By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — CODEX, the Latin word associated with books and paper, meets every two years in Craneway Pavilion, which was the old 1931 Ford Plant in Richmond and the center of war production for the Kaiser Shipyards. It is next to the National Park Service Rosie the Riveter WWII Homefront […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Welcome to the home of the Chinyaramwira family. Scenic Designer Walt Spangler invites us into a warm dwelling with rich, dark woods, tastefully furnished. Like most immigrant families, they communicate in two languages, English and their native Shona, in the same conversation. Like all families, they laugh and
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastHeading Home: The Tale of Team Israel directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger; Ironbound Films; 2018, 87 minutes, to be shown at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival at 1 p.m., Sunday, February 10, at Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Boulevard, San Marcos, and at 6 p.m.
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Super Bowl Sunday has been called “the Secular American Holiday.” It’s a day when so many people gather together to watch the same program that municipalities prepare for multitudes of simultaneously flushing toilets. And not watching the Super Bowl is considered “un-American,” practically treasonous, tantamount to joining the
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Eric George Tauber, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Why Are We Still Afraid? by Mark Lavie; © 2018; ISBN 9781791-797324; 375 pages, available via amazon.com or via MarkLavieAuthor.com By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This self-published book by longtime Israeli journalist Mark Lavie starts off with controversy, then subsides into informative and reliable travel journalism, depicting the byways and quirks of Israeli
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Pianist Jessie Chang, the talented wife of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Emeritus, Jahja Ling, was the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at TICO’s January 27 concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The lovely artist played with musicality and grace. The second movement was particularly lyrical and
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Among the 40 portraits of “Groundbreaking Girls” on exhibit through April 28 at the Women’s Museum of California are six people who self-identified as Jews or were of Jewish descent. A seventh portrait of particular Jewish interest is of Irena Sendler (1910-2008), who estimated she saved the lives
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — “[The Jews] feel protective and [feel they have] a degree of [ownership] over the Holocaust story. I totally ‘get’ that, but maybe there’s room for both of us?” That’s controversial Holocaust romance writer Heather Morris defending her two novels in a recent interview. Her statement is tone deaf
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Story by Eileen Wingard, Photos by Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel LA JOLLA, California — The venerable UCSD pianist, Cecil Lytle, chooses a different theme each year for the annual Lytle Scholarship Concert, raising funds for UC San Diego’s Preuss High School. The theme for this year’s 23rd concert was “Jewish Music, from Bessarabia to Broadway.”
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyThe purpose of utopia is a place with qualities that don’t really exist in the real world. — Herland’s Playwright Grace McLeod By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Throughout history, there have been utopian societies where groups of people decided to eschew civilization for a more contained society ascribing to higher ideals. Some are religious cults
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — When I hear the word “farce,” Ken Ludwig springs to mind. When I hear the words “hilarious farce” I immediately think: Ken Ludwig and Matthew Wiener. This duet is responsible for uproariously funny shows with impeccable timing, absurd plot twists, ridiculous dialogue and unmatched physical schtick. I was
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People is soon to be released in theaters around the country, starting with March premieres in New York City and Los Angeles. The 85-minute documentary traces Pulitzer’s life as a Jewish immigrant from Hungary to his rise as the powerful publisher of both
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson TEL AVIV, Israel — “I don’t know how you can go to an opera,” my grown-up nephew said. “A play, OK; a movie, fine. But opera?” “It’s a show. It’s fun,” I replied. “There’s music, movement, action, drama, costumes. It’s like a kids’ show for grown-ups.” But after spending a night with Richard
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
SAN DIEGO — Guri Stark, chief executive officer of the brain imaging company CorTech Labs, will present a program on the art of the Holocaust at a 6:30 p.m. buffet dinner Wednesday, Feb. 20, sponsored by the Beth Israel Men’s Club at Congregation Beth Israel, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. Stark for the last 15 years
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