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Editor’s E-Mail Box: July 6, 2018 (8 items)

40 rabbis tour migrant centers in Tijuana, urge U.S. welcome immigrants This week, nearly 40 rabbis from across the country toured migrant centers in Tijuana as a part of a delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border. A growing number of asylum seekers have found temporary shelter and social services in Tijuana as they try to seek

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

S.D. Jewish history book helpful exhibition souvenir

Celebrate, Commemorate: The History and Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community, editor Joellyn Zollman, San Diego History Center, ISBN 8780918-740090,  91 pages including acknowledgments and room for personal remembrances. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The recent exhibition at the San Diego History Center about our local Jewish community contained more information than most

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County

‘American Socialist,’ story of Debs, debuts July 4

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — How often do you catch yourself humming a tune, or singing along with lyrics, when you suddenly experience that moment of clarity as you realize the song’s message?  The instant when you learned that “Ring Around the Rosie” was about Black Plague or that U2 was singing about

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Eva Trieger, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Music stars in La Jolla Music Society’s summer nights

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — For his final season as Music Director of the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, before handing over the director’s reins to the brilliant Israeli pianist, Inon Barnatan, violinist Cho-Liang Lin has assembled an outstanding group of artists to perform at sixteen concerts. Each concert includes a Prelude Lecture or

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

Four San Diego- Israel academic projects detailed

SAN DIEGO — The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative brings together professors and researchers in Israel and San Diego for joint projects. Recently the organization named in honor of the late philanthropist and San Diego Jewish community leader Murray Galinson listed four of these projects in an email advisory. SDSU and Technion Joint Engineering Capstone

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

State approves fund to support needy Holocaust survivors

SACRAMENTO (Press Release) — The State of California appropriated $3.6 million to create the California Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program, the first California-funded program that ensures that Holocaust survivors are able to live out their lives with dignity. The proposal for the program was initiated and stewarded by Jewish Family Service of San Diego, in partnership

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San Diego County, USA

Survivor Ruth Hohberg addresses CBI Men July 18

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel’s Men’s Club has scheduled Ruth Hohberg as guest speaker at the July 18 Dinner Forum beginning at 6:30 p.m. Her presentation will cover Getting Here, an Odyssey through WWII recounting some of the memories of her experiences as a child during the war. This program is open to all. Membership at Beth

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International, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar

Teen punk rockers in ‘The House of Tomorrow’

“Don’t fight forces, use them.”  Buckminister Fuller. By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SAN DIEGO — There is an ethical sweetness on display in the film The House of Tomorrow, written and directed by Peter Livolsi and based on the novel by Peter Bognanni, possibly because the ideas and behavior are based on ideas expressed by architect, philosopher, dreamer,

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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Editor’s E-Mail Box: June 25, 2018 (4 Items)

Israeli Reserve Duty to Earn Academic Credits The Knesset on Monday passed in its third and final reading a law that will provide two academic credits to students who serve a minimum of 14 annual days of reserve duty. The measure was a initiated by Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), MK Meirav Ben-Ari (Kulanu),

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

Gender reversal in Old Globe’s ‘Tempest’

  “We are the stuff dreams are made of.” SAN DIEGO — The Tempest was Will’s farewell to the stage. Prospero’s wizardry is the magic of theatre and this play is consummately theatrical with tempest tossing seas, fantastic spirits, hideous monsters, star-crossed lovers, improbable twists, intrigue and a thirst for revenge. But what if you reimagine

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

You may go nuts over ‘Squirrels’

By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — Sure, we’ve all seen actors warming up by reciting tongue twisters or singing scales to loosen up their vocal cords, doing yoga poses or lunges to limber up and get their creative juices flowing, but watching hours of squirrel videos?  Studiously ogling nature documentaries of squirrels eating, sparring, and

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Romeo, Romeo and Juliet’ probes summer stock

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — What a perfect play to kick off summer! The Roustabouts, San Diego’s newest and most adventurous theater company, celebrates Season 2 with a charming show that honors the Bard and modern audiences. “Romeo, Romeo and Juliet” tracks the lives of two summer stock theater actors and their director, revealing

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast