By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — I first participated in a demonstration when I was an impressionable sixteen-year-old, some 65 years ago, in those far-off days when England was a nuclear power and still held on to most of its empire. My friends in the youth movement (Bnei Akiva) were going to the CND […]
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Opinion
So you can imagine how excited I was when I accidentally wandered into Green China Grill and after being entranced by the live noodle pulling realized that it featured all Halal meat. That means no pork on the menu- I could eat anything! [Sandi Masori]
Pork-Free Chinese Food Attracts Both Jews and Muslims Read More »
San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and Food
Ceramicist Josh Herman’s tile work is on display throughout the upscale Paridisea Restaurant in the remodeled interior of the Piano Building in La Jolla’s Bird Rock neighborhood. His “modern, sensual, organic” ceramic sculptures made the cover of the French edition of Architectural Digest in July 2016 when the authoritative magazine profiled the La Jolla Farms Road home known as the Razor House, now owned by singer Alicia Keys. [Donald H. Harrison and Emily Scalmanini}
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Lifestyles, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Shame on Rice Pride. A gay student group in Houston bashes a nation that protects, sustains and facilitates gay rights while shielding a society that slaughters its own inhabitants who engage in same-sex relationships. Not only that, but they send a forceful signal that antisemitism propels their behavior. In
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Bruce Ticker, Opinion, USA
William Medwied, 90 a Holocaust survivor from Ukraine, passed peacefully on September 30. There is a tradition that when people die on Shabbat they are immediately in heaven with G-d. [Sandy Scheller]
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Holocaust, International, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Sandra Scheller
Published by BANG Showbiz English Bradley Cooper wore late composer Leonard Bernstein’s personal bathrobe in ‘Maestro’. The Jewish conductor’s children Jamie, Alexander and Nina threw the doors open to their family home in Fairfield, Connecticut for the 48-year-old actor to film scenes for the biopic and even gave him the dressing gown to add to
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Published by GB News Helen Mirren has had her say on the “authoritarianism” and cancel culture creeping into the arts in regards to creators being told what they can and cannot write or perform about. The 78-year-old, whose CV boasts almost six decades’ worth of acting credits, has faced criticism for being cast in the
It takes author Alison Rose Greenberg quite a while to come through with some of the answers, but when she does, she delivers a punch that helps us understand the psyches of singer/ songwriter Maggie Vine (who happens to be Jewish) and the two men to whom she has given her heart: actor Asher Reyes and singer/ hedge fund manager Garrett Scholl. [Donald H. Harrison]
Novel Brings Us into the Psyche of a Woman with Two Lovers Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison
You meet so many interesting, talented people there who all seem to have plenty of time to talk about their techniques with you between making sales to customers. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Barrett Holman Leak SAN DIEGO — I have always appreciated Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a British comedy series which delivers skits of surreal humor. As you watch, you know the sketches are packed with a form of humor grounded in incongruity, non-sequiturs, irrational or absurd situations and other intentional violations of causal reasoning —
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Barrett Holman Leak, Opinion, San Diego County
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — I always find myself looking forward to mid-September as I eagerly anticipate my phone interview with Tonya Mantooth, CEO and Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the San Diego International Film Festival. Our conversations are always fun, eye-opening, inspired and while we’ve never had the chance to meet, extremely personal.
San Diego International Film Festival to Feature Story of Holocaust Survivor’s Courage Read More »
Eva Trieger, Holocaust, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Mark D. Zimmerman In many Orthodox communities, the intermediary days of Sukkot (chol hamoed) are occasions for family activities, community-wide trips, outdoor events, and more, as schools are closed. Synagogue trips to amusement parks and other family activity sites are common. For example, Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey, Hersheypark in Pennsylvania, and
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Every morning I skim through my emails. Glancing at the fifty to one hundred of them in my inbox, I momentarily feel I’m extremely popular until I realize that most of them are fundraising ads for Democratic candidates. I’ve tried to block them but it’s like kicking a toadstool
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
The basic premise of the show is that Wednesday Addams (Lena Ceja) has fallen in love with Lucas Beineke (Carson Inouye), a “normal” boy from Ohio and they want to introduce their parents to each other. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Shor M. Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast