By Mimi Pollack OCEANSIDE, California — Mi casa es mi casa. That is what caught my eye when I walked into the Oceanside Museum of Art this past weekend for the opening and reception of Becky Guttin’s exhibit called “We Can Work It Out”. Guttin’s play on the famous saying is on a large red [...]
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – StandWithUs is turning another page in popular Israel advocacy—and it’s in a comic book. The Los Angeles-based group, which sends speakers and sign-bearers to counter Palestinian demonstrations and purchases space on billboards to tell Israel’s message, recently issued the first number in a comic book series [...]
THOMASVILLE, Georgia (Press Release)– Holocaust artist Elmo Gideon, 86, died Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at his home and studios here after a lengthy illness. He has been described as an “artist who borders on being an elemental force” whose own ambitions guided him in the development of revolutionary paints and sculpting compounds, technique, form and application that [...]
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO–When I completed the series of seven “Women of the Hebrew Bible: A Moment in Their Lives,” I was aware I had not included Esther. Though I realized she belonged on the list, I couldn’t get beyond the way she is generally portrayed: regal, wearing the jewelry of a queen, coldly [...]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Artist Lenore Simon, whose exhibit opens Saturday, Dec. 4, at Art and Framing Solutions (4250 Morena Blvd. Suite E) recently was asked how she came to create a series of artworks entitled “Symbols of my People.” She responded: “This series owes its origin to Grandpa Reuben Simon, my husband’s father. He owned [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–A video that was part of an art exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., should not have been pulled at the behest of government officials and aggressive religious groups, says Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Americans United criticized U.S. Reps. John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Eric Cantor [...]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Students at San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will have the opportunity of a lifetime to work with a world-renowned artist when Mordechai Rosenstein visits the school in December. At SDJA, he will engage students in the creation of a unique piece of art that will incorporate the school’s current annual theme [...]
Editor, San Diego Jewish World I recently asked for your readers’ help in locating a high school classmate of mine, Laurie Phyllis Wohl, who lived in the Kensington neighborhood of San Diego and graduated Hoover High School in 1960. I know her mother was active in Temple Beth Israel. I found Laurie! I asked the Wellesley [...]
