By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Local premieres are great motivators for audiences interested in seeing productions not mounted in our fair city before. Unless you do a lot of theatre travel to catch world premieres the next best things are local premieres. Ion Theatre Company, always in the front lines of risk taking and in its […]
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Board of Directors of Waters of Eden /San Diego Community Mikvah & Education Center has announced the appointment of Amy Bebchick as its first Executive Director. Bebchick has more than 15years of experience working in non-profit organizations. She has previously served as Executive Director of Hillel at Miami University, Assistant Director
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Congregation Beth Israel, Southern California’s oldest Jewish congregation, will celebrate its 150th anniversary year by creating a new Torah scroll, hosting seven of America’s most prominent Jewish scholars in a public speaker series, and sponsoring an elegant dinner and special performance by legendary entertainer Mandy Patinkin. Beth Israel’s roots date to
Numerous events to mark Congregation Beth Israel’s sesquicentennial Read More »
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By Gary Rotto Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — If you even casually follow sports in San Diego, you know the name Trevor Hoffman. Along with Tony Gwynn, Trevor has been one of the faces of the San Diego Padres. Sunday, one of the great personalities of San Diego was honored at Petco Park. He forever
Trevor Hoffman, a great reliever… and mensch Read More »
San Diego CalendarBy Carol Davis CORONADO, California–When Joanna McClelland Glass first met Judge Francis Biddle in 1967 she was in her early twenties and he was 81. She was on the morning side of her life and career he was at twilight of his. He had pretty much ‘done it all.’ She was from the Canadian
Plusses for ‘Trying’ at Lamb’s Players Theatre Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis VISTA, California—It matters not that just last year, The San Diego Repertory Theatre in conjunction with San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts mounted an excellent and lively rendition of the Mark O’Donnell, Thomas Meehan (book), Mark Shaiman (music) and Scott Wittman/Mark Shaiman (lyrics) 2003 Tony Award winning Broadway hit (directed
Hairspray at Moonlight is hair-raising fun Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Gary Rotto Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — Baseball and kosher hot dogs. A new summer time tradition is reprised by the Jewish Federation and the Padres. On a recent homestand, our local nine hosted a Jewish Community Day, the first one organized in conjunction with local Jewish organizations in almost a decade. Back when the Padres
San Diego Jewish community turned out for the Padres Read More »
San Diego CalendarBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — There’s something intriguing about watching two intelligent adults spar over their intended romance leading up to their ultimate marriage…or not. In playwright John Morogiello’s witty and appealing Engaging Shaw now on the Sheryl and Harvey White Stage at the Old Globe Theatre, Rod Brogan (Shaw), Angela Pierce (Charlotte Payne-Townshend),
Engaging Shaw at the Old Globe is just plain good theatre Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — The dust has finally settled and the California Citizens Redistricting Commission has concluded its work. The final maps for Congress, the Board of Equalization, State Senate, and State Assembly have been released. I wrote previously of a possible map that included most of the Jewish community in our region.
Redistricting creates some comfortable districts for local Jewish incumbents Read More »
San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California —It’s hard to believe that the very same playwright, Eugene O’Neill, who penned Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Morning Becomes Electra and Desire Under the Elms also is responsible for his one and only lighthearted comedy Ah, Wilderness. But then again, he was much younger and his
NVA Launches Ensemble Project, ‘Ah Wilderness’ Read More »
Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastReport From Israel Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Pages 1, 4 By Albert A. Hutler Executive Director, United Jewish Fund, San Diego JERUSALEM – Israel is a paradox. This is a nation under siege, but at first glance it seems to be anything but that. At first glance Israel seems to be a nation
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistorySDJW staff report SAN DIEGO — Gail Feinstein Forman, 64, an author and educator who wrote frequently for San Diego Jewish World about movies, books and a variety of other subjects, died July 29 at her home following a battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband, Jack Forman, and brother Mark Feinstein. “I
Writer Gail Feinstein Forman mourned Read More »
San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The 22nd Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival, sponsored by the Leichtag Family Foundation, and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, will present the season kick-off event, The Power of Hope, on Sun., August 21, beginning at 6:15
Student movement inspired by Anne Frank subject of S.D. Jewish Film Festival opener Read More »
San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish Community Foundation has elected three new prominent community members to join its Board of Directors. Marc Channick, Luis Maizel and Brian Miller are widely respected members of the business community and have distinguished themselves as leaders in the non-profit sector. Their three-year terms began on July 1, 2011 and all
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