By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel SOLANA BEACH, California — My daughter Judith and I had tickets for the North Coast Rep on Sunday afternoon to see A Walk in the Woods with David Ellenstein, and J.Todd Adams. We arrived at the theater in plenty of time to pick up our tickets , get seated and […]
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California – At the San Diego County Fair on Sunday, June 2, I was reminded of three Jewish entertainment figures who were instrumental to the making of the celebrated movie, The Wizard of Oz, which because of its San Diego connections provides the theme for this year’s fair.
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — I remember hearing a story about a ten-year old Jewish boy exploring his grandmother’s house. In the closet by the front door, he found a small suitcase filled with old photos and precious tchotchkes. When asked, his grandmother explained that these were relatives who had long since passed
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — San Diego community leader Elaine Galinson will donate $5 million to endow a new campus civility program at UC San Diego and provide for two associated classrooms. Galinson’s gift, announced by the university on Thursday, will endow the Galinson/Glickman Campus Civility Program created in partnership with the San
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jack Nahmias, regional political director for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), will address the Beth Israel Men’s club and guests at 6:15 p.m., Wednesday, June 15, on the question of whether U.S. support for Israel is inevitable. His speech will follow a buffet dinner at the congregation which
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — There was an obvious division in the house on Wednesday night at a performance of Fiddler on the Roof at the Civic Theatre downtown. There were those in the packed audience who never had seen the musical before, and there were those who had seen it in other incarnations since
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Devorah Marcus, spiritual leader of Temple Emanu-El, told the graduating class of Community Jewish High on Tuesday evening that in the five years since their b’nai mitzvahs, she hopes that they gained more than Jewish information by attending the voluntary supplemental high school which primarily draws students
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — From generation to generation, Jewish continuity so often hinges on the foundational Jewish lifecycle events. Whether they are festive or somber, these are the moments that matter. They produce the memories that last a lifetime — memories which intimately shape Jewish identity and practice. Indeed, many Jews never forget when
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Bruce F. Lowitt CLEARWATER, Florida –Baseball, which has probably cherished statistics since the first strikeout and hit were recorded, has latched on with a passion to “exit velocity” and “launch angle” this season. In the case of the San Diego Padres, does it matter if the ball leaves Ian Kinsler’s bat at 116.5 mph
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Bruce F. Lowitt, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School honored two Holocaust survivors at a Memorial Day gala on Monday, May 27, with keynote speaker Elizabeth Robbins, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, spelling out the connection. “I think Rabbi [and Headmaster Simcha] Weiser picked the best possible day to honor Fanny
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In this column, I will respectfully disagree with esteemed Geology Professor Patrick L. Abbott, not about his subject matter, over which he has a sensational command, but rather about his reticence to offer public policy suggestions based upon his knowledge. If anyone still needed convincing that climate change
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, The World We Share
Knotty Barrel, 13211 Black Mountain Road, San Diego, California 92129 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — I went to meet a friend the other day, and by accident, we stumbled into Knotty Barrel for what turned out to be their first lunch after their soft opening the week before. While the Rancho Penasquitos location
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Longtime San Diego residents Robert and Helaine Baum were doing some Spring cleaning and found hundreds of pins and patches that they had collected over the years, then put away, and forgot. Their wide-ranging collection included memorabilia from the worlds of politics, sports, broadcasting, the labor movement, local
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Latin is a dead language. This is defined as “one that has no native speakers.” Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh is on a mission to make sure that Yiddish never goes the way of Latin. And she’s succeeding. Two years ago, the doctoral candidate from the Slavic Languages Department at the
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Eva Trieger, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast