Bradley Cooper Wore Leonard Bernstein’s Personal Bathrobe in Maestro

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

Helen Mirren Wades Into ‘Alarming’ Cancel Culture Debate Amid Backlash for Golda Meir Film Role

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

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International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Novel Brings Us into the Psyche of a Woman with Two Lovers

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]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Ain’t Nobody Got Time for That Mishegoss

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

San Diego International Film Festival to Feature Story of Holocaust Survivor’s Courage

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.

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

Jewish Trivia Quiz: Swimming on Sukkot

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

Once a Place of Exile, La Colonia de Eden Gardens is a Beautiful, Thriving Community

Among the laboring families, there were numerous marriage that today, many people who live in La Colonia de Eden Gardens are married to each other. As the community developed, laborers’ families bought property, built homes on tree-lined streets, and created a pleasant, well-shaded, middle-class, hillside community. Streets were named for early residents of La Colonia including Castro, Gonzales, Granados, Hernandez, Ida, Junita, Vera, and Viva. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Ben Dishman, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Jewish Lawmaker Dianne Feinstein, California’s Longest-Serving US Senator, Dies at 90

Published by The Mercury News Dianne Feinstein, California’s longest-serving U.S. senator who led San Francisco through its darkest and most violent days as mayor in the 1970s and later authored a federal ban on assault weapons that lasted a decade, died Thursday night, according to multiple reports. At 90, she was the oldest member of

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California

StandWithUs Campaign Urges Law Firms to Withdraw Sponsorship of Conference Honoring UN Official Navi Pillay

NEW YORK (Press Release) StandWithUs, in cooperation with a coalition of dozens of organizations that play a leadership role in the American Jewish and legal communities (listed below), has launched a major effort calling on three law firms — Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and White & Case — to withdraw their

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International, Israel, USA