San Diego Calendar

Israeli history/ poli sci prof lectures May 15

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Prof. Luba Levin-Banchik, visiting Israeli scholar in residence at San Diego State University, will address the 6 p.m. dinner buffet meeting of the Beth Israel Men’s Club which begins at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 15, at 9001 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego. Levin-Bianchik teaches courses in history and political […]

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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

Junior high girl prepares for Anne Frank role

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A line formed after Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, spoke recently at Chabad of Poway.  When it was the turn of 15-year-old Bryn Williams to kneel next to the chair of the 90-year-old Schloss, they had a particularly animated discussion.  Williams, a veteran of the Pickwick Players

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Strom to present songs of home and exile April 9

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — “Songs of Home and Exile” is the title of the program Yale Strom will present at Smith Recital Hall, SDSU, Tuesday evening, April 9 at 7 p.m. The multi-talented artist-in-residence at San Diego State University’s Jewish Studies Department, has assembled an outstanding group of singers and instrumentalists for this

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Eileen Wingard, Music and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar

Book Review: ‘kaddish.com’ by Nathan Englander

Kaddish.Com by Nathan Englander; Alfred A. Knopf; © 2019; ISBN 9781524-732752; 203 pages; $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As a young man, Larry, bridles at having to sit shiva for his father and absolutely refuses to say kaddish for him for the year after his death. Instead, he arranged for someone in

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar

Editor’s E-Mail Box: March 8, 2019

Berrie and Seidle named to Leichtag Foundation board of directors Philanthropist Angelica Berrie, president of the Russell Berrie Foundation and a co-chair of the Jewish Funders Network, and Charlene Seidle, executive vice president of the Leichtag Foundation, have both been named to the board of directors of the Leichtag Foundation, it was announced by Jim

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International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, USA

Famous Jewish poets to be read March 5

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”  Emma Lazarus’ words on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty take

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Jews in the News ~ February 17, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson told Roger Stone, his defense attorneys, and prosecutors not to make any statements that might prejudice a jury in the case in which he is accused of lying to Congress in its probe of possible Russian connections to President Trump’s successful

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Jews in the News: February 11, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison THE OMAR AFFAIR– Responding to a comment by Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota that Members of Congress support Israel because “It’s all about the Benjamins,” that is $100 bills, and that AIPAC pays the members to vote for Israel, Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition, called for

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‘Wooden Wars’: A play about Poles and Jews

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh, founder of the Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA), says many Americans mistakenly believe that Polish people are anti-Semitic. In fact, she says, Polish people have an obsession with Judaism that leads some to be anti-Semitic and others to be just the

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Jews in the News: February 7, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, in a New York Times report, says his committee will be “making sure the policy of the United States is being driven by the national interest, not by any financial entanglement, financial leverage or other form of compromise.”  President Trump responded that Schiff

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SDIJFF Film Preview: ‘Heading Home’

Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger; Ironbound Films; 2018, 87 minutes, to be shown at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival at 1 p.m., Sunday, February 10, at Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Boulevard, San Marcos, and at 6 p.m.

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Multi- faceted program on disabilities at Ohr Shalom

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Have you ever had the frustrating experience of being in an environment where no one speaks your language?  You know the feeling that there are too many people invading your personal space, but you’ve no way to communicate that to them? What about the times when you sincerely want

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Eva Trieger, Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

Art of the Holocaust lecture topic at CBI Feb 20

SAN DIEGO — Guri Stark, chief executive officer of the brain imaging company CorTech Labs, will present a program on the art of the Holocaust at a 6:30 p.m. buffet dinner Wednesday, Feb. 20, sponsored by the Beth Israel Men’s Club at Congregation Beth Israel, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. Stark for the last 15 years

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