San Diego County

DA, San Diego City Schools sign ‘mapping agreement’ to prevent juvenile crime

 SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced on Tuesday, Feb. 21,  that her office has signed a partnership agreement with the San Diego Unified School District that allows both organizations to support student achievement through various activities and programs, including mapping juvenile crime around schools in order to streamline services to specific regions […]

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The opera ‘Moby Dick’ a visual sensation with strong new music

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— The West Coast Premiere of Jake Heggie’s long waited Moby-Dick finally anchored at The Civic Center for at the opening night production on Feb. 18  and from my seat in row U it was a visually splendid sensation. From the time the theatre went dark and Donald Holder’s brilliant light

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Guys & Dolls’ still a favorite after all these years

By Carol Davis CORONADO, California—If you ever wondered why Guys & Dolls is my all-time-favorite musical, take a trip to Coronado and catch Lamb’s Players Theatre production of it now. With the wonderful music of Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows based on a story of Damon Runyon characters, it has

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Community mikvah seeks new home; construction costs force move from planned site at Tifereth Israel

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Waters of Eden Board of Directors has passed a resolution stating that the Waters of Eden Mikvah and Educational Center would not build its facility at the base of Cowles Mountain, adjacent to Tifereth Israel.  The Waters of Eden Board Resolution was based upon the financial feasibility of constructing the complex

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‘The Marvelous Wonderettes’ provides a nostalgic trip through the songs of the ’50’s

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— (If) life could be a dream, Sha-Boom we could all go back to our high school days and relive the past, ‘Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang …’ Roger Bean’s The Marvelous Wonderettes with musical arrangements by Brian William Baker and Michael Broth’s orchestrations is currently being given a “Sugar

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Intrepid Shakespeare’s ‘An Enemy Of The People’ a must see

By Carol Davis ENCINITAS, California–You don’t have to be politically astute to understand the goings on in An Enemy Of the People. You just have to open a newspaper today and read about this country being torn apart by the political schism that is being ramped up by a few loud, narrow minded and hypocritical

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Magic and a lot of hard work benefit Seacrest Village

By Joel and Arlene Moskowitz LA JOLLA, California –Seacrest Village Retirement Community in Encinitas is a senior facility  where marvels and wonderments occur on a daily basis. Staff members nurture, help, and assist almost 400 resident-seniors who have a myriad of ailments, elements of aging or who have just ‘grown’ older.  That is magic. What

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Nov. 30, 1956, Part 2

Editor’s Note: Part 1 of the November 30, 1956 issue was reprinted out of sequence Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, November 30, 1956, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman “Books lead us into the society of those great men with whom we could not otherwise come into personal contact. 

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Jessica Kort named as San Diego Leadership Alliance fellow

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jessica Kort, communications and program associate for the Jewish Community Foundation, has been named as a fellow of the San Diego Leadership Alliance. Kort will participate for six months in SDLA’s New Leaders Council Institute program, which “provides young progressive professionals with skills and relationships to make changes in

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Rape, brutality hard to watch in ‘Blasted’ at ion theatre

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—I have been on four roller coaster rides in my lifetime. Once as a teenager on the one at White City Park in my hometown of Worcester, Massachusetts, another on the Matterhorn at Disneyland when I didn’t know any better, another at Magic Mountain since my youngest was too short to

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Nov. 16, 1956, Part 5

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, November 15, 1956, Page 7 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Mental Retardation– As this issue comes from the presses, and if we are the ordinary individuals who are exposed to the radio, television, billboards, and the newspapers, we shall

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Women’s Hall of Fame honors six, including two from Jewish community of San Diego County

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Ingrid Croce will be honored as the Spirit of the 2012 San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame during an Induction Ceremony and Dinner at Liberty Station on March 10th at 5pm. Other honorees will include at least two members of the Jewish community: former U.S. Rep. Lynn Schenk and

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Moxie Theatre’s ‘A Raisin In the Sun’ as good as theatre gets!

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—I’m old enough to remember segregation and racial prejudice before it was swept under the carpet only to rear its ugly head again in 2008. Then, there was no beating around the bushes when it came to who drank from what faucet or went to what part of the bus or

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast