By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Micha Goodman is one of the most interesting young scholars of Judaism in Israel today. His books on two seminal works of Medieval Jewish philosophy – Moses Maimonides’ Moreh Nevuchim and Yehuda Halevi’s Kuzari – have been best sellers in Israel, as has his third book on Deuteronomy, Moses’ […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle EastAssassinated outside the Kremlin, the dissenting politician has become something of a cult figure and is the subject of films, poetry and song By Julie Masis Two years on, Russia hasn’t forgotten the tragic murder outside the Kremlin of Boris Nemtsov, the Jewish anti-Putin politician. He’s become something of a cult figure in a country
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International, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Over the years I have attended many performances of Handel’s Messiah, but no matter where it was performed (England, America, France, Israel) it was always sung in English. George Frederick Handel wrote the oratorio using the text devised by Charles Jennens, based on the King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Erev Shabbat prayers, a vegetarian dinner, a ribbon cutting, and a klezmer jam session helped to inaugurate the Yiddish Arts and Academic Association of North America (YAAANA) on Friday night at a clubhouse in the Costa Verde Village. About 30 people ranging from young adults to seniors attended
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Into the Beautiful North is almost there, but not quite yet I really wanted to love Into the Beautiful North, a new play at the SD Repertory Theater, especially because of its pedigree. It is based on the book by Luis Alberto Urrea –it was the KPBS One
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Mimi Pollack, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLos Angeles (dpa) – Folk singer Joan Baez, the grunge band Pearl Jam and the late rapper Tupac Shakur joined music history on Friday as they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Also included in the Hall of Fame’s class of 2017 were the bands Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Journey, prog-rock
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USADon Rickles, a comedian who became famous for making fun of anyone and everyone, died Thursday of kidney failure, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He was 90. Although Rickles, who also worked as an actor and once won a Primetime Emmy, may have passed, his legacy persists. Tributes were already rolling in Thursday afternoon, with
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –While I gravitated on Wednesday, April 5, to an exhibit featuring the image of Albert Einstein and another portraying the cells that I imagine Jonas Salk grappled with while developing the vaccine against polio, my grandchildren—Sky, 10, Brian, 8, and Sara, 6 – were transfixed by a room filled
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USAPresident Donald Trump Wednesday defended Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly amid the recent disclosure that the TV personality or the network settled on five occasions in which women alleged sexual harassment or other inappropriate actions. “I think he’s a person I know well—he is a good person,” Trump told The New York Times in an exclusive
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USALOS ANGELES — In the latest round of the simmering feud between Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Donald Trump, the former California governor Wednesday blasted the president’s proposal to slash federal funding for after-school programs. “President Trump promised us that he wants to make America great again. That’s not how you make America great, by taking
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAPerhaps having celebrity model and reality TV star Kendall Jenner re-enact a seminal moment in the Black Lives Matter protest movement to sell Pepsi wasn’t such a good idea after all. After initially defending its online video featuring Jenner and a can of soda as peacemakers in a street standoff between marchers and police, PepsiCo
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA) will debut in San Diego with a free Shabbat dinner and concert and klezmer concert by Yale Strom beginning at 7 p.m., Friday, at the Costa Verde Village Clubhouse, 8720 Costa Verde Blvd., San Diego. According to its founder, Jana Mazurkiewicz,
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Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CalendarWASHINGTON — A top government ethics official said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should not be disciplined for plugging “The Lego Batman Movie” — as long as he keeps his promise not to do it again. Mnuchin handled the controversy better than White House adviser Kellyanne Conway did when she ran afoul of the same law
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Italian, Grammy-Award Maestro, Fabio Luisi, newly appointed principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, led his forces in an engaging concert of works by Nielsen (1865-1931), Wagner (1772-1822) and Mahler (1869-1911). The program, at the Jacobs Music Center last Thursday evening, was sponsored by the La Jolla
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