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Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 24, 2018

Shabbat San Diego lists upcoming events The legendary San Diego Challah Bakes once again, to accommodate the expected 5,000 attendees.  There will be   6 locations on Thursday night, Oct. 25, with RSVPs required via https://shabbatsandiego.org/    The locations are: Coastal  4126 Executive Dr. Doors open at 5 PM, Ample Parking (we’ve rented lots on both sides of […]

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Tifereth Israel to host speakeasy night Nov. 17

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Tifereth Israel Sisterhood will host a Roaring ’20s-themed party, the “Sistahood Speakeasy (ssh!)” on Saturday evening, November 17, at the synagogue at 6660 Cowles Mountain Boulevard, San Diego The event gets underway at 7:30 p.m. with a cocktail hour, complete with piano and lounge singer. A full, no-host bar continues

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Hearing loss expert to address Beth Israel Men’s Club

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –David Ward Ph. D, San Diego representative for the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA) will be guest speaker at the Nov 11  Sunday Luncheon of the Beth Israel Men’s Club at 9001 Towne Centre Drive. “Are you (or someone you love) among the millions of U.S. adults who could benefit from

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Art to inspire, raise questions, and perhaps anger

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The contemporary art exhibit, “Beyond the Age of Reason,” curated by Larry and Debby Kline, is nearing the end of its run at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park.  If you want to be intrigued, or even possibly enraged, by various artists’ visions of religion and

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Bluestein dramedy to be read Oct. 29 at North Coast Rep

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California -North Coast Rep Theater will produce the New Works Reading Series sponsored by Nebcal Printing, that will kick off with a dramedy written by stand-up comic Steve Bluestein. I had the good fortune to interview Bluestein by phone earlier this month. Rest, in Pieces is Bluestein’s baby, and will enjoy

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Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 16, 2018 (7 items)

Legislation would create fund for Palestinian-Israeli people-to-people partnerships Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-17) and Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (NE-1) introduced the Palestinian Partnership Fund Act of 2018 (HR7060). This legislation would help create the conditions on the ground necessary for an eventual end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The bill would establish a Palestinian Partnership Fund to facilitate and finance

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‘Samuel Project’ stars Hal Linden as Holocaust survivor

 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Samuel Project, filmed in San Diego and screened at the  San Diego International Film Festival, is a gentle post-Holocaust story starring Hal Linden as Samuel, a Holocaust survivor who is reluctant to talk about what the Nazis did to him and his family. Despite prodding by his

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Student poets to read their works Oct. 16

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The opening program of the eleventh season of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices will showcase student poets from the San Diego Jewish community.  On Tuesday evening, October 16, 7:00 p.m. in the Astor Judaica Library, fourteen young people will read their original poems. English teacher, Elaine Lepow, will be accompanying

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego Calendar

Editor’s E-Mail Box: October 9, 2018 (4 items)

Lawfare Project fights pro-Israel battles in Spain, Germany The Lawfare Project is now celebrating a string of major victories in Spain. A court in Barcelona last week voided a BDS measure passed by the city’s council of arts, a court in Andalusia last month suspended a large city’s boycott of companies that engage in free

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Film on Antonio Lopez interesting yet sad

By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — Creative people have magnetism, a force, an affect all their own.  Antonio Lopez, a fashion illustrator and trend setter, was that kind of person. Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex, Fashion & Disco, a documentary directed and written by James Crump and produced by James Crump and Ronnie Sasson, introduces us to

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Expert on hearing loss to address CBI Men’s Club

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel’s Men’s Club has scheduled David Ward Ph. D to be its guest speaker at a Sunday Luncheon, Nov. 11, at Congregation Beth Israel, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. Millions of U.S. adults could benefit from using hearing aids.  Ward will discuss hearing loss and hearing devices during an “informational presentation

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Photographer Irving Penn in retrospect at MOPA

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you were a reader of Harper’s Bazaar or Vogue, especially during the 20th century, you might have become very familiar with the fashion photography of Irving Penn, who was born to a Jewish father and Christian mother in 1917.  He took up a camera in the 1930’s and

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Editor’s E-Mail Box: September 25, 2018 (4 items)

German court dismisses appeal against Kuwaiti Airways discriminatory policy A German court in Frankfurt on Tuesday rejected an appeal by an Israeli passenger barred from boarding a Kuwait Airways flight because of the airline’s strict policy of banning all Israelis. The case had been brought by the Israeli, represented by The Lawfare Project, after he

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