The anchors of the Festival were the excellent Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, its Music Director, Maestro Omer M. Wellber, its talented Concert Master, Nitai Zori, and Conductor-in-Residence David Sebba. One or more of them was present at nearly every event. [Steve Kramer]
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He has published over one hundred professional articles and authored three very excellent and very different books. The first, A New Wrinkle, details how to embrace the second half of our lives. The second, The Art of Eric Z. Shapira, is the thrilling result of a five-year labor of love. This stunning collection is a 60-year retrospective of this self-taught artist’s drawings, paintings and sculptures. The most recent publication is a textbook entitled Geriatric Dentistry: Gateway to Longevity and Life-Long Health. This is a valuable resource for geriatric dentistry and medicine. [Eva Trieger]
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Eva Trieger, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAIn 1955, his first movie was The Silver Chalice with Pier Angeli. Two years later, he played Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me. In 1958, he starred with Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination. He also starred with Woodward that same year in The Long Hot Summer. In 1960, he starred in Exodus, the story of Israel’s independence, and costarred with Woodward in From the Terrace. [SDJW Staff]
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During the Holocaust, there was not one but many instances of pogroms and mass murders like what occurred on Oct. 7th. The Holocaust was much bigger, more systematized, and cumulatively far more horrible than the massacre perpetrated by Hamas. [Rabbi Dr. Bernhard H. Rosenberg]
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How could they complain after all they had experienced? Time and again, they witnessed the hand of God caring for them. How could they think, let alone complain, that Hashem wasn’t taking care of them? [Rabbi Daniel Reich]
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The 17-minute Letter to a Pig, a nominee for an Academy Award as the Best Animated Short Film, will be screened at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 5, at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival. [SDJW staff report]
In response to a Russian build-up at the Ukrainian borders, Zelenskyy urged NATO members to speed up Ukraine’s application for membership. On Feb. 24, 2022, Putin announced that Russia was initiating a “special military operation” in the Donbas. [SDJW staff]
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The San Diego International Film Festival will be presented in the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre at the Lawrence Family JCC, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, from Wednesday, Jan. 31 through Sunday, Feb. 11. Ticket information may be obtained via this website. [SDJW staff]
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Ron Evans, the who discovered how hormones can switch on and off receptors in cells, has been awarded the Japan Prize for his work at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The Japan Prize is so prestigious, it has often been described as a precursor of the Nobel Prize. [SDJW staff]
It is stomach-churning enough to follow events in Gaza and southern Israel, and it is nearly as difficult to learn of the highway blockades and harassment of Jewish college students taking place in my city. Moving the rhetoric to Northeast Philadelphia is kind of like rubbing my nose in the muck of this war. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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A short video brought viewers into the perilous delivery of a 23-week-old fetus, as doctors skillfully placed a miniature CPAP machine on the tiny form and miraculously filled its lungs! Another doctor shared the case of a rescue with the ECMO machine that pulled a patient back from almost-certain death. [Eva Trieger]
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In 1966, he recorded the first of many hits as a solo artist, “Solitary Man,” and followed that year with “Cherry, Cherry” and “Kentucky Woman.” Subsequent years brought songs as “Sweet Caroline,” “Holly Holy,” “Cracklin’ Rosie” and “Song Sung Blue,” “I Am…I Said,” “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” “Forever in Blue Jeans.” [SDJW staff]
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Here are some dates for upcoming Jewish events in San Diego County that you might want to enter into your calendar books or onto your calendar application on your computer. San Diego Jewish World will update the calendar periodically in this column. [SDJW staff]
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Together with Peter Kien, who wrote the libretto, Ullmann composed the music for an opera entitled ‘The Emperor of Atlantis,’ an allegory of the Nazi regime, in which Death goes on strike in protest at the widespread killing of human beings by a power-mad ruler. [Dorothea Shefer-Vanson]
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