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Two teen performers leave TICO audience breathless

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO– Two gifted teenagers shone as soloists in The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s concerts January 31 at the First United Methodist Church of Chula Vista and February 2 at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. Violinist Ilana Hirshfeld, 15,  and Violist Jonathan Sussman, 18, combined their talents in a memorable rendition of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Their ensemble […]

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

I-8 Jewish Travel: Tiny implant monitors heart activity

-43rd in a series- Exit 14A, Grossmont Center Drive, La Mesa, California ~ La Mesa Cardiac Center By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California –Dr. Ronald Goldberg, the senior of three physicians at the La Mesa Cardiac Center on the campus of Sharp Grossmont Hospital, tells of a woman who periodically and for no apparent

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Humoring the headlines: February 10, 2016

New Hampshire Primary Results By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Donald Trump won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary.  In this year’s Republican primaries, nothing succeeds like excess.  Trump’s victory inspired Benjamin Netanyahu to reveal plans to build a fence around Israel and get the Arab League to pay for it. * Chris Christie is expected

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

German arts on exhibit in 50th year of Israel relations

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — To mark both the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Israel Museum and fifty years of German-Israeli diplomatic relations, the  Museum is currently presenting an exhibition of masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The exhibition, entitled ‘Twilight over Berlin’ and showing works from the period between 1905 and 1945, provides

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

World Wide Wrap Day and the making of tefillin

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Across the United States and in Conservative congregations around the world, Men’s Club members and guests spent Sunday morning, Feb. 7, well in advance of the televised Super Bowl game, learning about the significance of tefillin and the prayers said in association with wearing the ancient phylacteries.  The

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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori

Film Festival Preview: ‘Imber’s Left Hand’

  LA JOLLA, California -The 26th Annual San Diego Jewish Film Festival is underway, and the film selections seem to run the gamut from comedy to maudlin, somber to joyous, but Friday morning’s film, Imber’s Left Hand, a documentary,  can only be described as bittersweet. Jill Hoy, artist and wife of Jon Imber, introduced the documentary of

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Eva Trieger, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Film Festival Preview: ‘Victor Young Perez’

Victor ‘Young’ Perez directed by Jacque Quaniche; Bulgaria, France, Israel; French with English Subtitles; Drama; to be shown twice at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival: At 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 7, at Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Blvd., San Marcos, and at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, February 14, at the Reading

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

S.D caterer honored for her giving spirit

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Caterer Olga Worm was honored Friday night, Feb. 5, with the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Sisterhood President’s Award. Speakers lauded not only her contributions to Sisterhood, but also her commitment to foster children, outreach to people down on their luck, and her generosity to the employees and clients of Bekker’s

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Film Festival Preview: ‘The Singing Abortionist’

The Singing Abortionist directed by Dana Bratt; Canada; © 2014; 60 minutes; English; Documentary.  To be shown during the San Diego Jewish Film Festival at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 7 at  Edward San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Blvd., San Marcos, and at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 9, at the Reading Cinemas 14,

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

South Africans dispute ‘Apartheid’ charge against Israel

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Two black South African students who traveled to Israel to learn if South African BDS advocates were telling the truth about “apartheid” in the Jewish state say the apartheid charge is bogus. Furthermore, said Miyelani Pinini, former president of the Student Representative Council at the University of Cape

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, USA