Donald H. Harrison

Engaging Shaw at the Old Globe is just plain good theatre

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — There’s something intriguing about watching two intelligent adults spar over their intended romance leading up to their ultimate marriage…or not. In playwright John Morogiello’s witty and appealing Engaging Shaw now on the Sheryl and Harvey White Stage at the Old Globe Theatre, Rod Brogan (Shaw), Angela Pierce (Charlotte Payne-Townshend), […]

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

Redistricting creates some comfortable districts for local Jewish incumbents

By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — The dust has finally settled and the California Citizens Redistricting Commission has concluded its work. The final maps for Congress, the Board of Equalization, State Senate, and State Assembly have been released. I wrote previously of a possible map that included most of the Jewish community in our region.

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San Diego County

‘Chasing Madoff’ is film about one man’s inspired demand for justice

By Cynthia Citron Cynthia Citron ENCINO, California– A decade before the thousands of people who had invested their money with Bernie Madoff realized that they had lost it all, a Boston-based securities analyst was blowing his whistle loud enough to wake all of Wall Street.  But Wall Street wouldn’t listen. Harry Markopolos, who had gathered

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Cynthia Citron

Glenn Beck want to protect Israel but doesn’t understand it

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Some time  ago, a Texas friend wrote to ask how Glenn Beck’s pending mission to Israel was  being received here. My response: it wasn’t. A few days ago, I wrote to him again with the news that Israel Today, the most  conservative of the daily papers, had a story about Beck’s upcoming visit

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Have foes and even sympathetic friends “ended” the Holocaust?

By David Strom David Strom SAN DIEGO — Alvin Rosenfeld, the author/editor of several important books about the Holocaust, has written a book that is thoughtful and challenging to our perceptions of what the Holocaust means. The End of the Holocaust is a critical survey of the vast range of assaults on our collective Holocaust

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Jewish Religion

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