By Donald H. Harrison SANTEE, California – Located at 10144 Mission Gorge Road in Santee, within walking distance of the trolley stop, and between State Routes 67 and 125, what will become the County of San Diego’s new vital records center and wedding place is expected to open in November 2019 on land that the
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Tifereth Israel Sisterhood will host a Roaring ’20s-themed party, the “Sistahood Speakeasy (ssh!)” on Saturday evening, November 17, at the synagogue at 6660 Cowles Mountain Boulevard, San Diego The event gets underway at 7:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour, complete with piano and lounge singer. A full, no-host bar continues
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –David Ward Ph. D, San Diego representative for the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) will be guest speaker at the Nov 11 Sunday Luncheon of the Beth Israel Men’s Club at 9001 Towne Centre Drive. “Are you (or someone you love) among the millions of U.S. adults who could benefit from
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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The contemporary art exhibit, “Beyond the Age of Reason,” curated by Larry and Debby Kline, is nearing the end of its run at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. If you want to be intrigued, or even possibly enraged, by various artists’ visions of religion and
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar-Third and last of a series By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California – Of the twelve student poets who participated in the Oct. 16 Jewish Voices-Jewish Poets readings in the Astor Library of the Lawrence Family JCC, only two were males. It was a coincidence, perhaps, that both young men wrote about war. REMAIN by
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori
By Lea Wolf SAN DIEGO — The world of politics is extremely rocky and campaigning can bring about “dirty” practices. I am running for Board of Trustees of the San Dieguito Union High School District, SDUHSD. The reason I got involved is because I realized that today students are the most vulnerable stakeholders in the
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San Diego County
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Where there’s a bounty there’s a bounty hunter or two…or possibly three. This fact was made evident in the West Coast Premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s sleuth fest, Holmes and Watson. North Coast Rep’s David Ellenstein directed an all Actor’s Equity cast for this exciting and inimitable twist on Sir
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastFirst in a series By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Twelve student poets shared their original poetry for an audience of proud and beaming parents, teachers and friends at the opening program of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC, Tuesday evening, October 16. The audience included Rabbi Lenore
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California -North Coast Rep Theater will produce the New Works Reading Series sponsored by Nebcal Printing, that will kick off with a dramedy written by stand-up comic Steve Bluestein. I had the good fortune to interview Bluestein by phone earlier this month. Rest, in Pieces is Bluestein’s baby, and will enjoy
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Eva Trieger, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — I knew for years that low income schools students were being bused to attend concerts at San Diego Symphony for the first time of their lives. I had no idea who was behind this unique project, and by chance a few weeks ago I had the good fortune
Where is the classical music audience? It’s elementary! Read More »
Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Jeanne Brown of the League of Women Voters of San Diego rapidly analyzed 11 statewide ballot measures and 12 local ballot measures Wednesday evening, Oct. 17, at a meeting of the Beth Israel Men’s Club that was attended by approximately 90 people. Smiling as she faced the mixed
Legislation would create fund for Palestinian-Israeli people-to-people partnerships Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-17) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1) introduced the Palestinian Partnership Fund Act of 2018 (HR7060). This legislation would help create the conditions on the ground necessary for an eventual end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bill would establish a Palestinian Partnership Fund to facilitate and finance
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Eva Trieger CARLSBAD, California — We generally view grief as a mitigating factor. Death is a harsh clarion signaling a divide between what was once vibrant and dynamic to something silenced and static. New Village Arts turns this concept on its head with Guadalupe in the Guest Room. This beautiful 90 minute one-act play
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – An Egyptian-born Muslim who today calls himself a proud Zionist, an Ethiopian-Israeli who taught herself to sing as a way to relieve the stress of rocket attacks on her hometown of Sderot, and an 11-year-old girl whose answer to anti-Semitism was to become a strong supporter of Israel,
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USA