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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Erev Shabbat prayers, a vegetarian dinner, a ribbon cutting, and a klezmer jam session helped to inaugurate the Yiddish Arts and Academic Association of North America (YAAANA) on Friday night at a clubhouse in the Costa Verde Village. About 30 people ranging from young adults to seniors attended […]
Jana, YAAANA, and preserving Yiddishkeit Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Into the Beautiful North is almost there, but not quite yet I really wanted to love Into the Beautiful North, a new play at the SD Repertory Theater, especially because of its pedigree. It is based on the book by Luis Alberto Urrea –it was the KPBS One
‘Into the Beautiful North’ yet to find its way Read More »
Mimi Pollack, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Shoshana Bryen and Stephen Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is hard to explain why Bashar Assad used nerve gas — probably Sarin — in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s northern Idlib province. On the surface, at least, it would seem to be a totally counterproductive and reckless move likely to anger the
Op-Ed: Syria’s use of chemical weapons defied Russia Read More »
International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –While I gravitated on Wednesday, April 5, to an exhibit featuring the image of Albert Einstein and another portraying the cells that I imagine Jonas Salk grappled with while developing the vaccine against polio, my grandchildren—Sky, 10, Brian, 8, and Sara, 6 – were transfixed by a room filled
Gravitating to the familiar at the Fleet Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−To streamline his administration, President Trump has fired all the members of his cabinet and delegated their authority to his son-in-law Jared Cushner whose title will be the Secretary of Making America Great Again. * Donald Trump has removed Steve Bannon from the National Security Council. When asked why he was
Humoring the headlines: April 5, 2017 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Italian, Grammy-Award Maestro, Fabio Luisi, newly appointed principal conductor of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, led his forces in an engaging concert of works by Nielsen (1865-1931), Wagner (1772-1822) and Mahler (1869-1911). The program, at the Jacobs Music Center last Thursday evening, was sponsored by the La Jolla
Danish musicians, Italian conductor, global appeal Read More »
Eileen Wingard, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In anticipation of opening day of the 2017 Major League Baseball season, congregants of Tifereth Israel Synagogue themed their Kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday night, March 31, around the American pastime. Traditional Shabbat evening prayers were mixed with meditations on baseball; a baseball trivia quiz took the place
‘Baseball Shabbat’ anticipates MLB’s 2017 season Read More »
David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Sports & CompetitionsBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — For all the hyperbole in Washington about Russian hacking, Russian disinformation, Russian influence, and Russian espionage, the really remarkable events in Russia over the weekend appear barely to have registered. One hundred years after the assassination of the last Czar, and two-and-a-half decades after the fall of the communist
U.S. should take note of tumult in Russia Read More »
International, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — All the reports that I read about the dwindling support for Israel by liberal Jews, and other Westerners, stress one thing: ignorance on the part of those who have taken an adversarial stance towards Israel. Of course, readers of my articles are very well acquainted with the facts
Israel test for American readers Read More »
Middle East, Steve Kramer
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When San Diego playwright Janet S. Tiger was a grade-schooler, her mother Pauline Schechter used to take her on buses, trains and subways from Bell Harbor, Long Island, into Manhattan for sightseeing. The rides were long and arduous and to young Janet’s way of thinking, “boring.” But her
Ideas abound in playwright Tiger’s world Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump claims that appointing Ivanka as his assistant and Jared as his senior advisor and head of the new Office of Innovation does not constitute nepotism. The correct term is NePOTUSism. * First, Devin Nunes avoided the substance of James Comey’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee and instead focused
Humoring the headlines: March 30, 2017 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — In the many performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass which I have experienced as a performer or a listener, I have never heard this masterpiece with 250 voices in the choir. That was the size of the choral forces for the March 17, 18 and 19 performances in
A perfect Verdi’s Requiem evokes memories of Eve Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
Fleeing From The Fuhrer: A Postal History of Refugees From the Nazis by Charmian Brinson and William Kaczynski; The History Press; © 2011; 191 pages including index; ISBN 9780752-461953; 17.99 British currency. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I must acknowledge cousins Herb and Susie Rheingruber’s kind gift of this book to me;
Book stamps through World War II history Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History
By Mimi Pollack ALPINE, California — Giving back to others is always good, but when you can give back to both animals and children, that is even better! Local humanitarian, Agnes Barrelet, is doing just that by heading up two non-profits, Hands United for Children and Children’s Nature Retreat. The Children’s Nature Retreat in Alpine
Mimi’s Ark: Helping children and animals Read More »
Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, The World We Share