SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –David Ward Ph. D, San Diego representative for the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) will be guest speaker at the Nov 11 Sunday Luncheon of the Beth Israel Men’s Club at 9001 Towne Centre Drive. “Are you (or someone you love) among the millions of U.S. adults who could benefit from […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The contemporary art exhibit, “Beyond the Age of Reason,” curated by Larry and Debby Kline, is nearing the end of its run at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. If you want to be intrigued, or even possibly enraged, by various artists’ visions of religion and
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California -North Coast Rep Theater will produce the New Works Reading Series sponsored by Nebcal Printing, that will kick off with a dramedy written by stand-up comic Steve Bluestein. I had the good fortune to interview Bluestein by phone earlier this month. Rest, in Pieces is Bluestein’s baby, and will enjoy
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Legislation would create fund for Palestinian-Israeli people-to-people partnerships Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-17) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1) introduced the Palestinian Partnership Fund Act of 2018 (HR7060). This legislation would help create the conditions on the ground necessary for an eventual end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bill would establish a Palestinian Partnership Fund to facilitate and finance
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Samuel Project, filmed in San Diego and screened at the San Diego International Film Festival, is a gentle post-Holocaust story starring Hal Linden as Samuel, a Holocaust survivor who is reluctant to talk about what the Nazis did to him and his family. Despite prodding by his
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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — When we think about female leading ladies or icons of the screen, names like Meryl Streep, Cher, Jane Fonda, or Glenn Close may spring to mind. Not to detract from these gals, but they’re not dames. Oh, sure. They’re women, and Damon Runyon may have called them dames,
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Eva Trieger, San Diego CalendarBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The opening program of the eleventh season of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices will showcase student poets from the San Diego Jewish community. On Tuesday evening, October 16, 7:00 p.m. in the Astor Judaica Library, fourteen young people will read their original poems. English teacher, Elaine Lepow, will be accompanying
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Lawfare Project fights pro-Israel battles in Spain, Germany The Lawfare Project is now celebrating a string of major victories in Spain. A court in Barcelona last week voided a BDS measure passed by the city’s council of arts, a court in Andalusia last month suspended a large city’s boycott of companies that engage in free
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar, USABy Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Creative people have magnetism, a force, an affect all their own. Antonio Lopez, a fashion illustrator and trend setter, was that kind of person. Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco, a documentary directed and written by James Crump and produced by James Crump and Ronnie Sasson, introduces us to
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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel’s Men’s Club has scheduled David Ward Ph. D to be its guest speaker at a Sunday Luncheon, Nov. 11, at Congregation Beth Israel, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. Millions of U.S. adults could benefit from using hearing aids. Ward will discuss hearing loss and hearing devices during an “informational presentation
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you were a reader of Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue, especially during the 20th century, you might have become very familiar with the fashion photography of Irving Penn, who was born to a Jewish father and Christian mother in 1917. He took up a camera in the 1930’s and
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German court dismisses appeal against Kuwaiti Airways discriminatory policy A German court in Frankfurt on Tuesday rejected an appeal by an Israeli passenger barred from boarding a Kuwait Airways flight because of the airline’s strict policy of banning all Israelis. The case had been brought by the Israeli, represented by The Lawfare Project, after he
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International, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– To better understand propositions on the November 2018 ballot, Beth Israel’s Men’s Club will host a representative from the League of Women Voters of San Diego at its 6:30 p.m. dinner forum, Wednesday, October 17, at the Beth Israel campus, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. The League of Women Voters is a
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San Diego Calendar, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Joyce Forum Short Film Festival is triply new. It will screen on October 6th and 7th at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC separately from the San Diego Jewish Film Festival becoming the first Jewish shorts film festival in the world. As the
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