Beth Israel, First United Methodist plan joint Thanksgiving service

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — For the 31st year in a row, San Diego’s oldest Jewish and United Methodist congregations will celebrate Thanksgiving together with an interfaith service, this year at First United Methodist Church of San Diego. Dr. Jim Standiford, senior pastor of First United Methodist, and Rabbi Michael Berk, senior rabbi of congregation Beth […]

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San Diego Calendar

Oh, God hears you all right!

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –Last Wednesday was “Stump the Rabbi Day” at our Torah School at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. I meet with most classes once a month and this month, instead of a prepared lesson, I let them ask whatever questions were on their minds. They took the opportunity seriously and asked questions

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Jewish Religion

‘Musical Chairs’ is insightful autobiography of legendary Met general manager

By David Amos SAN DIEGO–If you are interested in the inner workings of the classical music industry, this book is certainly worth your attention. It is called Musical Chairs, (published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York), and it comprises the memoirs of a gentleman who during his career of administrator in the performing arts, was

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Travel and Food

More so than politicians, technocrats get things done in Middle East

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Politics has been the curse of this corner in the Middle East. Proclamations and grand intentions coming from those claiming to be leaders of Palestine, Israel, the United States and other great powers who say they are pursuing peace are actually paving the road to nowhere. Neither Palestinian nor Israeli

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

College can be proud of its ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’

By Carol Davis OCEANSIDE, California—-You will recognize Tom Andrew. He has been George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life, the holiday radio play at the Cygnet Theatre, for the past five years. But Tom is a song and dance man of the highest quality and lucky for us, he gets to strut his stuff in

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Great American Trailer Park Musical’… Not everyone’s cup o’ beer

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — Call me a snob, it matters not. Trailer Park humor was never high on the list of ‘tickle my funny bone’ laugh o’ meter comedy scale. Some nights it just doesn’t pay to get dressed, leave the warm fuzzy comfort of my home sweet home, fight the downtown traffic (that

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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

It takes a village? Book tells Israeli village’s methods for helping troubled teens

Teenagers Educated The Village Way by Chaim Peri, The World: The Values Network, 2011, ISBN 978-257-06206-5, 217 pages, $18. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In challenging numerous orthodoxies, this book is likely to make readers think and educators and psychologists re-think. Peri, longtime headmaster of the Yemin Orde school and youth village on

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Donald H. Harrison