San Diego County

Katz Concert Brings Bunny Chow Diners to Their Dancing Feet

Troubador Sharon Katz, who won fame in South Africa as the leader of the Peace Train that brought together a 500-member choir representing that country’s many ethnicities, provided a free concert Monday evening, June 26, at the Bunny Chow restaurant, whose owners were instrumental in bringing her to the San Diego/ Tijuana region where again she has been promoting peace through music. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center Showcases Budding and Established Poets

Four times a year on a weekday night, Jewish poets and poetry lovers convene in the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Library on the Jacobs Family Campus of the Lawrence Family JCC to recite or hear Jewish poems and songs. {Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Jewish Artists Included in Contemporary Art Museum’s Collection

In this image, she uses gelatin silver paint as her medium and only black, white, and red colors to make her statement pop out more to the viewer. She creates an image of an x-ray of a skeleton that appears to be a woman, as the skeleton is wearing jewelry and heels. However, if the skeleton were to remove the jewelry and heels, its gender would be undetermined, challenging stereotypes. Her message is that gender is an idea that was created socially, not something that attended our creation as humans. [Rowanne Reifman]

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Preston Turegano Skewers and Praises San Diego Reporters, Leaders

An employee of the San Diego Union-Tribune and its predecessor Evening Tribune for 36 years until his retirement in 2006, author Preston Turegano had been an editorial assistant, general assignment reporter, and arts critic.  He once was told by an editorial supervisor that people in the arts community were afraid of him.  A colleague reassured him, “People don’t hate you because you’re gay; people hate you because you are you.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, California, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County

Former New Hampshire Deputy Police Chief to Bolster Jewish Community Security in San Diego

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Secure Community Network (SCN), the official safety and security organization for the Jewish community in North America, and Jewish Federation of San Diego (Federation), on Tuesday announced the hiring of Bill Ganley as their new Community Security Director (CSD). Mr. Ganley will implement, direct, and develop a security program

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San Diego County

Poets of the Past Features Meaningful Introduction of Primo Levi by Dr. Andrew Viterbi

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The memorable Poets of the Past program, featuring Italian-born Holocaust poet, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and Belarus-born Yiddish poet, Bertha Kling (1886-1978), was held last month in the Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. It was particularly meaningful having Dr. Andrew Viterbi introduce the life

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County

Annotated ‘Merchant’ Both Confuses and Edifies

I want to precede this review by saying that I think avantgarde theatre that is designed to make you think is an important creative expression and we need art that starts conversations. Now having said that, I have to admit that it left me scratching my head wondering if I were smart enough to be in the audience.  [Sandi Masori]

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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

A Ripple Effect for Remembrance and Hope

By Cheryl Rattner Price SAN DIEGO — Next week I am an invited guest representing The Butterfly Project attending Jewish Remembrance Week in Görlitz, Germany. I am honored, humbled and appropriately uncomfortable as I navigate between recognizing the grief associated with this remembrance, while also considering the creative act this global gathering of the families

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Holocaust, Opinion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

3-D Detail from ‘The Creation of Adam’ Wins a ‘Best of Show’ Award

Artist Joseph Pisano won First Place and a Best of Show Award in the Miscellaneous Three-Dimensional Art category at this year’s San Diego County Fair for replicating a detail of Michelangelo’s work utilizing between 3,000 and 4,000 drywall screws to depict the hands of God and Adam about to touch. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

Jewish Sleep Researcher Links Sleep Apnea and Alzheimer’s Symptoms

Even though she soon became a member of the UC San Diego faculty, Israel continued to work from the V.A., where she had access not only to that desk and phone, but also to a sleep laboratory, which then consisted of two rooms. In one, the patient was hooked up to a polysomnogram (PSG) with electrodes placed to monitor movements of the head, eyes, chin, and legs. While the patient slept, “you record heart rate, respiration, leg movement, oxygenation – those re the basics,” Israel said. “Often there is a video recording as well and we look for any unusual movements.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education