Donald H. Harrison

The Pazinskis are back at North Coast Rep. in ‘King O’ The Moon’

By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—-What a different a decade makes. In Tom Dudzick’s Over the Tavern that took place in 1959 the age of innocence was on the wane, drive in movies, Dairy Queen (we still have one in my neighborhood) and the Ed Sullivan Show were the ‘talk of the town.’ Martin and

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

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, February 3, 1956, Part 5

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Memorial Meeting Slated for Samuel Charney-Niger by Zionists Groups Southwestern Jewish Press, February 3, 1956, Page 7 Samuel Charney-Niger, one of the great personalities in the Jewish and Hebrew literary world for the last half-century, died recently at the age of 72.  A memorial meeting will be held

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Passover, French-Hill style

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–French Hill is a largely secular Jewish neighborhood, with families who are religious and ultra-Orthodox, as well as a few Arab families and Arab plus East Asian singles and young couples who are students at the nearby university. The neighborhood synagogues are one Ashkenazi, one Sephardi, one mixed Ashkenazi-Sephardi, one Conservative, and

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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion

Israel’s military capability expands as Western Europe’s declines

By Lloyd Levy LONDON — With all the incessant media coverage about  Israel , one easily loses sight of the broader picture. Yet I have been reading a respected annual publication called “the Military Balance.”  Not necessarily everyone’s chosen reading  material, but it throws a fascinating insight into the miracle that is today’s Israel. By

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Lloyd Levy, Middle East

Jewish boy, Christian nanny in gathering Nazi storm provide engrossing reading

Far to Go by Alison Pick, Paperback: 336 pages, Harper Perennial (April 19, 2011),  ISBN-10: 9780062034625,  List price: $14.95 By Laurel Corona SAN DIEGO– Far to Go gets under your skin early and stays there.  This new novel by Canadian writer Alison Pick follows the fate of one affluent Jewish family caught up in the quick

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Travel and Food

Sammy, Dino and Ol’ Blue Eyes pack the Welk

By Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California—Frank, Sammy, Dino, Joey; The Rat Pack! Those were the days, my friend; we thought they’d never end! Well, if you want another dose of ‘those days’, straight from the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, you can catch a glimpse of what used to be called the ‘Golden Days of entertainment’,

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

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, February 3, 1956, Part 3

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Goldie Schusterman Honored At Testimonial Dinner by Birdie Stodel Southwestern Jewish Press, February 3, 1956, Page 4 On Sunday, February 12, Birdie Stodel B’nai B’rith Auxiliary will give a Testimonial Dinner at the Mission Valley Country Club in honor of Mrs. Goldie Schusterman. Mrs. Schusterman has served unselfishly

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Jewish choirs’ ‘Sing Out’ was OUTstanding

By Cantor Sheldon F. Merel LA JOLLA, California–Jewish Choral Music is alive and well at the Jewish Community Center. It was truly a “ Sing Out” on Sunday Afternoon, April 3rd at the JCC featuring two separate choral concerts from  several local  congregations plus independent choral groups. It was a showcase of San Diego Jewish choirs

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

An ode to Passover

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Passover is the best gift we ever gave to the world; nobody who was ever a human being could turn down its message of freedom, its transformation of the taste of tears into the wine of hope, its view of the leaves of parsley as the springtime of

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