By Eric George Tauber I know my day is coming. I hope it’s coming. I’m pretty sure it’s coming. SAN DIEGO — The movie School of Rock is what really put actor Jack Black on the A-list of actors. More importantly, it spawned actual Schools of Rock featuring lessons, workshops and camps with locations in […]
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The Blessing of Sorrow: Turning Grief into Healing by Rabbi Ben Kamin; © 2018 Central Recovery Press, 207 pages plus acknowledgments; $17.95 via Amazon By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Ben Kamin has been around death for a long time, both as a Reform rabbi and as a son. He was still a
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By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – A visit on Monday at Seacrest Village Retirement Village to see Cantor Sheldon Merel, 94, the beloved emeritus cantor of Congregation Beth Israel, proved to be doubly interesting. First and foremost, he’s always interesting to talk to. And second, active and physically fit, Merel showed me around the
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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — For the 9th annual Women of Valor Program, Lipinsky Jewish Arts Festival Director, Todd Salovey, and his co-writers, Rebecca Myers, Leah Salovey and Ali Viterbi, once again selected six remarkable women. Six talented actresses, Linda Libby, D. Candis Paule, Elizabeth Schwartz, Eva Barnes, Catalina Maynard, and Elaine Rivkin represented the
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori CHULA VISTA, California – There were at least two good reasons why the Comedy Shmomedy show featuring five stand-up comedians was staged in the social hall of Temple Beth Shalom rather than in its sanctuary. First, it allowed for table seating and the sale of
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, Theatre, Film & BroadcastUscolia by Gabriel Lanyi; Sycorrax Books, Boston, 2017 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It is many years since I read material on the theory of education, and this book on the subject came into my hands through the kindness of our new neighbor, who also happens to be the author. But it is no
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“The old homeland is soon abandoned, but a new one is not found so soon.” By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — In the early days of moving pictures, reels of film came with sheet music. Keystone Cops raced around the screen to live accompaniment on a tinny, upright pianos. Today, we try to recapture some
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Pamela Pollack-Fremd SAN DIEGO _- Are you stuck in your own reality, or can one ever escape it? That appears to be the burning question in Nancy, a film written and directed by Christina Choe. Nancy, convincingly played by Andrea Rigaborough, is a friendless, unhappy thirty-five-year-old woman. She lives with a demanding mother. She
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cantor Sheldon F. Merel SOLANA BEACH, California — On Monday evening, June 6th, the North Coast Rep featured the brilliant artist, Angelina Reaux. She sang several of Kurt Weill ‘s Broadway hit show tunes, and charmed the audience throughout the evening . Reaux’s voice is perfectly placed; she sings magnificently. Weill’s piano accompaniments are
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — The Lyceum Theatre was pretty packed on a Tuesday night –not too shabby- for the 17th Annual Klezmer Summit. The upper gallery featured Yale Strom’s photo portraits of the Jews still living in Eastern Europe. Shot in stark black and white, they evoke a mystical world where time waits
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Good Heart by Alan Newman, Gefen Publishing House, © 2018, ISBN 9789652-299550; 251 pages including acknowledgments, glossary, and author’s biography, $15.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –An interesting aspect of this multi-generational, multi-ethnic, and dual religious novel is that love, rather than conflict, pulls the plot along. Among the central characters in this ode
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By Sandra Scheller CHULA VISTA, California — At the age of 89, my mother Ruth Sax never thought that she would see a college diploma in her hand let alone an honorary diploma. Between the ages of 13-17 Ruth was robbed of her education as she survived Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Oederan concentration camps. Once she
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, San Diego County
By Eric George Tauber “The parent who teaches his child, it is as if he had taught his child, his child’s child and so on to the end of generations.” (Talmud Kiddushin 36) CARLSBAD, California — Since 1969, Sesame Street has been teaching lessons in literacy and numeracy as well as kindness and acceptance through puppetry.
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PARIS (Press Release) – As part of the June 8 sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Christie’s is pleased to partner with the Israel Museum in Jerusalem to offer a selection of works from the Vera & Arturo Schwarz Collection. The selection of 63 lots will be offered in Paris. From its inception, the Israel
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