By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — We used to go to the movies to escape reality, but our current political polarization has crept into feature films. Beware this summer, there are a lot of movies either with the same titles or slight variations that are more ideological than cinematic. Nope: Pretending to be Jordan Peele’s […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
The San Diego Zoo is known as one of the world’s premier institutions for the conservation of endangered wildlife species. Along with its sister San Diego Safari Park, located in the San Pasqual Valley, the San Diego Zoo is considered one of the best, if not the very best, zoos in the world. Of particular Jewish interest is the fact that the San Diego Zoo has served as a big brother to the Tisch Family Zoo in Jerusalem, which also is known as the Jerusalem Zoo. Many of the exhibits in Jerusalem are modeled on those in San Diego and both zoos have received generous financial contributions from San Diegans. {Donald H. Harrison]
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California, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA
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
By Eric George Tauber CINCINNATI, Ohio — The traditional morning prayers include the following: Men Say: Thank you, Adonai who has not made me a woman. Women Say: Thank you, Adonai for making me according to Your divine will. Growing up in a religious family, Noam Kaniel didn’t know how to pray these words. He
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
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
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
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
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — The numbers have confirmed what many already suspected. Homelessness has increased in San Diego County, and it’s especially apparent in several cities where tents and makeshift structures fill sidewalks, canyons and freeway offramps. Results of the first homeless count in two years, released Thursday, found the
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San Diego County
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — “O the chimneys On the carefully planned dwellings of death When Israel’s body rose dissolved in smoke Through the air- To be welcomed by a chimney sweep star Turned black Or was it a ray of the sun?” — Nelly Sachs “Dress me good mother, in a splendrous
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Travel and Food
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 (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
(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
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.
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