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Redistricting creates some comfortable districts for local Jewish incumbents

By 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. […]

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NVA Launches Ensemble Project, ‘Ah Wilderness’

By 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

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

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, August 10, 1956, Part 1

Report 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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Student movement inspired by Anne Frank subject of S.D. Jewish Film Festival opener

SAN 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

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Three businessmen named to Jewish Community Foundation board

SAN 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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Felder dazzles with insights into Leonard Bernstein

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO —Maestro: The Art of Leonard Bernstein is Hershey Felder’s personal love letter to Leonard Bernstein. Felder, the consummate master of bringing musical genius alive by adopting the persona of the masters and becoming them has been a treat for yours truly in the past. He has paid tribute to George

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

Sleeping Beauty Wakes to confusion and mayhem

By Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California— While the La Jolla Playhouses Sleeping Beauty, Rose (Aspen Vincent), of the fairy tale of the same name, flutters her eyelids in an attempt to awaken (in a sleeping disorder clinic) after a nine hundred year slumber yours truly had everything she could do to keep her eyes from fluttering

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

Who’s Tommy? You’ll enjoy finding out at the Rep

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO –The last time San Diego audiences saw The Who’s Tommy performed locally was in 1992 when Pete Townshend (of the Who from 1962-1982) and Des McAnuff (former artistic director or the La Jolla Playhouse) staged its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse. The musical soon moved to Broadway in

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

Bob Filner urges Gilad Shalit’s freedom from Hamas

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–Congressman Filner recently joined his colleagues in supporting a resolution that demands that Palestinian’s militant group Hamas release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit who was captured five years ago and held in an unknown location. “Gilad’s capture was cowardly and wrong, his captivity is immoral and heinous,” said Congressman Filner.  “Gilad’s captors have

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