Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Debut illustrator thrills as book sells at Comic-Con

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – In the guise of an anonymous sales lady tending a display of books at Comic-Con, Sara Ann Varon watched as people laughed while they thumbed through copies of Bacon and Sausage. Varon was the illustrator of the children’s book written by Gabriel Smith.  […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori

College art head resigns over offensive poster of Shaked

The head of the Art Department at Shenkar College has resigned, after a nude portrait bearing a facial resemblance to Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked was censored for a senior project art exhibit. The portrait initially went viral, later being censored by Professor Yuli Tamir, the Head of Shenkar College, who reasoned that it could lead

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Anthem outburst is what happens when social media opens up ‘the conversation’ to morons

If Remigio Pereira’s performance the other night at Major League Baseball’s all-star game in San Diego is not a sign of the coming apocalypse, it’s at least one of the madness currently sweeping the planet. Pereira is – was? – one of The Tenors quartet, formerly The Canadian Tenors, and he had a pretty dishy

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions

Santana thumbs nose at BDS to appear in Tel Aviv

The legendary Grammy-award winning guitarist Carlos Santana is scheduled to appear in Park Hayarkon is Tel Aviv on July 30, Yediot Aharonot reported. When asked what his stance is regarding the anti-Israel BDS movement, that encourages the boycott of Israeli businesses and often pressures artists not to perform in Israel, Santana stated that “I prefer

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Maestro: Music, mysticism of Leonard Bernstein

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — One man and a piano. For most, this would be a scene in a hotel lounge with patrons coming and going. But not for virtuoso Hershey Felder who completes this year’s Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival playing at the Lyceum Theatre. Hershey Felder is well known

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Online auction of Judaica set for July 14

JERUSALEM (Press Release)– The Jewish Jerusalem Fine Art Store, http://www.tjjfineartstore.com, will be holding an art auction, featuring the works of eight outstanding Jewish artists, at the Leonardo Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem on July 14, 2016. Proceeds of the auction will benefit Deaf youth in Israel through the International Young Israel Movement (IYIM) Judaic Heritage program

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

IDF commander jailed for inviting rapper to army party

An IDF Company Commander was sentenced to a week in a military prison for inviting controversial Israeli rapper Yoav Eliasi to perform for his soldiers, it has been revealed. Eliasi – more widely known by his stage name “The Shadow” (Ha-Tzel) – has in recent years become something of a social media pundit, with his

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Tseitlin, Gerpe, Farmer: an impressive musical trio

By Eileen Wingard ENCINITAS, California — Michael Tseitlin, San Diego County’s highly respected violin pedagogue and organizer of the Virtuosi USA Concert Series, introduced one of its programs at the Encinitas Library on June 25, featuring Violinist Pasha Tseitlin, Pianist Nic Gerpe and Bassoonist Judith Farmer. Pasha Tseitlin, son of Michael and Irina Tseitlin, plays

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Bavaria accused of funneling stolen art back to Nazis

NEW YORK (WJC)- World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder said this week that he is dismayed by an investigation alleging that the German state of Bavaria had sold or given Nazi-looted art to high-ranking Nazi officials, rather than returning the art to its rightful Jewish heirs. The investigation by the London-based Commission for Looted

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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Streisand’s difficult rise to fame catapulted by face-off with anti-Semitism

That Barbra Streisand is a woman of many “firsts” is indisputable. Streisand is one of the best-selling music artists of all time and the only recording artist to have a number-one album in each of the last six decades. With “Yentl” in 1983, she became the first woman to write, produce, direct and star in

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Netanyahu to Itzhak Perlman: You’re the ‘fiddler of the world’

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife Sarah on Thursday hosted 2016 Genesis Prize laureate violinist Itzhak Perlman at the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem. The Genesis Prize award ceremony was hosted this year by Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren, who toured the city of Jerusalem on Wednesday. The Prime Minister and his wife congratulated Perlman

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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Musical scores save many a movie

By Jonathan L. Friedmann, Ph.D. MORENO VALLEY, California — Jerry Goldsmith, a top film composer of the second half of the twentieth century, regularly worked on projects unworthy of his artistic expression. His filmography includes over two hundred titles, along with a hefty body of television work. Much of it is stale genre fare: thrillers, westerns, maritime

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

High marks for soloists in Bernstein concert

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s (TICO’s) June 7 concert featured the music of Leonard Bernstein, the 20th century’s most outstanding American musician. He was not only a great composer, equally versatile writing classical music and Broadway musicals, but he was one of the world’s foremost conductors, a brilliant pianist

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County