By Carol Davis CARLSBAD, California— New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad has, over the years, mounted four of Sam Shepard’s plays: A Lie Of The Mind, Curse Of The Starving Class, True West and Fool For Love. Simpatico marks the fifth. For San Diego audiences, these are good choices for this company since they do […]
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast(Column 27 . March 17, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Upcoming Events * Why wait for a Purim party to have fun, when you can have a Shabbat dinner the night before? Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah of The Chabad at San Diego State University is hosting at 6115 Montezuma Rd. from 8 p.m. to
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — ion theatre company, now in it’s fifth season, has established itself as pretty avant-garde. So it’s no surprise that Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant Of Inishmore would be on their wish list of plays to produce. He’s also the playwright who wrote The Beauty Queen Of Leenae (it was a
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The continuing column “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History,” which is compiled from issues of the Southwestern Jewish Press, has, in recent postings, been dealing with the construction and development in the 1950s of two adjoining properties on 54th Street: the Hebrew Home for the Aged and the Jewish Community Center. In late 1955, the
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Adventures in SD History, Donald H. HarrisonCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Notice of 22nd Annual Meeting of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego Southwestern Jewish Press, December 9, 1955, Page 11 Take notice that the annual meeting of the united Jewish Fund of San Diego will be held at 6:30 p.m., Sunday, the twenty second (22nd) day of
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Adventures in SD HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish WorldThe Festival of Lights (Editorial) , Chanukah, commemorating history’s first uprising on behalf of religious liberty, is a holiday which has grown in meaning and importance with the years. Jews have suffered and died for religious liberty, but the occasions when they fought were few and far between. The example
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Dial Long Distance Southwestern Jewish Press, December 9, 1955, Page 5 Installation of direct distance dialing equipment that will enable local telephone users to dial their own long distance calls to many points in the country after next April 15 is scheduled to start next week. Local residents
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Own Your Own! Southwestern Jewish Press, December 9, 1955, Page 3 Don’t bother to phone a friend for a recipe… Own your own Jolly 16 “Treasured Recipe” Cook book and treat the family to Potato Pancakes or Kugel, Cheese Blintzes, Noodle Kugel and other “Michels.” Only $1.00 per
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Opening night at the 10th Avenue Theatre in downtown San Diego where Mo’Olelo Performing Arts Company is mounting Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly was packed to capacity. Everyone was anxious to hear about the rich LeVay’s of Martha’s Vineyard. Diamond’s LeVay family drama is quite intriguing and thought provoking
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(Column 25, March 10, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison * San Diego and Israel * Audrey Jacobs, co-founder and co-chair of the San Diego Israel Coalition and Director of School Advancement of Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School has been awarded a 2011 Nahum Goldmann felllowship. She reports that the 1 ½ week-long summer
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San Diego CountyCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Mrs. Henry Monsky Speaks At Sisterhood Luncheon Dec. 14 Southwestern Jewish Press, December 9, 1955, Pages 1, 9 Mrs. Henry Monsky, 1st Vice President of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, will address the December luncheon meeting of Sisterhood of Temple Beth Israel on Wed., December 14, at
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California —A bona fide world premiere of the William Finn/ James Lapine musical Little Miss Sunshine is now being staged at the La Jolla Playhouse on the Mandell Weiss Stage. That’s of course if you don’t count the movie (Michael Arndt) of the same name, which this particular musical follows
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(Column 24, March 7, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison San Diego Jewish Organizations Nechama Eilfort, rebbetzin at Chabad at La Costa, knows a thing or two about computers. So, she’s offering four classes, beginning at 7:30 p.m. tonight and continuing the next three Monday evenings, on the baiscs of personal computing, Internet
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Thanks to Mimi Pollack, who teaches English as a Second Language (ESL) at Grossmont College where I am teaching journalism this semester, my grandson Shor and I had a wonderful outing over the weekend with two young South Koreans who are in this country to polish
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