SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel Men’s Club will host a buffet and night of previews beginning at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 16, for the upcoming 29th annual San Diego International Jewish Film Festival. Linda Levine, Outreach Chair of the Festival will be presenting information on the films this year along with a member […]
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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Pamela Pollack-Fremd SAN DIEGO — Roma, a Spanish language film, was written and directed by Oscar winning, Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron. It is an engaging and powerful story set in Mexico City from 1970 to 1971. Mexico was in a state of crisis. The president, Luis Echeverria Alvarez, had been the interior secretary in charge
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Editor’s Note: This is the 42nd and final installment in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34,
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture (CJC) announced on Wednesday the annual San Diego Jewish International Film Festival will return for its 29th anniversary, Thursday, Feb. 7 through Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019. The festival showcases a selection of the best contemporary Jewish-related films across multiple genres and aims to
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — I just saw the movie The Green Book and was captivated watching the changing relationship between the two main characters and their encounter with blatant racism in their journey through the south during the 1960s. Black people in the south at that time were restricted from using the same
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sacred, now streaming at https://www.pbs.org/wnet/sacred/sacred-full-episode/, views life cycle events and religious practices through the lenses of more than 40 videographers stationed on five continents – Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. We see not only the well known western and eastern religions, but also tribal and
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By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — Every year, about this time of year, Christmas themed movies are flooding T.V. screens across the country. Ranked #9 out of 100 by the American Film Institute greatest films of all times is the 1947 beloved holiday comedy classic, Miracle on 34th Street. It is a warm feeling
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Coming to theaters Dec. 14 in Los Angeles and hopefully soon after that in San Diego is a Leon Marr film about life and love in a convalescent home. The Second Time Around stars Linda Thorson as Katherine and Stuart Margolin as Isaac. It also features the works
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — Friends who have similar personalities and mannerisms sometimes joke about being “twins separated at birth.” It’s not a joke, however, to a set of triplets born in New York in 1961. They were together in the hospital until they were six months old, at which time they were separated
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel CARLSBAD, California — On my first visit to the New Village Arts Theatre for me last Sunday, I enjoyed a spritely performance of Miss Bennet, Christmas at Pemberley. Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon wrote this charming sequel to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin. It is a delightful twist on Austin’s original
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Roger Ailes was an intelligent, complex, and perhaps conflicted human according to the documentary, Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes directed by Alexis Bloom and produced by Alex Gibney. From a young age his classmates in Warren, Ohio, his hometown, considered him to be witty and intelligent. His
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastCNN wins StandWithUs plaudits for series on anti-Semitism StandWithUs has applauded CNN for its week-long series reporting on resurgent anti-Semitism in Europe during November, 2018. CNN commissioned a poll of over 7,000 European adults that found, “Anti- Semitic stereotypes are alive and well in Europe, while the memory of the Holocaust is starting to fade… a third
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I watched the documentary There Are Jews Here more than 1 ½ years ago, and I will reprint below the review that I wrote for the April 15, 2017 edition of San Diego Jewish World. Now the documentary by Brad Lichtenstein is scheduled to air as part of
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “I know this Christmas, every wish won’t come true, but I’m dreaming of Christmas with you.” Everyone who has had a family member come back from a tour of duty knows that they never come back quite the same. You see in their eyes the dark shadows of
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast