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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO –While I love the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, I have chosen not to favor one film over another by reviewing it here. My hesitance to do so testifies to both the quality and quantity of the motion pictures being screened. The SDJFF is simply a celluloid smorgasbord loaded with […]
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Lawrence BaronBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Watching the State of the Union address and the Republican response, perhaps many of us took it for granted that President Barack Obama and Senator Marco Rubio represent the fulfillment of a dream that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King had only 50 years ago that someday people would be
A realization of America’s promise Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– As this father waited for his son to arrive from work, he took in the sights of the Choice of Mandarin restaurant in the Tierrasanta neighborhood where they would enjoy lunch. From his vantage point he could see, across the room, mirrored panels alternating with sections of dark red
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Donald H. Harrison
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — For over a decade, the renowned American conductor, Murry Sidlin, has been consumed by his Defiant Requiem project. Sidlin strongly identified with the zealous conductor of Terezin, Raphael Schaechter, and wanted to bring to life the unique cultural resistance which took place in the Nazi show ghetto of Terezin.
‘Defiant Requiem’ a sacred collaboration Read More »
Eileen WingardBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO), under the direction of David Amos, featured two impressive artists: composer, Mark Donnelly, introducing his engaging three-movement Hawai’ian Rhapsody, Ho’omaka Ana, and internationally-recognized guitarist, Gregg Nestor, performing selections by Joaquin Rodrigo and Luigi Boccherini. Donnelly, who plays oboe and English Horn in the
TICO concert offered classical music with Spanish, Hawaiian flavors Read More »
Eileen WingardBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Anyone who is at all familiar with the procedure customary in the various Houses of Representatives around the civilized world knows that these are governed by rules and regulations that are often very old, their roots lost in tradition. For instance, the Speaker of England’s parliament (the House of
Installation of new Knesset a sentimental occasion Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Eva Trieger POWAY, California– Anyone who has ever been in a band, fantasized about being in a band, or been in love with a band member, will find something honest, poignant and relatable in Jonathan Rosenberg’s original musical Long Way to Midnight. Through a process, “Scripts in the Box,” playwrights are able to
A quick way to get feedback for ‘A Long Way to Midnight’ Read More »
Eva TriegerPassing Life’s Tests: Spiritual Reflections on The Trial of Abraham, The Binding of Isaac by Rabbi Bradley Shavit-Artson. Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing (2012). ISBN-10: 1580236316. 150 pages. By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Rabbi Bradley Shavit-Artson’s new book, Passing Life’s Tests: Spiritual Reflections on The Trial of Abraham, The Binding of
Artson examines God’s test of Abraham and its impact on us Read More »
Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The contrast between the speaker’s surroundings and her subject matter was vivid on Friday, Feb. 8, at a Point Loma Rotary Club meeting. The weekly get-together was held in an upstairs room of the San Diego Yacht Club, with header beams above the windows festooned with
‘Tearing down the walls’ is Survivor’s answer to the Holocaust Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen, Matthew R.J. Brodsky and Michael Johnson WASHINGTON, D.C. — According to testimony Thursday to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta spoke with President Obama at the outset of the Benghazi attack during a pre-scheduled meeting, but not again until the attacks were over. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint
Contradictions in administration’s Benghazi testimony Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Three books I have read in the last few months, all of them well-researched and dealing in one way or another with art or artists and the Second World War, have given me many hours of interest and plenty to think about. The first, which I picked
How artists and art were saved from the Nazis Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — For all the thunder about the “missing” J Street speech Chuck Hagel gave in 2009, watching it was almost a letdown. There is simply no “smoking-gun” anti-Semitism or anti-Israelism there, aside from a single reference to some policies working to the “single issue benefit of certain groups.” OK, yes,
Some of Hagel’s many problems shown in J Street speech Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USA
Connie G. Krupin, A Time To Be Born: A Jewish Baby Journal, Arbador Publications LLC, (c ) 2012, 119 pages, ISBN 978-0-615-57127-0, $50. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — From the inside covers with a family tree on which may be filled forbearers’ English and Hebrew names to the Hebrew glossary at the end
A baby book with a Jewish tam Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Many people would say that there is a lot to like about Rabbi Manis Friedman. He is a leading exponent of Chabad theology and his book, Doesn’t Anyone Blush Anymore?: Reclaiming Intimacy, Modesty, and Sexuality discusses a very important concept that is seldom heard or discussed in modern
Chabad must disavow child molesters Read More »
Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi