San Diego County

‘Escape the Nat’ diversifies the museum experience

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Museum of Natural History, familiarly known as “The Nat,” began attracting new visitors last July when it installed an Escape Room on its bottom floor, with the idea of inducing gamers to come to the museum.  Escape Rooms grew out of video games, only instead

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

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 26, 2018 (4 items)

SDSU Jewish Studies Program sponsors Chanukah concert Dec. 4 San Diego State University’s Jewish Studies Program will present a Chanukah concert, “Shimmering Lights,” featuring Yale Strom’s Broken Consort at 7 p.m., Dec. 4, in the Smith Recital Hall. Strom, who serves as artist in residence for the Jewish Studies Program, says the concert will include

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, USA

A concert in the Kunewalder living room

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The vivacious pianist, Ines Irawati, welcomed the overflow crowd in Monique Kunewalder’s living room before her partner for the Piano Duo Recital, Daniel Wnukowski, introduced their first selection, Dance Macabre by Saints-Saens. This transcription for two pianos from the orchestral original was carried off with crackling demonic fervor, and Wnukowski’s

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

Play at Old Globe focuses on military family’s struggles

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “I know this Christmas, every wish won’t come true, but I’m dreaming of Christmas with you.” Everyone who has had a family member come back from a tour of duty knows that they never come back quite the same. You see in their eyes the dark shadows of

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Marilyn Monroe, other Jews, recalled in Coronado

By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Three years after she converted to Judaism, actress Marilyn Monroe made the Billy Wilder comedy Some Like it Hot in 1959 with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.  Now, almost 60 years later, this city across the bay from San Diego still remembers her vividly.  The Hotel del Coronado, where

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Patrick Henry venue, strings enhance TICO concert

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Patrick Henry High School’s new PHAME Auditorium was the setting for the first of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s (TICO) recent pair of concerts, Sunday, November 4 and Tuesday, November  6. I heard the Tuesday evening performance at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, but I learned from others that the excellent

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

Women of the Wall envoy details struggle for equality

By David Ogul SAN DIEGO — It’s all about equality. That was the message from Cheryl Temkin, an executive member of the Speakers Bureau for the Jerusalem-based Women of the Wall, who was the featured speaker Nov. 16 at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego following Kabbalat Shabbat services. Just months after Israeli paratroopers liberated Jerusalem’s

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David Ogul, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County

Climate change subject of Dec. 19 CBI forum

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Robert Gilleskie, former director of engineering at the California Center for Sustainable Energy, will address the need to counter climate change in an address at the Beth Israel Men’s Club dinner meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 19, starting at 6:30 p.m., at 9001 Towne Centre Drive “Based on overwhelming evidence of

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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 14, 2018 (4 items)

American Jewish Committee seeks nationwide effort to combat hate crimes The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is calling for a concerted government effort to combat hate crimes. The call to action comes after the FBI issued its latest annual report, which showed a 17 percent increase in hate crimes during 2017, compared to the year before.

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International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Fires at home, rockets in Israel stir Jewish Federation

(Please hover with your cursor to find links) By Michael Jeser and Brian Tauber SAN DIEGO — The past week has been a difficult one up and down our State. Communities in Northern and Southern California are literally burning and need our help. Three major fires have devastated entire communities, leaving people displaced and homeless. Our

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Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Book details the battles over Nazi-looted art

A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art (2017) by Nicholas M. O’Donnell By Herbert I. Lazerow SAN DIEGO — This is a terrific book that everyone should read. Nicholas O’Donnell’s book begins by describing as the paradigm case Camille Pissarro’s Rue St. Honore, apres-midi, effet de pluie, sold by the German

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