November 2011

‘Musical Chairs’ is insightful autobiography of legendary Met general manager

By David Amos SAN DIEGO–If you are interested in the inner workings of the classical music industry, this book is certainly worth your attention. It is called Musical Chairs, (published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York), and it comprises the memoirs of a gentleman who during his career of administrator in the performing arts, was

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Travel and Food

More so than politicians, technocrats get things done in Middle East

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics has been the curse of this corner in the Middle East. Proclamations and grand intentions coming from those claiming to be leaders of Palestine, Israel, the United States and other great powers who say they are pursuing peace are actually paving the road to nowhere. Neither Palestinian nor Israeli

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

College can be proud of its ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’

By Carol Davis OCEANSIDE, California—-You will recognize Tom Andrew. He has been George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life, the holiday radio play at the Cygnet Theatre, for the past five years. But Tom is a song and dance man of the highest quality and lucky for us, he gets to strut his stuff in

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

‘Great American Trailer Park Musical’… Not everyone’s cup o’ beer

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Call me a snob, it matters not. Trailer Park humor was never high on the list of ‘tickle my funny bone’ laugh o’ meter comedy scale. Some nights it just doesn’t pay to get dressed, leave the warm fuzzy comfort of my home sweet home, fight the downtown traffic (that

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

It takes a village? Book tells Israeli village’s methods for helping troubled teens

Teenagers Educated The Village Way by Chaim Peri, The World: The Values Network, 2011, ISBN 978-257-06206-5, 217 pages, $18. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In challenging numerous orthodoxies, this book is likely to make readers think and educators and psychologists re-think. Peri, longtime headmaster of the Yemin Orde school and youth village on

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Donald H. Harrison

LFJCC slates Hanukkah Happening Dec. 11

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 28th Annual Hanukkah Happening, co-sponsored by the Nierman Preschool – Glickman Galinson Education Complex and the JCC Youth Department, will take place at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, on Sunday, December 11 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Hanukkah Happening is San Diego’s largest Hanukkah event

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Travel and Food

Knesset backbenchers seek to limit foreign contributions to NGOs

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two proposals endorsed by a Knesset committee would be a reason for side-splitting laughter, if their authors were not speaking so proudly of their accomplishments.   One proposal, authored by one of the lesser lights in the Likud delegation, would ban foreign governments or international organizations, such as the UN, from donating

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Middle East