By Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California–When Becky Baird, the former Artistic Director of J Company, announced she would be going on maternity leave, Joey Landwehr lept to the fore and said, “I want your job.” And thus a star was, well not born, but launched, in our own Lawrence Family’s JCC galaxy. Landwehr realized that […]
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Travel and FoodBy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — When the buzz about the San Diego Jewish Film Festival hits the streets, there is always a flurry of activity and a crush to get tickets to innovative, exciting, high quality films, produced by Jews, insinuating and revealing Jewish themes, and celebrating our Jewish homeland, Israel. The 24th
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By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California –The Lawrence Family JCC Garfield Theatre was once again the venue for Jewish Music on Sunday, Nov. 24. Although not sponsored by the JCC (its music committee was disbanded in 2011), this wonderful afternoon of Jewish music in honor of Chanukah was spearheaded by Ruth Weber, director of the
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — I first saw Rhona Gold in a staged reading of The Jewish King Lear at the REP. Then, more recently in a reading of Jewish Shorts at the JCC in which she was particularly memorable as the teacher of a tongue-in-cheek conversion class, Jewish 101. After I saw
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Itamar Marcus, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) presented his most recent findings at San Diego State University this week. Nirit Revzin, president of Aztecs for Israel and the marketing intern for StandWithUs-San Diego facilitated his campus visit. Marcus was in the United States from his home-base in Israel to speak once again, at
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By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Whether you’re just out of school, changing jobs, or reentering the job market, the first thing you need to think about is not only what jobs are available, but what kind of person you are. What are the necessary conditions for you to do your best work?
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By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — On a shelf in the Music Library of the Levinsky Teachers College in Tel Aviv, sits my master’s thesis, “Music Education in Israel,” dated January, 1954. Curious to see my work in an Israeli library, my daughter, Tamara, and I went to Tel Aviv to visit the Levinsky College
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Canadian director Naomi Jaye recalls her grandmother telling her how much she feared being buried alive and demanded that her son, Naomi’s father, promise to prick her in the hand with a pin to make sure she was dead before interring her body. The film The Pin is built around this
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The second annual San Diego Arab Film Festival will be held at the Museum of Photographic Arts, in Balboa Park. The festival will start on November 15 and run through November 17th. San Diego is one of five California cities that are expanding the 17-year history of the Arab Film
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel ENCINITAS, California — Naomi Ragen is an unusual Ba’alat Teshuva (returnee to Orthodox Judaism). One might think that Orthodox Jewish women are quiescent and tend to their homes. Ragen is different. She is multifaceted leader and bestselling author. In Israel, Ragen has been one of the most important Orthodox feminists in
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Travel and FoodThe Kosher Sutras: The Jewish Way in Yoga and Meditation by Marcus J. Freed, Freedthinker Books, 2013, pgs 210, ISBN 1624075886 By Eva Trieger What is the outcome when East meets West? Can two seemingly diverse philosophies blend to give rise to a new paradigm that culls the best from both? According to Yoga teacher,
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Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — We live in a world where nearly everything is programmed to survive by killing one other. Imported plants take over native species, big fish eat little fish, and big animals prey on smaller ones. Ant colonies war with each other; primates do the same. Within our bodies,
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodBy Sheryl Rowling Q: There is so much confusing information in the media about ObamaCare. Can you please explain it in terms that a non-lawyer can understand? A: I will certainly try. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, unofficially known as “ObamaCare” seeks to reform the American health care system by providing broader access
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Israeli director Eran Riklis excels at dramatizing how individuals from different nationalities or religions can forge friendships despite the hostilities and prejudices that divide them. In many ways Zaytoun (Olive Tree) is a remake of his early film Cup Final (1991). Set in Israel’s Vietnam, the Lebanese War of
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