Other items in today’s column include:
*San Diego County Judaica
*Jewish American Heritage Month
*Political bytes
* Recommended reading
Free international concert will feature soft jazz
SAN DIEGO — In the video above, Carla Sitton Berg and her daughter Liora Sitton Berg of San Diego perform a mother-daughter duet urging us “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” Carla, wife of Geoffrey Berg, a board officer of Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, will be among artists presenting a free online concert Sunday at 3 p.m for which you can register via this website. The concert is co-sponsored by Music on the Inside (MOTI) and Balanced Guitar (BG) “through their shared belief in community and the powerful role of music, especially now.”
Carla, of Brazilian Jewish heritage, has recorded several CDS of Brazilian music, including sambas and bossa nova. She also sings in Ladino and currently is working on a project to translate Brazilian music into Hebrew.
She will appear in concert with such other artists as Itaiguara Brandao, Freddie Bryant, Winard Harper, Katie McGrath, John Ricciardi, Gabriell Stravelli, Pat O’Leary and Todd Wright.
The concert will be hosted by “Jazz Woman to the Rescue,” Antoniette Montague and curated by guitarist Richard Miller.
According to a news release, “MOTI teaches music in the prisons and BG holds retreats combining yoga, surfing and guitar. As MOTI experienced first-hand in the prisons, music brings us together and sets us free, no matter where we are.”
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San Diego County Judaica
*With a photo of former Assemblywoman Sunny Mojonnier (R-Encinitas) lighting her channukiah, we are once again presenting a photo collection of Judaica owned by members (and former members) of the San Diego County Jewish community. Six years after representing San Diego County in the Legislature from 1982 to 1990, Mojonnier moved to the Sacramento area where she is the founding director of the Women in California Politics Foundation, which collects the oral histories of women who have served in state offices. The channukiah, she said, was owned by her grandmother, and then her mother, who passed it down to her. She believes that it dates to the 1920s. If you would like us to share a photo of yourself or a loved one with your object of Judaica — be it ceremonial or an art piece or something utilitarian — please email it to me with a caption describing the object and how you came to have it.
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Jewish American Heritage Month
Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) has honored microbiologist Israel Kligler, who grew up as an immigrant in New York and eventually moved to pre-State Israel where he was one of the founding professors at Hebrew University and manager of the laboratories at Hadassah Hospital.
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Political bytes
*Terra Lawson-Remer announced her campaign in the Nov. 3 election against incumbent County Supervisor Kristin Gaspar will have a “socially-distanced kick off rally” on Zoom at 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 16. Noting that Republicans have controlled the county Board of Supervisors for 27 years, she said her rally is “co-sponsored by San Diego County’s united Democrats.” Registration is via this website. According to her press release, Lawson-Remer is “an economist, community organizer, college professor and former senior advisor in the Obama Administration. In 2018 she organized Flip the 49th! to help take back Congress.”
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Recommended reading
*Saturday’s edition of The San Diego Union-Tribune had at least four stories of direct Jewish community interest. In one, reporter Gary Robbins interviewed Dr. Peter Salk, son of polio vaccine discoverer Dr. Jonas Salk, about his perceptions of the coronavirus pandemic. Photographer Dennis Poroy pictured San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and Nicole Murray-Ramirez placing a wreath on a signpost at the corner of Harvey Milk Street and Centre Street in honor of Milk, the nation’s first openly gay elected official who spent time in San Diego before moving to San Francisco where he was elected a county supervisor. Milk, who was assassinated, would have been 90 years old on Friday. Reporter Teri Figueroa told of a federal court dismissing a suit against MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow, who was accused of defaming the One America New Network. OANN’s attorney, Amnon Zvi Siegel, said the dismissal would be appealed. And, Karen Pearlman wrote that the City of Santee, stung by recent public displays of a Ku Klux Klansman’s hood and swastika face masks, has scheduled a drive-through rally next Wednesday in which residents are encouraged to “demonstrate love” and inclusiveness.
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Donald H. Harrison is editor of San Diego Jewish World. He may be contacted via donald.harrison@sdjewishworld.com