The Jewish comedians: George Jessel (recurring)
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The Wandering Review: Holocaust films back
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ This year marks the 25th anniversary of the San Diego Jewish Film Festival. To celebrate the occasion, the Festival will be screening four “anniversary classics” that were voted as favorites by its audiences: Aimee and Jaguar (1999), All My Loved Ones (1999), Gloomy Sunday (1999), and Nowhere in Africa (2001).
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Travel and FoodTheodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem
By Sheryl Rowling LA JOLLA, California — In a special pre-opening, underwriters-only screening on Wednesday, Feb. 4, the San Diego Jewish Film Festival presented Theodore Bikel: In the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem. Narrated by Alan Alda, with commentary from numerous notables including Gilbert Gotfried, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Fyvush Finkel, and Aleichem’s recently deceased 102 year-old
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Travel and FoodIsraeli cellist Maya Beiser performs Feb. 7 & 8 in La Jolla
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Dubbed by the New Yorker as a “Cello Godess,” credited by NPR with “a stunning command of her instrument,” and lauded by the New York Times for her “ferocious energy and talent,” Israeli cellist, Maya Beiser, will be the featured soloist in the La Jolla Symphony’s February 7, 7:30
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Travel and FoodMoxie offers a play white Broadway wouldn’t show
The American public is not ready to see you the way you want to be seen.-Alice Childress By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — In 1955, Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress was slated to be the first Broadway play written by an African-American woman. When the producers asked her to give it a happier ending –and she
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Travel and FoodMurder For Two ‘kills ’em’ at Old Globe
By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO– Murder for Two is a madcap musical murder mystery, a two-man tour-de-force with energy, jokes and flair to spare. Created by Joe Kinosian (book and music) and Kellen Blair (book and lyrics), the comedy premiered in 2011 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, followed by a successful run Off Broadway. The current
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Travel and FoodThe Wandering Review: Sizing up Oscar shorts
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─Although Israel’s entry in the Best Foreign Film category did not get nominated for an Oscar, the Israeli-French production Aya garnered a nomination for Best Live Action Short It can be seen this week at the Ken Cinema as one of the five shorts in contention for the award. Directors Oded
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Travel and FoodHelping our brains to sprout dendrites daily
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — So, what will you be when you grow up? Most of my grandchildren have answered: “I don’t know!” No one has asked me that question in recent memory. I know I want to play the guitar and sing in my next life—as in this one I’m totally
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Travel and Food‘Sons of the Prophet’ set in Nazareth, PA
By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO – Sons of the Prophet, a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize, is tragic, funny, and heartfelt, a perfect example of art that not only imitates but illuminates life. Written by Stephan Karam and directed by Rob Lutfy, the play was inspired by a real incident and its repercussions on
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Travel and FoodJewish Gift Closet given Good People Fund grant
MILLBURN, New Jersey (Press Release) — As the result of a national online search to identify visionaries changing the world around them, the Good People Fund (GPF) has welcomed Helene Bortz and the San Diego based non-profit, The Jewish Gift Closet-San Diego Community G’mach as the latest grantee of the national Tzedakah micro-philanthropic fund (www.goodpeoplefund.org).
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