By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — We have a live lamb on stage and she’s not housebroken—or, more accurately, stage-broken—so our first run-through was a bit redolent,” director Scott Paulin says. He’s talking about the newly revised version of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class, which makes its Los Angeles premiere this week at
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Cynthia CitronSAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Beginning in July 2011, AJE’s current adult education, teacher professional development and teen programming, resources and services will be integrated into JCC/CJC’s program offerings. Adult Education: JCC/CJC will be offering Melton classes both at the JCC and in North County and Lecture Series in both Coronado and North County, all under the
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Schwartz-Sugarman Take Lead Posts in Fund Drive Southwestern Jewish Press, February 17, 1956, Pages 1, 4 Two leaders of the San Diego Jewish community have accepted posts of responsibility in the 1956 United Jewish Fund Campaign. Harry Sugarman has been named Pace-Setters chairman and William B. Schwartz has
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By Carol Davis SOLANA BEACH, California—-What a different a decade makes. In Tom Dudzick’s Over the Tavern that took place in 1959 the age of innocence was on the wane, drive in movies, Dairy Queen (we still have one in my neighborhood) and the Ed Sullivan Show were the ‘talk of the town.’ Martin and
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Memorial Meeting Slated for Samuel Charney-Niger by Zionists Groups Southwestern Jewish Press, February 3, 1956, Page 7 Samuel Charney-Niger, one of the great personalities in the Jewish and Hebrew literary world for the last half-century, died recently at the age of 72. A memorial meeting will be held
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–French Hill is a largely secular Jewish neighborhood, with families who are religious and ultra-Orthodox, as well as a few Arab families and Arab plus East Asian singles and young couples who are students at the nearby university. The neighborhood synagogues are one Ashkenazi, one Sephardi, one mixed Ashkenazi-Sephardi, one Conservative, and
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By Lloyd Levy LONDON — With all the incessant media coverage about Israel , one easily loses sight of the broader picture. Yet I have been reading a respected annual publication called “the Military Balance.” Not necessarily everyone’s chosen reading material, but it throws a fascinating insight into the miracle that is today’s Israel. By
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Lloyd Levy, Middle EastSan Diego Jewish World staff report BEERSHEBA, Israel — Daniel Viflich, 16, whose misfortune it was to be innocently riding a school bus on Thursday, April 7, has died of the severe injuries he sustained after an anti-tank missile was fired at the bus from Gaza. Viflich died in the Soroka University Medical Center here,
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Middle East
Far to Go by Alison Pick, Paperback: 336 pages, Harper Perennial (April 19, 2011), ISBN-10: 9780062034625, List price: $14.95 By Laurel Corona SAN DIEGO– Far to Go gets under your skin early and stays there. This new novel by Canadian writer Alison Pick follows the fate of one affluent Jewish family caught up in the quick
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — In the last couple of weeks there has hardly been a lamp post or a bus shelter in Jerusalem – and probably elsewhere in Israel – that hasn’t been covered with offers of pre-Pesach home cleaning. Even yeshiva students, normally not associated with physical (or perhaps any other) work,
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Jewish ReligionBy Carol Davis ESCONDIDO, California—Frank, Sammy, Dino, Joey; The Rat Pack! Those were the days, my friend; we thought they’d never end! Well, if you want another dose of ‘those days’, straight from the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas, you can catch a glimpse of what used to be called the ‘Golden Days of entertainment’,
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The analyst’s job is to make sense out of separate events that might be connected. If done well, it is better than a blind person trying to figure out what is that large, rough thing being felt. However it is done, there is a lack of certainty. It is best
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Goldie Schusterman Honored At Testimonial Dinner by Birdie Stodel Southwestern Jewish Press, February 3, 1956, Page 4 On Sunday, February 12, Birdie Stodel B’nai B’rith Auxiliary will give a Testimonial Dinner at the Mission Valley Country Club in honor of Mrs. Goldie Schusterman. Mrs. Schusterman has served unselfishly
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