SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Rabbi Moishe Leider of Chabad of University City on Monday, April 2, sent out an advisory to the community that shots had been fired at his synagogue. He wrote: “As you may have heard from various news sources, two bullet holes were recently discovered in windows on the bottom floor of our Synagogue. Thank […]
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By Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California —-Rita McKenzie has been called ‘bold and brassy’. ‘Dynamite’. Call her what you will, but there is no doubt that she embodies the voice, spirit and persona of the bold, brassy and dynamite Ethel Merman. Now, in a limited engagement at the Welk Resort Theatre in Escondido Ms. McKenzie will
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–T.C. Boyle’s best selling novel Tortilla Curtain has been adapted to stage by Matthew Spangler (he adapted the popular novel The Kite Runner into a stage play) and the San Diego Repertory Theatre is giving it its first airing. Now in a ninety-minute long (It seemed much longer to this viewer)
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis VISTA, California — James Sherman’s 1989 family comedy “Beau Jest” closes out the winter season at Moonlight’s indoor theatre, The Avo. It is just what the doctor ordered for a-laugh-a minute Jewish infused play sprinkled with a bit of good old-fashioned ‘common sense’ (if you will) and a cast up to the
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The resignation of Steven Morris as president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of San Diego was announced yesterday by Claire Ellman, board chair. In a letter to the San Diego Jewish community, she wrote: “I am writing to inform you that Steven J. Morris, President and CEO of Federation, has
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San Diego CalendarBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Can you imagine being kidnapped by robots? No? Neither can I. Because from the looks of things in playwright Elizabeth Meriwether’s off the wall play Heddatron, a San Diego premiere, the five robots twirling about the stage at ion Theatre Company just don’t listen to reason. Well, why would
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The first things noticeable when entering the White Theatre at The Old Globe are the nautical accoutrements (Wilson Chin) of heavy ropes defining sections of Johnny-Priest’s Saloon, wooden planks of floor, heavy beams both stumped and tall, lots of coiled ropes, dim yellow lighting (Austin R. Smith), fog and
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — In 1998 the Alfred Uhry (book) Jason Robert Brown (music and lyrics) musical drama Parade closed shortly after it opened at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre. Lincoln Center co produced the show with the Canadian producing company Livent, Inc. One doesn’t usually associate politics with theatre but politics rears
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWomen’s League of Jewish Center Asks for Volunteers to Serve Southwestern Jewish Press, November 30, 1956, Page 9 “The Jewish Community Center is our business, and we need you in our business.” This is the call going out to the community from the board of the Women’s League of the Jewish Community Center. Our recently
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Adventures in SD HistoryPHILADELPHIA (Press Release) — The following is a statement of the board of directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East in support of UCSD Professor Shlomo Dubnov: We are the members of the board of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), a grass-roots community of more than 50,000 academics on 4,000 campuses all
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San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — The novel A Room With A View by E.M. Forster is a charming period piece that takes place in the early 1900’s. It was published in 1908 as England was on the cusp of sloughing off the repressive Victorian attitudes and readying itself toward more flexible and relaxed attitudes
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World Yo-Ma-Co News Southwestern Jewish Press, November 30, 1956, Page 7 The last meeting of the Yo-Ma-Co Club was attended by a delegation of board of directors from the Jewish Community Center. Mr. William Schwartz, president of the JCC, was presented at that time with a check in the amount
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By Bruce Kesler SAN DIEGO — In a blatant act of chutzpah, if the pro-Palestinians at UCSD will allow a Yiddish term, they have launched a specious campaign to claim they were harassed and insulted by their opponents. This false claim is in order to step up their own campaign of fear, slander and harassment
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Mexican sculptor José Sacal donated his 7-foot-by-7-foot sculpture First Step, weighing over 700 pounds, to the San Diego Jewish Academy, courtesy of Jacobo and Hermosa Farca Foundation, at a special unveiling on Wednesday, March 7. This gift was facilitated by the collaborative efforts of WIZO-Tijuana San Diego Organization, KEN Jewish Community
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