Barbara Stone went to a San Diego courthouse to watch ICE agents arresting immigrants. She ended up in handcuffs. [Lillian Perlmutter, Times of San Diego]
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Philip Epstein (August 22, 1909 – February 7, 1952) was an American screenwriter most known for his screenplay for the film Casablanca (1942), which won an Academy Award. [Wikipedia]
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This book captures 26 years of correspondence, from 1945 to 1971, between two Holocaust survivors who both wrote trilogies about their experiences of Lodz, Poland before, during, and after World War II. [Donald H. Harrison]
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The central theme of Living Dangerously is the tension between material ambition and spiritual fulfillment. Katsof re-imagines the biblical warning against idolatry, casting money as a false god that promises security but delivers isolation. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
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With the opening strokes of her bow on the lower strings, Alisa Weilerstein drew us into the moody world of Brahms’ Sonata for Cello and Piano in E minor, the first work on Summerfest’s August 13 program at the Conrad. [Eileen Wingard]
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Sheline spoke as a research fellow for the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Turns out she quit the Biden administration because it would not act to block weapons to Israel because of its heavy-handed response to the Oct. 7, 2023, slaughter of 1,200 Israelis. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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They poke fun at themselves and even say how they’re going to include each conversation they have back into the show, and they do. I guess that as they got producers, and staging they just added it into the show, so that it was almost a live running commentary on the process. [Sandi Masori]
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Red string bracelets have been worn to protect against the evil eye and keep bad luck away. Madonna made these bracelets popular, and they were being sold at the Kabbalah Centre. [Cailin Acosta]
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Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. [Wikipedia]
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Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosyncratic and often definitive humanist depictions of both ordinary people in the United States and Europe and some of the most important artists, thinkers and activists of the 20th century. [Wikipedia]
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Max, born prematurely, had to spend some time in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), causing his creative sibling Louise to become impatient. She wanted badly for her role of “big sister” to begin already. [Donald H. Harrison]
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The tale, as the name suggests, is a celebration of confusion and chaos. Antipholus of Syracuse (Brandon Michael Hall) and his servant Dromio (Will Blum) somehow find themselves in Ephesus where they are mistaken for their own long-lost twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus (Joshua Echebiri) and Dromio (Daniel Petzold), because, of course, all long-lost twins are given the same names. [Sandi Masori]
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Lesley Ann Warren (August 16, 1946) is an American actress, singer and dancer. [Wikipedia]
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This book is more complex than the typical board book. Instead of telling one story, it has three objectives. [Donald H. Harrison]
Multiple Depictions in a Baby Book of a Jewish Family through the Generations Read More »
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