The Jewish comedians: Harry Shearer
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From the Jewish Library: ‘A Bridge Across the Jordan’
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In 1937, Mendel Cohen, a Jewish carpenter living in Jerusalem met Abdullah, the King of Jordan, at the home of the High Commissioner of the British Mandate Authority in Palestine. The Commissioner was leaving for England and Cohen was helping him to pack. Many of the items were delicate
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Travel and FoodSparks Gallery in Gaslamp features 2 Jewish artists
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Sparks Gallery located at 530 Sixth Avenue (92101) in the historic Sterling Hardware building in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter is currently showing sculptures by Jewish artists Steven Florman and Ilanit Shalev. Steven Florman, past president and member of Congregation Dor Hadash, is a San Diego artist whose abstract sculptures from wood
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Travel and FoodStories of Woodstock, Elliot Tiber and Ang Lee
By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Age doesn’t stop Elliot Tiber from penning his memoirs, and now in his 80s, he just keeps writing and writing. His new book, After Woodstock covers his life after the famous Woodstock concert, from 1969 to 1999 and with an epilogue bringing readers up to the present day. First some
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Travel and FoodChef, in webcast, to prepare creative Pesach cuisine
JERUSALEM (Press Release)– The Inbal Jerusalem Hotel is set to share its legendary and eclectic holiday recipes with the world, in the first-ever live Passover cooking broadcast, hosted by award-winning Executive Chef Nir Elkayam. The unprecedented cooking session will be broadcasted live from the Inbal’s kitchen on Tuesday, March 24 at 12 pm ET/ 9am
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Middle East, Travel and FoodTICO’s Bloch concerts will reunite old friends
By David Amos SAN DIEGO — The next presentation of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will feature the music of the greatest composer of Jewish music in the Twentieth Century. Ernest Bloch gave us some of the most beloved orchestral music on Hebraic themes, but he also composed secular orchestral music of great depth and
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Travel and Food‘Oedipus’ in the barrio
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “We all got destiny. We all got stories already been written.” If you’ve ever taken a psych class, you’ve heard the name “Oedipus.” Playwright Luis Alfaro is known for his adaptations of Greek tragedy including Electricidad and Oedipus el Rey, recasting them in the Spanglish of the barrio. This
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