Donald H. Harrison

Panel at first Beth Israel inaugurates three-Temple tour

By Joel Moskowitz, M.D., and Arlene Moskowitz, JD SAN DIEGO — The first of Congregation Beth Israel’s “Three Temple Tour” was conducted in its original home on Sunday Sunday, Oct. 23. The edifice has been relocated to Heritage Park but the original site was Second Avenue and Beech Street. Scholars JoEllyn Zollman, a History professor […]

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Adventures in SD History, Jewish History

Two bricks from Buchenwald

By John Brennan BUCHENWALD, Germany — The unspeakable horror, the ignored cries of pain, and the unimaginable suffering. The final resting place for more than 50,000 innocent souls. This was Nazi era Germany: This was Buchenwald, the death camp infamous for performing medical experiments on its inmates. Its place in history marked by being the

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Travel and Food

‘Gypsy’ overcomes small theatre space

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–No it’s not Ethel Merman, Rosalind Russell, Tyne Daly or even Patty LuPone. It’s our own Linda Libby who heads up the first ever big-time musical, or musical for that matter, staged by ion theatre in the company’s BLKBOX space in Hillcrest. Libby, whose credits stretch from stage to TV, is

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

Largest Jewish book sale in Southern California planned in November

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– What is believed to be the largest Jewish book sale in Southern California is planned at The 17th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, with continuing support from Founding Benefactors The Viterbi Family Foundation and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community

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Travel and Food

Plaudits for musicians Sara Kornfeld Simpson and Sonya Jacobs

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO —Musicians in the Making presented two outstanding young instrumentalists last Sunday afternoon in the Lawrence Family JCC’s Astor Judaica Library, Sara Kornfeld Simpson, flute, a student of Jill Coady, and Sonya Jacobs, clarinet, a student of Robert Zelickman. They were accompanied on the piano by Irina Bendetsky, former music faculty

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Eileen Wingard

Mahler’s life, Turkish immigrants, featured subjects of German Film Festival

By David Amos SAN DIEGO — two films which were part of the first San Diego German Film Festival on October 22 and 23 at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park. were absorbing, entertaining, and certainly worth my recommendation for you to pursue. The first film was titled Alamanya, Welcome to Germany. It

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Travel and Food

San Diego Jewish community gathers in honor of freed captive Gilad Shalit

By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — What price is a life?  That is the question that is being pondered around the world after the swap of Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit for over one thousand Palestinian prisoners.  But for one afternoon, the San Diego Jewish community put aside that question – for the most part. Through

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San Diego Calendar

A Moving Tragedy

By Cynthia Citron SANTA MONICA, California –You might think that The Tragedy of the Commons deals with some sort of disaster that befalls Mr. and Mrs. Commons.  But no, the commons referred to here is that pristine public park set aside in a newly established village for the enjoyment of its inhabitants.  Early on, however,

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Cynthia Citron