Posted May 20, 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Courage to Care Opening great success MELBOURNE, 15 May – More than 70 guests attended the official opening of the Courage to Care, in Berwick, an outer Melbourne suburb, exhibition program at St Margaret’s School Berwick, and the positive energy generated was contagious. Keynote speaker Chris Christoforou, Western [...]
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— Following on the heels of The La Jolla Playhouse unveiling its world premiere docu-musical, Hands on a Hardbody by Doug Wright (book), Amanda Green (lyrics) and Trey Anastasiio (music), The Old Globe has unleashed another world premiere musical, Nobody Loves You by Itamar Moses (Book and Lyrics) and Gaby Alter [...]
By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California —Reality T.V. has never made it to the top ten of my favorite things to watch. However, I do like watching documentaries, especially when I find them informative and offer a new outlook on an old subject that I may or may not have already have formed an opinion. [...]
Posted 13 May 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Rabbi ignored warnings MELBOURNE, 9 May – One of Australia’s leading rabbis told a man whose son had been allegedly sexually abused by a youth group leader at a Melbourne Jewish school that the child would not need counselling because he was under eight years old, court [...]
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Before I went off to see the latest incarnation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago now playing for a limited run at the Civic Theatre downtown, I reached for my trusty CD of the movie soundtrack. Big mistake. In my mind’s eye I saw every scene and smiled [...]
SAN DIEGO—Just recently the curtain came down on Cygnet Theatre’s critically acclaimed Parade, Alfred Uhry’s historical musical drama depicting the story of Leo Frank and the lynching that led to his untimely death after being falsely accused of raping and killing young Mary Phagan. Frank managed an Atlanta pencil factory where Phagan was brutally murdered on the [...]
A LOOK BACK OVER MY SHOULDER By Garry Fabian Editor’s Note: In 1936 Garry Fabian’s family fled Germany to Czechoslovakia, hoping to escape Nazi persecution, but in vain. By 1942 Garry, aged eight, was interned in Theresienstadt. He was to spend till May 1945 in that ‘model’ concentration camp and was one of only about [...]
Posted May 6, 2012 Compiled by Garry Fabian Assurance about college future SYDNEY, 3 May – Yeshiva College this week reassured the community it was on a sound financial footing, following claims that it was behind on payments to some of its teachers. It’s understood that some members of staff hadn’t been paid their full [...]
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In that she had been an educator, the late Gail Feinstein Forman probably would have been pleased that her husband, Jack, and Rabbi Moishe Leider of Chabad of University City combined to make the unveiling of her gravestone Sunday afternoon, May 6, in the Garden of Eden section [...]
By Carol Davis CHULA VISTA, California— Remember that fictitious place Rydell High? That’s where the Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey 1959 high school musical Grease happens. The musical debuted in Chicago in 1971, quickly moved to Broadway where it ran for 18 years and 3388 performances. Grease was made into a movie in 1978 starring [...]
