SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Ohr Shalom Synagogue will celebrate Israel’s 70th Year of Independence with a Yom Hazikaron/Yom Ha’atzmaut Concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 18. The public is invited to join the Ohr Shalom Synagogue and Beth Am Choirs as they lead the audience on a journey through 70 years of Israeli […]
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, USA
The Game Isn’t Everything: The reality beyond the arena by Bruce Lowitt; Barstad Comminications; © 2015; 281 pages; 14.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I learned when I was a rookie reporter for the Associated Press back in 1967 that any fool, including yours truly, could write a story about an athletic contest.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Bruce F. Lowitt, Donald H. Harrison, Sports & CompetitionsSDSU Live Downtown By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — As an artist and teacher, I’ve always been a passionate advocate of arts in education. I’ve seen from research and personal experience how the arts can really ignite sparks in the mind. Creative energy brings laughter and learning together, generating lifelong memories. An environment that encourages,
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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
Beyond the Instant by Rabbi Mark Wildes; Skyhorse Publishing © 2018; 141 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I read this book with great enthusiasm, possibly because I agreed with almost everything Rabbi Mark Wildes writes about such subjects as happiness, love, sex, success, blaming, taking charge of one’s life, understanding one’s place
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionJulius Matthias; a Pact with the Devil by Michelle Mazel; New Meridian (c) 2017. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — This family saga spans the first half of the twentieth century, focusing primarily on good-looking Julius Matthias, the son of a poor Jewish family, whose one ambition in life is to become a doctor. In
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
The Soul of a Thief by Steven Hartov; Hanover Square Press © 2018; ISBN 9781335-144577; 293 pages; $24.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – War, sex, hidden identities, betrayal—you can find all these in this fast-moving novel. Shtefan (as Stefan is pronounced) had a Jewish great-grandmother, enough for him to also be considered Jewish
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The House Always Wins by Brian Rouff; Huntington Press © 2017; 324 pages; $16.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This novel seems like two separate stories, loosely connected. In the first, Christian girl meets Jewish boy, a bass player in a band, and after interviewing him for a local newspaper, finds herself falling
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — A world premiere will be featured at Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s concerts Saturday evening, April 7, 8:30 p.m. and Tuesday, April 10, 7:30 p.m. at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Unetane Tokef by composer John Michael Luther, will feature the East County Mormon Chorale and shofar soloist, Steven Ovitsky. Ovitsky, who recorded Hugo Weisgall’s
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
Galantière by Mark I. Lurie; Overlook Press © 2017; ISBN 9780999-100202; 402 pages including notes and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This was an interesting book to review. Written by the cousin of writer, literary critic, and U.S. government propagandist Lewis Galantière, it is both an expose and a paean. I found
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonNEW YORK (Press Release) –La Jolla-based nonagenarian, internationally recognized psychologist and author Edith Eva Eger has won a Christopher Award for “The Choice: Embrace the Possible,” (Scribner/Simon & Schuster). It is one of 12 books for adults and young people by 19 authors and illustrators to be celebrated, along with the writers, producers and directors
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Happy Time Capsule Day! As you enter the lobby of the Lyceum, you may be greeted by Mayor Steve, Beachtown’s hip new mayor -who loves to surf and wears sandals with his powder blue suit- or any one of the charming “Beachtonians.” Unlike other theatre experiences in which
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The ad in the paper for the show entitled “Tango in the Shadows” caught my eye, and since Yigal and I have long been aficionados of the tango in every shape and form we decided to buy tickets for the performance in Jerusalem. The fact that the event fell exactly on
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
RENO, Nevada (Press Release) – This year the State of Israel celebrates seventy years since its founding by the United Nations following World War II. To mark this occasion, the Nevada Museum of Art presents exhibitions by Israeli women artists Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat. These contemporary artists create work that are grounded in the
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA
By Jerry Klinger LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Max Henry Aronson was born March 21, 1880 at 813 Center Street, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was known as Max, sometimes, Gilbert, and not so often Henry, for a little more than twenty years of his life. Until he died in 1971, at 91,
Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish Read More »
Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA