San Diego County

TICO features works of Dvorak, Alfven, Stern

By 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

Wonderful advice from grandson’s peers

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

Florida shooting survivors appeal for gun laws

By 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

Adat Yeshurun celebrates families with circus gala

              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

‘A Walk in the Woods’ stopped before it started

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

Three movie wizards recalled at Oz- flavored county fair

  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 Food

‘Fiddler’ raises the roof at the Civic

By 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

Galinson donates $5 million for civility program

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, & Education