The Arts

Student poets featured at LFJCC Astor Library

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Five Soille Hebrew Day School students and one San Diego City Schools Middle School student presented their poetry at the final Jewish Poets- Jewish Voices eighth season’s concluding event. Rabbi Meir Cohen, principal of the Soille Hebrew Day School, was present to enjoy listening to his young students read their

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard

‘Creation’s First Light’ introduces Torah, spirituality

Creation’s First Light by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, illustrated by Joani Rothenberg; © 2013 IBJ Book Publishing; ISBN 978-10934922-94-1; 32 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This might be subtitled “A Child’s Guide to Torah and Spirituality.”  Rabbi Sasso begins with a paraphrase of God’s first command, “Let There Be Light” and subsequently explains

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion

‘Camp David’ brings drama of history to life

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — In September of 1978, three nations’ leaders, US President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met for thirteen days on an isolated hilltop to iron out the Camp David Accords.  Who got the shorter end of the stick depends on whose analysis one

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Wealthy business executive becomes a school teacher

Mount Pleasant: My Journey from Creating a Billion-Dollar Company to Teaching at a Struggling Public High School by Steve Poizner, Portfolio, Penguin Group, 2010 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Steve Poizner describes himself as the quintessential nerd – and proud of it.  Taught by his Jewish parents to dedicate himself to the constant pursuit

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories

Mother of two slain soldiers an Israeli inspiration

By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — Miriam Peretz has become a legend in Israel and the translation of her riveting book, Miriam’s Song, written, with her, by beloved Israeli author Smadar Shir and expertly translated by Jessica Setbon, will now ensure that she becomes a legend in the English speaking world as well. I

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, Toby Klein Greenwald

Curator hopes Iranian art exhibit in Israel will build bridges

Jerusalem (dpa) – Can an art exhibit improve ties between Israelis and Iranians? Curator Yossi Lemel hopes so, which is why he has put together a display of art from Iran – the first of its kind in Israel – which he says will help smash prejudices and build a bridge between the two enemy

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International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Jewish Orthodoxy and the modern world

Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity by Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik, Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, and Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier, editors, Magid Books, New Milford, Connecticut;  ISBN 978-1-59264-436-0©2015, $29.95, p. 313, plus index and appendix By Fred Reiss, Ed.D.   WINCHESTER, California–Over its nearly 5,000 years of existence, Judaism has struggled with

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Film on Butterfly Project well received

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker Joe Fab screened his latest effort, Not the Last Butterfly, in a sneak preview at the  Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles on May 3. Fab co-directed and co-produced the story of a global project to memorialize the 1.5 million Jewish children murdered in the Holocaust with first-time

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Shor M. Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Recognition sought for Gypsies as Holocaust victims

Johann Trollmann and Romani Resistance to the Nazis by Jud Nirenberg; KO Publications; (c) 2016; ISBN 978-0-9903703-76; 220 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Despite some problems in its organization, this is an important book for the Jewish community to ponder. Utilizing the story of Johann Trollman– a Sinto boxer who in 1933

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History

As one play opens, Old Globe prepares for 2 more

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As luck would have it, our backstage tour of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego’s Balboa Park came the day before the opening of Camp David, a play by Lawrence Wright which premiered in Washington D.C. and now has its second opening here, at one of America’s

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Middle East, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA