August 2011

Sarah Treem: A Talent Supreme

  By Cynthia Citron HOLLYWOOD — If you were to guess Sarah Treem’s age by her looks alone, you’d probably say, “Not a day over 21.” If you were to guess her age by the quantity and quality of her output and accomplishments, you’d probably say, “Forty-one.  Maybe even 51.” What does Sarah Treem say?  […]

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Cynthia Citron

NVA Launches Ensemble Project, ‘Ah Wilderness’

By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California —It’s hard to believe that the very same playwright, Eugene O’Neill, who penned Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Morning Becomes Electra and Desire Under the Elms also is responsible for his one and only lighthearted comedy Ah, Wilderness. But then again, he was much younger and his

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, August 10, 1956, Part 1

Report From Israel Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Pages 1, 4 By Albert A. Hutler Executive Director, United Jewish Fund, San Diego JERUSALEM – Israel is a paradox.  This is a nation under siege, but at first glance it seems to be anything but that. At first glance Israel seems to be a nation

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

Palestinians just don’t get the essence of politics

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It would be an extreme rejection of what is politically correct to claim that the Palestinians are not a people. Palestinian intellectuals expressed a sense of nationhood about a century ago. Most governments of the world are willing to grant them statehood. Doubters may point to the incomplete process of

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Student movement inspired by Anne Frank subject of S.D. Jewish Film Festival opener

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The  22nd Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Leichtag Family Foundation, and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at  the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, will present the season kick-off event, The Power of Hope, on Sun., August 21, beginning at 6:15

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San Diego Calendar

What way out for Assad — and what consequences for the rest of us?

By Shoshana Bryen Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Political  betting in Washington is that President Obama is preparing to demand that Syrian  strongman Bashar Assad step down. After the Saudis, Kuwaitis, Bahrainis and Omanis – those bastions of human rights and civil liberties – withdrew their ambassadors from Damascus. After five months of brutal repression

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Shoshana Bryen