By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — The program of “Balanchine Masterworks” presented by City Ballet of San Diego at the Spreckels Theatre, on March 9, is evidence of the Company’s expanding repertoire of ballets choreographed by George Balanchine. Each addition to this treasure trove, which is carefully guarded by The Balanchine Trust, is an indication […]
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DENVER, Colorado (Press Release)– A grant of $100,000 by an anonymous donor will now make it possible for students in Jewish day schools to apply for generous scholarship support for the upcoming 2014 camp season to the numerous families we attract from the California area. Ramah in the Rockies, a unique, Sabbath-observant, Jewish outdoor adventure
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Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California –The next Jewish Poets–Jewish Voices session will feature student poets on Tuesday evening, March 11 at 7:00 p.m. in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC. This free evening program will include four students from the San Diego Jewish Academy, Sigal Kahn, Rachel Rosenfeld, Casey Kroll and
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego Calendar, Travel and FoodBy Alina Dain Sharon/JNS.org No, it isn’t nearly as rare as “Thanksgivukkah,” the once-in-75,000-years overlap of the first day Hanukkah and Thanksgiving Day that took the Jewish world by storm in 2013. But this year’s 13-month Hebrew calendar isn’t an annual occurrence, either. As February turned to March on the Gregorian calendar this year, the
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Travel and FoodBy David Amos SAN DIEGO– On a recent trip, I met socially with a musician. He was highly experienced as a performer, arranger and organizer. Although successful at what he did, he was clearly burned out from his many years of being in the musical battlefield. Although I knew of this person’s accomplishments and successes,
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)— Just as she was about to retire, Lily Ledbetter, a production supervisor at an Alabama tire plant, learned that her employers had financially discriminated against her throughout her career. She filed suit for pay discrimination, losing due to a statute of limitations on equal-pay suits. As a result, President Barack Obama
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By JNS.org We all recognize that poppy seed or jam taste when we bite into Hamantaschen on Purim every year. But given the right filling, or dough, the traditional pastry has a lot more to offer. Hailed as the “Queen of Kosher” and the “Jewish Rachael Ray,” best-selling author Jamie Geller is the founder of the Kosher Media Network, publisher
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Travel and FoodWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — President Obama’s 2015 budget proposal, released Tuesday, March 4, would slash nearly $200 million from Israeli Cooperative Programs, joint U.S.-Israel missile defense projects including the Arrow II, Arrow III, and David’s Sling. These missile defense systems protect Israeli citizens from rockets fired from Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria into Israel and
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)–The Maltz Family Foundation of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, established by Milton Maltz and his wife Tamar, and Ambassador Alfred Moses and his family, have committed a pair of significant gifts of $5 million each for a combined $10 million to Beit Hatfutsot, The Museum of the Jewish People, in
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GARRISON, N.Y. (Press Release) – Some 70 top young Jewish artists from around the world will gather in Garrison, NY on March 23-26, 2014 for the Asylum Arts International Jewish Artist Retreat. The unique networking and learning experience is intended to connect and empower Jewish artists around the world, ultimately to help cultivate an international
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By Alex Traiman/JNS.org JERUSALEM– Close to half a million members of Israel’s Haredi public rallied in Jerusalem on Sunday, shutting down roads in and around the city, to protest a proposed bill that would mandate them to participate in the Israel Defense Forces and would criminalize those who refuse conscription. Some political parties—led notably by
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-You may have noticed in the newspaper this week that Alice Herz-Sommer, the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor, passed away. If you read further into her obituary, you would discover that this remarkable woman had a career as a pianist which spanned from the 1920s until her death. Nominated for an Oscar
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NEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday, Feb. 26, welcomed Governor Jan Brewer’s veto of legislation that would have been a harmful attack on civil rights. Arizona’s so-called “religious freedom” bill, driven by opponents of marriage equality, would have provided a legal defense to individuals and businesses who claimed that a “sincerely
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