Resembling a young Gene Wilder, Ben Ducoff plays the genial high school teacher, Barry Bernstein, in the madcap indie movie he co-wrote, Yaniv. Directing the film is Ben’s friend and colleague, Amnon Carmi, who also has a cameo role as the Rabbi. [Eileen Wingard]
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Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American writer. He was prominent in the 1930s, first working on Broadway plays, and then in motion pictures, notably writing the successful comedy The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), which earned him an Oscar in 1948. [Wikipedia]
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Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Donald Trump and one of the architects of the Abraham Accords, may not have ever existed were it not for the daring escape by his grandmother Raya in September 1943 from a forced labor camp run by the Nazis in Novogrudok in today’s Belarus. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Other Desert Cities at Cygnet theater is the story of family members grappling with secrets from their past. Writer Brooke Wyeth (Melanie Lora) comes home to Palm Springs after finishing her second book. Only this time her book isn’t a novel, it’s a memoir and it’s focused on the hardest time in her family’s history, when her brother committed suicide after being implicated in an anti-war protest turned deadly. [Sandi Masori]
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California, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe tuba soloist, William Nakamura, did a fine job making the tuba, that elephant of the orchestra, sound beautiful and negotiating the hopping, kangaroo-like leaps with agility. As the printed program notes explained, the work was inspired by the kangaroo-rat of Death Valley. [Eileen Wingard]
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Classic musical Hello Dolly at San Diego Musical Theater is a joyful celebration of dance and song. It will make you want to get up and dance and hum along. [Sandi Masori]
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The first night Seder of Passover comes this year on Saturday, April 12. To introduce children who have never tasted unleavened bread before, Charlotte Offsay has authored a book of rhymes about matzah. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Chava Rosenfarb (February 9, 1923 – January 30, 2011) was a Holocaust survivor and Jewish-Canadian author of Yiddish poetry and novels, a major contributor to post-World War II Yiddish Literature.). [Wikipedia]
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In a desperate attempt to make money, she goes to work for “The Milky Way,” a breast milk dairy that provides rich mothers with the best-quality breast milk from poor mothers. [Cailin Acosta]
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This graphic novel intended for Middle Schoolers tells the story of a boy who can’t do anything right, even though his intentions are good. At fault may have been the evil eye that a woman, bitter about the abduction of her own son, put on Mendel’s mother while she was pregnant. [Donald H. Harrison]
Robert Klein (February 8, 1942) is an American stand-up comedian, singer, and actor. He is known for his appearances on stage and screen. [Wikipedia]
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Here Lived shown Thursday night, Feb. 6, at the San Diego International Film Festival is a documentary film directed by Jane Wells who follows conceptual artist Gunter Demnig in laying Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in Holland. [Cailin Acosta]
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It’s really the story of friendship. In this version, Glinda, whom we know as the “good witch” from the original 1939 movie starring Judy Garland, and Elphaba, whom we know as the “wicked witch,” become friends in college. [Sandi Masori]
‘Wicked’ at Broadway San Diego is a Story of Friendship Read More »
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The Villa Sorge was a private residence into which 75 women were crowded, speaking a variety of languages, and not all of them Jews. A topic of speculation was who was a spy among their fellow internees, who might be providing sexual favors to their captors in return for preferences, how bad the food was, and how a Jewish internee like herself could reach an understanding with another internee who was a self-described Nazi. [Donald H. Harrison]
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