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Between the Lines: The Future is Now

| March 7, 2013 | 0 Comments
Between the Lines: The Future is Now

  Warwick’s Books has done it again. Last fall they brought the author of one of my favorite contemporary novels to town (Amor Towles, “Rules of Civility”); in January they hosted Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor for a discussion and reading from her book “My Beloved World.” Most recently, a capacity crowd at UCSD’s Mandeville […]

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On Being An Outsider in America

| October 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
On Being An Outsider in America

                                    I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere andnowhere… Being  a human  being is what truly counts. That’s where you’ll find me.                                                •    Annie Lennox The U-T in its Sunday edition of September 18 ran a major front-page story on the 150th anniversary of Temple Beth Israel. The newspaper is to be congratulated for its placement and […]

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