The Arts

Book offers new ways to tour Jerusalem

Jerusalem: The Experiential Guidebook by Tali Kaplinski Tarlow, ScaVentures, Jerusalem, © 2018, p. 198, plus supplemental material, NIS 150, about $42.00. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –  Jerusalem is surely a must-see by anyone visiting Israel, and author Tali K. Tarlow gives us an unusual twist to an epic visit – a scavenger hunt to […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle East

Nathan is top-Gunn in his one-man show

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Nathan Gunn is one of America’s greatest and most versatile baritones, as he amply proves in the HersheyFelder produced and directed one-man show, Nathan Gunn, Flying Solo, A Musical Story about Family, Love, and the Wild World of Music. Now showing, until June 10 at the Lyceum Stage, this virtuoso

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Youthful passion shines at Broadway Awards

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — twenty high school students competed in the 5th annual Broadway San Diego Awards: Celebrating Excellence in High School Theatre On Sunday night, May 27.  The two winners each receive a check for $1,000 toward a scholarship and a chance to go on to the national Jimmy Awards on Broadway.

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Jewish trivia quiz: Netta

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York —  Israeli singer Netta won this year’s Eurovision contest singing the song Toy. Though the song was primarily written by Israeli composer Doron Medalie, Netta added some lyrics including a Pokémon reference (according to Medalie, “that’s more her generation than mine”). Netta has spoken about Pokémon characters and what they

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

It’s ‘1945’ and two Jews come to a Hungarian village …

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The AMC in La Jolla and the Angelika Film Center in the Carmel Mountain area will begin screening on Friday, June 1, the suspenseful Hungarian film 1945 in which the arrival on a train immediately after the Holocaust on an elderly Orthodox Jewish man and his son throws

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Royal wedding invoked Hebrew imagery

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — As befits an English woman living abroad, I watched the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on television, and reveled in the pomp and circumstance of each shot and every angle. I loved the sight of the beautiful mixed-race bride, her dress, the bridesmaids and page-boys, the various

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

A little bit of Indonesia aboard Dutch ship

Editor’s Note: This is the twelfth in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 By Donald H.

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

Israel video contest announced

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) —The Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation announced the details of its third annual “Inspired by Israel” video contest, which it launched this week in partnership with the 12Tribe Films Foundation. Hosted on Israelvideonetwork.com, the contest will ask entrants to submit videos that entertain, educate and inspire people about Israel. A

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

‘Mountain’ bespeaks our love of summits

By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SAN DIEGO — Mountain is a tribute to the power and fascination mountains have had over us mere mortals since the beginning of time. It is a Screen Australia production, produced and directed by Jennifer Peedom.  The film provides gorgeous visuals of mountains in twenty-two countries throughout the world.  The music which accompanies

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Theatre, Film & Broadcast

70 years of Israeli crafts on display at Mingei

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Mingei International Museum’s current exhibition of Israeli crafts and design is a retrospective that incorporates aspects of the Jewish State’s history with what the exhibit’s curator, Smadar Samson, describes as four major themes of that nation’s experience. These themes are 1) invoking the collective memory of the

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

How we became bibliophiles

© Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — The Jewish Book Council coined the phrase “The ProsenPeople” in 2011, an apt emblem worthy of exploration. The gift of literacy starts young. Parents read to children, then children read on their own. The sense of accomplishment evolved; crawling, toddling, walking, the alphabet, words, sentences, paragraphs, stories, chapters,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak

‘Wrestling Jerusalem’ depicts the conflict’s emotions

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Wrestling Jerusalem is a rather incredible one-man show, now filmed, in which writer and actor Aaron Davidman, in some 22 vignettes over 93 minutes, portrays the complexities, hardened positions, anger, sadness, frustration, fervor, poignancy, and, eventually, hope that characterize Israelis and Palestinians in the seemingly never-ending dispute.  Because

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Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA