San Diego County

Jerusalem Quartet provides a musical treat

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Experiencing music in the Conrad, the new home of the La Jolla Music Society, was a rare treat. At the April 9 concert, featuring the Jerusalem Quartet, the audience basked in the sunshine of sound projected by the Israeli musicians. The music floated gloriously in the fine acoustics

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Eileen Wingard, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA

Junior high girl prepares for Anne Frank role

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A line formed after Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, spoke recently at Chabad of Poway.  When it was the turn of 15-year-old Bryn Williams to kneel next to the chair of the 90-year-old Schloss, they had a particularly animated discussion.  Williams, a veteran of the Pickwick Players

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Superman, Batman and deeper Torah concepts

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Superhero comics have been influenced greatly by Jewish life in the United States and by Torah learning, according to Jordan Gorfinkel, 51, the entertainment entrepreneur who managed the Batman franchise for a decade before creating his own Avalanche Comics Entertainment company. In the sanctuary of Tifereth Israel Synagogue

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Survivor’s granddaughter lectures on Holocaust

  Now it’s the Third Generation’s time to remind the world never to forget By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Talia Schauder, almost 17, says that she wants to become a teacher.  But, in essence, she already is. On Monday, April 8, with all the aplomb of a seasoned teacher, she faced an assembly

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

Strom to present songs of home and exile April 9

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — “Songs of Home and Exile” is the title of the program Yale Strom will present at Smith Recital Hall, SDSU, Tuesday evening, April 9 at 7 p.m. The multi-talented artist-in-residence at San Diego State University’s Jewish Studies Department, has assembled an outstanding group of singers and instrumentalists for this

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar

Comics’ Gorfinkel to visit Tifereth Israel Synagogue

SAN DIEGO  (Press Release)– Jordan Gorfinkel, a former DC Comics editor who managed the Batman franchise for nearly a decade, will be at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego on Wednesday, April 10, for a free-to-the-public discussion of his work, which includes a newly published The Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel that brings the Exodus experience into

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, San Diego County

Operatic soloist thrills at TICO concert

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — TICO’s April 2 concert in Patrick Henry High School’s beautiful on-campus concert hall, PHAME, opened with a spirited rendition of Aaron Copland’s Outdoor Overture. The violins were admirably incisive in their opening attack and the other sections, under Conductor David Amos’ precise beats and careful cues, made their complex

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County