The Arts
Actualizing Dylan’s ‘Forever Young’
By Michael Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO–Remember that old Bob Dylan song, “Forever Young,” which now is used as the theme on television’s Parenthood? May your hands always be busy, May your feet always be swift, May you have a strong foundation When the winds of changes shift, May your heart always be joyful And may
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Michael Mantell, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & EducationStream of Israeli musicians flows into San Diego
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–During the past three weeks, four outstanding young Israel-born artists performed in La Jolla. Three of the young men call themselves Israelis and had their early training in the music schools of Israel. The fourth, an Arab, born in Nazereth, calls himself Palestinian, and received his early training with private teachers
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsTales of the Woodcutter: The Torah Scribe
By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California –My paternal grandfather was a Torah scribe. He spent his days carefully drawing the Hebrew letters that made up the Torah, the most sacred of Jewish texts. Writing on thin parchment paper made from the skin of a kosher animal, he began by carefully marking thin pencil lines that
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Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBook review: ‘How to Woo a Jew’
Tamar Caspi, How to Woo a Jew: The Modern Jewish Guide to Dating and Mating, Seal Press, ©2014, 274 pages, 978-1-58005-500-0; $17. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This book officially is scheduled for a February publication date, the same month that Nancy and I will celebrate 46 years of marriage, parenthood, and grand-parenthood. So what
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonTales of the Woodcutter: Simon Wiesenthal
By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Jewish Holocaust survivor who came to prominence after World War II as a Nazi hunter. With the aid of the Israeli, Austrian and West German governments he helped capture nearly 1,100 Nazi war criminals. Wiesenthal was born in 1908 in Lvov (in
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Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsSandi Masori, balloon artist, makes her magic on ‘Today’ show
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Until a few months ago, my daughter Sandi Masori was known principally as an e-book author, video teacher and practitioner in the balloon entertainment and decór community. As a result of her concern about the possible impact of a helium shortage, she increasingly has become a television spokesperson
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe old, the young, and the alcoholics
Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, M.D., The Rabbi and The Nuns, Mekor Press, 2013, ISBN 9781614651338. 190 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Although the title sounds like the beginning of a joke, this book, in fact, contains numerous recollections of Rabbi Twerski’s career as the head of psychiatry at the Roman Catholic-operated St.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionThe arts and the teaching of religion
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Skot Golden-Needham shyly approached the aron kodesh on Sunday, Dec. 8, with his kindergarten teacher Lori Bunshaft. Then, turning around, he displayed the model aron kodesh that he made and Mora Lori showed another one fashioned by one of his classmates. It was hard to tell what was brighter,
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsSinging is good for your health and souls
By Arlene S. Moskowitz, JD and Joel A. Moskowitz, MD LA JOLLA, California –A prescription for Jews: Singing is good for your health, spiritual and physical. At the recent Society for Neuroscience meeting at the San Diego Convention Center, there was a section that emphasized the benefits of music. New findings: …. “that musicians have
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsA Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas
By Joel A. Moskowitz MD LA JOLLA, California — It is common for laypersons to scoff and ridicule the mentally aberrant and to deride those who ‘treat’ such suffering. Mishegas is the Yiddish label. Jay Neugebren, Michael B. Friedman MSW and Lloyd I. Sederer MD have crafted (potchkied) a parody of the DSM-5. (Diagnostic and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Science, Medicine, & Education, Trivia, Humor & SatireShylock and the battle against anti-Semitism
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” is currently playing in repertory at Balboa Park’s Old Globe Theater. One of the main characters is Shylock, a Jewish money lender. Shylock lends Bassanio three thousand ducats at no interest, despite the fact that the loan is being acquired for Antonio, who has long
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastLeprechauns and kabbalah
The Hope Chest by Melanie Ross, illustrated by Tess Heimbach, Underwood Publishing, (c) 2012, ISBN 9780-6156-2337-5, 168 pages, $13.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Leprechauns and kabbalah? Anything is possible, especially in a book written to stimulate children’s imaginations and to carry them off as readers to a far away, magical land. San Diego
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesNotes from the woodcutter: Woody Allen
By Loren Kantor STUDIO CITY, California — From 1977 to 1986, Woody Allen had a filmmaking run so impressive it’s been equaled only by the likes of Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges. Allen’s films included Annie Hall, Manhattan, Broadway Danny Rose, Zelig, Purple Rose of Cairo and Hannah and Her Sisters. Woody was an antidote to the Spielberg/Lucas
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