By Sam Litvin SAN DIEGO — It is very easy to make Jews evil when Jews who are loved by all, have their Jewishness erased. When I have a feeling that someone is Jewish, I often go to Wikipedia. The bios in “Early Life” portion always mention ethnicity of a person, be they Persian or
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Jewish Celebrities, Sam Litvin, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
This is an academic work, yet a very personal one for Bernice Lerner of Boston University’s Center for Character and Social Responsibility. The Jewish girl referred to in the subtitle was author Lerner’s mother, Rachel Genuth. Her Romanian hometown of Seghet was annexed by Hungary, then an ally of Nazi Germany. Teenaged Genuth and the town’s other Jews were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Hershey Felder created another hit with Mozart and Figaro in Vienna, streamed January 9 from Florence, Italy. In this musical film, Felder portrayed Mozart’s librettist, the remarkable Emmanuele Conegliano, better known as Lorenzo Da Ponte, the name given him when his father converted the family from Judaism to
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Their story starts off as a tale of conflict between two towns, one of which grows apples, and the other which raises honey bees. When the residents of Dvash stripped an apple tree in the town of Tapuchim, the first reaction of the adult residents of Tapuchin was to retaliate against Dvash. But a little girl suggested that before they do anything, they should seek the advice of their rabbi. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — On Tuesday, January 25, from 7-8 p.m., the Congregation Beth Israel Men’s Club will preview films of the 32nd San Diego International Jewish Film Festival (SDIJFF), with commentary by Linda Levine. The mission of the SDIJFF is to offer outstanding world cinema that promotes awareness, appreciation and pride in the
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — To paraphrase Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do,” do not miss Desperate Measures at the North Coast Repertory Theatre. This delightful show is an antidote for the
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Who is the more credible source, one who has witnessed something, or one who has researched it thoroughly? This is the crux of an upcoming and provocative reading of The Soap Myth, a benefit for North Coast Repertory Theater in Solana Beach. The play, written by Baltimore native,
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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
SOLANA BEACH, California (Press Release) — The North Coast Repertory Theatre’s “Tuesday Night Comics” — arguably the funniest night of comedy in San Diego — takes place on February 1, 2022, at 7:30 p.m. Mark Christopher Lawrence taps into his extensive list of talented comedian friends and shares the North Coast Rep stage with them.
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Rabbi Dovid Sapirman, the author of Tranquility and Travail, is a Haredi rabbi. Many Haredi Jews are very conservative and have more fundamental ideas than other Jews. One of Rabbi Sapirman’s views, which many non-Haredi Jews do accept, is that God is involved with matters here
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — Currently on view at the Currier Museum, Philip Guston’s mural “Pulpwood Logging” (1941) is right beside its original partner, Musa McKim’s “Wildlife in the White Mountains” (1941). Both 14-foot murals were commissioned by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) — a federal program created by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-MeirBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — How Jesus Became God by Dr. Bart D. Ehrman is an excellent, comprehensive, easy to read history about the beginning of Christianity by a man who was once a very conservative Christian, who is now an agnostic, but who offers readers a non-dogmatic, respectful, historical examination
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr.
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) created a marvelous 85th anniversary celebration gala via Zoom on the last Sunday of 2021; the recording of the event remains on YoutTube. A spectacular opening, with various members of the orchestra playing at famous locations in Tel Aviv, introduced the program.
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Eileen Wingard, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
The Trial of Cain: A Jewish Courtroom Drama by Rabbi Dr. Dan Ornstein; Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society; © 2021; ISBN: 0827614675; 232 pages; $20.93. By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Rabbi Dan Ornstein’s excellent book, The Trial of Cain: A Jewish Courtroom Drama, reminded me of something I once did with
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
Over the course of six years the author toiled to trace the movements, ideas and political currents underlying two seminal terms in modern international law: ‘genocide’ and ‘crimes against humanity.’ In this undertaking he has interwoven the history and fate of his own family in Galicia (Poland and Ukraine), as well as that of a number of incidental characters, who were involved directly or indirectly in the rescue of some of his family members and the failure to save others. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History