Civic Theatre’s ‘Come From Away’ Provides Emotional Boost

By Eva Trieger   SAN DIEGO — If ever there was a time when we needed an emotional boost, that time is now. And the magic bullet is the San Diego Civic Theatre’s touring production of “Come From Away.” Broadway San Diego brings audiences this incredibly life-affirming Tony-award-winning musical for a limited engagement. Twelve gifted […]

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

JCC’s Five Minute Plays Festival Embraces Jewish Themes in a Novel Way

By Eva Trieger   LA JOLLA, California — I was elated to catch up with friend, actor, writer, and director Omri Schein this week by phone to ask him about an upcoming project in which he’s involved. Our local JCC is hosting the 7th Annual Five Minute Plays Festival. Having attended previous festivals I was

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Come From Away’ Underscores the Kindness of Strangers

By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — Who would ever have thought that a musical could be written around the tragedy of 9/11? And furthermore, who ever would have thought that such a musical could be joyous and fun!? Yet somehow, that is exactly what Irene Sankoff and David Hein have done in Come From Away

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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Jewish Families Grapple With Baby Formula Shortage

By Channa Fischer (JNS) For months now, stores have been struggling to stock enough baby formula, even as manufacturers insist that they are producing at full capacity. In February, the Food and Drug Administration shut down a formula production facility run by Abbott Nutrition, which makes Similac, Alimentum and EleCare products, due to potential bacterial

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Jewish Family Service of San Diego Raises $1.4 Million at 2022 Heart & Soul Gala

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) raised $1.4 million at its annual Heart & Soul Gala at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine on Saturday, April 30. Postponed since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the signature benefit gala highlighted JFS’s efforts to provide resources and support to

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San Diego County

San Diego Jewish Academy Students Return from 3-Week Experiential Trip to Israel

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego Jewish Academy high school seniors traveled to Israel for 3 weeks of learning and touring the country through the Alexander Muss High School in Israel program (AMHSI). The travel experience included seniors being in Israel for Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Jerusalem College of Technology Launches New Business Program for Women

(JNS) The Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) has launched a business administration program at its Tal Campus for Women. The three-year program, which starts this fall, is the first English-speaking business degree exclusively offered for women in Jerusalem. And as JCT prides itself as an institution that empowers religious students to navigate the balance between

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

An Orthodox Jewish Woman Professor Explains the New Testament

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin   BOCA RATON, Florida — Amy-Jill Levine tells us why Jesus’s teachings in the New Testament, can be seen to be sensible and acceptable to people of all religions, even Orthodox Jews, even Jewish women like her who attends an Orthodox synagogue and sits behind a segregated mechitza (separation) for

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr.

Turning Lemons into Lemonade — Just Like Israel

SAN DIEGO — On Sunday afternoon May 15, community members from all around San Diego came together to celebrate Israel and Jewish Heritage month at Balboa Park. The event, “Israel: Diversity and Heritage” was held by the Jewish Federation of San Diego County as part of its “Celebrate Israel San Diego” and held in the

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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

An Expressively Gripping World War II Graphic Memoir

“The English GI: World War II Graphic Memoir of a Yorkshire Schoolboy’s Adventures in the United States and Europe;” Edited by Jonathan Sandler and illustrated by Brian Bicknell; Graphic MEMOIR.co.uk, April 2022; ISBN: 9798793377874. By Michael R. Mantell SAN DIEGO — The author, a resident of Golders Green, London, notes in his preface to this

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Michael Mantell

After Buffalo Shooting, Jewish Groups Lament Dismal Shared Experience of Late

By Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) While no Jewish people were victims of Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., in which 10 people were killed and three injured, Jewish communal organizations reacted strongly to the incident, which was allegedly inspired by the suspect’s racist and anti-Semitic views. At about 2:30 p.m., 18-year-old Payton Gendron of

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