Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Today’s Jewish Birthday: Shlomo Carlebach

A songwriter who couldn’t read music, Carlebach composed the popular “Am Yisrael Chai” (The People of Israel Live),  which is now a Jewish standard, and thousands of other songs.  He gained fame as “the singing rabbi” and  he founded the Carlebach Shul in New York City’s Upper West Side.  [SDJW staff report]

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A Creative Set for Upcoming ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ Production

Actors will move the suitcases and trunks around the stage “rather than having anything coming from off-stage, so we are keeping the wings basically free and open, so the actors have space to enter and exit from,” Schein explained. With a chuckle, Schein said “I’m almost calling the production ‘Fiddler on the Luggage.’ [Donald H. Harrison]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Chaim Soutine

Among his friends in Paris was Amedeo Modigliani, who became another famous Jewish artist. They painted portraits of each other. After art dealer Albert Barnes purchased 60 of Soutine’s paintings in 1923, Soutine celebrated by hiring a taxi to drive him from Paris to nice, more than 400 miles away. [SDJA staff]

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Our Shtetl San Diego County: A Potpourri of Jewish News Items

Chabad of La Costa has notified its congregants of a “new mitzvah opportunity.”  In its weekly update, it reports: “there are a number of patients at UCSD La Jolla that have come from Israel to receive transplants here. They need our help.  Bikur Cholim of S. Diego is a community organization helping the sick with care packages, visitation, driving spouses to and from the hospital, etc.  [SDJW staff report]

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Madrid museum welcomes ruling it can keep painting looted by Nazis

Published by Reuters Ruling Went Against Heirs of Cassirer Family of La Mesa, California By Catarina Demony and Elena Rodriguez MADRID (Reuters) – One of Spain’s top museums welcomed a U.S. court decision allowing it to keep a French impressionist painting looted from a Jewish woman by the Nazis, which the museum said it had

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Madrid museum may keep Pissarro painting looted by Nazis, US appeals court rules

Published by Reuters UK Decision is a Set Back for the Cassirer Family of San Diego By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court said on Tuesday that Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza museum may keep a painting by the French impressionist Camille Pissarro that the Nazis looted from a Jewish woman, rejecting an ownership claim that

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When You Think of Art at the Mingei, Don’t Forget the Food

We decided to follow her suggestions and got the hibiscus masala and matcha matcha mocktail drinks.  The hibiscus was ok, a little bitter but made me feel like I was being healthy.  The matcha, which I’m not usually a fan of, was to die for.  It tasted like a creamy green tea whipped ice cream float.  Really yummy.  For food we ordered the pea and potato samosa, the beet and Asian pear salad, and the roasted barramundi. [Sandi Masori]

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Our Shtetl San Diego County: TICO Celebrates Its Golden Anniversary

The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) celebrates its 50th anniversary this season.  The orchestra started at the old Jewish Community Center on 54th Street and changed its name when it moved its home to the social hall of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, 6660 Cowles Mountain Blvd., San Diego. [SDJW staff]

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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Victor Borge

One routine involved adding a number to any word containing the sound of a number, so, for example, “wonderful” became “twoderful” and “anyone for tennis?” became “any two for elevennis?”  Another shtick was reading books aloud, making special sound effects to indicate punctuation. [SDJW staff report]

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A New Home for the Bezalel Academy

A plaque embedded into the entrance wall of the building states in Hebrew, Arabic and English: “Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem; Based on principles of human dignity, equality, pluralism and freedom of thought, speech and creative expression.” One can only hope that the students, who come from all segments of Israeli society, will benefit from this noble aspiration. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Staff and Bylined Contributors

Recorded Hanukkah Music to Provide Holiday Prelude Dec. 7

Enjoy a prelude to your first night of Hanukkah with Hanukkah Music, part of the series, Treasures from the Music Collection of the Astor Judaica Library. This free program will be held in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC on Thursday, December 7, 2:00-3:30 p.m. [Eileen Wingard]

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

TICO, Celebrating Golden Anniversary, Has Memorable Concert at the JCC

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, TICO, the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra, under the direction of David Amos, gave a memorable concert at the Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC Sunday, November 26.  Because of the configuration of the hall, most of the well-filled audience seats allowed visibility of all the musicians. [Eileen Wingard]

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County