SDJW thanks its December 2015 writers
San Diego Jewish World thanks and acknowledges the wonderful contributions of the following writers whose works appeared on our pages in December, 2015: Stephen Baird Kenneth Bandler Laurie Baron...
View ArticleHow a Jewish guide book of Morocco came to be
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — As the motto of this website intones, “there’s a Jewish story everywhere,” and I found a good one in Morocco. It’s about a Moroccan Jew named Raphael Elmaleh and a...
View ArticleNo ‘silver bullet’ exists for fixing climate change
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — On my Internet rounds the other day, quite by chance, I met up online with a Berkeley novelist and social activist named Steve Masover, whose debut novel titled...
View ArticleSDJW thanks 43 whose works appeared in January
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — San Diego Jewish World expresses its appreciation to the 43 writers and photographers whose works appeared during January 2016. These individuals included: David Amos Eitan Arom...
View ArticleWriter describes waking up to Taiwan quake
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I was sleeping peacefully in a nightly dreamscape on the fifth floor of very solidly built apartment building with 20 units on 8 floors when suddenly all hell broke...
View ArticleSDJW thanks its February 2016 contributors
SAN DIEGO — This publication would like to thank and express appreciation to the writers and photographers whose works appeared during February 2016 in San Diego Jewish World. They include: Judy Lash...
View ArticleJewish and Puerto Rican, she’s writing a cli-fi novel
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Michelle Fernandez is the twentysomething daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and a Jewish father, and while in college in upstate New York she minored in Jewish...
View ArticleArtist Schnaiberg focuses art on climate change
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For Lee Schnaiberg in Montreal, global warming is no laughing matter, although the Canadian artist has a good sense of humor and the odd Yiddish phrase to make a...
View ArticleSDJW thanks its March 2016 contributors
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Jewish World expresses its appreciation to the byliners and staff photographers whose works appeared in March 2016 editions. They included: David Amos Eitan Arom Judy Lash Balint...
View ArticleAre you a clifihead?
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — If you grew up in the 1970s (or later) and were a die-hard ”Grateful Dead” rock band fan, you probably remember how fans often called themselves “Deadheads” in the...
View ArticleIsraeli author imagines world 300 years from now
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Don’t tell me there’s no sci-fi in Israel because there is, and Moran Chaimovitz, a 30 year old writer in Tel Aviv, has just published a novel in English to prove it....
View ArticleDown Under author produces a cli-fi novel
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –If there’s one continent on Earth where the twin impacts of global warming and climate change are very much on the minds of the people who live there, it’s Australia....
View ArticleIn time of future disaster, there still will be humor
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, TAIWAN –Aaron Thier is a 30-something writer born and bred in western Massachusetts, and his latest novel Mr. Eternity has just been published by Bloomsbury in New York. The...
View Article6- year- old offers ideas to save the planet
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood tweets, the world listens. And when the 76-year-old writer chanced upon a short YouTube video of a 6-year-old girl in...
View ArticleCli-fi, quidditch, latte art among new words
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — When the Oxford Dictionaries in Britain made a list of new words it was accepting into its chambers for 2017, J.K. Rowling’s ”Harry Potter” novels had its “quidditch...
View ArticleYiddish version of ‘O Canada’ set for debut
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Think about it. The Canadian national anthem “O Canada” has been sung in a variety of non-English iterations, from French to Spanish. One source in Canada cites a...
View ArticleChinese- language Jerusalem cookbook debuts
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –When the Chinese-language edition of the popular Israeli cuisine cookbook “Jerusalem” was recently published in Taiwan, Israel’s trade envoy to the island nation...
View ArticleCanadian TV talk show talks up ‘cli-fi’
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — For a group of 17 short story writers in Canada, putting together a collection of stories for a new anthology titled Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change was a...
View ArticleThe odyssey of a climate activist
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — A few weeks ago, I approached Rabbi Michael Lerner in California, the founder of Tikkun magazine, about writing a blog post for his publication, and he kindly invited...
View ArticleO Canada in Yiddish to debut June 6
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Take two Canadian offspring of Holocaust survivors, Moses Znaimer and Hindy Nosek-Abelson, and put them in Toronto TV studio and the result will be the first-ever...
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