By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — The Fiasco Theatre came from New York to the Old Globe to present its re-imagined Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. “The mission of Fiasco Theater is to offer dynamic, joyful, actor-driven productions of classic and new plays….” They are all about making bold choices, […]
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — Conference of Presidents leaders, Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, on Wednesday, July 23, urged the Federal Aviation Administration to rescind the temporary ban on commercial flights by US airlines to Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. “While we recognize the need to protect fliers from any
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Who am I? That’s a burning question for any adolescent. Even more so when you’re adopted and greater still when “Mommy” is obviously not your “real mom”. This is the quandary of Jade McCullough –played by Dana Lau in the Moxie Theatre production of Jade Heart. When
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-Eighth in a series– By Donald H. Harrison BOULDER CITY, Nevada – Whereas the watchword of this publication is “There’s a Jewish Story Everywhere,” at the Hoover Dam, apparently, the motto is slightly different: “There’s a Statistic Everywhere.” Or so one might believe watching an introductory video and taking a math-laden tour of the
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USABy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — Last Sunday, my daughter Margalit left for Israel. She is the Senior Director of Birthright Israel Experience for the Jewish Taglit Birthright Federation of Greater Los Angeles. She is accompanying one of the trips. Last week she spent most of her time fielding phone calls from anxious participants
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–Seventh in a series– By Donald H. Harrison PRIMM, Nevada – As grandson Shor and I drove through the California desert, we saw shimmering in front of us what seemed a scene out of Oz, or maybe Xanadu: some tall structures including a giant roller coaster. Was this one of those fabled desert mirages often
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By Rabbi Michael Berk SAN DIEGO — I started writing this as I sat in the Newark airport in the very early hours of Tuesday morning, July 15, having just returned from Israel on a whirlwind week long AIPAC rabbinic mission. I can’t believe how things have changed in the short time I’ve been home.
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–Sixth in a series– By Donald H. Harrison CALICO GHOST TOWN, California – A few short miles north of Barstow on Interstate 15 stands the revived Calico Ghost Town, presented by the County of San Bernardino as an insight into its mining past. Wooden sidewalks take visitors past late 19th century stores and mining
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – On Sunday, July 20, the San Diego Jewish Community will come together from 3 – 4 p.m. in Doyle Park at 8175 Regents Road to show support and solidarity for Israel. The event, dubbed Reach Out for Israel Rally, and hosted by the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, has
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-Third in a series — By Donald H. Harrison TEMECULA, California – Attorney and writer Erle Stanley Gardner invented “Perry Mason,” the fictional defense lawyer of television and pulp fiction fame, who most people my age (68) can’t think of without remembering the actor who played him on television, Raymond Burr. Gardner also was
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most famous attacks in WWII was when the Allies bombed Dresden. British historians love debating whether the wholesale destruction of this once beautiful city and symbol of humanism and baroque culture was really, “necessary.” Dresden is one of the tragic images that
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By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — “I am not an Israeli intelligence agent, nor an assassin,” Daniel Silva replied when I asked if his character, Gabriel Allon, was autobiographical. However, after multiple, highly acclaimed novels, the New York Times bestselling author told me he trusts Gabriel’s character to direct the action, stating that he
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child is uneven, as debut films usually are, but it handles the serious subject at the core of its story with sensitivity. It initially seems like a feature length version of Girls with Jenny Slate of Parks and Recreation fame in the role of Donna Stern,
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