaches English in Taiwan
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — If there’s a Jewish story everywhere, as the motto of this publication puts it, there are some good Jewish stories in Taiwan, too, as I’ve reported over the past few...
View ArticleArt in the cause of raising climate change awareness
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Emma Podietz, an avid bicyclist who once made a grueling cross-country road trip from Colorado to Pennsylvania, graduated from New York University in 2012 with...
View ArticleA hearty thank you to SDJW’s August contributors
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – During the month of August, San Diego Jewish World was privileged to publish works by the following writers and photographers. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank...
View Article‘Odds Against Tomorrow’ author promotes cli-fi classes
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Jewish novelist Nat Rich’s last foray into pop culture fiction was the publication in 2013 of a comic cli-fi novel titled Odds Against Tomorrow. It got reviewed with...
View ArticleSDJW salutes its September 2015 writers
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – During the month of August, San Diego Jewish World was privileged to publish works by the following writers and photographers. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank...
View ArticleWhy the Pope asks people to pray for him
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When Pope Francis visited the United States at virtually every stop and public speech and in private visits with President Obama and elementary school schoolchildren,...
View ArticleColumnist who studied Shoah now writes about Pope
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Bill Tammeus is a former religion columnist for the Kansas City Star and the author of several books over the years, among them They Were Just People: Stories of...
View ArticleClimate change deniers can’t face grim future
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — The upcoming climate talks in Paris are less than 50 days away, and COP21, as the United Nations conference is being called, might very well decide the future of...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for October 11, 2015
Holocaust film nominated for an Irish Oscar By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN — A Holocaust documentary produced by Gerry Gregg for Irish TV and titled Close to Evil has been nominated for the Irish...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy got this debut YA author thinking
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Shari Becker grew up in a Jewish family in Montreal and now lives in Boston, where she is married and is raising two daughters with her husband John. Her first YA...
View ArticleEgg- citing plot twists in ‘Hatched’
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Jews and food, Jews and social movements, Jews and humor: they all go together like egg whites and egg yolks. Meet Robert Barsky, who grew up in a Jewish family in...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for October 30, 2015
71 years later, Bergen- Belsen survivors reunite in New York City By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –Two Holocaust survivors, one who made his home in Ireland after the war and the other who made his...
View ArticleNovelist predicts war, chaos in wake of climate change
The Heatstroke Line by Edward L. Rubin; Sunbury Press © 2015; ISBN 978-1-62006-626-3; 233 pages; $14.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Our correspondent in Taiwan, Dan Bloom, who is a cli-fi...
View ArticleSDJW thanks its October 2015 writers
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – San Diego Jewish World acknowledges and thanks those writers whose works appeared on our daily news website during the month of October. They were: Yael Aires Laurie Baron Dan Bloom...
View ArticleNever Again: Holocaust news for November 7, 2015
After the Survivors perish, who will tell their stories? By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan–Some time in the near future, the last known Holocaust survivor will pass away, and there will be no more...
View ArticleNon- English language novels find U.S. challenging
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –When it comes to translating science fiction novels from France, Japan or other non-English speaking nations, the U.S. publishing industry has a rather dismal track...
View ArticleHe does the talking; she dominates the discussion
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Peter Gould has lived in Vermont for over 45 years and his new novel Marly is about Vermonters, climate issues and wind turbines, among other things. Growing up...
View ArticleSDJW thanks its November writers
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Jewish World thanks and would like to acknowledge those writers whose works appeared on this news publication during the month of November. They were: David Amos Kenneth Bandler...
View ArticleYoung adult cli-fi book hopes to shape values
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — With the Paris climate talks concluded, and with most climate commentators agreeing that the COP21 ”agreement” still needs some fine-tuning and follow-up, things are...
View ArticleMeet the man behind ‘Mensch on a Bench’
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For a creative and innovative Jewish man from the Boston area, Hannukah was always a great holiday — but with just one thing missing. That thing turned out to be...
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