By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater have given San Diego audiences a new holiday show. The jury is still out as to whether it will become an annual happening like, say, How The Grinch Stole Christmas. It is after all based, loosely, I might add on the classic O. Henry tale The […]
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO –Is our legacy gift to the naval and other survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack the indiscriminate disposal of the partial remains of US servicepersons who were killed in Afghanistan or Iraq into toxic waste dumps? The assault on Pearl occurred exactly seventy years ago this past week, on
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Scenes from Al Hutler’s Visit to Israel Southwestern Jewish Press, September 7, 1956, Page 11 Some scenes from Mr. Hutler’s trip to Israel. In first picture Mr. Shlomo Eisenberg, Executive of the Jewish Agency and Mrs. Eisenberg and Moshe Sharret, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mrs.
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but shallowness is also part of the mix. This is one of those columns that is sure to provoke responses that I have become anti-American and too narrowly fixated on Israeli perspectives. I’ll deny the first charge and admit to being primarily
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Ira Sharkansky, USA
By Lloyd Levy LONDON –I find myself in a euphoric state of mind, and am proud to be British perhaps for the first time since Margaret Thatcher’s premiership. So that’s 21 years to wait, but at long last we have a Prime Minister willing to stand up for Britain’s best interests. David Cameron, the British
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Lloyd Levy
Hot Chocolate for Seniors compiled by Jan Fowler, Balboa Press of Hay House, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4525-3945-4, 319 pages, $21.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This is an anthology of positivity with more than 100 short stories, most not longer than three pages–covering such topics as unexplained but happy mysteries; love the second time
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Donald H. HarrisonCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Hadassah Launches Fashion Show With Three Designers Southwestern Jewish Press, September 7, 1956, Page 9 The date for Hadassah’s Premier Membership-Luncheon has been changed to September 26 at the El Cortez Hotel. Three leading American designers will share the spotlight for a Fashion Show presented by Hafter’s. Each
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Adventures in SD History
By Amy Bebchick SAN DIEGO — The first time I ever attended a Healing Circle was last month. Not generally drawn to such “touchy-feely” experiences, I was definitely skeptical. I had attended all the planning meetings and knew exactly what was going to happen. I was confident it would be a wonderful experience for
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Travel and FoodBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — This is year number six for Cygnet Theatre and the radio version of the Frank Capra movie It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry and directed by Sean Murray with musical direction by Billy Thompson. Once again a trip down memory lane is
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Daniel Halper WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite the Kremlin’s best effort, an Internet video emerged the other week of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin being booed by a full arena of fans at the end of a mixed martial arts fight in Moscow’s Olympic Stadium. “Putin’s spin-doctors came up with a variety of explanations of the
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International
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — The Torah tells us: “Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land. Shechem, son of Hamor, the Hivite, chief of the country, saw her, and took her and lay with her by force.” (Gen. 23:1-2) The story
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Jewish ReligionLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) –The Lawrence Family JCC is offering a class from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 11 with artist Ilanit Shalev on how to create your own fused glass mezuzah. Shalev was born and raised in Israel. While residing in Portland, Oregon, she studied at the “World Center” for glass. She made a
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The College Avenue Senior Center, a program of Jewish Family Service, has announced its special and regular programming for the month of January. The center is located inside Beth Jacob Congregation at 4855 College Avenue. It may be reached through JFS main office at (858) 637-3280. Special Events, Lectures and
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C (JINSA)–Too long neglected, the Pacific region will soon be getting its due. As U.S. forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan and have already departed Iraq, it is to the strategically important Pacific that American attention will be directed. And not a moment too soon. Friends and allies in the region have spent the better
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