(Melody: Georgia on My Mind) By Laurie Baron Fulton County, Fani D.A. Racketeering charge Upholds the voters’ will. Georgia, Georgia, There was no fraud. Recounted and judged Despite the protests shrill. False electors did not prevail Now they might serve time in jail, But for now they’re out on bail Until their guilt is proved. […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Siguenza, who was formerly the playwright in residence at the San Diego Repertory Theatre, wrote and acted in the one-man play A Weekend With Pablo Picasso which is playing in an encore performance at the New Village Arts theatre in Carlsbad. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
San Diego Crime Stoppers on Wednesday, Aug. 23, offered a reward of up to $1,000 for help in identifying and locating the suspect who threatened and assaulted Orthodox Rabbi Aharon Shapiro on July 24 inside a 7-Eleven store at 5142 College Avenue. Added to a previous offer of $2,500 from the StandWithUs organization, that brings to $3,500 the amount offered for the suspect’s identification and arrest. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Israel, San Diego County, USA
The Matzo Chronicles By Karen Galatz Many years back, I wanted to contact one of my cousins. I didn’t have her phone number and, for the life of me, I couldn’t recall her married name. I wasn’t worried because I knew the information was in my late mother’s address book. But I couldn’t find her
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Karen Galatz, Lifestyles, Opinion
Parshat Ki Teitzei 5783 By Rabbi Daniel Reich LA JOLLA, California — Our tradition tells us that there are 613 Mitzvot contained in the Torah, spread out among its 54 Parshas. So one might have assumed that these 613 statues are evenly distributed throughout the Torah, coming to approximately 11 or 12 Mitzvot per Parsha.
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — This week’s parasha, literally meaning, “When you go out…” opens with a description of facing war with enemies. Maimonides tells us that 72 mitzvot spring from this week’s Torah portion, from weights and measures and collecting debts in a righteous way, to proper ways to divorce, keeping promises,
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — After seven months on the job, U.S. Rep. Summer Lee set herself up for the winter of Summer, to borrow from “The summer of George” title of a Seinfeld segment. Earlier this month, she traded barbs with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which criticized her decision to boycott
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, USA
By Jacob Kamaras SAN DIEGO — Earlier this summer, the new Harissa restaurant at the Lawrence Family JCC answered the burning question of “Where’s the beef?” for San Diego’s meat-starved kosher restaurant-goers. Well, as it turns out, lighting has struck twice for the same customer base. A mere two days after San Diego Jewish World published
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Jacob Kamaras, San Diego County, Travel and Food
SDJW Staff Report SAN DIEGO — Jewish Federation of San Diego President and CEO Heidi Gantwerk last Friday penned an emotional farewell message to the group of nine ShinShinim (young Israeli emissaries) who served with local Jewish organizations this past year, sharing their knowledge, experiences, and passion for Israel with people of all ages. The
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Israel, San Diego County
What once was a choir featuring the voices of male expatriates from South Africa has become a choir of many international voices performing not only Jewish liturgical music but also secular songs in Yiddish, Ladino, Hebrew, and English. Choir members hail from countries around the world, among them the U.S., South Africa, France, Guatemala, Mexico, and Israel. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA
By Mark D. Zimmerman The trailer was released for the upcoming biopic Maestro about composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Controversy has arisen as a result of the choice of the non-Jewish actor Bradley Cooper to play the part of Bernstein, as well as his use of a prosthetic nose, which according to some critics injects
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Greene, Joanne; By Accident: A Memoir of Letting Go; www.shewritespress.com; 177 pages, ISBN: 978-1-64742-444-2. By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — I always find it serendipitous when things fall into my lap when I’m needing them most. Allow me to explain. I’ve just finished reading an autobiographical book by broadcast journalist and talk show host, Joanne
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva Trieger
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — At TICO’s (Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra) annual Pops Concert, Robert Zelickman was named the orchestra’s assistant conductor. After the concert’s opening two selections, an unfamiliar Sousa March, “Hands Across the Sea,” and a familiar Strauss waltz, “Voices of Spring,” the orchestra was warmed up for Zelickman as he
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
“Sometimes, I will do a creative service,” she continued. “I will have a theme and I will have some of the basic prayers, but I also ask people to bring poems or stories or something unique that speaks to the theme that I provided. Those were really received well because people could feel that they were participating. I am much more interested in participation than I am in performance.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Ben Dishman, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA