By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While there is little to laugh about when it comes to the subject of the Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal (Tom Dugan), began the one-man show with a joke. The longer the show went on, the more the actor revealed the character, and perhaps a trace of hubris, of Simon […]
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Eva Trieger, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – As the House Armed Services Committee considers the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) throughout the day on Wednesday, Congresswoman Susan Davis (CA-53) added key measures to the base bill. As a senior member of the committee, Davis influences policy changes and crafts key provisions each year in the bill.
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International, San Diego County, USA
By Zev Bar-Lev SAN DIEGO – A student, let’s call her Ida, says: “I find the Hebrew language completely opaque, as if hidden from me by a thick curtain. I’ve memorized the whole alphabet, all the shapes & their sounds, but I can’t make much out of words, much less sentences—even with a bunch of
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO –The 2019 Fringe Festival is in full swing, eleven days and nights of “Eyeball Busting” shows. To qualify, each show can be no more than an hour and the festival organizers like to keep the venues close to each other so that audience members can easily go from one
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Playwright Ali Viterbi , judging by In Every Generation, is a fresh young voice with much to say. The play, presented Thursday evening, June 6, as part of the 26th Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, is in four parts. It zig-zags between eras, managing to deal
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Kaminski’s B-B-Q & Sports Lounge, 12725 Poway Road, Poway, California 92064 By Sandi Masori POWAY — While driving on Poway Road to get my hair done, I noticed a barbecue restaurant that seemed to jump out at me. I guess I must have been hungry, because I never noticed it before. It looked perfect
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — David Amos did unusual programming at TICO’s recent concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue by opening with the longest work of the evening, Dvorak’s New World Symphony. However, the orchestra musicians seemed warmed up enough to plunge into this iconic music and bring forth the familiar melodies with all the
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – It was Erev Shavuot on Saturday evening, June 8. Once again we were talking about two women in the Bible during the customary evening study session at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. This time, however, the two women we discussed were not Ruth and Naomi, as is perhaps traditional. Instead,
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO and EL CAJON, California – Thanks to my grandson Shor Masori graduating from three different schools this semester, I recently had the opportunity to listen to several remarkable young women who respectively were speakers at the ceremonies at Community Jewish High School, Grossmont Middle College High School, and Grossmont
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — The Seventh Annual Fringe Festival held a brief opening ceremony in Balboa Park on Thursday morning, June 6. We heard from Jonathan Glus of the Commission for Arts & Culture and a man from California Assemblyman Todd Gloria’s office presented an official Certificate of Recognition from the California
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California –Two remarkable young people, Sofie Whitney and Brendan Duff, both alumni of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were at the Lawrence Family JCC last Sunday evening, talking about the shooting at their high school on February 14, 2018. They were interviewed by Jordan Harrison, senior director
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, USA
By Eric George Tauber CARLSBAD, California — Little Shop of Horrors first appeared in 1960 as a campy horror movie beside such titles as The Blob, Plan 9 from Outer Space and I Was a Teenage Vampire. Relegated to dusty cans and the Late Late Show, it was given new life as a rockin’
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – “From generation to generation” is a popular saying among Jews to indicate how Torah learning has been passed down from parent to child through the millennia. At Congregation Adat Yeshurun on Sunday night, the saying was happily augmented with another:
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Donald H. Harrison, Jacob Kamaras, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
Sufi Mediterranean Cuisine, 5915 Balboa Ave. San Diego, California 92111 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — I was in the Convoy area for an appointment and met my dad for lunch. Since we’re still trying to “eat around the world” we picked a Persian restaurant for our outing. Sufi bills itself as a Mediterranean restaurant,
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and Food