SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Tarbuton, Israeli Cultural Center in Carmel Valley, has been selected to join Nitzan, a National network for innovative after school programs. (“Nitzan” means flower bud in Hebrew.) The purpose of Nitzan’s network is to support the renewal of Jewish learning after school. Network members support each other by sharing […]
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San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California—If you’ve not seen Randall Dodge in The Pirates of Penzance, The Fantastics, Annie Get Your Gun, The Sound of Music and a host of other musicals in and around San Diego, I suggest you high tail it up to the Welk Resort Village Theatre in Escondido to see and hear this
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastEditor’s Note: Funeral services will be held on Monday, Jan. 7, for Jewish communal leader Murray Galinson at 1 p.m. at Congregation Beth Israel. By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO –“You should go meet with Murray Galinson.” I can’t really exactly who said that to me in early June 1990. I had just finished working on
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San Diego CountyESCONDIDO, California (Press Release)– Chesed Home, San Diego County’s adult residential facility serving Jews with serious mental illness, opens next month in this city. Hope Village San Diego, a 501 3c non-profit, has developed Chesed Home. The mission is to provide a safe and nurturing residence for adults with serious mental illness, based on Jewish values and
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San Diego CountyBy Lynne Thrope SAN DIEGO –While the intent of the “d” in Hillcrest’s newest, trendy, hotspot on 5th Avenue is on the drinks, dining, and desserts, it should be, in addition, on the delicious, distinct, and diverse ingredients used in each item brilliantly concocted by Chef Keegan Gerhard, San Diego’s most recent celebrity chef to
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Editor’s Note: San Diego Jewish community leader Gail Littman died on December 21, 2012. At a memorial service on December 27, 2012, the community gathered at Temple Adat Shalom in Poway, where Littman was a past president, to mourn her loss. Among those eulogizing her was Marjory Kaplan, executive director of the Jewish Community Foundation,
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San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—It’s hard to believe that the San Diego Opera will be beginning its 48th International season in January the 26th to be exact. As a long time opera aficionado, I couldn’t be happier and for several reasons not the least being the choices Artistic Director Ian Campbell has made for
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SAN DIEGO – Notices of various events of Jewish interest in San Diego cross our desk. We have posted them below in chronological order, with the type of event labeled in bold face type. We hope you will find some items of interest: Last updated: July 21 * Saturday, September 21 — POW/MIA –A 1
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Elyse K. Sollender has created the Jeffrey D. Sollender Business and Philanthropic Youth Entrepreneurship Scholarship Program at the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego in memory of her late husband, Jeff Sollender, a renaissance man who always put his family first. Scholarships will recognize innovative, college-bound students who have created and
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Photos and story by Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — Mr. Chick at 6618 Mission Gorge Road is a great little casual/ deli style restaurant. The food there is very moderately priced, ranging from $5- $15, and incredibly yummy. The space itself is small, holding only about 40 people when set up as a restaurant,
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO — Thelma B. Menaker, an organizer and former commander of the Jewish War Veterans Auxiliary Post 185, died Nov. 21, 2012 at the age of 91. Born in Philadelphia she moved in 1974 to San Diego with her husband, Alfred, a World war II veteran who survives her.. Menaker worked for the
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO — The Journal of San Diego History has added San Diego Jewish World publisher Donald H. Harrison to its editorial board, the Journal’s co-editors, Drs. Molly McClain and Iris Engstrand, have announced. Harrison, author of a biography of San Diego pioneer Louis Rose and numerous articles on San Diego Jewish history, “will provide
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By Carol Davis CHULA VISTA, California—As a romantic, (I readily admit it) I welcome a good love story with a happy ending. Somehow or other though, sitting through Jane Austen’s last novel “Persuasion”, as adapted for the stage by Jon Jory and now in a World Premiere production at OnStage Playhouse, the thought came to
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, The ArtsBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Like it or not, we all have a mortal time clock ticking somewhere in our bodies. For most it’s located in or around the heart. In playwright Marisa Wegrzny thought provoking but off the wall dark comedy “Hickorydickory”, the Wicker Family of ‘Wicker’s Watch & Clock Repair shop in
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