Rabbi Jason Nevarez’s thoughts on Bad Bunny’s resonating message during the Super Bowl halftime perfomance
Benito is from Vega Baja – the very same town my father and family come from – so this was very personal for me. [Rabbi Jason Nevarez]
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Today’s Jewish Birthday: Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004) was an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator with a career in film and television scoring that spanned nearly 50 years and over 200 productions, between 1954 and 2003. [Wikipedia]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Today's Jewish Birthday, WikipediaBad Bunny and the Goodness of Resistance
Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio – Bad Bunny – broke out and broke it down at the Super Bowl LX Halftime Show. All in Spanish, all proudly Puerto Rican. All-American. He showed the world – and it was the world watching that we are still here (seguimos aqui) despite all the horrific things being done to harm people and break their spirits. [Barrett Holman Leak]
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Barrett Holman Leak, California, Lifestyles, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Opinion, Sports & Competitions, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAWould That Going Bacharach Went Somewhere
Walking out of Going Bacharach, the musical revue now playing in Manhattan, any members of the audience who are not die-hard devotees of the eminent American-Jewish songwriter, Burt Bachrach, and his long-time lyricist, Hal David (also Jewish), would realize more could be learned about them from Wikipedia than from this production. [Susan Rosenbluth]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastToday’s Jewish Birthday: Anna Sokolow
Anna Sokolow (February 9, 1910 – March 29, 2000) was an American dancer and choreographer. Sokolow’s work is known for its social justice focus and theatricality. [Wikipedia]
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Today's Jewish Birthday, WikipediaJewish Biography: Claude Vigee: the wandering Jewish poet
Claude described himself as a “Jew and an Alsatian, thus doubly Alsatian and doubly Jewish”. He associated the wanderings of the Jewish people with the suffering of the inhabitants of Alsace, a land of discord between France and Germany. [Alex Gordon]
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Alex Gordon, Antisemitism, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAJewish Book Review: Hitler’s Canary tells of a daring wartime adventure
The year was 1940, and the Germans were starting to invade Denmark, and 10-year-old Bamse was just as confused as all the other Danes.
Bamse is Danish for Teddy. Bamse’s older brother, Orlando, becomes involved in the resistance and eventually goes to jail. As he was in the hospital, Bamse brought him clothes, and he escaped. [Cailin Acosta]
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Antisemitism, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Cailin Acosta, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Staff and Bylined ContributorsToday’s Jewish Birthday: Ted Koppel
Ted Koppel (February 8, 1940) is an American broadcast journalist, best known as the anchor for Nightline, from the program’s inception in 1980 until 2005. [Wikipedia]
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Today's Jewish Birthday, WikipediaReview of Gustav Mahler’s 7th Symphony concert perfomance to a full house
The San Diego Symphony, conducted by its Artistic Director, Raphael Payare, whose contract was just renewed until the 2029-30 season, delivered a stunning performance of Gustav Mahler’s 7th Symphony to a full house on Sunday, February 1, in the newly named Miller Family Theater of the Jacobs Music Center. [Eileen Wingard]
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Eileen Wingard, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined ContributorsLight Amidst the Pyres: A Review of Richard Zimler’s The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon
Richard Zimler’s 1996 debut, The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, is a towering achievement in this genre. It is a work that breathes life into the suffocating atmosphere of 16th-century Portugal, weaving a narrative that is simultaneously a grisly locked-room mystery, a pulse-pounding thriller, and a profound meditation on Jewish mysticism. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
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Antisemitism, Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Staff and Bylined ContributorsJan Brokken’s “The Just; How Six Unlikely Heroes Saved Thousands of Jews from the Holocaust” tells of stories of courage
Throughout this book, which is based on extensive research, interviews with survivors, and far-reaching travel to almost all the places mentioned, the writer inserts his own personal insights and experiences, giving the reader a unique and lively account of how events developed and what people experienced. [Dorothea Sefer-Vanson]
Today’s Jewish Birthday: Michael Mann
Michael Mann (February 5, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, author and producer. Best known for his stylized crime dramas, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as earned nominations for four Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award. [Wikipedia]
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Today's Jewish Birthday, WikipediaMelania: The Spinoffs
Now that the history of cinema has been enriched with the premiere of Melania, Donald Trump is planning documentaries about other members of his inner circle to improve their public images. You can expect these films soon. [Laurie Baron]
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Lawrence Baron, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & SatireToo Late for Ethics: Nuremberg, Fidelity, and the Consolation of Judgment
Nuremberg (directed by James Vanderbilt) does not grossly falsify history. It does something subtler and more contemporary: it persuades us that ethics has finally arrived—precisely because it arrives after everything that truly mattered has already happened. [Sam Ben-Meir]
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