Rabbi Avram Bogopulsky of Beth Jacob Congregation has announced via email that he has “tested positive for Covid-19.” [Beth Jacob Congregation]
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
Published by BANG Showbiz English Sandra Bernhard has claimed her friendship with Madonna ended because the singer’s relationships “just don’t last”. The 66-year-old comedian was good friends with the ‘Material Girl’ hitmaker until the 1990s, and she has admitted there were certain pressures that came with their friendship. She said: “I didn’t really like that
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Jewish Celebrities
Much has been written about the Jewish community in Kiryat Arba and Hebron, but I would like to share three personal memories of Rabbi Eliezer Waldman, of blessed memory, who was among the founders of the renewed Jewish community in the city of our forefathers, who passed away on December 18th. [Toby Klein Greenwald]
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Toby Klein Greenwald
Titian: Women, Myth & Power at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum consists of only six paintings, yet this one-room exhibition feels more like a six-course banquet. So overwhelming, immense and entrancing are the monumental canvases that upon entering the room one must literally catch one’s breath. Titian, greatest of the Venetian Renaissance masters, referred to these paintings, commissioned by King Philip II of Spain, as poesie (poems) and each depicts a different scene from stories in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. [Sam Ben-Meir, Ph.D]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir
Instead of blaming Sen. Jon Manchin III for the uncertain status of the Build Back Better bill, perhaps we should direct our wrath at the ghost of William Paterson. New Jersey’s one-time governor might well be disgusted with himself if he were alive to witness the suspension of the $1.7 trillion social policy legislation. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, USA
These mainly poetic passages come from two separate parts of Isaiah I’s writings. Most are commonly dated ca. 730s BCE, but there are some earlier and many later contributors’ insertions. This has muddled previous date assignments of these materials. Modern scholars now think a good bit arose from the time of the fall of the Babylonian empire to Persia in 539 BCE. It is arguable that some of what are called predictions actually were formulated ‘after the events.’ [Irv Jacobs, M.D.]
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
Primary elections are coming next June and two Jewish Democrats are already campaigning hard. Congresswoman Sara Jacobs this week announced her candidacy for reelection in a recently reapportioned district that includes a large part of her old district. Former San Diego City Councilwoman Barbara Bry meanwhile has garnered the endorsement of the San Diego County Democratic Party in her bid to become the county’s next Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk. [Donald H. Harrison]
Jacobs, Bry on Campaign Trails for Congress and County Assessor/Recorder/Clerk Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) is offering free rides to local seniors who want to receive COVID-19 vaccine booster shots – or the original vaccine – as part of the agency’s continued efforts to provide meaningful services to help San Diegans through pandemic challenges. [JFS news release]
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San Diego County, Travel and Food
It’s never too early for a child to be inculcated with Jewish pride. This board book will be enjoyed both by parents (or grandparents) and the children sitting on their laps both because of the caricatures of famous Jews and the rhyming couplets with which they are described. [Donald H. Harrison]
Ever Met a Famous Jew? / This Book Tells of Quite a Few! Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
By Danielle Levsky SOLANA BEACH, California — “Tuesday Night Comics” advertises itself as “the funniest night of comedy in San Diego” and though initially promising in its lineup, the evening fell short and inconsistent in meeting this claim. Hosted by by comedian and performer Mark Christopher Lawrence (“CHUCK,” “Kirby Buckets,” 2021 Emmy award nominee, San
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodCongresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-CA-53) led a letter to the White House on Monday calling on the Biden administration to urgently update U.S. policies to address the humanitarian and economic collapse in Afghanistan. The letter was led by Jacobs and Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) and CPC Vice Chair Congressman Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL-04) and was signed by four dozen members. [Rep. Sara Jacobs]
Rep. Jacobs, 47 Others, Call for Lifting Sanctions on Afghanistan Read More »
International, San Diego County, USA
When he’s not Robert J. Entel, MD, MPH, FACR, practicing radiology at Mease hospitals in Dunedin and Countryside and Morton Plant hospitals in Clearwater and New Port Richey, he can often be found in Penny Lane at 730 Broadway in Dunedin, surrounded by an astonishing collection of Beatles memorabilia. [Bruce Lowitt]
Beatles Fan Turns His Hobby into a Museum Read More »
Bruce F. Lowitt, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA
Published by Tribune News Service Considering that Shakespeare himself had to navigate various plagues and pandemics in his theatrical career, it’s almost too appropriate that the filming of Joel Coen’s “The Tragedy of Macbeth” was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. It’s not the only way in which the 400-year-old play feels startlingly
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Frieda Salvendy moved to Malvern sometime after the end of the Second World War, and died here, in obscurity, in 1965. A short notice of her death was placed in the local paper and probate details gave her address in Alexandra Road. Beyond that, it would appear that very few, if any, knew of her existence, or that she had been an eminent European artist. [JASHP}
Artist Frieda Salvendy Commemorated in British Town of Her Retirement Read More »
International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts