David Arquette (September 8, 1971) is an American actor, producer, and retired professional wrestler. He began his acting career with a main role as Keith “Two-Bit” Matthews on the Fox drama television series The Outsiders (1990), and he made his film debut with a supporting role in Where the Day Takes You (1992). [Wikipedia]
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American Friends of Tel Aviv University held its first San Diego gathering at Monarch Ocean Bar in Del Mar, bringing together TAU alumni for what organizers hope will become a regular local community gathering. [Shor M. Masori]
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For a Jewish writer, mythologization becomes a defense mechanism against a hostile reality. It helps him overcome the tragedy of reality. (Alex Gordon)
Michael Feinstein (September 7, 1956) is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an archivist and interpreter for the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988, he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theater songs. [Wikipedia]
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At Broadway San Diego/the San Diego Civic Theatre, the chandelier was irate. It swung violently over the stage, spitting sparks as though it might break loose and land among the actors. The audience roared throughout the evening, especially after the opera performances. (Shor M. Masori)
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As Rosh Hashanah approaches, a recent High Holiday “Torah and Tea” class taught by Rebbetzin Chaya Andrusier at Chabad of East County, encouraged participants to look beyond the familiar traditions of the holiday and consider deeper questions of purpose, identity and connection to Hashem. (Cailin Acosta)
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Composer Ludwig, grandson of the great Bohemian-born Jewish pianist, Rudolf Serkin, and nephew of American pianist, Peter Serkin, has received commissions from the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and soloists such as pianist Jeremy Denk and violinist, Jennifer Koh. (Eileen Wingard}
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Billy Rose (September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman, lyricist and columnist. For years both before and after World War II, Billy Rose was a major force in entertainment, with shows such as Billy Rose’s Crazy Quilt (1931), Jumbo (1935), Billy Rose’s Aquacade (1937), and Carmen Jones (1943). [Wikipedia]
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He now lives with his wife Judy in Austin, Texas, but he spent a number of years in San Diego and Escondido, where I got to know him. Because he is a native Hebrew speaker, he was often drafted by Ner Tamid Synagogue in Poway to be its Torah reader, and eventually the Conservative congregation’s president. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (September 5, 1791 – May 2, 1864) was a German opera composer, linking Mozart and Wagner. With his 1831 opera Robert le diable and its successors, he gave the genre of grand opera “decisive character”. [Wikipedia]
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The San Diego chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America requires those seeking its endorsement to refrain from any affiliation with what it calls “Zionist lobby groups,” a prohibition that encompasses liberal organizations that criticize Israeli policy and support Palestinian statehood. When the label attaches regardless of what a group advocates, “Zionist” has stopped describing a political position and become shorthand for “Jew.” (Jason Nevarez, Heidi Gantwerk, Sara E. Brown)
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The 9/11 story is the account of four coordinated terrorist hijackings by 19 al Qaeda militants on September 11, 2001, which killed nearly 3,000 people and targeted the two buildings of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a fourth site thwarted by passengers. (Cailin Acosta)
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They ask whether teshuvah will be received. The Midrash answers with men no committee would print on a brochure. Cain speaks and half a decree is lifted. Ahab tears his clothes and a sentence is stayed. Manasseh fills the Temple with a four-faced idol; the angels shut the windows. Yet God bores a hole under the Throne, and through that passage Manasseh’s prayer is received, and he repents. (Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel)
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Drew Pinsky (September 4, 1958), commonly known as Dr. Drew, is an American media personality, internist, and addiction medicine specialist. He hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline from the show’s inception in 1984 until its end in 2016. On television, he hosted the talk show Dr. Drew On Call on HLN and the daytime series Lifechangers on The CW. [Wikipedia]
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