SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The House of Israel in Balboa Park will be showcasing “Israel Under the Sun,” a Music and Art Festival from 12 noon to 4 p.m., Sunday, May 23, to promote Israeli culture and unity here in San Diego. There will be Israeli music, dance, an arts and crafts table, food by “The […]
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Plaintiffs’ Plight 1984 by Donald Moses, Author House, 2009, ISBN 978-1-4490-2633-2, 362 pages, By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A new solo practitioner has burst onto the literary legal scene: the meticulous but fictional lawyer Dan Masters, who not only has the same initials as the author but who, like him, is a San Diego-based attorney.
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Donald H. HarrisonLA JOLLA (Press Release) –Donations of used books are pouring in for the 10th Annual Used Book Sale of the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library, which will take place June 3-4 and 6, 2010 at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, 1426 Executive Drive, La Jolla. Early Bird Special buying hours are
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–Nina Simone had many faces. She also had many titles, the voice of movement (Civil Rights that is), and diva of sound, High Priestess of Soul, Dr. Nina Simone and the voice of the people to name a few. Funny thing she was all of these rolled up into one
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Carol Davis, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Jewish Family Service’s College Avenue Senior Center at 4855 College Avenue has announced its schedule of events for June 2010: Mondays: Classes and Activities offered: Aerobics with Kara Anderson (8:30 – 10 am, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays); Feeling Fit with Kara Anderson (10 – 11:15 am, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays); Meditation with
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The exterior of the San Diego House adobe in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is unremarkable, but historians will tell you that the building had a way of attracting to its ownership over the last century and a half the kind of people of whom legends
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–The morning after the beginning of Israeli-Palestinian “proximity talks” found Israel’s media reporting accusations of deception, and denials, coming from important players in Israel, Palestine, and the United States. Did Prime Minister Netanyahu promise not to build in Ramat Shlomo for two years, as indicated by American and Palestinian sources, or did
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— David Ives’ All In The Timing is a novel piece. Quirky would be another way to describe it. Ion mounted this show some years ago to rave reviews. This little theatre company, like the “Little Engine That Could” is defying all odds by keeping their newly minted BLKBOX Theatre alive
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES– “If Jerzy Kosinski were here right now, he’d probably be hiding under the table pouring tea a few drops at a time into your shoe. He actually did that once to Warren Beatty.” Playwright Davey Holmes is sitting in Peet’s Coffee Shop talking about the protagonist of his play, More Lies About Jerzy. With him is actor Jack Stehlin,
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Ben Kamin, Nothing Like Sunshine, Michigan State University Press, 146 pages, $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Rabbi Ben Kamin was in the tenth grade in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the April day in 1968 that Martin Luther King was assassinated while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. The murder of the
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California –Denny Whitson lives across the street from the large mushroom shaped water tank with clouds around its rim. He likes it very much, noting that he can look up from 20 miles away and know exactly where his home is. Other people aren’t quite so enamored
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SAN DIEGO (Staff Report)–On this Mother’s Day, Megan Spector’s mom, Sheri, is schepping nachas that her daughter is playing an orphan. Little Orphan Annie, that is. The youngster has the lead role in the Pickwick Players production of Annie at the Moxie Theatre, 6663 El Cajon Blvd. The production being shown tonight (May 9)
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When a U.S. Marine Corps detachment from the USS Cyane marched from the shore of San Diego Bay to the plaza in Old Town San Diego on July 29, 1846 and raised the American flag without serious challenge, thus ending Mexican control over this city, someone must have thought, ‘Wait
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Eva’s Story by Eva Schloss (with Evelyn Julia Kent), William B. Eerdman Publishing Co, 2010, 226 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This is an updated version of the memoirs of Eva Schloss, who was the posthumous stepsister of the immortal Anne Frank. Originally published in 1988, the current edition brings readers up to date
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History