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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? — “A Dream Deferred” by Langston Hughes By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — While screenwriter Michael Reaves may be a household name to “Star Trek: The Next Generation” fans, to […]
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Eva Trieger
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Last month, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra (SDSO) concluded its Chamber Music Series at the Scripps Research Institute Auditorium with a program featuring an unusual instrument for classical chamber music concerts, the mandolin. That plucked folk instrument, in the hands of the Israeli-born mandolin virtuoso, Avi Avital, combined with string
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Eileen WingardBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO- There is a widely held belief that when one sex lives together exclusively, it is a breeding ground and invitation for homosexuality. This has been observed in same sex boarding schools, yeshivot, prisons and other facilities where cohabitation is limited to a single gender. Cygnet theater’s latest play, “R &
Cygnet’s ‘R&J’: And the real point is? Read More »
Eva Trieger
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Dissension is nothing new in Jewish tradition. One of the most famous biblical disagreements is found in this week’s Torah portion, where we read about the famous controversy between Korah and Moses (Numbers 16ff.) Yet, unlike the debates between Hillel and Shammai, which for the most
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO- A woman of valor, who can find? Apparently, Todd Salovey found six of them, right here in our own backyard! Eshet Chayil, a twenty-two verse poem found in the Book of Proverbs (Proverbs 31) pays tribute to a woman of valor for her energy, her righteousness and her capabilities. The
Women of Valor: Six of them Salovey did find Read More »
Eva TriegerBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Although there was a notable sigh of disappointment when it was announced that the scheduled soloist for the evening, 92-year-old jazz cellist Fred Katz, was ill and unable to perform, the audience was well-compensated with two outstanding substitutes, woodwind jazz artist Norbert Sachel, who flew in from New York
Despite substitution, Klezmer Summit wows the audience Read More »
Eileen Wingard
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, June 5, it was revealed that that the current US (“I’ve got Israel’s back”) administration leaked to the media the specifications for the heretofore-secret US-Israel installation for Israel’s Arrow 3 missiles. It was quickly called just another leak from an administration already reeling from leaks; someone apologized.
U.S. leak of Israeli missile site was deliberate Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
Fill the Void, Directed by Rama Burshtein (Israel: 2012) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — When ultra-Orthodox Jews are the focus of films, they usually wrestle with conflicts revolving around individual secular freedoms versus communal religious obligations. In The Chosen (1981) Reuven and his father, acculturated conservative Jews, introduce Danny, the heir to his father
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Lawrence BaronBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Parties on various sides of the immigration debate in the United State have focused mainly on issues surrounding Hispanic immigrants because there are a lot of them and numbers get attention. Human Rights Watch, for example, created a handy-dandy checklist for the Senate version of the immigration bill, including
Immigrants must be better vetted for terrorist links Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School celebrated its 50th anniversary on Sunday night, June 2, at a banquet featuring recollections of two of the school’s pioneer board presidents and a tribute to the late philanthropists Morrie and Barbara Steiman who helped the Orthodox Jewish school surmount some tough financial
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Donald H. Harrison
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson TEL AVIV–Going to gala concerts isn’t really our thing, but when the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra announced that in honor of its return to the refurbished Heichal Hatarbut (Palace of Culture), its home in Tel Aviv, it would be performing Mahler’s fifth symphony, along with Beethoven’s violin concerto (with Itzhak Perlman as soloist)
Ahhh, Mahler, Beethoven, Perlman and Mehta! Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California — Will a large number of the San Diego County Fair’s expected 1.5 million visitors this year want to take a break from carnival games, cotton candy, and this year’s bacon specialties to see a 42-poster exhibit detailing the Holocaust from its origins to its conclusion? Leaders of
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Donald H. Harrison
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas by Tudor Parfitt, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts; ISBN 978-0-674-06698-4 ©2013, $29.95, p. 170, plus notes and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Samaria, the capital of Northern Israel, fell after a two-year siege under the command of its king, Sargon II in 722 BCE. The
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBy Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California -Upwards of 150 people were treated to a rare and wonderful talent Wednesday night, as the the Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival featured Klezmer vocalist Elizabeth Schwartz, husband, Yale Strom and bassist Gunnar Biggs. The packed room at the recently remodeled Encinitas Library was a testament to the renown of
Lipinsky audience thrilled by Romanian music Read More »
Eva Trieger