The Arts

JFEST Celebrates 30 Years of Bringing Diverse Jewish Arts Across San Diego County

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival (JFEST) returns even stronger with new partnerships and venues that go from Balboa Park to Downtown, to La Jolla, Encinitas, and Carlsbad, reaching different corners of the county through great artistic programing. The 2023 edition will run from Thursday, June 1 until […]

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

Israeli-Born Conductor Yaniv Dinur Shines for San Diego Symphony Orchestra in La Jolla

By Eileen Wingard   LA JOLLA, California — Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004), a Black composer unfamiliar to most concert goers, wrote a delightful Sinfonietta for Strings, the opening selection in the San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s Thursday evening concert at the Conrad in La Jolla. The three-movement work, Sonata Allegro, Song Form, Rondo, consisted of standard classical

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

Passover and the Jackson Hole Book Nook

By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA –This was written on April 11, 2023, at 6,000 feet in the Jackson Hole Airport, 35,000 feet in flight, and 5000 feet in Denver’s new United “wing,” enroute from Jackson Hole to Richmond, California. We spend the beginning of Passover in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and return to Richmond for

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

South African Sharon Katz Offers Free Concert April 16 in Ramona

South African musician and humanitarian Sharon Katz will be giving a complimentary concert at the Ramona Ranch Winery on Sunday, April 16th from 2:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon. What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon with a wonderful musician in a lovely setting? [Mimi Pollack]

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International, Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

B’Shalom: Leonard da Vinci a landsman?  Goldman v. Jordan.  Lawson-Remer et al v. Nathan Fletcher

News of Jewish interest broke on Tuesday at the International, National, State and Local Levels: [Donald H.Harrison]

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California, Donald H. Harrison, International, Israel, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA

From the Holocaust to Santa Barbara: Stories of ‘Thrival’

By Eva Trieger SANTA BARBARA, California — As we celebrate Passover, the Festival of Freedom, it feels appropriate to write about a Holocaust documentary to which I was recently introduced. In 2008 filmmaker, podcast host and comedian, Louise Palanker teamed up with Jennie Reinish to bring us “We Played Marbles: Remembering a Stolen Childhood.” The

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California, Eva Trieger, Holocaust, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Hip-Hop Artist Raised in San Diego Performs in New Song Amplifying Jewish Unity and Diversity

  JERUSALEM (Press Release) —  Noah Shufuntinsky (Westside Gravy), who was raised in San Diego and began writing songs and beats at age 7, performs in a newly released song that brings together the unique voices and diverse faces of the Jewish people in Israel and around the world. To celebrate the State of Israel’s

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International, Israel, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

B’shalom: Top CSU Professor; Jewish Political Scene; Obituaries

Mazal tov to Alyssa Sepinwall, who by a process of nominations by students, has been honored as the best professor in the California State University System. She was lauded for engaging students in discussions rather than simply lecturing to them from behind a lectern. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA