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Quest for Rynecki’s art fuels ‘Chasing Portraits’

March 11, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Making the rounds of Jewish film festivals across the country is the documentary Chasing Portraits by Elizabeth Rynecki, concerning a quest to learn more about the pre-Holocaust art of her Polish Jewish great-grandfather Moshe Rynecki (Pronounced Renetsky). Previously, Elizabeth Rynecki published a book with the same title that […]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA

‘Angels in America’ is an epic journey

March 11, 2019

Angels in America, Part 1: The Millennium Approaches, Cygnet Theatre in Old Town, now through April 20, 2019 By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Many look back on 1980s America as “the good old days.” It was a time of great prosperity with great music, big hair, big cars and cheap gas. To many, speaking

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Hilma af Klint and the birth of abstract art

March 11, 2019

By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The Guggenheim’s strange and wonderful exhibition of Hilma af Klint’s groundbreaking, yet largely unknown body of abstract art is an important event – one that challenges us to not only rethink the early history of twentieth century abstract art, but to recognize her vision of art and reality

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

TICO dedicates 2 concerts to Rabbi Rosenthal’s memory

March 10, 2019

SAN DIEGO –The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra, joined by the San Diego Mormon Choir and soprano Lindsay Robison Killian, will present a pair of concerts March 30 and April 2 dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal, spiritual leader emeritus of Tifereth Israel Synagogue and former member of the orchestra. Conductor David Amos said

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Comic book pioneer tells of Marvel-ous career

March 10, 2019

By Ken Stone and Chris Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Allen Bellman worked for the late, great Stan Lee in the Golden Age of comic books — the 1940s and 1950s. He helped draw Captain America. Bellman created a strip of his own — “Let’s Play Detective.” He worked for Marvel Comics

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Ken Stone, USA

‘Three Identical Strangers’ — and me

March 8, 2019

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In 1963 I was a student at Columbia University getting my master’s degree in clinical social work and writing book reviews for the Child Study Association. Dr. Peter Neubauer, a prominent child psychiatrist and Director of the Child Development Center, had seen my work and called to

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Natasha Josefowitz, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Comparing Jewish and American laws

March 7, 2019

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Professor Samuel J. Levine compares many Jewish laws with American laws that address the same issues in two 2018 volumes of Jewish Law and American Law.

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, USA

Goldfaden, Lazarus celebrated at Astor Judaica Library

March 6, 2019

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Abraham Goldfaden’s beautiful melody, Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen, opened the Jewish Poets of the Past program, in an arrangement for violin and viola, in which my daughter Myla Wingard played violin, and I played the viola. This presentation, March 5, at the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County

Latino Film Festival Preview: ‘Division Ave’

March 6, 2019

Division Ave, produced by Lorena Rodriguez, Michal Birnbaum and Nadav Remez, 2019, Spanish, English, Yiddish, 14.5 minutes; to be screened during the San Diego Latino Film Festival on Saturday, March 23, at 3:30 p.m., at AMC Fashion Valley 18 (Screen 9), 7037 Friars Road, San Diego. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This short

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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

MOPA turns its focus to Australia

March 5, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1915, Australia, from a nautical standpoint, was approximately 3,500 miles closer to California than New York was. Goods brought by ship from the American East Coast had to travel a longer route, all the way down the eastern coast of

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

Two Israeli musicians perform March 10 at Beth El

March 4, 2019

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Once again, July Galper is the local empresario bringing two outstanding young Israeli musicians to perform in San Diego, Tal First, violin and Ilya Laskin, piano. Their program will take place in the sanctuary of Congregation Beth El in La Jolla on Sunday evening, March 10, 7:00 p.m.

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

Tale of the beauty queen’s daughter

March 1, 2019

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — It’s difficult to watch Barra Grant portray her mother in the biographical play that she authored without remembering the devastating biography that Christina Crawford wrote about her own mother, Joan.Grant’s mother was Bess Myerson, the only Jewish girl ever to be named Miss America, and the title of Barra’s play, Miss America’s Ugly Daughter, establishes the tone

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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

A Ballad in the Key of 4G

February 28, 2019

(c) Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — This is deeply personal. But what I have experienced should resonate with the entire Jewish community—the one we know and the one to come. In the whirlwind that seizes me and all who are communally aware, I have reached a new and stunning personal location, wedged between the searing

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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Latino Film Festival has diverse offerings

February 28, 2019

By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — I think one can learn a lot by being exposed to other cultures and ideas. It is good to be inclusive rather than exclusive. We need bridges of understanding, not walls. The San Diego Latino Film Festival, now in its 26th year, offers a wide variety of films from

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Quest for Rynecki’s art fuels ‘Chasing Portraits’

‘Angels in America’ is an epic journey

Hilma af Klint and the birth of abstract art

TICO dedicates 2 concerts to Rabbi Rosenthal’s memory

Comic book pioneer tells of Marvel-ous career

‘Three Identical Strangers’ — and me

Comparing Jewish and American laws

Goldfaden, Lazarus celebrated at Astor Judaica Library

Latino Film Festival Preview: ‘Division Ave’

MOPA turns its focus to Australia

Two Israeli musicians perform March 10 at Beth El

Tale of the beauty queen’s daughter

A Ballad in the Key of 4G

Latino Film Festival has diverse offerings

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