Travel and Food

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Annelle Kazumi Gregory, currently studying at USC with former New York Philharmonic Concertmaster Glen Dicterow, opened the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus’s final program of their 2014-15 season with the Tschaikowsky Violin Concerto. The talented young woman rendered this familiar work with a warm sound and secure technique.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – The arrival of summer can mean trips to the beach or a family vacation. However, for millions of low-income students who benefit from free or reduced-price school meals it can mean wondering where their next meal might come from, making hunger an unnecessary part of their summer months. To end

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Continuing the 2015 Jewish Arts Festival, the 14th Annual Klezmer Summit: “L’Dor V’Dor” (“From Generation to Generation”) took place Monday, June 8th at the Lyceum Space. It’s a good thing I had a press pass because tickets were sold out. Not too shabby for a Monday. The San Diego

By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO – In a shabby apartment in northern Idaho, a six-hundred-pound man is facing what he believes to be the last week of his life. Desperate to do one good thing before he dies, he reaches out to his estranged daughter and finds a hateful seventeen-year-old terror. Nursed by the woman who

Outwitting History by Aaron Lansky, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Suppose you wanted to learn to read and/or speak Yiddish.  Where would you go to find books to read and people to speak to? But, you say, Yiddish is first of all not really a language and second of