Nathan is top-Gunn in his one-man show
Nathan Gunn is one of America’s greatest and most versatile baritones, as he amply proves in the HersheyFelder produced and directed one-man show, Nathan Gunn, Flying Solo, A Musical Story about Family, Love, and the...
Youthful passion shines at Broadway Awards
Twenty high school students competed in the 5th annual Broadway San Diego Awards: Celebrating Excellence in High School Theatre On Sunday night, May 27. The two winners each receive a check for $1,000 toward a scholarship...
Documentary on San Diego Jewry very well done
SAN DIEGO – Isaac Artenstein’s newest documentary, To The Ends of the Earth: A Portrait of Jewish San Diego, which is on sale at the San Diego History Center in Balboa Park, tapped present and past...
‘Mountain’ bespeaks our love of summits
Mountain is a tribute to the power and fascination mountains have had over us mere mortals since the beginning of time. It is a Screen Australia production, produced and directed by Jennifer Peedom. The film...
Philip Roth, renowned American Jewish novelist, dies at 85
Philip Roth, influential Jewish writer, Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote about male lust, Jewish life and the United States, died on Tuesday night in New York, at a Manhattan hospital from congestive heart failure on...
Rare Jewish coins found in Temple Mount excavation
Five exceptionally rare ancient coins from among the first-ever minted ones by Jews were discovered on the Temple Mount, evidence of Jewish activity at the disputed site.
The small coins—three in pristine condition and two...
70 years of Israeli crafts on display at Mingei
The Mingei International Museum’s current exhibition of Israeli crafts and design is a retrospective that incorporates aspects of the Jewish State’s history with what the exhibit’s curator, Smadar Samson, describes as four major themes...
‘Wrestling Jerusalem’ depicts the conflict’s emotions
SAN DIEGO – Wrestling Jerusalem is a rather incredible one-man show, now filmed, in which writer and actor Aaron Davidman, in some 22 vignettes over 93 minutes, portrays the complexities, hardened positions, anger, sadness, frustration, fervor,...
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דאָס דאָזיק בריװעלע װעט קײנער ניט באַקומען,
איך שרײַב עס, טײַערע, פֿאַר די װאָס זענען דאָ געװען,
פֿאַר די װאָס װעלן שױן אַהערצו מער ניט קומען.
דאָס דאָזיק בריװעלע...
Israel’s Netta Barzilai wins Eurovision 2018
Israel’s Netta Barzilai won the Eurovision song competition on Saturday night, bringing the first place victory to the Jewish state for the first time in 20 years.
Barzilai’s performance of her song “Toy” in Lisbon,...