Items in today’s column include:
*Former Police Chief Zimmerman busy on several fronts
*Arraignment Scheduled in Poway Shooting
*Political Byte
*Coming Our Way
Our Shtetl San Diego County: October 2, 2019 Read More »
Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food
ven The Beatles came from humble beginnings. They rehearsed in the garage of Pete Best, their original drummer, because his mum would let them. But for every band that makes it in show biz, there are 999 that vanish into obscurity. Of all the movies to make the transition from screen to musical theatre stage, Almost Famous is a natural fit. My guest is himself the manager of a Punk band and he said this story makes him cry every time.
Almost Famous is a wild road trip Read More »
Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Items in this column include:
*Preventing Gun Violence topic for Yom Kippur
*Political Bytes
*Book ‘Em
Our Shtetl San Diego County: October 1, 2019 Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
Not all members of today’s de Wind family, although all descendants of the Patriarch Issachar, are Jewish.
After a “mini-diaspora” from “Holland” in the late 1800s and early 1900s to places as close as Belgium and Spain and as far as Asia and the Americas, the Levys-de Winds married into other nationalities, ethnicities and religions.
But most have never forgotten their Jewish roots.
Holocaust answers in de Wind memoir Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish HistoryActress Fran Drescher was born this day (September 30) in 1957.
Happy Birthday Fran Drescher Read More »
Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Where they live there is no horizon. There is only the dazzling white snow that stretches all around them as far as the eye can see. And then it transforms seamlessly into a sky that is exactly the same color. The white world encloses them like goldfish in a glass bowl.
The film is called Aga, and it was written and directed by Milko Lazarov. It is Bulgaria’s entry into the 2019 Academy Awards competition as Best International Feature Film and it has already won four major awards at European film festivals
It’s Siberia, Not Walden Read More »
Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastJapanese-born artist JUURI is painting a portrait of Hannah Senesh, the Israeli pioneer who parachuted behind Nazi lines to help Hungarian Jews and was captured and killed.
The mural is being installed at the Super Block building at 15th and F and will be the subject of tours from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, as part of the Women Who Paint Festival. Tours begin at 889 Park Boulevard.
Our Shtetl San Diego: September 29, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
Heather Raffo’s new play, Noura, the Old Globe’s West Coast premiere, unveils the story of a Chaldean couple who are Iraqi refugees. They’ve been in America for seven years, but are celebrating their first Christmas as American citizens. Their new passports sport new American names, Tareq is now Tim, Noura is now Nora, and their son, Yazen has morphed into Alex. While Tim seems happy with this development, Noura is resentful and doesn’t like the adaptation.
Noura and the problems of immigrant families Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastItems in today’s column include: *How various public schools named for Jews rank academically *Archaeology in Israel will be subject of day-long colloquium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography *Political Bytes *Honorable Menschen *Passages By Donald H. Harrison How various public schools named for Jews rank academically SAN DIEGO — Voice of San Diego recently published “A
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 28, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationConceptual artist Jack Goldstein was born this date (September 27) in 1945.
Remembering Jack Goldstein Read More »
Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
Excerpt: I chose this book by Rebecca Cantrell because it promised to describe what life was like in Berlin in the early 1930s. I was not disappointed. Apart from the somewhat lurid plot of the novel, the book contains a vivid account of the way Berliners lived and loved at that time, the rising political power and physical presence of the Nazi party and – in a particularly sensational way – the life of the homosexual community there. (To read more, please click on the headline)
‘A Trace of Smoke’ set in pre-war Berlin Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
Items in this column include:
*A few of Bern Schwartz’s works now at Museum of Photographic Arts
*Jewish Federation’s Men’s Event Dec. 8 to feature comedian Modi Rosenfeld
*Political Dots and Dashes
*Cohn Group of Restaurants to temporarily manage four more eateries
*Mazel tov! Mazel tov!
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 25, 2019 Read More »
Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food
Making It All Work: A Practical Guide to Hashkafah & Halacha in the Workplace by Avi Wasserman and Miryam Wasserman; Philipp Feldheim publisher; ISBN-10: 16802-50310; 538 pages; Price $25.00 By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The authors of Making It All Work present the Orthodox Jewish community with an interesting book about some
An Orthodox guide to workplace behavior Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiTelevision interviewer Barbara Walters was born this day (September 25) in 1929.
Happy birthday Barbara Walters Read More »
Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast