By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – As chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York has much to say about what new projects the government will be granted permission to finance. As for President Trump’s demand for over $5 billion for a border wall, or a compromise proposal for […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock… If you’re a jazz fan, you know these names. They are the stars shining in the jazzosphere of Blue Note Records. And the magi we have to thank for these precious gifts were two German Jews,
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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Ronald S. Lauder and Robert Singer, president and executive vice president respectively of the World Jewish Congress, told a European Parliament committee on Thursday “to pick after Jews or go after Jews is not just wrong — it is dangerous for all Europeans. … Anti-Semitism eventually consumes everyone
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, in a New York Times report, says his committee will be “making sure the policy of the United States is being driven by the national interest, not by any financial entanglement, financial leverage or other form of compromise.” President Trump responded that Schiff
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Donald H. Harrison, Eva Trieger, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Welcome to the home of the Chinyaramwira family. Scenic Designer Walt Spangler invites us into a warm dwelling with rich, dark woods, tastefully furnished. Like most immigrant families, they communicate in two languages, English and their native Shona, in the same conversation. Like all families, they laugh and
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastHeading Home: The Tale of Team Israel directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger; Ironbound Films; 2018, 87 minutes, to be shown at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival at 1 p.m., Sunday, February 10, at Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Boulevard, San Marcos, and at 6 p.m.
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Super Bowl Sunday has been called “the Secular American Holiday.” It’s a day when so many people gather together to watch the same program that municipalities prepare for multitudes of simultaneously flushing toilets. And not watching the Super Bowl is considered “un-American,” practically treasonous, tantamount to joining the
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Eric George Tauber, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe purpose of utopia is a place with qualities that don’t really exist in the real world. — Herland’s Playwright Grace McLeod By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Throughout history, there have been utopian societies where groups of people decided to eschew civilization for a more contained society ascribing to higher ideals. Some are religious cults
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — When I hear the word “farce,” Ken Ludwig springs to mind. When I hear the words “hilarious farce” I immediately think: Ken Ludwig and Matthew Wiener. This duet is responsible for uproariously funny shows with impeccable timing, absurd plot twists, ridiculous dialogue and unmatched physical schtick. I was
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People is soon to be released in theaters around the country, starting with March premieres in New York City and Los Angeles. The 85-minute documentary traces Pulitzer’s life as a Jewish immigrant from Hungary to his rise as the powerful publisher of both
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson TEL AVIV, Israel — “I don’t know how you can go to an opera,” my grown-up nephew said. “A play, OK; a movie, fine. But opera?” “It’s a show. It’s fun,” I replied. “There’s music, movement, action, drama, costumes. It’s like a kids’ show for grown-ups.” But after spending a night with Richard
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Official release for Fanny Krasner Lebovits’ Holocaust memoir Tuesday, Jan. 22, was the official release date for Memories, Miracles & Meaning — Insights of a Holocaust Survivor by San Diegan Fanny Krasner Lebovits. Congregation Beth El, 8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, will host a book sale and signing for the 96-year-old author at 6 p.m.,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sandy Scheller and filmmaker Olena Zernychenko have been collaborating on a movie about Scheller’s mother, Ruth Goldshmiedova Sax, a Holocaust survivor who died at age 90 at the end of last year. “Ruthie” Sax had been a popular speaker throughout San Diego County, whose willingness to share her
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastGood Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds: The Conductor Zubin Mehta, a documentary directed by Bettina Ehrhardt, English, German, Italian, 2016, 89 minutes, final movie of San Diego International Jewish Film Festival, to be shown at Reading Cinemas Town Square, 4665 Clairemont Drive, San Diego, on Sunday, February 17, 7:45 p.m. By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO
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