By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Remember when some of the kids in your class –not you, of course– would pass the course simply by skimming through the comic book version of the great piece of literature that you all had been assigned to read? It used to be that comics were shortcuts […]
Once an escape from texts, comics are prompting more of them Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
Editor’s Note: The following eulogy was delivered at the funeral of Gert Thaler, 91, on Tuesday, April 17, at Ohr Shalom Synagogue in San Diego by her dear friend Norman Greene. By Norman Greene SAN DIEGO–As my friend Lorraine Schrag commented, “it is hard to imagine a world without Gert thaler.” Many here today have
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— Diversionary Theatre announced that it has invited a rabbi, a pastor and a humanist to host a panel to discuss how family and faith ‘shape our lives and our relationships’. It’s all in conjunction with its current offering, Geoffrey Naufft’s Next Fall, a poignant, contemporary and funny play about being
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Carol Davis VISTA, California–When Kathy Brombacher retires this year she will have been at the helm of Moonlight Stage Productions for seventeen years having produced over 200 shows. In other words, she has been there from the beginning. She has been a pioneer for the arts in the North County. It was she who
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Cynthia Citron NORTH HOLLYWOOD, California– As Winston Churchill might describe it, Theresa Rebeck’s play The Water’s Edge is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” There re more mixed emotions, contradictions, outright lies, duplicity, passion, and chills in this dramatic masterpiece than in any play you’re likely to see in this decade. The
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Cynthia Citron
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO –– Everyone dreams of having a grand adventure in life. However, Robert [Bob] Gannon has had many adventures since he learned how to fly in 1992. That same year, he bought a Cherokee 6 airplane [Lucky Lady] after getting a pilot’s instrument license, and flew to Paris, France,
Solo around-the-world flyer found Israel most challenging Read More »
Middle East, Mimi Pollack
Second in a series By Jeanette Friedman Jeanette Friedman WARSAW, Poland –When I went to look for my grandmother’s house and her grave, I sought one friend, Isaac Kot from Boston, to help me. Isaac and I have known each other since 2002, when we both attended our first World Federation of Jewish Child
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International-First in a Series- By Jeanette Friedman WARSAW–My first glimpse of Poland came through an airplane window. The thick turbulent clouds had just thinned, and from my aisle seat I could see a lush checkerboard of fields punctuated by small forests, and realized that these were the fields and forests where the Jewish Partisans I
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International
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–Israel is celebrating its 63rd Day of Independence according to the Hebrew calendar; the secular date of the UN-sanctioned declaration of a Jewish state was May 14, 1948. Just three years after the death camps of Europe were liberated by the Allies, Israel became—and remains—the greatest response to genocide in
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky SAN DIEGO — I’ll say it again. Coping is the name of the game. No solutions appear on the horizon, even when standing on a high place. Israeli policymakers concerned with “peace,” “borders,” or however you define that cluster of issues have to cope with Palestinians, Americans, and Western Europeans, as well
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East