SDJW staff report SAN DIEGO — Gail Feinstein Forman, 64, an author and educator who wrote frequently for San Diego Jewish World about movies, books and a variety of other subjects, died July 29 at her home following a battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband, Jack Forman, and brother Mark Feinstein. “I [...]
(column 20, Feb. 21, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Jewish Organizations In a “Save the Date” message for June 3-5, Alan Friedman, executive director of Camp Mountain Chai, says a planning committee is at work for the 3rd annual Men’s Getaway Retreat. Dreaming up activities for the weekend themed “Fitness for the Body and [...]
By Gail Feinstein Forman SAN DIEGO –In the early 1970’s, during the summer of my first year of teaching, I left New York City for the kibbutz adventure in Israel. I was first sent to Rosh Hanikra, a kibbutz right on the border with Lebanon. The kibbutz had just recently added some new volunteers to [...]
Grace Paley: Collected Shorts, directed by Lilly Rivlin, USA, 2010, video, documentary, 74 minutes By Gail Feinstein Forman SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Jewish Film Festival is offering a moving tribute to Grace Paley, activist and writer, in the film, Grace Paley: Collected Shorts. The filmmakers have succeeded in showcasing this remarkable women’s liberal activism [...]
Heart of Stone, Documentary; Director Beth Toni Kruvant; produced by Good Footage, 2009, 84 minutes, $22.00 for home use plus $10.00 shipping. Additional charges for groups and schools By Gail Feinstein Forman SAN DIEGO–It was through a great personal coincidence that I became familiar with the documentary, Heart of Stone, a video now making [...]
The Surrendered by Chang Rae Lee, Riverhead Books ( a division of Putnam), New York 2010, 469 pages, ISBN 978-1-59448-976-1, $26.95. By Gail Feinstein Forman SAN DIEGO–The Surrendered is award-winning author Chang Rae Lee’s newest novel. It’s a sensitively rendered epic reminiscent of Greek tragedies. Characters are at once swept away by life or passionately [...]
By Gail Feinstein Forman LA JOLLA, California–The Jazz Baroness presents a memorable portrait of a black sheep of the Jewish Rothschild family, Pannonica de Koenigswater Rothschild. Brought up in the world of British wealth and privilege and married to a handsome baron, she was used to high society life. But it was her sojourn into [...]
By Gail Feinstein Forman LA JOLLA, California– In the visually affecting movie, From Philadelphia to the Front, we meet six Jewish World War ll veterans who recall their wartime experiences and the impact it had on their lives. Though the film is a short 35 minutes, it is dense with historical and emotional weight. The [...]
_______________________________________________________________ By Gail Feinstein Forman LA JOLLA, California –When Peter Yarrow walked onto the stage Thursday night, November 12, at the San Diego Jewish Book Fair, the electricity in the air was palpable. He owns the audience even before he starts to sing. And it is not all about the music—but Dayenu, that would be [...]