Over the course of an hour, guests were treated to eight animated films that ranged in time from three to seventeen minutes. The films were selected from those that had won awards throughout the years. [Sandi Masori]
Comic-Con Museum Screens Award-Winning Animated Films Read More »
San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Beth Sirull completes her tenure as CEO of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego on March 15, when she will be succeeded by Jeremy Pearl, who currently is the foundation’s chief financial officer. [SDJW Staff]
Our Shtetl San Diego County: Jewish Community Foundation’s Leadership Transition Read More »
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In 1967 Potok published The Chosen, and in 1969 a sequel The Promise, which helped delineate differences between Orthodox and Hasidic Jews. The Chosen was made into a film in 1981. In the interim, the Potoks moved to Jerusalem in 1970, returning to the states in 1977. Potok’s My Name is Asher Lev was published in 1972. [SDJW staff]
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Melanie Rubin has done it again. She found a Jewish interest license plate belonging to someone who worked, and perhaps grew up, on an Israeli kibbutz. We’re happy to add this to her collection of license plates … [SDJW staff]
The story itself centers on a love triangle between Newland Archer (Callum Adams), Countess Ellen Olenska (Shereen Ahmed), and May Wellend (Delphi Borich). Countess Olenska returns to America after fleeing her abusive husband in Europe. She thinks and dresses very differently than the rest of New York society causing her to scandalize some and be idolized by others. [Sandi Masori]
Love Triangle is Focus of ‘The Age of Innocence’ at Old Globe Read More »
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Following advice to “study your own,” Myerhoff began fieldwork on the elderly Jews at the Israel Levin Center in Venice, California, resulting in a 1977 Oscar-winning short documentary film, Number Our Days, and in 1979 a book of the same title. [SDJW staff]
Today’s Jewish Birthday: Barbara Myerhoff Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Today's Jewish Birthday, USA
I cannot stay silent when I see former Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s calculating, cunning and opportunistic attempt to fundraise off the hurt and pain our Jewish community is experiencing. Faulconer’s crass attempt to pad his campaign coffers with cash while pretending to be a friend of our community shall not go unnoticed. [Laurie Black]
OpEd: Faulconer Seeks Profit by Driving a Wedge into the Jewish Community Read More »
Antisemitism, California, Israel, Opinion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors
That drawing inspired Gmach to develop “We Are The Tree of Life,” a project focusing on Holocaust education utilizing the arts to promote a message of hope and survival. Literature, music, dance, poetry and drawings created by prisoners in the concentration camps and ghettos during World War II show that beauty can survive, even when experiencing unspeakable horrors. [Eileen Wingard]
We follow the story of two murderesses; Roxie Hart (Katie Frieden) and Velma Kelly (Kaitlin Brown) and their sensational murder trials. Being that it’s set in the roaring 20s which didn’t have modern day social media, the flashy and charismatic and lawyer Billy Flynn (Connor Sullivan) is able to manipulate the press and jury with wild and conflicting stories about his clients, or as he calls it razzle-dazzle, in his attempts to acquit his client. [Sandi Masori]
‘Chicago’ Features Minimal Set and Costumes, Maximal Choreography Read More »
Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sandi Masori, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
At the performance in Tel Aviv last week the audience sat in rapt silence as the orchestra played and the choir and soloists sang, bringing the majesty and drama of Verdi’s music to life. In Israel of today, with war being waged in the Gaza Strip and skirmishes raging in the north of the country, the performance of the Requiem has special significance. In the plaza of the nearby Tel Aviv Museum families of the hostages held in Gaza were demonstrating in order to convince the government to do more to get them released. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
Verdi’s ‘Requiem’ Revisited in Tel Aviv Performance Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Sketch comedy on The Carol Burnett Show, where he appeared for ten years as a regular with Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner, and with frequent guest Tim Conway, brought Korman four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe. [SDJW staff]
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In honor of its jubilee year, the 50th year since the orchestra was founded, TICO is performing at each of its concerts the fifth symphony of a great master. This concert opened with the most famous of all, Beethoven’s Fifth. [Eileen Wingard]
Praise for ‘Fifths’ Series Celebrating TICO’s 50th Anniversary Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
I was reminded of Israel’s military tour de force in Entebbe when I read of the recent rescue of hostages Fernando Marman, 60, and Luis Har, 70, from a Rafah apartment. The reuniting of the hostages with their families and community members brought elation and joy to them. [Amy Neustein, Ph.D]
Rescue of 2 Hostages from Gaza was an Entebbe-Type Moment Read More »
Amy Neustein, International, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
President Joe Biden, a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” insists that Hamas must be rewarded for its genocidal war against Israelis with a state of its own, a State of Palestine. [Steve Kramer]
OpEd: The Call for Two-States after Hamas Massacred 1,200 Israelis is an Insult Read More »
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