By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Just recently my four-year-old grandson asked me if he would be wearing a space suit when he went into space as an astronaut. He didn’t ask if I thought he could become an astronaut. He assumed he would. For him, the world is his oyster. In a few years he will
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– In a preview for the 2012 San Diego Jewish Book Fair, national Presidential campaign analyst, and UCSD Professor, Sam Popkin presents his in-depth and timely insights from his new book: The Candidate- What it takes to Win- and Hold the White House. Lecture and discussion begins 7:00pm in the Samuel
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego Mesa College will host The Courage to Remember, a traveling exhibit produced by the Museum of Tolerance from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, November 5 through 16, 2012. Admission to the exhibit is free and the public is invited to attend. After more than 20 years of international acclaim and a
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish Community Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeff Silberman as its new Board Chair. Jeff succeeds Emily Einhorn who led the Foundation for a two-year term and continues on the Foundation’s Board and Executive Committee. Jeff’s leadership experience spans seven years as a Foundation board
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San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis VISTA, California—“Sweeny Todd”, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler (based on Christopher Bond’s 1973 play) is not your usual run-of-the mill happy musical. It’s dark, bloody, broody, deliciously wicked and gruesome in tone and look and it is revenge-driven. At times it is sprinkled with some pretty
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By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –In a typically politically liberal Reform synagogue in America, this one in a suburb of San Diego, the typically politically liberal rabbi’s Rosh Hashanah sermonshould be a wake-up call to other Jews who are typically liberal. The Jewish Federations of North America sent out an email calling on all rabbis
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San Diego CalendarBy Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California–Bernard Slade’s 1975 comedy Same Time Next Year is kind of little sleeper (no pun intended) of a play. It’s a bitter sweet love story about two people, Doris and George who over the course of 25 years meet each other once a year in Mendocino, California, in a comfortable room
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—So far it’s two for two at Diversionary Theatre. This summer Harmony Kansas brought cheers from the community with its excellent staging of the Bill Nelson, Anna K. Jacobs musical about conflicts in the farming community of Kansas when two gay young men join a join a gay men’s chorus. Now
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastPress Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, February 22, 1957, Page 3 The guest columnist this week is Mr. Irving Morton, assist. exec. dir. of the Jewish Community Center. Mrs. Kaufman will resume her column upon her return from Mexico. When Julia asked me to write something humorous I thought it wouldn’t be too difficult, since many
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Mrs. Solomon To Head Women’s Division For Fund Southwestern Jewish Press, February 22, 1957, Page 1 Mrs. Lewis Solomon will lead the Women’s Division for the 1957 Campaign of the United Jewish Fund, it was announced this week. In the next few days, Chairman Solomon will select her four co-chairmen and begin planning the opening
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—North Coast repertory Theatre in Solana Beach is celebrating its 31st season. For this, a big Shout Out is due. On the occasion of this birthday, they are also mounting the San Diego Premiere of Steve Martin’s adaptation of Carl Sternheim’s 1911 Die Hose or translated, The Underpants. Tantalizing? Titillating?
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis ENCINITAS, California — If anyone ever told me that I would be sitting through a performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and listening to the small group of wandering wanna be actors doo whopping to “Life Could Be a Dream, Shaboom”, I would have called them out for it. And if
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Editor’s Note: Tamara Greenspan Bennett of San Diego is among 101 authors in the anthology, Thin Threads: Real Stories of Hadassah Life Changing Moments, published by Hadassah in celebration of its centennial. Each of the stories is perhaps two or thee pages long, and the appendices of the book include biographical statements about all the
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By Sara Appel-Lennon DEL MAR, California — Former San Diego Padres catcher Brad Ausmus, 43, said he can walk in his Del Mar neighborhood without being recognized since he only played for the San Diego Padres for three years, from 1993-1996. “I’m just like anyone else. Works for me” said Ausmus. But Ausmus played in
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