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CONTENTS

December 2016

Kislev/Tevet 5777

VISUAL ART:

Printmaking in San Diego is still a rare art form, but there are a few groups and galleries keeping it alive.

Find an exciting list of shows and classes here.

32 PERFORMANCE:

The upcoming season of UC San Diego’s ArtPower performance series is full of outstanding Israelis, thanks to its Jewish executive director.

41 THEATER:

Hershey Felder returns to the San Diego Repertory Theatre, this time as Tchaikovsky. Pat Launer gets the run-down on this premiere from the great embodier himself.

54 ARCHITECTURE:

Architecture will soon serve as the foundation for a new reminiscence therapy project for adults with Alzheimer’s and dementia. Read how in our feature story.

74 HANUKKAH:

A sweet story of love and lamps for this Hanukkah.

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MONTHLY COLUMNS 12 The Starting Line 22 Parenting 24 Israeli Lifestyle 26 Torah 90 Advice

45 SPECIAL

AROUND TOWN 18 Our Town 20 The Scene 70 What's Goin' On 89 Synagogue Life

Lamb’s brings back “Beau Jest” for another hilarious round of Jewish family fun.

IN EVERY ISSUE 14 Mailbag 16 What’s Up Online 86 News 88 Shabbat Sheet ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: 28 OP-ED:

Jewish millennials on college campuses - you think you know, but you have no idea.

35 VISUAL ART:

A look back at Gotthelf Gallery’s “Revisiting Shabbat” group show.

38 VISUAL ART:

Work by French painter Jean-Pierre Rousseau will be for sale at a weekend-long show to benefit veterans.

43 THEATER:

Joey Landwehr Day and what theater can do for young outcasts.

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57 THEATER:

60 THEATER:

Looking under the hood at the La Jolla Playhouse’s political season.

61 THEATER:

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62 THEATER:

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66 MUSIC:

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72 ARCHITECTURE:

Louis Kahn and “The Power of Architecture” at SDMA.

77 ARCHITECTURE:

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82 HANUKKAH:

A gift guide for the quirkiest ones on your list.

84 FOOD:

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THE STARTING LINE by Natalie Jacobs

EDITOR’S LETTER editor@sdjewishjournal.com

Art Therapy

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here was a panel session at the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association in D.C. exactly one week after Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote for President, called “The Challenges of Covering the Elections/Campaigns.” The first question was some version of “How come we didn’t see this coming?” to which the panel of journalists yelled, “Blame the polls!”

One of the three admitted, “polls are like catnip to reporters.” In the Nov. 11 edition of the WNYC/NPR show On the Media, Brooke Gladstone went a step further to liken polls to “cocaine-laced M&Ms” for reporters.

Curiously, in an early morning session at the Jewish Federations of North America’s General Assembly held across the street from the AJPA conference, two pollsters, a Democrat and a Republican, spoke at length in defense of their position that it wasn’t the polls that were wrong, but in fact the people reading the polls (mostly, reporters) who were wrong.

One of the reporters on the “Challenges” panel attempted to explain polls by saying they’re important tools for journalists to “keep a finger on the pulse” of the American electorate. If this is their true function, then I’m wondering, where are the polls now? How come we don’t wake up every day to news like “Sixty percent of Americans are scared to death of what the world will look like after Jan. 20, 2017;” or “Polls show Anxiety has a three point lead over Optimism and the race doesn’t appear to be tightening in any key swing states”?

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Trump’s approval rating as President, consider this: if he’s done something that you don’t agree with ... you can give him a big fat zero. Unlike President Obama, who seemed undeterred by his ratings, those numbers could eat at Trump’s insides.”

After that panel discussion in D.C., fuming from the feeling that nothing will change because everyone is pointing fingers at everyone else, I decided to ditch the conference’s final day in favor of a trip to the Renwick Gallery. I was craving unabashed new perspective on this upside-down world. I needed to be immersed

Don’t think of it as escapism, more like a temporary redirecting of energies, a small investment in a new way of seeing, thinking, and feeling.

There is so much power in art. Twice a year, we at the San Diego Jewish Journal dedicate almost entire editions to the display and discussion of that power. In the following pages you will encounter art that is political, family friendly, hanging by a thread, meant to document our world, meant to challenge our assumptions, ending, beginning, and all around us. It is my view that art and its many permutations are more

Don’t think of it as escapism, more like a temporary redirecting of energies, a small investment in a new way of seeing, thinking, and feeling. in beauty and fearlessness and courage.

Within the marble walls of the small Smithsonian gallery dedicated to contemporary American craft, the world and all of its troubles were dulled to a tolerable pitter-patter in the back of my mind. I saw bone shredded and sculpted into a rose, a massive effort of felt turned into a lush green landscape, wood flowed as fluid as drapery. And for one blissful hour, I mostly forgot that 130 million people with pre-existing medical conditions may no longer be able to buy health insurance; it didn’t worry me that over-consumption and under-conservation may leave the earth ravaged of resources and unlivable for my children’s children; the hypocrisy of discrimination was slightly less sickening.

important to indulge in now than ever. If you heard about the ruckus between Mike Pence, the Broadway smash hit “Hamilton” and Donald Trump’s harassment claims, then you know what I’m talking about.

There is so much work to be done just to maintain our grips on what matters to us, but it’s also important every once in a while to take a time-out in favor of seeking new perspective. If we’re doing our jobs right, then this issue will offer a small bit of that. A

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ON THE COVER

For this second annual Arts and Architecture issue, we are proud to feature a stunning photo of the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, by Louis Kahn, 1962-83. Image copyright Raymond Maier, used with permission from the San Diego Museum of Art. Find the story of the Louis Kahn retrospective exhibition on pg. 72 of this magazine.

CORRECTIONS

In the “What’s Up Online” page of the Nov. 2016 issue, a note about the new food truck Herb ‘n Donuts made it sound like founder Edwin Blumberg was no longer running his kosher catering business. In fact, Blumberg continues as a kosher caterer while also managing the new food truck venture. The SDJJ regrets this confusion.

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WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING A TRUMP PRESIDENCY

REST IN PEACE, LEONARD COHEN

When Professor Emeritus Sandford Lakoff planned to give a post-election talk through the Center for Jewish Culture’s Distinguished Speaker’s Series, he wasn’t expecting to be talking about a President Trump. But he did, and the resulting one-hour lecture was a helpful decompressor for nearly 100 members of San Diego’s Jewish community. After re-familiarizing the group with the concerns of many, Lakoff offered some perspective from the bright side. Read the recap on our website.

The Jewish raised, Buddhism -practicing singer/songwriter/ poet Leonard Cohen died in November at the age of 82.

Ron Kampeas of JTA has a thoughtful remembrance, on our website now.

“MOTIV”ATING YOUNG PEOPLE TO GET INVOLVED AND STAY THAT WAY Sorry, couldn’t resist the terrible pun. It’s one that will get old eventually, but for now, with the official launch of the teen service engagement platform Motiv, it’s still the most accurate way to describe what this start-up is all about. We already gave you the background on how this program came about, but with the Teen Service Summit on Dec. 4, their work officially begins. There’s a recap of what’s going down on our website and we’ll keep in touch as progress continues.

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THAT TIME WHEN AZERBAIJAN CAME TO SAN DIEGO Five years ago, members of San Diego’s professional community entered into a sister-city-like relationship with the Azerbaijani capital city Baku. To mark the occasion, in conjunction with the country’s 25-year anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union, a large delegation from various parts of the Azerbaijani government came to San Diego. They stopped by the Jewish Journal on their way, and our assistant editor spent about an hour learning about the Jewish community residing in the small country that borders Iran.

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FIDF Gala

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BY LINDA BENNETT AND BETSY BARANOV PHOTOS COURTESY FIDF SAN DIEGO AND SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE

The sixth annual Friends of Israel Defense Forces Gala Appreciation Evening was held Nov. 5. About 800 people attended the lovely evening. Some seen were Nina and Dan Brodsky, Carol Weisner, Len Gregory, Jeremy and Tonia Cohn, Phyllis and Mark Strauss, Allen and Robin Walber, Herb Weiss, Steve Weiss, Jean and Franklin Gaylis, Jackie Gaylis, Charles Wax, Shirley and Harold Pigeon, Barbara and Sheldon Ostroff, Dr. Bob and Mao Shillman, Natalie Stolper, Esther Moscona, Karol and Eric Jacobs, Sharon and Stuart Davidson and 17-year-old Idan Mualin.

Book Fair Recap

The 22nd annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair was held Oct. 29-Nov. 6. Presentations took place at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Temple Solel, Seacrest Village, Leichtag Commons and the Carlsbad Village Theatre. Various authors spoke to us about their books. Some of our favorites were: Rich Cohen, Melissa Fay Greene, Peter Himmelman, Janice Kaplan and Michael Krasny.

Some we saw enjoying were: Geri and Larry Trappel, Eric Weisman and Susan Chortek Weisman. Marcia and Don Wolochow, Laurie and Bob Steinberg, Alan and Esther Siman, Rabbi Hillel and Roberta Silverman, Jackie Gmach, Sheryl Rowling, Caroline and Michael Melman, Silvia Liwerant, and Dennis and Linda Glaser.

Births...

Congratulations to Rhoda Nevins and Eddie Kleiman on the birth of their granddaughter Sloane Isabel Bureau. Proud parents are Erica (Nevins) Bureau and Nic Bureau of San Francisco.

Mason Alexander High was born to Jeff and Elena High on Oct. 21. Happy grandparents are Susie Moss High and Ron High, and Rimma and Jay Rosenberg.

Romy and Josh Rothstein are happy to announce the birth of their daughter Aliza Evelyn. Proud grandparents are Shirley and Rufus Abelsohn of San Diego and Maureen and Len Rothstein of Palm Springs.

Mazel tovs...

COUNTER-CLOCKWISE FROM RIGHT: Stacey and Alan Katz at the FIDF Gala • Julie Poticker and Paige Pick at the San Diego Jewish Book Fair • Sarah Scott and Rich Cohen at the San Diego Jewish Book Fair.

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Mark and Lynda Better of Carmel Valley celebrated the wedding of their daughter, April, to Jared Slater of Los Angeles on Oct. 30 in Westlake Village.

Alyson Elizabeth Arkin was called to the Torah as a Bat Mitzvah on Oct. 29 at Temple Emanu-El. Mazel tov to Daina Ellen Falk on her marriage to Garrett Konrad Klugh, son of Elizabeth Klugh of San Diego.

Jenna Eve Hirschbein and Michael Mellon were wed on Sept. 18 at the home of Jenna’s parents, Kathy Beitscher and Isaac Hirschbein on Mt. Helix.

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the SCENE

BY EILEEN SONDAK PHOTOS BY IVY LEAGUE PHOTOGRAPHY AND DENISE LARKIN

City Ballet Gala City Ballet celebrated its 24th anniversary with an elegant gala at the Hotel del Coronado. The event was dubbed “IlluminAsia,” and the invitation promised “an enchanted evening illuminated by the charms of Asia.”

Fortunately, the celebration lived up to its hype, and the Crown Room at the hotel was aglow with stunning Asian influences. To make it even more memorable, this year’s bash drew the largest crowd in the company’s history.

The enchanted evening began with a cocktail reception, followed by a multi-course dinner and dancing. As usual, dancers from City Ballet entertained during the evening, offering a sampling of the repertory. Among the large group of honorary committee members were Jeffrey Schreiber, William and Evelyn Lamden, and Susan and Doug Lawrence. Rita Steel chaired the event. Proceeds from this year’s gala will be used to ensure that City Ballet will continue to teach and present ballet to local children through its outreach program – a worthy goal indeed!

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: Chuck Steel, Elizabeth Wistrich, Steven Wistrich, Marla Steel, Rita Steel (Ivy League Photography) • Jordan Bouey, Anna Maria Carabini, Rick Scatena, Lauren Steel (Denise Larkin Photography) • Doug Lowrance, Susan Guthrie Lowrance, Udana Power, Josh Harmon (Denise Larkin Photography) • Wayne Harth, Lauren Scott (Ivy League Photography) • Brook Ogle, Karissa Myers, Kyla Myers, Heidi Erickson (Ivy League Photographers).

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MUSINGS FROM MAMA

by Sharon Rosen Leib

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Culture of Inclusion

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he hipster, liberal-arts-college buzz phrase “white privilege” seems to be on the lips of everyone under a certain age these days. Thus, I hesitate to contribute to the, dare I say, white noise.

However, as with most things in life, where there’s smoke there’s some white-hot fire.

With the most rancorous, anxiety-producing election of our lifetimes behind us, and the warm, fuzzy winter holidays approaching, we’re at an ideal juncture to contemplate what white privilege means. Do we want to perpetuate racial/class divisions or evolve into a more color- and wealth-blind future of inclusivity?

In the deep recesses of our souls we all have a tendency to cling to a modicum of exclusivity about something – whether it be living close to the beach or in a fancy gated community or sending our kids to “the best” public school or a pricey, elite private one.

Alas, our desire to be on top of the heap remains embedded in human nature. But does this mean we have to flaunt our top-of-theheapness at the expense of including others?

The incandescent white privilege light bulb went off in my head as I sat through a meeting of Youngest Daughter’s public high school’s foundation board, where I serve as a board member (aka fundraiser/contributor/parent enthusiast). For the most part, I’ve enjoyed participating and having the opportunity to meet other parents and the school’s leadership. But last month I wanted to scream “white privilege” at another board member who suggested we charge for VIP seating at the school’s graduation ceremony.

“You have to get there so early to save a group of seats together. We could charge people for special seats to save the hassle – you know, like VIP seating at a rock concert,” she said.

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too! Then people could pay extra to save time and not have to walk so far.”

I was shocked into silence.

Scanning the conference table, I realized only two of the 20 board participants had skin tones other than lily white – although the high school has sizeable Asian and Latino populations. After the meeting, I kicked myself for not speaking up.

So here’s what I would have/should have said: To preserve our democracy and work toward creating a more perfect union (per the United States Constitution), public high schools must model equality. Although our public high school serves students from some of the highest net worth zip codes in California, not all come from families in the top 5 percent. At the aforementioned board meeting, the principal said, “We provide the experiences of a private high school.”

Although I admire the delusional wishful thinking behind his proclamation, our esteemed public high school bears no resemblance to local private schools, nor should it. California law requires public high school districts to admit all students living within their boundaries.

Some of these students come from families struggling to afford the cost of living within the district so their children can attend high quality schools. These families can’t afford to pay a premium for reserved seats at their child’s graduation ceremony.

And they should not be made to feel less than if they can’t. We don’t want our high school graduation ceremonies, a meaningful milestone for both parents and children, to look like a caste system.

In the spirit of the season, let’s pledge to shelve our white privilege and embrace an array of cultures, colors and economic strata. Practicing inclusivity will go a long way toward making America greater than it ever has been. A

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The Myrrh is Mine

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lthough raised in a home that had two sets of dishes but only occasionally displayed Sabbath candles, we were a little hazy in the mitzvah department. One year, my father erected a sukkah in the backyard because he thought it might be fun. It felt Jewish. Because our house was quasi-kosher and I didn’t attend school on the holidays, we were thought to be Orthodox. Uh, hardly.

In the 1960’s, our communal religion was New York and mama loshen was spoken in one’s home: Irish, Italian, Yiddish or Spanish, we all had living relatives who’d passed by the skirts of Lady Liberty in search of a less-brutal future. My classmates and I attended one another’s confirmations, bar/ bat mitzvahs and quinceañeras, dressed in respective Nehru jackets, Go-Go boots, Twiggy-haircuts and mod-togs. We frugged, bugalooed and hora’ed, smugly confident with our American birthright. Doddering grandparents with heavy accents and uncool moms and dads eyed our moxie with equal parts wonder, envy, anger and pride, uncertain that an unleashed genie called Freedom could spare their babies from the historical ugliness that they had known.

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was the Christmas or Hanukkah (non)competition. The two holidays bear no relation to one another but Jewish kids felt cheated.

Without a doubt, the Maccabees would be scratching their heroic heads and muttering, “Presents? Vus iz dos?!?”

I, for one, am a Jew who has no problem wishing and being wished “Merry Christmas.” I know what Hanukkah is and it isn’t interchangeable with Christmas or Kwanzaa. Why are we diluting the Yuletide in the name of sensitivity?

To be fair, I didn’t always subscribe to this manner of thinking. As a proud-product of the New York City public school system and a talented singer to boot, I regularly performed in holiday pageants and was borderline ecstatic to appear in Town Hall as one of the Three Kings. In retrospect, the lyrics of the Episcopalian paen were a little bleak for a future Cosmo-Girl-on-the-Go like me but, at the time, it satisfied my need for drama with a pinch of angst. I appeared appropriately Semitic with kinky hair and an uncanny ability to look beatific on demand. As a bonafide Oriental King, I’d have none of that insipid “Oh, dreidle dreidle drieidle” stuff.

I’m not unaware of the ironic twist that life has taken because, just like the afore-

mentioned Magi, I now live in the Holy Land and occasionally walk in the footsteps of Christ if I happen to be in one of the documented neighborhoods in search of laundry detergent or a newspaper. But the Hanukkah story has also taken on different meaning as my home is within the 20-minute radius of where the incredible narrative unfolded. Chashmonaim, Givon and the Maccabean graves are within shouting distance of one-another and next to some of my favorite shwarma joints.

The “Peace on Earth, goodwill toward man” season might feel a lot more authentic and less vulgar if we celebrated the timeless values that unite us and are not particular to ethnicity or culture. Individuality and pride in one’s history need not divide people who are moral and decent. What greater gift can we bequeath to our children, communities, and the strangers among us than a heartfelt prayer that their lives be long, healthy, lovefilled, service-oriented and free of conflict?

“Joyous Kwanzaa,” “Merry Christmas,” “Happy Hanukkah” or “Have a good evening” are all civil gestures but the only thing that counts is the sincerity behind the extended hand of friendship. A

TORAH By Rabbi Ben Leinow, Congregation B'nai Tikvah

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When Holidays Collide

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t only happens twice every one hundred years, and the first time of the 21st century is this month, on Dec. 24. In the United States we live in an interfaith world, but its rare that Hanukkah and Christmas share such close quarters, on the Sabbath, no less.

What will you do to remember the occasion?

You have a choice: 1) Celebrate Hanukkah at home or in synagogue with your family and ignore the non-Jewish world, or 2) Celebrate Hanukkah and Havdalah beside a Christian family as they celebrate Christmas beside you and your family. I am not suggesting that you as a Jew celebrate Christmas or that your Christian friends celebrate Hanukkah and Havdalah. Just that you consider this unique chance to participate in some cultural interchange.

As a Rabbi, I have worked professionally with interfaith projects for close to 50 years.

I am suggesting that you and some of your non-Jewish friends can be together appreciating each other’s special holiday with understanding and joy. In addition, interfaith families can reaffirm the experience of supporting each other’s religious celebrations.

If you are going to follow the second choice, there will be a need for ground rules, so I suggest that the families get together to work out the details. There will be a need to determine where the gathering will take place – the Jewish home or the Christian home? My suggestion is that the get together take place in the Christian home because it is easier to bring a menorah and candles than to schlep a Christmas tree and decorations.

In the list of details, it will be important to work out what food to share and its method of preparation. Be open about what may or may not be possible (especially if you keep kosher), and make plenty of potato latkes and kugles. If you are Israeli, or have been to Israel, certainly include donuts.

The next issue will be what to do about

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presents. In view of the fact that few Jewish families limit their generosity to Hanukkah gelt and almonds nowadays, a system should be established between the families to see to it that everyone receives a reasonable, joyous and worthwhile gift (and if anyone should look down on your lot, remind them that we Jews have seven more days of gift-giving and receiving).

The Jewish celebration objects include a clean menorah, so start early with removing last year’s wax. Bring colorful Hanukkah candles, matches and a cloth to put under the menorah so that wax will not drip onto your friend’s table. Be sure to practice the blessings as a family so that you can sing (or say) them easily as part of the evening.

For Havdalah, you will need a wine cup, Havdalah candle holder, Havdalah candle and spice box. If you have not done a Havdalah ceremony for a while then it might be good to get the family together at home to practice a couple of weeks before Dec. 24. I’ll just remind you that the Havdalah ceremony takes place at the end of the Shabbat day, and celebrates the beginning of the work week as well as the return of Elijah.

Celebrating Hanukkah, Havdalah, and Christmas Eve under the same roof brings about “separate-connections.” The basic celebration is our joy that the Winter Solstice is passing and the sun will shine for longer periods of time with each passing day. Both Judaism and Christianity focus on lights: Hanukkah candles, a Havdalah candle and Christmas tree lights. Both communities sing songs about the holiday, each with their own rendition of “Rock of Ages.” The Jewish one was written by a babbi in the 11th century and the Christian one by a monk in the 13th century. Each pray for peace for all.

Although our religions are different, the values connected to Hanukkah, Havdalah and Christmas are similar. Both holidays

teach the importance of personal and community renewal, redemption of the spirit and a trust in a greater spiritual creative force that gives life to all human beings. Experiencing each religion’s expression of these basic values can create hope and the reassurance we live in a supportive community.

And if you just can’t get this kind of interfaith celebration together in time for December 24, 2016, just be sure to mark your 2027 calendar for the next time this coincidence of cosmic timing will grace us. Happy Hanukkah and a Merry Christmas to all. A

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7:30–8:25 p.m. SESSION #1 SELECT ONE CLASS TO ATTEND 1A. Live, Learn, Love: A Jewish Guide to Nurturing and Retaining Relationships Rabbi Yael Ridberg, Congregation Dor Hadash 1B. Tales from the Zohar: Unanticipated Encounters with Radical Teachers on Life’s Journeys Rabbi Scott Meltzer, Ohr Shalom Synagogue 1C. Jewish American Millennials Rabbi Josh Burrows, JCoSD 1D. The Chosen People: Is that Supremacist?

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At one time in history, printmaking was revolutionary. Now, the labor-intensive art form has become nostalgic, misunderstood, and, dare I say it, commercial. Luckily, there are contemporary artists who keep this diverse, complicated medium alive and some even live right here in San Diego. On this spread you’ll find details on three don’tmiss print shows, plus a wide range of printmaking classes for those who get inspired.

BY NATALIE JACOBS

“Occupation” from The Depravities of War, 2007; woodcut print (ink on paper); 48” x 96”; courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California

Sandow Birk at SDSU Downtown Gallery Professor Tina Yapelli’s first in-person encounter with Sandow Birk’s monumental woodcut series “The Depravities of War” was in Italy during the summer of 2015 when the series was part of a large international exhibition about war.

“I was overwhelmed,” she says of her encounter with the work, “and also very proud that someone from Southern California was making such strong statements that held up so well in an international context of very important and major artists from around the world.”

Following her return to San Diego, Professor Yapelli, who often curates at the Downtown Gallery, coordinated for “The Depravities of War” series to make its debut here. Fourteen of the 15 huge (four feet by eight feet), intricate woodcuts will begin their exhibition, along with Birk’s drawing series “Imaginary Monuments,” at the SDSU Downtown Gallery this month. There are pictures of Birk’s work online but they do nothing to convey the physical and emotional enormity of this series. Birk will give a tour of the exhibition at the gallery on Dec. 2 at noon, followed by a lecture at SDSU Storm Hall at 6 p.m. The exhibition will be up until Jan. 29, 2017.

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7 Printmakers at Gallery 21 in Spanish Village Printmaker Julianne Ricksecker says the 7 Printmakers have had a show almost annually since the art collaborative was established in 1989 (although that first year they were only six printmakers).

Sadly, the group’s founder Robert Fritsch passed away last year but the current seven artists are going strong with this year’s exhibition scheduled Dec. 7-19 at Gallery 21 in Spanish Village.

The crew is made up of Sfona Pelah, Jacqueline Dotson, Angelika Villagrana, Raymond Brownfield, Igor Koutsenko, Kathleen McCord and Julianne Ricksecker. Each artist brings his or her own style and print medium of choice – mostly etching, collagraph, monotype, woodcut and linoleum cut. Lest anyone think that printmaking is similar to photocopying, Ricksecker says the 7 Printmakers often set up tools, plates, blocks and even a small etching press at the exhibitions to encourage conversations about how the prints are made.

Athanaeum Music and Arts Library Looking ahead, the Athanaeum’s La Jolla gallery spaces will showcase two print shows in January. Both opening on Jan. 7, “Over the Moon” will celebrate the 20th anniversary of San Diego Book Arts with more than 40 artists showing their handprinted books; “Derli Romero: Small Works on Paper and Books” will showcase the Mexican artist’s prints, books, drawings and paintings. Athanaeum also hosts printmaking classes throughout the year. One of the 7 Printmakers, Kathleen McCord teachest an etching class here, and Bay Park Press’s Sibyl Rubottom teaches letterpress and printing on fabric classes.

Bay Park Press Founded in 2000 by printmakers Sibyl Rubottom and Jim Machacek, Bay Park Press is a teaching studio, gallery and print shop that has established itself as an invaluable resource to working artists who don’t have their own studios or equipment. Artists can join with annual memberships or pay by the day for use of the presses. Bay Park Press hosts exhibitions of member work and the next one, “another PIN UP show” runs Jan. 14-Feb. 24. Thursdays are workshop days at the Press, with a book arts class from 9 a.m. to noon, and a general printmaking class from 5:30-9 p.m.

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FROM THE TOP: “Josephine” by Angelika Villagrana; “Mingei Museum” by Igor Koutsenko; “Horses with Carriage” by Sfona Pelah.

One of the 7 Printmakers, Sfona Pelah, an Israeli, is also a printmaking teacher at Southwestern College and the San Diego Continuing Education program.

While most Continuing Education courses are free, Pelah’s printmaking classes there cost about $100 which includes print ink and acid washes for etchings. Class sessions are two hours once a week ranging from eight to 10-weeks. If you’re a San Diego resident, watch for the course catalog that arrives in your mailbox three times a year.

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Chikashige Morikawa, “Snow Falling Night – Kabuki,” ca. 1880, woodblock, gift of Gordon Brodfuehrer to USD, PC2016.08.02

“Imprint” at USD Hoehn Galleries The University of San Diego has seen unprecedented growth in its art collection, specifically in prints. To celebrate, the University’s Hoehn Galleries have been showing “Imprint: Recent Acquisitions and Highlights from USD’s Print Collection” since Oct. 6. The show, which runs through Dec. 16, pulls from the now more than 1,500 works and showcases donations from a variety of the gallery’s most devoted patrons, including those acquired by a special group known as the Print Society. The most moving pieces are also the most Catholic (a stunning, spiraling Jesus; biblical scenes). But “Imprint” does highlight the range of the medium with etchings, lithographs, linoleum cuts, woodcut (including the incredible 12-color print by Chikashige Morikawa pictured above), intaglio with chine collé and screen prints.

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“The Pinch” collage by author Patricia Goldblatt.

Twenty Two Candles and Other SYMBOLS OF SHABBAT “Revisiting” the Gotthelf Gallery’s latest exhibition, in preparation for the next one which opens this month.

BY PATRICIA GOLDBLATT

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udaism is full of sayings. The one we hear most often is probably “Shabbat Shalom.”

But how often do you really consider what it means? The most recent exhibit at The Gotthelf Gallery, housed at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, invited artists to think about just that – what is Shabbat and what does it mean to you? The group show, which culminated in 29 artistic representations of the theme “Revisiting Shabbat,” was both joyful and thought-provoking with a range of symbols and imagery that Jews have long associated with the day of rest.

Randy Savarese, advisor to the gallery, writes that many of the artists who made it into the “Revisiting Shabbat” exhibition, after an open call to artists was distributed last year, have exhibited at The Gotthelf before. It has been the gallery’s mission of late to feature group shows that focus on one specific aspect of Judaism – from Israel to sacred objects and now Shabbat. The result of these group shows is a visual representation of the patchwork of ideas that make up the religion itself. Savarese

underlines that the outcome of the “Revisiting Shabbat” show, with its variations in “interpretation and medium” is “exactly what I was hoping for.”

And yes, thoughtful creations crafted in wood and clay, paint and fabric all dramatize a personal vision that is accompanied by the artists’ statements providing context.

Although the exhibition is closed now, it is worth taking a look back at the interpretations that were presented, to not only explore what was, but to get an idea of what’s to come with the next Gotthelf Gallery group exhibition, “Let’s Face It,” a portrait group show that opens Dec. 13 and runs through Feb. 22.

At the “Revisiting Shabbat” show, visitors were welcomed into the gallery by Bonnie Roth’s “L’Dor V’Dor,” a bright sculpture in which a bubbe and her grandchildren display closeness and love. Frozen in awe, the children await the lighting of the candles that sit adjacent to the covered challah and glass of wine. Indeed, candles appeared no less than 22 times throughout the exhibit, the concept

The result of these group shows is a visual representation of the patchwork of ideas that make up the religion itself.

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of shining light central to the experience of welcoming Shabbat like a bride into our homes. Perhaps it is this thought of wonder and warmth that unwittingly underpinned the works specially created for the show.

Candles aid in creating a shalom bayit (peace in the home), their requirement to show shamor (observance) and zachor (remembrance). Dana Levine’s photographs focused on candles that link generations.

Her “Shabbat Candlesticks” along with a mortar and pestle are objects that span one hundred years, passed from grandmother to mother to granddaughter. The light surrounding these treasured keepsakes reminds one of a touch, a taste, a moment, connecting the far past with the future.

The actual presence of family seated around the Shabbat table in Susan Stern’s “Legacy” captured a mood of longing. Bathed in blue washes, a sacred colour associated with the creation of sea and sky, the painting depicts small family groupings that are indistinct except for the mother, a candelabra and a braided challah.

Stern attends to the careful detailing of the latter two elements once placed on this table by her mother. At the edge of the table, a wise white-haired, bespectacled woman looks out at the viewer. No plates, no interchange occurs on this evening; however, the silence recalls Munch’s “Scream” or Francis Bacon’s paintings whose compositions bring to mind painful emotions triggered by absence and loss. Here, the ordinary sounds of Shabbat dinner are quelled by the passing of the one so beloved but whose presence will always be attached to the Shabbat.

David Mandel’s piece “Cradle” was as well evocative. His inspiration derived from “the inherent beauty found in the calligraphy of the Hebrew alphabet” suggests multiple possibilities. Could the half circle shape suggest the letter “shin,” its vowel the dot protected in the curved semicircle of the sculpture?

Or perhaps Mandel’s textural contrasts of rough wood and smooth metal hark back to the origins of the Shabbat as G-d fashioned and hewed meaning from nothingness. This piece hints at the beauty and tensions of relationships that bubble just under the surface – the more you look, the more you see.

Mandel writes of “pulling order at the end of a frenetic cycle,” a necessary release from a harried week relieved by a day of rest, bless-

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table. For me, as for many others, it is the significant Friday night meal that unites, and the candles that instigate warmth, comfort and tradition. Although my interpretation of the illuminated manuscript hopes to coalesce previous and contemporary times, Larry Burstein’s photographs “Friday Night at The Kotel I and II” taken in 2016 capture a timeless group of davening men replete in dark coats and furry hats.

At the centre of “Kotel I,” a young fellow turns away from the cluster and appears to challenge the photographer. The solid wall of praying men contrasts the bright wall of the Kotel, yet Burstein’s perspective in the photograph uneasily integrates the viewer into the scene, the past and present combined.

Jacqueline Jacobs provided a wonderful twist and contrast to the garb of Burstein’s worshippers. In “Thus We Are Reminded to Be Holy,” her exquisite tallit is a reminder of Joseph’s coat crafted by his adoring father. Jacobs’ piece reflects the wondrous days of creation in reds, purples, and turquoises, some sections shot through with glistening threads. At the far left, one section stood apart, no doubt, as the Sabbath, where swirling golden letters floated upward. That upward thrust was noted as well in the paintings “L’Dor V’Dor” painted clay by Bonnie Roth.

by Jay Shore’s “Shabbat Angels” and Bonnie Roth’s “Rejoice.” In Shore’s, ed and deemed holy. twisted creased fabric suggests wings so that Jane Lazerow demonstrated this theme of we stop to ponder, what do angels look release in “Shabbat Colors My Week.” Remlike? That same mystical pondering occurs iniscent of the Pop Art of Roy Lichtenstein in “Rejoice” as Roth’s dancing Miriam and and comic book artists, Lazerow combined her sisters transform into candles in a strong a readable narrative of words and characters spiraling motion, once more hopeful and that unfolded her personal story: Monday, joyous. she does the laundry, Tuesday she goes groFinally Erica Berent’s little piece “Every cery shopping…until on Friday, she proCandle Counts” revisited the notion of light claims with great relief, “Ahh, on Shabbat, as a candle on an open palm. Embroidered I study Torah and walk in my garden.” Difby words and eyes, which Berent describes ferentiating the activities of her work week as, “[an] abstraction of the first Erev Shabfrom Shabbat by a sequined border, our eyes bat ever,” the story of Bereshit is retold are arrested by those gathered around a table through background depictions of fish and where books are open and one bright stubirds, and especially through the openness dent raises a hand as if to answer a question. of that hand. Berent’s work was mystical and Beneath, in the biblical garden, Eve’s story is strong, inviting viewers to imagine along dramatized as we have always known it. Alwith all the artists at The Gotthelf their permost humorous, Lazerow mirrors her story sonal meaning of the Shabbat, those deep of artistic creation with the biblical one, as connections that bind family, food, angels, she tells us that she works in her studio every Torah studies and creative acts together: day but Shabbat.

“Then G-d blessed the seventh day and My own piece “The Pinch,” based on the sanctified it, and … rested …” (Genesis th “Darmstadt Haggadah” (15 century) also 2:2). A drew on the concept of study around the

Frozen in awe, the children await the lighting of the candles that sit adjacent to the covered challah and glass of wine. Indeed, candles appeared no less than 22 times throughout the exhibit.

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ne doesn’t have to be a mystic to wonder what cosmic director’s hand pulled together the strands of six wartime survivors from different countries, cultures and religious backgrounds, to link each in an unprecedented act of tikkun olam. It might have been war, military service or upbringing that swept the six of us onto a common path and compulsion to help fix what’s broken, heal what hurts, try to relieve cruel memories with kindness – in short, do our best to repair the world.

None of us had anticipated the perils and adventures that eventually got us through what a Chinese curse calls “interesting lives.”

That we have survived them – at times were even rewarded with unexpected gifts – is something for which we’ll always be grateful. Few gifts, however, are as awesome as being asked to participate in a world-famous French artist’s extraordinary act of human compassion and generosity.

The story starts with the artist Jean-Pierre Rousseau (JPR), deeply saddened by the untimely death of his dear friend, Bilyana Grcic-Beran. Beran was the exclusive representative of Rousseau’s artwork in the United States and in his mourning for her loss, he vowed to sell his more than 100 paintings left in her La Jolla gallery after it closed, and donate the proceeds to wounded and disabled veterans, their families and caregivers.

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Paris – which I witnessed and remains etched in my childhood memory.”

During our nearly two decades of friendship I’ve seen Jean-Pierre support many good causes with his works of art, but as far as I know, neither he nor any other single artist has ever matched the scale of such a magnanimous offer. In fact, this might be one of the most meaningful and dramatic “art-for-charity” events of recent times. All of the more than 100 professionally appraised pieces will be offered at the weekend-long sale, at deep (and tax-deductible) discounts.

When JPR entrusted me with what has since turned out to be an all-consuming project, it was not immediately clear how I could accomplish it. Rousseau and I have maintained a letter-writing relationship over the years, and I deeply believe in his work and the mission of this project, but my talents only spread so far. Other tikkun olam experts were needed in a hurry, and serendip-

ity showed up just in time. Here are nutshell versions of the team members’ stories and the trajectories that led them to what we are convinced is Mission Possible.

Dina E. and Lewis Robinson – By virtue of being the earliest starter, I call first dibs on telling the story of my journey to this event: I survived, with a small remnant of my immediate family, the World War II German invasion and Allied bombings, and five years of brutal, post-war Soviet occupation in my native Transylvanian city of Brasov. Luck (or maybe bashert) helped us escape in 1950 to Israel. Ironically, we felt safe for the first time in our lives (in spite of almost daily attacks from surrounding countries), and undaunted by food rationing and tent-dwelling.

Joining Kibbutz Nitzanim on the Gaza border as a 15-year-old member of a refugee youth group from 70 countries, I learned to plant trees and manage a vineyard, work the land, stand night guard, take care of

LEFT PAGE: “Quaie de Seine en Hiver Paris” 32 x 39.5 inch painting and “Carmen Blanche” 35 x 45.5 inch painting; RIGHT PAGE: the artist Jean-Pierre Rousseau.

Holocaust-orphaned children, do kitchen and laundry chores and learn Hebrew (and my roommates’ French) while finishing high school.

Drafted into the Israel Defense Forces and trained as a combat medic, I eventually joined the Reserves and civilian life. Jobs, marriage, motherhood, college and a career in journalism were followed by our move to New York. Then came jobs as a globetrotting reporter, war correspondent and staff editor of an international travel magazine. My second marriage to Brooklyn-born Lewis Robinson – known as “the antiques and fine art dealer to the stars” (among them Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, Nancy Kissinger and Andy Warhol), included more travel and, in 1986, our move to La Jolla.

Bilyana and Jan Beran – Lewis and I met the Bosnian couple and their small son soon after they arrived in San Diego as refugees and survivors of the 1990s Balkan war. Having lost Bilyana’s two successful Sarajevo art galleries and Jan’s thriving careers as filmmaker and painter did not stop the Berans from rebuilding both within a few short years.

Jan gained recognition in Hollywood for his video, cinema and special-effects work.

His powerful paintings of the harrowing wartime trauma his family had lived through were also selling briskly in San Diego and elsewhere.

Bilyana’s prestigious Galleria JAN in La Jolla was soon stocked with the works of her faithful European clients, including JeanPierre Rousseau, whose paintings – reminiscent of a freer, more passionate French Impressionism, with bolder brushstrokes, vivid colors and daring, versatile subjects – became the gallery’s bestsellers.

Our friendship grew, nourished by shared European, wartime and cultural backgrounds and Bilyana’s irrepressible generosity toward not only her fellow refugees, but anyone who

Jean-Pierre Rousseau – With Rousseau’s soaring success in her gallery, Bilyana asked me to write a coffee table book of his personal history and his work, which cemented our friendship.

Lewis and I fell in love with Rousseau’s dazzling canvases. His paintings opened artistic windows to seascapes, ballets, circus performers, boats, romantic views of Venice reminiscent of J.M.W. Turner, Carnival revelers, saucy Can-Can dancers, horse races, speeding Formula One cars among other images.

came to her for help. We also shared some crossover influences, such as Jan humming melodies learned from his Jewish grandmother, Sarah; and Bilyana’s determination to acquire the exclusive representation and sales rights for the museum-authorized reproduction volumes of the 14th century “Sarajevo Haggadah.”

Whenever JPR came to La Jolla to attend one of his openings at Galleria JAN, he regaled us with stories of adventures and the “wonderful” people he met on his travels.

We were all charmed by his ability to find admirable qualities in everyone, whether they were European blue bloods, Thai fishermen or fruit vendors in Peru.

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pulsory national military service in Algiers (then still a French colony), young JPR had set up his easel on the streets of Monaco, where his mother was living at the time. With his dashing looks and striking paintings, he soon attracted the discerning eye of Prince Rainier III, the Principality’s reining monarch, who became JPR’s first patron. The fledgling but obviously talented artist was tasked with painting the posters and permanent artwork for the prince’s favorite event: Monaco’s annual Circus Festival. Soon after the prince married Grace Kelly, she also took Jean-Pierre under her wing, commissioning him to paint the grounds and exterior of their royal palace, and to sketch the progress of her ballet academy and its culmination in the world-class Ballets de Monte-Carlo. After the couple’s deaths, their son and heir, Prince Albert of Monaco, chose to continue his parents’ patronage and collection of JPR paintings.

Throughout his career, the restless artist has indulged his love of boats and the sea, sailing repeatedly around the world, at times solo, stopping to paint and explore along the way. These travels expanded his fame, as well as his circle of patrons, collectors and friends – who included European crowned heads and nobility, and such celebrities as Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Noël Coward, the Italian Angelli-Fiat racecar family among others.

Enamored of Italy, JPR has been spending lots of time there, producing some of his most beautiful and evocative paintings.

“I love Venice,” he writes in a recent letter, “In Italy I paint with a special sense of freedom.”

Ellen Citrano, RN, MA, Commander, US Navy, Retired – A force of nature, Ellen is the only reason JPR’s generosity is on its way to being realized as an unparalleled art-for-charity event.

I looked for several futile months among San Diego’s military leadership and nonprofit organizations in search of someone willing and able to spearhead the sale of Rousseau’s treasure-trove of paintings. It was at what seemed like the last minute that a friend connected us with Ellen Citrano.

Ellen is not only up to the task, but she brings along a veritable army of other can-do Navy nurses involved in her various organizations that are dedicated to providing services and raising funds to help wounded and disabled veterans. They have so far contributed to building some 21 dwellings in San Diego with their Homes for Our Troops volunteer organization; are providing veterans with education and job training to help them transition from hospital to home lives with the Warrior Foundation—Freedom Station; and are active members of the Southern California Chapter of the national Navy Nurse Corps Association.

A farm girl from Wisconsin who joined the Navy not only to “see the world” but to repair and heal it, Ellen has served in leadership positions and as a nurse trained to care for traumatized refugees, PTSD sufferers and others in places that include Okinawa (Japan), London (England), Hawaii, Atlanta and various hospitals in California.

Ellen rounds out the multi-cultural, international “team of six” the Universe brought together for our tikkun olam project, adding her bona fides as a Wisconsin Presbyterian to French Catholic JeanPierre, Eastern Orthodox Bosnian Jan Beran and his late wife Bilyana, and the Jewish duo of Brooklyn-born Lewis and his “Transylvanian Tootsie,” Dina. The art benefit show will take place Feb. 4 and Feb. 5 at the Scottish Rite Event Center in Mission Valley. Details at artsaleforwoundedvets.org. A Dina Eliash Robinson is a writer based in San Diego. She can be reached at dinatalk@gmail.com.

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oey Landwehr grew up shy and scared in rural Missouri. On October 18, he told the San Diego City Council that throughout his childhood he was “constantly picked on and hurt physically and mentally because of my looks, because of my affectations, because of who I was.”

He says he lacked purpose and value in life. Then he found theater and everything changed.

“It was theater that allowed me not only to survive but to thrive.”

Landwehr was speaking in the city council chambers at the city administration building on this day to accept a proclamation from Councilwoman Lorie Zapf (District 2) declaring October 18 “Joey Landwehr Day.” In her remarks, Zapf noted that Joey Landwehr and J*Company have shown “how amazing, uplifting and enriching theater programs can be.”

A swarm of Jewish Community Center executives and volunteers, along with J*Company students and parents gathered around Landwehr and Zapf at the podium while the rest of the City Council

looked on with smiles and nods. “Thank you for allowing my passion to be my career,” Landwehr concluded, “thank you for making sure to support the arts in this way and thank you for bestowing this great honor to me.

My hope is that I continue to make you proud with the work I promise to continue to do with the youth of San Diego in the arts.”

In addition to his role as artistic director for J*Company, a position he has held for more than 10 years, Landwehr works with the Ben Vereen Awards from Broadway San Diego on their Wellness Through the Arts essay/video contest.

Both Landwehr and Zapf used their time at the podium to make gracious pleas for more arts funding in schools.

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resh from his tour de force performance as Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” which went straight to Broadway after its record-smashing performance in San Diego, Hershey Felder is at it again. He had sworn off the composers – with Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Frederick Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt firmly under his belt – but Tchaikovsky kept calling.

“I’m fascinated with his music,” Felder said from New York, where his “Maestro” show’s attendees included Stephen Sondheim, Helen Mirren, and the “Bernstein kids,” among others.

When “Maestro” made a stop in Chicago, the Chicago Sun Times called Felder a “quadruple-threat performer: actor, singer, pianist and writer – all of the first order.”

But they left out a few other of his high-skill hyphenates: composer, producer, director.

As San Diegans well know, Felder has created his own unique theatrical genre, presenting biographical information about musical greats while inhabiting their characters, playing their most important music and offering large servings of humor and enter-

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tainment along the way. For his latest world premiere, “Our Great Tchaikovsky” (at the San Diego Rep Jan. 12-Feb. 12), Felder uses only those first four talents noted by the Sun Times, and relies on long-time collaborator Trevor Hay to direct.

“Tchaikovsky’s story really works theatrically,” Felder says. “It evokes Mother Russia and emotion in a fantastical kind of way.

But the most important part of it is the music. This one is all about the music.”

This time-bending story of culture and politics “features something I have never done before for an audience: create the character before their eyes, and show them how I go about it.” Felder says. “Of course, there’s also anything and everything that is available in terms of Tchaikovsky’s biography, his sexuality and his music. The story involves current-day Russian politics as well as the politics of Tchaikovsky’s day in Czarist Russia.

“In Putin’s Russia,” Felder continues, “Tchaikovsky is a hero; in Czarist Russia, not so much.”

Tchaikovsky lived “a very complicated life in a world that didn’t accept gay men who

liked young men. He clearly wasn’t a predator, and suffered because he knew he liked something off-limits.”

There’s another shadow on the life of Tchaikovsky; to this day, no one knows exactly how he died.

“There were all kinds of fishy circumstances. Conspiracy theories,” Felder says.

“The whole thing is very creepy. Part of the structure of the piece is what the hell happened to him? My presentation may not make the Russian government, which has been trying to hide Tchaikovsky’s real past, very happy.”

What is known about Tchaikovsky Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky (18401893), created some of the most popular music in the classical repertoire.

He came from a military family. His father was a lieutenant-colonel; his grandfather a Ukrainian Cossack. Young Pyotr began piano lessons at age 5, and was fluent in French and German by age 6.

Later, after training for a civil service career, he enrolled in the newly opened St. Petersburg Conservatory, where the in-depth

exposure to European principles and musical forms gave him a sense that art did not have to fall in line with the culture from which it was made; he tried to interweave Russian and Western forms and in the process he became an inspiration for other Russian composers. His first recognized masterpiece, the fantasy-overture “Romeo and Juliet,” premiered in 1869.

Like many artists, Tchaikovsky’s success did nothing to quell his bouts of depression, which some sources have linked to his mother’s early death (when he was 14) and later the death of a close friend.

And there was his closeted homosexuality. Tchaikovsky remained single most of his life, though there is proof that at age 37, he was married to a former student for just 2½ months.

After the marriage collapsed, Tchaikovsky traveled abroad for a year. During his travels, he was asked to compose a grand commemorative piece, in honor of multiple Russian events: the opening of Moscow’s new Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the 25th anniversary of the coronation of Alexander II, and the 1882 Moscow Arts and Industry Exhibition.

In six weeks, he completed “The 1812 Overture,” which he described as “very loud and noisy, but I wrote it with no warm feeling of love, and therefore there will probably be no artistic merits in it.”

It became the work for which he is perhaps best known, along with his three ballets (“The Nutcracker,” “Swan Lake,” “Sleeping Beauty”) and his orchestral tone poem, “Marche Slave.”

In 1884 Tchaikovsky was declared “hereditary nobility” by Czar Alexander III and he used the title to expand the European appreciation for Russian music as he conducted outside his home country. In 1893 he conducted the premiere of his “Sixth Symphony” in Saint Petersburg and nine days later he was dead. While it was initially believed that his death at age 53 was prompted by cholera, there has always been speculation that suicide is at the heart of the true story.

Although his music became wildly popular, critical opinion was mixed at first.

Some Russians did not feel that his compositions were sufficiently representative of

of Tchaikovsky’s music has fluctuated among critics, for the public, “it never went out of style.”

“The story involves current-day Russian politics as well as the politics of Tchaikovsky’s day in Czarist Russia.” native musical values; they suspected that Europeans accepted the music because of its Western elements. Although he was lauded for transcending stereotypes of Russian classical music, some Westerners, like New York Times music critic Harold Schonberg, dismissed his music as “lacking in elevated thought.”

But Schonberg also wrote fondly of Tchaikovsky’s “sweet, inexhaustible, super-sensuous fund of melody.”

Although critical response to Tchaikovsky varied in the 19th and 20th centuries, in the 21st, he is revered for his tunefulness, originality, and craftsmanship. He is now viewed as “a composer of the first rank, writing music of depth, innovation and influence,” according to cultural historian Joseph Horowitz who maintains that, while the standing

Felder’s homage As Felder describes it, his new show isn’t so much about what it was like to be Tchaikovsky as it is about Fedler’s own “becoming Tchaikovsky.

“I had to think: Do I tell the story of a hero, or a real man?” Felder wonders.

Among other aspects of his life, Felder will confront the master’s homosexuality.

“It was his monomania,” Felder says. “He was very frightened that people would find out. That takes a huge place in this play.

“The music and the story are intertwined.

There’s more direct playing and more complete pieces in this play than in any of the others. The music is so evocative, the pieces actually create dramatic moments.”

Long before the play was created, the research began. San Diego dramaturge Meghan Maiya undertook, according to Felder, “massive research for one and a half years to make sure that nothing is incorrect, false or misleading.”

The Czar shows up, as well as the “1812 Overture,” “Marche Slave,” and selections from “The Nutcracker,” “Swan lake,” “Eugene Onegin,” the 4th, 5th and 6th Symphonies, the “Romeo and Juliet” suite, the first movement of the “Piano Concerto,” the “Violin Concerto,” and the little-known “Jurisprudence March.”

“I love every single piece,” Felder rhapsodizes. “No matter what I touch of Tchaikovsky, nothing disappoints me. I think, ‘How did he do this?’

“He wears his heart on his sleeve, and he got criticized for it. But his work is highly theatrical. Ferociously and brilliantly technical and emotionally expressive.

“He never makes technical mistakes.

Though it’s demanding, everything is intended, and everything is clear. His work is never awkward pianistically or harmonically. Everything works. It’s always beautiful.

You may not like it because it’s overwrought, but it works.” A Hershey Felder’s “Our Great Tchaikovsky” runs at the San Diego Repertory Theatre from Jan. 12-Feb. 12. Tickets and information: (619) 544-1000; sdrep.org.

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arah Goldman is a Nice Jewish Girl whose parents just want her to marry a Nice Jewish Boy. A doctor wouldn’t hurt. There’s only one problem. Sarah’s been having a secret relationship (well, secret from her family, anyway), with a guy with the unlikely name of Chris Kringle.

Needless to say, he isn’t Jewish. But that didn’t stop Sarah from telling her parents that the boy is the Jewish doctor of their dreams. Now, her parents are dying to meet him.

In desperation, Sarah calls an escort service and hires an out-of-work actor to assume the role of her haimishe beau. But uh oh! Disaster strikes when Bob Schroeder arrives and Sarah finds out that he’s not Jewish either! Not to worry, though, he’s been in “Fiddler on the Roof.”

This is the wacky, gut-busting setup of “Beau Jest,” a 1989 comedy by James Sherman that played for two and a half wildly successful years Off Broadway, and has been produced all over the country – and far beyond.

“The play is extremely universal,” says Kerry Meads, the Lamb’s Players Theatre associate artistic director, who’s directing this production.

“It’s not just funny,” Meads continues, “it also has substance. The family dynamic is really beautiful. It’s got real heart and poignancy.”

The play has been a big hit for Lamb’s in the past. The company first produced the comedy in 1994 in their original National City home, and reprised it at the Lyceum Theatre downtown in 1998. Meads directed it both times.

Then, in 2014, when Lamb’s presented its “100 Hours of Stories,” an ingenious marketing idea intended to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary, raise $100,000 for future productions, and break the Guinness World Record for Longest Marathon Theatrical Performance (it ran 24 hours a day, was closely monitored, and did break that record), Meads played Miriam, Sarah’s mother.

“It was so popular during the 100 hours, that we did it a second time.

That’s why Bob [producing artistic director Robert Smyth] put it in the season again. He really believes it’s important to remember, to look back and reflect on what the company has done.”

While Lamb’s started out as a faith-based Christian theater, Meads says that at present, only about “half of our audience is ‘churched,’ as we say.

Kerry Meads directs “Beau Jest” at Lamb’s Players Theatre.

“In preparation, I wanted the entire cast to attend a seder.”

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Ross Helwig co-stars as Bob.

Three of the six actors are Jewish, including Erika Phillips as Sarah, John Rosen as her father, and Omri Schein as her cynical psychotherapist brother.

Erika Beth Phillips co-stars as Sarah.

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There are many Jews filling our seats now.”

After the family is smitten by Sarah’s boyfriend, Bob, he is of course invited for Passover.

“I found it very, very moving that the play contains almost an entire seder scene,” says Meads. “I didn’t know much about it the first time I directed it. There’s a hilarious aspect to it, but I didn’t want any sense of making fun of it. I wanted the whole cast to treat it with respect. I didn’t want the words to be just words – especially for Bob. “In preparation, I wanted the entire cast to attend a seder – so we did. The family’s Haggadah was Reform; I actually liked it better than what’s in the script. The translation was more modern. The way the language was spoken was more accessible.”

The playwright, James Sherman, is a Chicago native who began his career as a writer and performer with Chicago’s famous improv group, The Second City. He earned his MFA from Brandeis University.

When “Beau Jest” premiered at the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, it ran for a year and became the most successful play in the theater’s 27-year history. Sherman wrote and directed the 2008 film version, which starred Lainie Kazan as Sarah’s Mom. The Wall Street Journal called “Beau Jest” “very funny … a well-crafted play [that] has a lot to say about nuclear families of any ethnic persuasion.” The Chicago Sun-Times was also taken with the “hilarious and quite moving [play]. Sherman wonderfully blends farce with a genuine insight.”

The playwright, who has a terrific comic sense, also has his pulse on all things Jewish, from kugel to motzi to guilt.

His play is set in the late 1980s. There are references to answering machines and pagers and hand-held speed-dialers. To Meads, in addition to the technological advances, many social elements have changed since that time.

“There’s a lot more mixing going on in relationships,” she says. “For the generation of Sarah’s parents, it mattered in a different way from now. I think that, culturally, we’ve really shifted.

“Millennials, like my son, want things to mean something. I want this story to mean something. I definitely think they can relate.

The sense of family is so key to having a connection to something. Though it sounds so trite, longing to connect in a meaningful way.

“I love what happens in the family. Finally, they come to a place where they have to be

honest, to create an environment of honesty and openness.”

In “Beau Jest,” Sarah has spent her entire life trying to please her parents. And, says Meads, “after everyone starts to come clean on all sorts of subjects, Sarah says, ‘I want to know who my parents are as people – not just as my parents.’

“Later in the play, Sarah suddenly sees her parents as two individuals. They want the best for her, but they don’t realize the pressure that puts on her. ‘We just want you to be happy,’ they say. But she says, ‘No, you just want me to do what you want.’

“By the end, everyone is given a gift – to see who the others really are.”

For this production, Meads has amassed an impressive cast; three of the six actors are Jewish, including Erika Phillips as Sarah, John Rosen as her father, and Omri Schein as her cynical psychotherapist brother.

“You need to love Sarah,” says Meads. “Because she’s such a basket-case. From right out of the chute, you know she’s gonna be in big trouble.”

Kerry Meads grew up Baptist, but something about Judaism has always appealed to her.

“That sense of remembering is a thing I’m drawn to. People are longing to know where they came from, what their history is.

“Somehow, I’ve always identified with being Jewish. The Jewish culture and religion always seemed interesting and unique to me.

Just recently, I found out that I have a little Jewish in my background. My great-grandmother came from a Jewish family from Russia.

“It was in the mid-1860s, at a time when the Germans were lured to Russia so they didn’t have to fight in the war. They were in Russia for a while. I’ve always felt I was slightly in the wrong family. I thought I was German and Norwegian. Now, I’m going to have my DNA tested to find out the real details.

“Being from Minnesota, I related to this Jewish family in Chicago. Sarah says it, too: ‘I was raised to be nice.’ But maybe that doesn’t suit her any more than it did me.”

For Kerry Meads, “Beau Jest” is undeniably Jewish, but it’s also a play that any ethnic or religious group can relate to. A “Beau Jest” runs at Lamb’s Players Theatre in Coronado from Jan. 6-Feb. 12. Tickets and info at (619) 437-6000 or lambsplayers.org.

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Julia Weiss and Chucho Perez in La Jolla Playhouse’s presentation of The Second City’s Free Speech! (While Supplies Last), which ran July through August.

La Jolla Playhouse Associate Artistic Director Jaime Castañeda

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midst an unprecedented and exhausting election year, La Jolla Playhouse sprinkled hilarious political comedy into its already killer 20162017 season. The decision to host John Leguizamo’s “Latin History for Morons,” The Second City with “Free Speech (While Supplies Last),” and Mike Daisy’s “Trump Card” all in the same season wasn’t rooted in a desire to take a political stance against one candidate or another, says Associate Artistic Director Jaime Castañeda. Instead, he sug60 SDJewishJournal.com l December 2016

gests that this season’s off-subscription programming was more about pushing American theater to be a better reflection of what American culture is right now.

Whatever the motivation, the choice stands out as a bold one in this city.

Castañeda says that all the shows from this season, but particularly the political ones, are part of the Playhouse’s larger goal of speaking to urgent, contemporary issues more directly and through living artists who, in many cases, have a direct connection to San Diego.

“Theaters should be potentially a place where we can get involved with political issues and where we can support artists that have something to say,” Castañeda says.

“That’s really what we’re doing, we’re a huge voice for artists that are scratching an itch.”

He says the artistic team at La Jolla Playhouse is asking itself how the theater can “become a little bit more of a place where we [can] speak to urgent issues. ... How do we become a little bit more agile in our operations and be able to switch to something happening now?”

The limited-engagement productions – those that happened to be political this year – which target single-ticket buyers, are one way the Playhouse is accomplishing this.

Castañeda, who marked his second anniversary with the Playhouse on Nov. 1, is a first-generation Mexican American whose professional theater experience is primarily with new works. He says he’s most interested in art that “might surprise you, and different representations of cultures and races.” His directorial project this season, “Tiger Style!,” set in Southern California and China, written

by Mike Lew, a La Jolla native, was a testament to that. So too was “Guards at the Taj,” Castañeda’s Playhouse directorial debut last season.

Mike Daisy’s “Trump Card,” a monologue that explored Donald Trump the man, not only Donald Trump the politician, was also produced at the Playhouse as a result of Castañeda’s encouragement.

“I think ‘Trump Card’ was a really specific example of something happening now and us being able to have a conversation about that now, and also being able to support artists who are speaking to that now, which is very difficult for some theaters to do.”

A quick look back at the La Jolla Playhouse’s Facebook posts that linked to web pages about “Trump Card” showed mostly positive comments from people who either saw the production and loved it, or people noting their excitement about seeing it soon. There were a few negative comments, mostly simple notes that this one wasn’t for them. Castañeda says some negative emails also came through to Playhouse staff.

“In most of those situations,” he says, “we try to reach out to those audience members and the people that will send us an email and invite them to the show. ... That conversation is also healthy for us.”

The Playhouse finishes out its 2016-2017 subscription season with “Miss You Like Hell,” a world premiere musical commissioned by the Playhouse and already getting a lot of attention from Broadway, and Disney’s “Freaky Friday.” “Miss You Like Hell” is extended through Dec. 4 and “Freak Friday” runs Jan. 31-March 12 (also an extension). A

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From the piano, Silver will take audiences on “A Walk Down Broadway.” When we spoke as she was just beginning to prepare for the performance, Silver was thinking that she’d start the show by asking the question “How did this all begin?”

“It started when I was three,” she starts to explain. “My father was a ragtime player on the Mississippi River boats.”

She says that’s an unusual time and place for a kid to take up the piano and promises that the story, short and funny, makes a perfect intro into her charmed life on the Great White Way. But she also said she was re-thinking that angle, and so by Dec. 5, it all may have changed.

“Each show is different,” she says. “Each show has its own personality.”

Although Silver has lived in San Diego for decades now, she still bubbles with the effervescence of New York City theatricality. She’s a performer, through and through.

“When I first came here,” she recalls, “I had a hard time leashing in some of that New York energy ... I felt like a lion. I had to just say ok, this is a different place. ... I still have a tremendous energy but let’s put it that in New York you can let it out more.”

Silver channels that energy into solo performances all over town.

In an ongoing series with the Athanaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla, Silver gives lectures from the piano, on various musical topics of her choice. She returns often to performances about Broadway, “because people love Broadway,” she says. A Tickets and information on Jacqui Silver’s “A Walk Down Broadway” are available at cygnettheatre.com.

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Steve Martin Returns, Two Contemporary Plays Premiere and an Old Man Watches Over the ALL IN A SEASON’S WORK FOR THE OLD GLOBE

BY BRIE STIMSON

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he Old Globe is midway through its 2016-2017 season, and according to Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, there’s still something for everyone.

The company just finished their “Globe for All” program, which takes professional Shakespeare out to underserved communities around San Diego, for free performances in unexpected places. In its third year of this program, the Globe extended performances by a week and played to more than 2,000 people at homeless shelters, military installations, correctional facilities and senior centers.

Now, the holiday favorite “Dr. Suess’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” in its 19th year and more popular than ever, runs through Dec. 26.

In January, Edelstein will direct Steve Martin’s first play “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” “which I’m really, really looking forward to,” Edelstein says. “It’s the third Steve Martin play here in as many years, and he’s determined to thump William Shakespeare out of the way as the house playwright of The Old Globe, which I’m glad to see him attempt. You know, I can’t pick sides because I love Shakespeare too, but I love Steve Martin equally as much.”

Following that sure-to-be smashing production, in February and March the Globe will present the world premiere of “The Blameless” by up-and-coming playwright Nick Gandiello.

“It’s a play that deals with the consequences of gun violence on an individual family, but manages to do so in a very non-political, non-doctrinaire kind of way and really focuses on gun violence really as an emotional phenomenon rather than a political one,”

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Edelstein says. “It’s a very difficult subject to talk about under any circumstances, but it’s a particularly difficult subject to talk about theatrically without it devolving into politics and this manages not to do that.”

In March, the Globe will stage “Red Velvet,” a play about a man named Ira Aldridge, one of the first significant African American actors in the 19th century.

“He was a Shakespearean who really changed the approach to Shakespearean acting, but also dealt with racism and really had most of his fame in Europe because it was just difficult for him to perform in the United States,” Edelstein says.

“It gets into the cultural differences between America and England ... the historical notions of Shakespeare and what Shakespeare’s meant to be – is he contemporary or is he a museum figure?

– and it gets into race in terms of how artists can or cannot express themselves based on racial attitudes that prevail at the time.”

In April, The Old Globe will present the West Coast premiere of “Skeleton Crew” by Dominique Morisseau. The play, which gained a lot of attention when it first came out, has been running in New York for about a year now. It’s a contemporary piece about a group of workers at an auto factory in Detroit in 2008.

“It’s a story about good working people trying to deal with an economy that is stacked against them,” Edelstein says. “It puts working people front and center and asks us to think about the things that they really struggle with … It’s a wonderful play, beautifully written, really owes a great debt to August Wilson and …

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Arthur Miller because it’s a … play that wants to look at American society through the lens of the theatre. The [August] Wilson part of it is that it has a wonderful poetic sensibility of the language that’s really original and really exciting.”

On the main stage in May, the Globe will show “The Old Man and the Old Moon,” which Edelstein says will be somewhat of a departure for The Old Globe. He describes it as Mumford and Sons with shadow play and puppets.

“It’s a beautiful, funny, very, very theatrical little fable about the guy whose job it is to keep the moon illuminated at night,” he says. “That’s something we’ve been trying to do a lot lately … programming that’s suitable for all generations in the family, and that’s what this is.”

Running concurrently on the White Stage that month will be Moliere’s “The Imaginary Invalid.”

“It’s about hypochondria and marriage,” Edelstein laughs.

Edelstein says that, while choosing what to show at the theatre is always difficult, he operates under specific guiding principals that make the task a bit more clear cut.

“My job is to serve the community by entertaining them … by exposing them to the American theater at the moment … by exposing them to what’s new that’s going to become important in the years and decades ahead and sometimes to provoke them and challenge them and ask them to open their imaginations to new ideas about what theater can look like and what theater can be.” A

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The music director leaves the conductor’s podium after decades of concerts, not without taking a moment to look back.

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fter 13 seasons, Maestro Jahja Ling is finishing his final season with the San Diego Symphony. The music director came to the Symphony in 2003 at a time of transition within the company –many musicians had left.

“Right now, about two-thirds of the orchestra came during my tenure here and I’m very proud of them because these musicians are the most talented, the most accomplished orchestra musicians that you can find in the world. And not only that, in the last 12 years I was able to mold them into an ensemble,” Ling says with pride as he looks back on his years with the Symphony.

“These people that we hire now, they can play together and create a specific sound quality,” he continues. “One of my colleagues [pianist] Lang Lang … said, ‘you know this orchestra has the special quality of combination of the best of … American sound plus the warmth of the sound of the European orchestra.”

Ling, who speaks fast and with the verve of a virtuoso, was brought up under the European tradition, where his teachers in Jakarta, Indonesia, had been trained, but after coming to the United States, he was mentored by American conductor Leonard Bernstein. “[He] basically discovered me and acknowledged my talent and nurtured me in the beginning of my career,” Ling says. “He influenced me a lot … to live the music out, to speak to the audience to express to the fullest … the composer’s intention.”

Ling says the combination of European tradition and American style molded him into the musician and conductor he has been for the last 35 years.

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gether and to really realize every composer – they have a different style – not only playing one kind of style or one kind of sound but to adapt to what the composers want,” he says.

Ling says in every concert he’s trying to find that magical moment where you can express that “one phrase that touch[es] and move[s] people’s soul.”

Though it predates his time in San Diego, Ling recalls a performance in Cleveland as one of the more soul-stirring performances of his career.

“Definitely Mahler [No.] 6 was one of them when I was with [the Cleveland Orchestra] in 1998 and 1997, in December when I did it.

At that time my late wife was very ill … She was diagnosed with cancer and then we did this concert, which was very difficult because it’s a symphony called the ‘Tragic Symphony of Mahler’ and the orchestra poured their hearts out and that is probably one of the most memorable concerts,” he recalls. “And then two weeks before she passed away they played with me ‘Eroica,’ that’s also one of the highlights … I could almost not conduct the funeral march of … ‘Eroica’ because I know that the time was coming that my wife will pass. But then the orchestra played with such a heart-wrenching rendition and that kind of a moment is very difficult.”

Another moment he describes with the Cleveland Orchestra was a concert called “The Tribute and Remembrance of 9/11,” which he conducted just after the plane crash to raise money for the victims’ families. The concert was televised and everyone donated his or her services.

“We do it out of our love of country and for our fellow citizens. That was a special moment,” he tells the Jewish Journal. “I re-

member the rehearsal when I finished the Beethoven [No.] 5, which lifted the spirit up of all the tragedy, everybody in the orchestra was in tears.”

The concert ended up winning an Emmy.

In 1991, Ling was chosen as the first conductor of a symphony orchestra for the national anthem at the Super Bowl with Whitney Houston.

“I came from a country that I never dreamed that I could conduct the greatest orchestra in the world and suddenly I was standing there in front of so many crowds [conducting] the national anthem that we are so proud of,” he remembers.

Ling grew up in Jakarta, and at 18 won a Rockefeller Grant to study piano at Juilliard and eventually studied conducting at Yale.

“That is like something you would never, ever dream coming from Indonesia … Here I could succeed.”

Ling became an American citizen in 1980.

He says he was moved when he performed at a piano competition in Israel in 1977.

“People in Israel were so welcoming to me and when I played there, the whole hall in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, they were full of people that were sitting on even the stairs of the hall,” he remembers. “Music surpasses everything. It’s the universal language.”

He says after he leaves the San Diego Symphony, he plans to teach music and “pass on the tradition that I inherited from my great mentors.”

Maestro Jahja Ling’s Symphony Finale, part of this season’s Jacobs Masterworks Series, is not until May 26-28, but fans can begin planning now. Details are at sandiegosymphony.org. The Symphony is conducting an ongoing search for his replacement. A

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The Society’s winter season follows the same protocol – it is Rosenthal and Education Manager Allison Boles’ goal to get artists out into the community to expose budding musicians and dancers to the personalities and talents of touring artists. It’s also about exposing different communities to classical and chamber music and dance.

Expanding under Rosenthal and Boles, with support of the La Jolla Music Society’s new president and artistic director Kristin Lancino (who was education director at Carnegie Hall), is the group’s partnership with the San Diego Youth Symphony. As part of that relationship, LJMS hosts musical preludes with the Youth Symphony for select performances. The Youth Symphony’s exclusive chamber orchestra also performs a two-series package as part of the LJMS winter season, and the youth are invited into weekly study sessions hosted by LJMS guest artists. The next Youth Symphony chamber orchestra performance is Dec. 2 with professional violist Richard O’Neill joining in Tchaikovsky’s arrangement of the Shostakovich sinfonia.

To expand beyond those who already know and love this kind of music, the La Jolla Music Society gives away about 1,000 tickets to performances throughout the year. And they run a music education program where they provide instruments and instruction to students in Southeast San Diego.

Rosenthal and Boles expect that educational programming will continue to expand with the opening of the Society’s performance arts center, The Conrad in downtown La Jolla, in 2018.

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La Jolla Music Society

Takacs Quartet performs an all-Beethoven concert on Dec. 9, followed on Dec. 16-17 by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. This special Holiday Show rounds out the month at Sherwood Auditorium for the La Jolla Music Society.

The Old Globe

The Old Globe’s delightful staging of Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” is keeping the small-fry set entertained on the Main Stage through Dec. 26.

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City Ballet

Broadway-San Diego is featuring “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” a landmark American musical that was described as “groundbreaking and ahead of its time.” The popular rock musical will continue on the Civic Theatre stage through Dec. 4.

‘Tis the season of “The Nutcracker,” and City Ballet is ready to unwrap its holiday bon bon at the Spreckels Theatre. The beloved full-length ballet will be danced to a live orchestra during 12 performances – from Dec. 9-23. The production features choreography

by Elizabeth Wistrich and the magnificent music of Tchaikovsky.

San Diego Ballet

San Diego Ballet will return to Mandeville Auditorium with its version of “The Nutcracker.” The Sugar Plum Fairy and all her friends will be dancing the Yuletide classic Dec. 16-18, with a cast of more than 100 costumed dancers.

San Diego Symphony

The San Diego Symphony will start off the month accompanying a film, “Home Alone,” on Dec. 2. “Adams, Atoms, and Planets” will be performed on Dec. 3-4, with Peter Oundjian conducting and the Women of the San Diego Master Chorale joining the orchestra as guest artists. The concert celebrates composer John Adams’ 70th birthday. The Vienna Boys Choir will be at Symphony Hall on Dec. 4 (7:30 p.m.) for a one-night only performance of choral classics.

Beethoven’s Ninth is on the docket for Dec. 9-11. Edo de Waart will be on the podium, with several guests, including the San Diego Master Chorale. Along with the Beethoven Symphony, the program will feature Ives’ “Three Places in New England.” “Noel Noel” is slated for Dec. 16-18, as the San Diego Symphony celebrates the holidays with popular music of the season. Also on Dec. 16 is a Family Holiday Concert, which includes a visit from Santa Claus.

On Dec. 19, “Chanticleer” (an orchestra of voices) will bring their interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz.

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Krystina Alabado and Daphne Rubin Vega play an estranged daughter-mother duo in the Playhouse’s world premiere musical “Miss You Like Hell.”

La Jolla Playhouse

The La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere of “Miss You Like Hell,” an effervescent new musical, winds down its run at the Weiss Theatre on Dec. 4. Then the Playhouse will host Broadway superstar, Brian Stokes Mitchell in a special fundraising concert on Dec. 12 at the Weiss Theatre. The evening will be co-chaired by Joan and Irwin Jacobs, and includes a VIP meet-and-greet with the performer.

Cygnet Theatre

Cygnet will continue its annual holiday tradition with a production Museum of Contemporary Art of “A Christmas Carol” through Dec. 24. Sean Murray adapted and The MCA La Jolla location will feature “The Uses of Photography: directs this Dickens classic.

Art, Politics, and the Reinvention of a Medium” through Jan. 2. The exhibition examines a network of artists working in San Diego in the San Diego Repertory Theatre 1960s-80s. The museum’s downtown facility is showing off Jennifer SD Rep has a splendid offering for theater-goers this month. The Steinkamp: Madame Curie” – a digital video animation inspired by world premiere of “The Dybbuk for Hannah’s Wedding,” written and the artist’s research into atomic energy. You can see this from Dec. directed by the San Diego Rep’s own Todd Salovey – with original 15 – Aug. 27. “Dimensions of Black: A Collaboration with the San music by Yale Strom, continues until Dec. 18.

Diego African American Museum of Art” is also on view downtown from Dec. 15 through April 30. During the same period, look for North Coast Repertory Theatre “Tristano di Robilant,” sculptures balancing geometric forms with North Coast Rep is taking its cues from the 1950s and offering audelicate light and color. diences “The Girl Singers of the Hit Parade” as its holiday show. The musical brings to life the Andrew Sisters, Lennon Sisters, McGuire Sisters, and others on its Solana Beach stage Dec. 6-23.

Moxie Theatre

San Diego History Center

The San Diego History Center continues with its architectural showcase of Irving Gill’s life’s work. A founder of modern architecture, this exhibition traces Gill’s life and work from New York to Chicago and finally to California. This show is up until March 26, 2017. Also ongoing at the History Center, but only until Jan. 15, is a photographic exploration of the Tijuana/San Diego border. “The Border: A Line That Divides” takes a specific look at the San Ysidro border crossing and the two worlds it separates. Coming up in March is an exciting showcase of San Diego’s Jewish history, beginning with pioneers from 1850 and moving through to today.

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Moxie’s production of “The Kid Thing,” by Sarah Gubins – a show that revolves around two lesbian couples at a dinner party – will be performed at Moxie’s El Cajon home through Dec. 11.

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Mingei International Museum

Mingei International Museum recently opened “American and European Folk Art” exhibit featuring pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection, many of which have never been shown before.

Also continuing at Mingei is “European and Scandinavian Textiles,” and two shows that focus on artful objects found in kitchens and workshops around the world. Mark your calendars for the opening of Mingei’s next exhibition, “Sandy Swirnoff – Knotted Fiber Jewelry.” A retrospective of Swirnoff ’s fiber necklaces and bracelets, the exhibition, which opens Jan. 14, will also showcase the artist’s collection of Art Nouveau glass shards.

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BY NATALIE JACOBS

“I

did not follow the dictates of the scientists,” Louis Kahn said to Heinz Ronner when the two were discussing the architect’s process on the Salk Institute building design for Ronner’s book “Louis I. Kahn Complete Works 1935-74.” Kahn quickly realized that the Salk Institute’s biological scientists who had been working in trailers on the now famous plot of land that rests 350 feet above the Pacific Ocean didn’t get out much. For lunch, they simply moved their test tubes out of the way and sat on benches in their makeshift laboratories. “Terrible” noises buzzed about them.

“I asked them: was it not a strain with all these noises? ... Everything was terrible including the noises of the air-conditioning system. So I would not listen to them as to what should be done.”

But from those conversations, Kahn dreamt up a concrete campus that separated the study rooms from the laboratories and divided those areas by a vast outdoor deck that is so calm yet incredibly enticing from the windows that rest two floors above it.

“When one knows what to do,” Kahn said, “there is only little time one needs for doing it. It is only when one does not know what to do that it takes so much time. And to know what to do is the secret of it all.”

Kahn received the Salk commission in 1959. By 1966, the 27acre site was built, just eight years before the renowned architect would die of a heart attack in a restroom at Manhattan’s Penn Station. It is in those eight years that he produced the work that would keep him living in stone for ages.

Between 1959 and 1974, Kahn worked on increasingly more public and international buildings, after spending the early part of his career on homes and urban planning in the Philadelphia area where he earned his architecture training at the University of Pennsylvania. A traveling exhibition of his life’s work is showing in San Diego at the Museum of Art in Balboa Park. The massive exhibition explores in chronological order the six central themes of Kahn’s work, from his early efforts in science and engineering to his houses in Pennsylvania, the inclusion of landscape architecture into his projects, to his “interest in the public role and social responsibility of architecture,” which, according to the exhibit introduction, culminated in Dhaka, Bangladesh with his last project, the Bangladeshi Parliament building.

The exhibition, “Louis Kahn The Power of Architecture” is up at the SDMA through January 31 and features more than 200 objects related to Kahn’s life’s work. This includes architectural models (both miniature and large scale), wood blocks and linoleum prints, original drawings and paintings, photographs of his completed buildings, timelines of his accomplishments and business correspondence between Kahn and his clients. It’s an indepth and slightly overwhelming look into the sprawling career of a modern master.

In conjunction with the show, SDMA will screen “Cathedrals of Culture: The Salk Institute” on Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. The Museum will also host an architectural photography workshop led by architectural photographer Anne Garrison on Dec. 10 at 10 a.m. A A view from inside Louis Kahn’s Indian Institute.

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usan Greer visits her husband at Seacrest Village six days a week.

“I come for an hour and a half,” she says. “I have friends that tell me I shouldn’t come that often, but I’m doing it not only for him but for me too.”

When we spoke, the couple, in their 70s, were sitting together under a sukkah in the courtyard of the Katzin memory care residence.

Irwin Greer was diagnosed with dementia in 2008 but Susan says he knew something was amiss “as far back as the early 2000s.”

When he stopped driving in 2011, a handful of years before he moved into Seacrest, Susan began taking Irwin to the Glenner Center’s day program for adults with dementia and Alzheimer’s, in Encinitas. While Irwin attended the day program, Susan attended Glenner’s support groups.

According to Susan, Irwin’s “good disposition” hasn’t changed as his dementia has advanced. She worries that the pharmaceutical regimen he has been rotating through may have unknown long-term side effects, or at the very least she isn’t sure if the drugs are helping. She was encouraged by one of the Glenner support group speakers, a doctor who visits the group regularly and said that if her husband is still able to walk and manage the most delicate activities of daily living on his own, then “there has to be some good in there,” Susan reports.

Despite the uncertainties, Susan considers herself fortunate because, for the most part, Irwin still maintains his “wonderful, kind personality.”

As the disease progresses, many dementia patients become volatile, anxious or depressed because cognitive impairments overtake normal brain function and the “regular” world makes less and less sense. Although no new pharmaceuticals have been approved for Alzheimer’s or dementia by the FDA in the last 12 years, Dr. Howard Feldman, the newly appointed dean for Alzheimer’s and Related Neurodegenerative Research at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, says that somewhere around 2,000 clinical trials have been underway over the last 20 years.

More recently, social science has entered into the clinical trial space and reminiscence therapy has emerged as a promising way to mitigate the emotional symptoms of dementia. The idea gained mainstream attention in the United States when CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta hosted a 20-minute special from a “dementia village” in Amsterdam. It’s a residential facility where “everything is fake” a woman on the Glenner Center’s Board of Directors told me. The vil-

lage is styled to look like the Amsterdam of the mid-20th century, the decades that its residents are most likely to remember, since dementia attacks new memories first. Caretakers are assigned to various jobs within the village, cleverly keeping an eye on residents who in turn are given a surprising amount of freedom within the facility. For example, if a resident goes to the grocery store and buys 10 cans of black beans, the checkout clerk simply smiles.

Later, when the resident is asleep, a different caretaker will return the black beans to the store’s shelf.

“It is believed that reminiscence therapy can help elderly individuals by increasing self-acceptance, providing perspective, and enabling the resolution of past conflicts.”

“It is believed that reminiscence therapy can help elderly individuals by increasing self-acceptance, providing perspective, and enabling the resolution of past conflicts,” writes an Italian research team in a study protocol for a randomized, controlled trial of the therapy, published to the National Institutes of Health online database in October of 2014.

The Alzheimer’s Society says “reminiscence work involves talking about things from the past, using prompts such as photos, familiar objects or music.”

While San Diego’s Glenner Centers have employed this one-on-one tactic in their centers from Hillcrest to Bonita to Encinitas, their recently unveiled “Town Square” concept takes this therapy a step further than it has ever gone in the United States. The 20,000-square-foot facility will feature 23 storefronts built at a scale small enough to fit inside a warehouse but large enough to be functional. The town will be a replica of historic San Diego, from the years 1953-1961, because those are the years that Glenner Center participants remember most strongly right now. As the Town Square solidifies, the storefronts will change to represent later decades as new generations of people with dementia come through the doors.

Irvine-based architect Douglas Pancake, who specializes in senior living facilities, has

been retained to design the buildings. The San Diego Opera’s Scenic Studios will build them.

It’s sounds like an unexpected collaboration, but the Opera’s General Director David Bennett says the Town Square concept is quite similar to building an opera set.

“We are in the business of taking drawings from a designer, which are, in effect, architectural renderings,” Bennett explains, “and building those out in a studio, making sure they work, and disassembling them, putting them on a truck and shipping them to another location to be set up.”

He says this is exactly the process they’ll be following for Glenner.

“They need to have someone who can design, construct, make look real, at a different scale, what they want to have elicit memory.”

Yes it’s a perfect fit he says, but it’s also not something Scenic Studios has ever done before, because these buildings are actually functional. An opera set is just a façade, but the Town Square buildings and everything inside of them are fully three-dimensional and in most cases, functional.

The team showed off their City Hall building at a launch event in the fall. It contained two offices, where Glenner Center employees will actually work, amidst wood-paneling, typewriters, Encyclopedia Britannica and black and white photos.

Glenner Center CEO Scott Tarde, who began discussions with the architect in December of 2014, envisions the finished Town Square to include a café, library, laundromat, pet store, diner, auto shop, beauty salon and old fashioned movie theater. Glenner’s Lisa Tyburski, director of business development, notes that the project is estimated to cost $3 million.

“My husband loves the opera,” Susan Greer says from the Seacrest sukkah. “I know that the San Diego Opera is helping with this new center,” she says.

I asked her if she thought her husband would benefit from the kind of reminiscence therapy they’ll be doing at the Town Square.

“Yes, absolutely,” she says.

Susan still drives, and she says once a week she takes her husband out and about. They usually go to Costco “to walk around, to see people and get a different view rather than being [at Seacrest] all the time.

“I don’t know if they would have admission to go [to the Town Square] but I would be happy to bring him on a Saturday.”

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avid and Avi Tal call themselves “brokers for brokers.” The founding members of Agentology, a company that gets the best real estate agents in touch with buyers and sellers look out from the 16th floor of Symphony Towers in downtown.

“Our passion has always been real estate,” Avi, Agentology’s president, tells me in the conference room between two walls of windows, one side looks into the office with its neon furniture and bean bag chairs, the other faces downtown. “We found what we love and that’s what we’ve been doing for the last three years.”

Formerly a marketer and real estate agent, respectively, the brothers started working together five years ago. David, CEO of Agentology, says the idea for their start-up came when he was a broker.

“Agentology is an inside sales service for real estate agents,” he explains. “There are millions of agents in the United States and they’re spending millions of dollars a year to generate leads from sites like Zillow, Trulia, Homes. com, these kind of sites, but the problem with all of these leads is that they’re cold, they’re unscrubbed, no one’s ever called them and they’re not exclusive – the same leads go

to multiple agents at the same time … We live in a world where people want instant gratification and leads are perishable.”

David says the chance of converting a cold lead into a real client are 20 times greater if you engage them in the first five minutes, but, he says, real estate agents are not very effective in doing that.

He says because of this, almost half of all leads generated from casual web traffic on these major home browsing sites never get a single follow-up. For a business person, that’s infuriating.

“We saw the inefficiencies firsthand and saw how much waste there was,” David explains. “What if we could give every agent the power of a phenomenal inside sales team? … Our goal is really to improve the experience – and not just for the agent, but for the buyers and sellers who are putting in their valuable personal information online to connect with somebody … We want real estate agents to continue to be a valued necessity and a valued industry.”

David says when agents don’t respond to clients, buyers will think they don’t need one. This Avi, Eitan and David Tal, brothers and founders poses a danger for the industry of real estate start-up Agentology, as digital home-buying opportunities expand. No local agent wants a national site like Zillow to close in on his market.

“We’re champions for the industry,” he says. “Fifteen years ago, before so much was online “They’re one-man businesses, they’re al- and before Zillow existed, to meet a real esways on the go, they’re driving clients around tate agent you would walk down to your loand they simply don’t have the time, technol- cal neighborhood real estate office and you ogy or the manpower to be calling all these would walk in and you would meet somefresh leads that are coming into them instant- body face to face … and there’s that immely,” he adds. diate personal connection and that touch

“I grew up thinking all Jews were Mexican.”

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and that handshake and you’re looking them in the eyes and having a conversation right away. And there’s a loyalty to that.”

According to the National Association of Realtors, 70 percent of buyers and sellers work with the first person they meet face to face. This doesn’t translate to online marketplaces, and this is why David and Avi consider the visits to these national home listing sties to be “cold inquiry” rather than solid lead.

Agentology aims to warm up the internet leads by encouraging face-to-face meetings.

The rule of firsts still applies, though, says David. If Agentology is able to get in touch with the web searchers first, then their agents are more likely to establish the relationship.

“The two drivers that have the biggest impact on success for a realtor are how quickly they can engage a new lead and how quickly they can meet with them face to face. Those are the two things that we’re most focused on.” David says.

For their first phase of growth, Agentology has aimed to be an exclusive club for only the top agents from around the country.

“We have strict requirements for the sales team to only sign agents in the top five percent of every market based on sales and volume but also they have to have a certain amount of reviews online and they have to have a certain level of web presence,” Avi explains.

“We’ve been really careful because what we’re doing requires a lot of trust on the agent’s behalf,” he continues. “They’re trusting us essentially to be the front of house on their internet presence and so we can’t mess that up.”

In the last year, Agentology reports generating $350 million in transactions.

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size, when we’re dealing with thousands of agents, it makes a lot more sense and we can provide that value,” David explains.

“Over the past two years we’ve seen a consistent, steady rise in home values all across the country … There’s a lot of buyer demand everywhere and right now there seems to be somewhat of a shortage of supply.” he says.

“You have really low interest rates, you have an economy that’s been improving, wages that have been improving and lending has eased up a little bit. It swung from one side of the pendulum to the other from like ‘anyone can have a loan just show me a picture of your dog’ to ‘I don’t care if you’re a millionaire I’m not lending you a dollar,’ and now it’s kind of balanced out somewhere in the middle.

“Home values are back to pre-recession levels, mortgage rates are under what pre-recession levels were, and you have a larger class of buyers out there so all the signs point to a strong housing market … All the signs are pointing in the right direction,” he adds.

David says because of the large government presence, San Diego is a distinct market. Buyers who work for the government can get a home with zero money down and a government guarantee.

“You have a uniquely strong market here, compared to a lot of the other markets, just because there’s a huge amount of people here that are V.A. buyers.” he says. “There’s a lot of investors pouring money in Imperial Beach because all the people in the Navy want to rent there.”

The way David and Avi see it, the strong military presence and almost guaranteed loan payments have made home prices in San Diego skyrocket, which has caused prices in places like Chula Vista, outside of more expensive suburban areas, to go up as well.

San Diego has also become a popular market for cash buyers from places like Mexico and China.

The trend is moving south, the brothers

say, because as prices in certain areas get so people can’t buy unless they’re a millionaire, more and more people are moving to “upand-coming areas.”

“Golden Hill and Barrio Logan are kind of like the new North Park,” Avi says. “It’s getting gentrified. You’ve got a lot of new restaurants, breweries going in. It’s getting artsy.

There’s a lot of redevelopment.”

In the future, the brothers hope to grow Agentology throughout the country, to spread their business to more and more realtors and possibly to more industries. They also agree their Jewish upbringing has helped them with the success of their company.

“From the very first office, we’ve had a mezuzah up,” David says. “I don’t think we’ve ever lost sight of where we’ve come from or what our family has had to fight for and has had to endure to put us where we are today. I think there are a lot of Jewish morals and ethics – working as a team, working as a family and helping each other come up and looking out for one another. That’s the way we were brought up.”

David says their family is made up of both Holocaust victims and survivors. Their father is from Israel and their mother from Mexico.

“For me personally, my experience growing up Jewish has been being part of a community,” Avi adds. “We still are part of the Mexican-Jewish community. I grew up thinking all Jews were Mexican, but Jews really stay in community … and we’re really advantaged by having that because we have so much support and so much help from mentors and friends… It’s easy to make connections all over the world.”

With that innate ability to create a network, the Tal brothers have set their sights high for their real estate tech venture.

“Our goal is to be the biggest real estate company in the country,” David says. A

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ou what!” Zoe’s father was yelling at her. Again. “You traded my lamp?”

Nothing Zoe did seemed good enough for Dad. Her room was too messy. Her grades weren’t high. Her clothes were too expensive, too ratty or too “inappropriate.” He was always screaming at her.

“I didn’t mean…” Zoe began. She gazed into the first light burning on the new Hanukiah and tried to hold back the tears.

Ever since her mother died, Zoe had tried to take good care of her father. Only twelve and a half, she wasn’t a good cook. She didn’t like cleaning the toilets. And yet, all she wanted was to help.

Her dad’s office was a mess. The whole house was a mess. Alan Dean was the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of Hanukkah menorahs. There were candelabras all over the place – they were in the bedrooms, the kitchen, dining room, living room, even in the bathrooms. Every single morning there was shouting about something that had gone missing: wallet, keys, cell phone, cleaning bill, a shoe.

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One morning, Zoe took a black plastic garbage bag into the office to clean out some clutter which was when she received a strange but timely message. “@Jenny.Hunter New Lamps for Old. Want to trade?”

Zoe was staring at an old, dusty, tarnished Hanukiah on her father’s bookshelf.

It was squat and primitive. Her father hadn’t touched it in years.

Before she could think too much she replied, and a moment later there was a knock at the door.

“I was in the neighborhood,” Jenny said on the video intercom. She was a welldressed woman, a little old, and her teeth could use braces. “You have a lamp to trade?”

Zoe was careful. “Let me see yours.”

The woman opened an aluminum suitcase from which she pulled a beautiful stainless steel Hanukkah menorah. It was very sharp and very shiny.

Zoe nodded and opened the door a crack.

“Why would you trade that for an old lamp?”

The woman smiled. “Call it a present. Or an almost free sample, with the hope that

your father will buy more.”

Now Zoe smiled. Dad always liked a bargain. She nodded, took the steel menorah and gave the woman the old brass one.

“Finally it is mine!” the woman said with a cackle as she vanished out the door. Something that sounded like a cackle.

That evening, Alan Dean was distracted.

He didn’t even notice the new Hanukiah until after they’d said the blessings and Zoe lit the candles.

Then he saw. “Where did that come from?”

“I traded it for your old lamp,” Zoe answered, smiling, feeling she had finally figured out the right way to help the household.

Her father had rushed into the office, came back, and began yelling.

“You went into my private space and…

Don’t you start,” Dad shouted. “Don’t you start quivering that lower lip. Don’t you start tearing up…”

Which is when Zoe lost it.

Alan Dean stared as his beautiful daughter, in tatters across from him, and cried too.

He didn’t know what to do. He never

knew what to do.

For seven generations, the Dean family had produced boys, and the story of the lamp had been passed from father to son at the Bar Mitzvah. The lamp was found in a cave. A genie inside gave each owner three dangerous wishes and the warning to guard the magic lamp and use it well.

When his daughter was born, Alan was surprised, even upset to be the first one in the family to have broken with tradition. His wife forbade him from calling her Aileen.

“It has to stop sometime,” Shana had said. “A new girl, a new beginning.” And she was right. Al’s life, which was always about business, had broadened to include a wonderful baby girl and he never felt anything missing, until Shana passed, much too young.

Alan hadn’t told his daughter that their fortune was based on the magical lamp. He had all kinds of excuses – Zoe wasn’t 13 yet he didn’t want her to laugh. But mostly, Alan kept the story of the lamp secret because Shana had been the last one to touch it.

“Make enough so we are happy,” she had said as she rubbed the Hanukiah. “And not a single one more.”

The genie, which was now only a flicker said, “Your wish is my command.”

Instantly the entire factory was automated, with only enough jobs to keep all the existing employees busy, while increasing production tenfold. The whole system was computerized and efficient. Orders came in, and candlesticks went out. No one worked too hard. The bank accounts swelled. It was every businessman’s dream!

Then, in a flurry, Shana got sick and, in one day, died.

Alan’s world collapsed. After a week of shiva, he wandered into his office hoping it would take his mind off the painful loneliness, but he saw the lamp on the shelf and his heart broke into many more tiny pieces.

Could a wish have saved her? In the mournful chaos of life as usual since that day, Alan let the memory of the lamp and the power it once had, completely fall from his mind. He couldn’t bear to touch it, and it gathered dust on the shelf. Alan buried his sorrows in his work and barely had any time or energy left for his daughter.

Now the lamp that had sustained his family for centuries was gone, and he knew that the factory would soon go silent.

Zoe stood in front of him, tears running down her face. She couldn’t have known any of this.

She was just trying to help. Yes, he was unhappy, but his daughter didn’t have to be.

He thought of Shana and her Hanukiah wish that had kept them happy all these years.

Alan thought for a moment. His mind tallied the amounts in the bank, the value of the factory and the land. The good will of the Alan Dean brand name. He would sell it all. Enough.

Alan wrapped his arms around Zoe’s shoulders and pulled her close.

He hadn’t done that in years.

“It’s okay,” he said. “Let me tell you the story of that lamp. It has always been a story of magic and wealth, greed and fear, but now I think for us there will be a happy ending.”

Zoe felt warm and safe in her father’s arms.

The lights of the Hanukkah candles flickered and a new family history began.A Mark Binder is a Jewish author and storyteller who tours the world sharing stories for all ages. His latest collection, “Transmit Joy!” an awesome audio storybook, won the Parents’ Choice Gold for audio storytelling. It is available through Amazon, Google Play and transmitjoy.com.

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othing says “Jewish holidays” quite like a delicious slice of noodle kugel! Kugel, a Jewish baked casserole, originated more than 800 years ago in southern Germany and became a staple with Jewish families throughout Eastern Europe.

Jewish immigrants brought the kugel with them to the United States, where it continues to be a popular holiday dish. There are many kinds of kugel, all made with three basic ingredients: eggs, fat and starch. The starch varies; I’ve seen kugels made with matzo, matzo farfel, noodles, bread, or rice. They’re all yummy in their own way, but my favorite is noodle kugel.

To give this kugel a winter holiday makeover, I’ve added eggnog, holiday spices, and a gingerbread-style topping, which lends a unique and delicious flavor. I’m one of those people who absolutely loves eggnog, which apparently isn’t such a rare thing in America. In fact, some Americans love eggnog so much that it once caused a riot.

The cadets of West Point upheld an annual tradition of indulging in spiked eggnog during their Christmas festivities. When

Colonel Sylvanus Thayer was appointed the school’s new superintendent in 1826, he challenged this tradition by forbidding the consumption, purchase and storage of alcohol at West Point. The cadets refused to have their tradition taken from them and smuggled in alcohol from nearby taverns. Some even traveled across the Hudson River to be sure they had enough whiskey to get them through the night. Thayer, knowing that the cadets might not obey his orders, sent two officers to look out for any unusual activity. Sure enough, the night took a rowdy turn, complete with broken windows, fights and more than a few hangovers. In the end, 19 cadets were expelled and, perhaps not surprisingly, West Point no longer hosts a large holiday celebration. This raucous event will forever be known as the Eggnog Riot.

This Eggnog Gingerbread Kugel is so tasty, it may very well start a riot in your kitchen! The creamy, dreamy flavor of eggnog takes a basic noodle kugel and makes it into something really special for the holidays. The gingersnap crumble takes it over the top. Happy holidays!

INGREDIENTS:

1 bag wide egg noodles (12 oz.)

2 tbsp unsalted butter 6 eggs 1 package cream cheese (8 ozw ¾ cup ricotta cheese ¾ cup eggnog or soynog 1/3 cup sugar 1 ½ tsp vanilla 1 tsp cinnamon Dash of nutmeg ¾ cup golden raisins

TOPPING INGREDIENTS ¾ cup gingersnap crumbs 2 tbsp cold unsalted butter 2 tbsp sugar

YOU WILL ALSO NEED: Cupcake tin, cupcake liners, electric mixer Yield: 12-15 Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes Kosher Key: Dairy

INSTRUCTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add egg noodles, stir, and boil until just tender (just slightly al dente).

Drain. Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in the hot noodles and stir to coat.

In a food processor or blender, combine 6 eggs, cream cheese, ricotta cheese, eggnog or soynog, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

Blend the ingredients until creamy.

Add creamy mixture to the noodles in the pot along with the raisins. Stir all ingredients until thoroughly mixed. Pour the noodle mixture into a greased 9×13 baking dish.

Combine gingersnap crumbs and sugar in a small mixing bowl. Chop butter into small

pieces and mix it into the crumbs. Use your hands to work the mixture until it’s crumbly.

Sprinkle the topping evenly over the top of the kugel.

Cover dish with foil and place in the oven.

Bake the kugel for 40 minutes. Remove the foil and bake for 10-20 minutes more until the top is golden brown and the center is no longer liquid. May be served warm or cold; refrigerate if you don’t plan on serving it the same day you make it. If you want to reheat your kugel, place it in a 350-degree oven for 15-20 minutes; it will warm up more evenly if you cut it into individual pieces prior to reheating. A

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“Researchers find that these practices help people effectively manage conditions like pain, high blood pressure, depression and anxiety.”

With the Balanced Mind Meditation Center, Potiker is aiming to teach effective techniques to practice mindfulness daily, thus increasing the benefits of the techniques for practitioners. Potiker herself teaches “Balanced Mind” classes on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, along with instructors Jacquelyn Schwartz, Jennifer Opaka, Merry Woodruff and Barbara Metz at various times in the monthly schedule.

In addition to the daily class offerings, BMMC is gearing up for a series of classes which begin early next year. From mindful dogs (true story), to mindful eating, and living a mindful life, these classes apply mindfulness techniques to specific situations. Details and a schedule of BMMC classes can be found at lfjcc.org.

Schusterman Foundation’s Playbook Helps Nonprofits Mine Data

Teen Fellowship Program Accepting Applications for 2017

The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation has released a new interactive data playbook to help nonprofits measure, evaluate and share their work. Many nonprofits struggle to find the resources necessary to use data effectively. Through surveys, evaluations and effective use of resources, the Data Playbook helps nonprofits increase membership and streamline new programs and goals, and boost engagement by making effective use of the data they already have.

The Bronfman Fellowship is accepting applications for 2017.

The fellowship, now in its 31st season, selects 26 North American teenagers for a rigorous academic year of U.S.-based seminars as well as a free, five-week trip to Israel in the summer between the fellows’ junior and senior years.

The Data Playbook helps organizations figure out what type of data they need to collect, the best methods for collecting and how to analyze and use the data to tell a compelling story about the organization’s work.

The playbook also includes a series of hypothetical and real-world examples (drawing on the experience of Jewish organizations, among others), industry tips and a robust toolkit for accessing more information.

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During the program’s seminars, the Fellows meet with leading intellectuals, religious and political leaders, and educators, such as Etgar Keret, A.B Yehoshua, Sayed Kashua, and Rabbah Tamar Applebaum.

Applications for the 2017 Fellowship are due Jan. 4, 2017, and are available online at bronfman.org. High school students in the United States and Canada who self-identify as Jewish and who will be in the 12th grade in the fall of 2017 are eligible to apply.

Artist Doron Rosenthal with some of his many tools for stonework. Republished with permission from the artist’s book “36 Years in Stone.”

590

The number of UC San Diego alumni who sent a letter to Janet Napolitano expressing concern over anti-Zionist messaging in college classrooms.

$14 million

Magen David Adom raised nearly that much at its Los Angeles Red Star Ball in early November.

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Percentage of registered Democrats, Republicans and no party preference voters in San Diego County as of Nov. 1, 2016.

$945,000

The amount that JFS-SD has been awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration to expand its Alzheimer’s disease support programs.

Local Art, Remembered “Desert air feeds me and clears me and makes me feel safe,” writes sculptor and desert explorer Doron Rosenthal in the opening paragraph of “36 Years in Stone.”

“It’s more than an inspiration,” he continues, “it’s a place I go to feel alive.”

It’s easy to forget that San Diego is a desert and while Rosenthal has done sculpture work here, it’s the Anza-Borrego Desert that really fuels his creative fire. Part photo book, part personal history, part motivational speech for aspiring full-time artists, “36 Years in Stone” invites readers into the wind-swept wilderness that lives just a few hours east of our regular stomping grounds.

The artist also made a name for himself locally, through public art projects and what would today be called pop-up shows in empty storefronts downtown.

Locals interested in searching out his work on the streets can take to Hillcrest for some urban exploring. Rosenthal’s “Fossils Exposed” public art project commissioned by the Commission for Arts and Culture and the Hillcrest Business Association features 150 circular granite markers made to resemble fossils. The installation begins at Park Blvd. and continues west on University Avenue to First Street. Read more about Rosenthal and his work at anzaborregopress.com.

CSUSM Receives Grant for Literacy and Art Programs California State University San Marcos announced in November that it has received a $200,000 grant from the Stuart Foundation to create a new program focused on improving literacy through arts education. Called “ART=OPPORTUNITY,” the program will include a series of summits, special events and teacher trainings.

Merryl Goldberg, executive director of Center ARTES at CSUSM will lead the program and is partnering with the San Diego County Office of Education, San Diego Unified School District’s Learning Through the Arts program, the Chula Vista Elementary School District, La Jolla Playouse, the New Children’s Museum, A Reason to Survive, and more.

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chanukah fun 5777 In 167 BCE, Antiochus Epiphanes of the Syrian-Greek Empire tried to force the Jews in his empire to practice his Greek religion. Antiochus desecrated The Bait Hamikdash, set up pagan idols, and gave the Jews the option of practicing Hellenism or facing death. Many Jews converted to Hellenism, but some refused to leave their Jewish faith. Antiochus also banned basic mitzvot such as: kashrut, shabbat, brit milah, and celebrating Rosh Chodesh and holidays. Matityahu the Kohen Gadol together with his sons, the Chashmonaim, fought back and, although greatly outnumbered, managed to miraculously defeat the Syrian-Greek army. The Maccabees did not gain complete freedom, but the Bait HaMikdash was reclaimed and Jews were able to practice their religion again.

Upon entry to the Bait Hamikdash, the Chashmonaim found only one sealed cruse of pure olive oil. This oil, sufficient to burn for one day, miraculously burned for 8 days and nights. Almost a year later, the 2nd Bait Hamikdash was rededicated on the 25th day of Kislev, which is the date the Sages set to begin the celebration of Chanukah. Over the course of the 8 days of Chanukah we read from the Torah about the inauguration of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) in the midbar and of the mitzvah instructed to Aharon to light the menorah daily. By reading these portions, we connect the rededication of the Mikdash to the bravery of the Maccabees, and the commandment given to their ancestor Aharon to light the menorah and dedicate the Mishkan.

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SYNAGOGUE LIFE HANUKKAH EVENTS Latke Hanukkah Celebration at Congregation Beth Israel Dec. 11, 8 a.m.

9001 Towne Centre Drive San Diego, CA 92122 Join the CBI religious school to celebrate the holiday.

Hanukkah Bazaar at Ner Tamid Dec. 11, noon 15318 Pomerado Road, Poway, CA 92064 Inexpensive gifts perfect for kids to purcahse for their loves ones. Plus latkes and jelly donuts.

Chinese and a Movie at Tifereth Israel Dec. 25, 5 p.m.

6660 Cowles Mountain Boulevard, San Diego, CA 92119 Come early to grab some food and a good spot to watch “Fiddler on the Roof” on the first day of Hanukkah.

Grand Menorah Lighting and Party at Chabad La Costa Dec. 26, 4 p.m.

The Forum Carlsbad, 1923 Calle Barcelona Carlsbad, CA 92009 Clowns, crafts, prizes and food. At Dolphin Foundation outside Anthropologie store.

Hanukkah Party and Dinner at Temple Beth Shalom Dec. 26, 5 p.m.

208 Madrona St. Chula Vista, CA 91910 Cost is $10 at the door. Call (858) 344-5632 for details.

Hanukkah at Del Mar Highlands Town Center with Congregation Beth Am Dec. 27, 6 p.m.

12925 El Camino Real, San Diego, CA 92130 Rabbi Kornberg and the Beth Am choir sing Hanukkah songs and pass out sufganiot.

CLASSES H​ ebrew Class at B’nai Tikvah Saturdays 12:30 p.m. - following services​ 2510 Gateway Rd. Carlsbad, CA 92009 Learn to read Hebrew in 7 sessions - free and open to the community.

Call Rabbi Ben Leinow to register – (760) 727-5333.

Cooking Class with Temple Solel Dec. 5, 7 p.m.

Call (760) 436-0654 for details on this program.

Part of the Adult Enrichment Program, class will be held at a member’s home in Carlsbad. The menu includes Greek eggplant, soy sauce and honey chicken, Moroccan peas, chocolate mousse.

Shabbat Talks at JCoSD Dec. 10th, 10 a.m.

Presbyterian Church of La Costa, 7807 Centella Street in Carlsbad Join Rabbi Josh for a Saturday morning round table where he’ll discuss topics such as history, theology, Torah, philosophy and more. *Interested in having your event featured?

Contact assistant@sdjewishjournal.com. Submissions are due by 15th of the month for the next issue.

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ASK MARNIE

by Marnie Macauley

ADVICE asksadie@aol.com

Chrismukkah?

True, Hanukkah isn’t one of our “biggies” but somehow between my childhood full of Chistmases under the neighbor’s tree to now, political correctness hit Hanukkah in a big way. With that, peace, love and buying out the Toys ‘R Us became a big deal in some Jewish homes. Is it ok to mix and match during December, especially in a year like this one where both holidays fall on the same day.

DO THEY HAVE A PRAYER? Dear Marnie: I’m totally in love with my girlfriend. I would be completely happy to spend the rest of my life with her but I am Jewish and she is very Catholic. We have been together for over a year and her family hardly even knows me! They won’t even include me during Christmas! What can I do to get in closer with her family and get her to want me to know her family?

– Misunderstood in La Mesa MARNIE SAYS: This is a Solomon-sized dilemma. But I’m sorry my man, I’m positively forced to douse you in Truth. Sit. Core Beliefs are stitched like samplers onto our souls from the cradle. “Opposites attract” works if you like the wing and she’ll take the breast, but not so much when she’s on a strict spiritual diet of yin and you’re yanging away.

In the matter of deeply held beliefs, successful coupling requires someone’s gotta give-in or give up, and in this case, my friend, it’s going to be you. A whole year and you can’t get past her door jam? Her folks’ “union” rule will require you act, accept, embrace, convert, and raise children in their religion – if that. Get it?

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children and returning to feast on ham in the glow of trees and lights.

Dig down. How do you feel in this imagined situation? What will it cost you? Not sure? Try it on. Quit mouthing your adoration and see if her way fits you.

Even if you find the suit fits, there’s one more thing to consider – your parents. Are they ok with this? Do you care?

You see, young fellow, sharing a castle is tough enough. The question is, are you prepared to build one in a place so far from your home – for the sake of your princess?

TOO FAR TO BEND? Marnie: I’m a 57-year-old divorced man in love with a 53-year-old widow. We have so many things in common. We love to dance, go boating, travel and always have a good time together. We’re thinking of marriage, but there’s one huge obstacle. Religion.

I’m Jewish and she’s a staunch Born-again Christian. I don’t mind her beliefs, but she insists I share hers. I have no problem with her going to church, saying prayers, etc.

But she has asked me to attend Christmas services and accept Jesus Christ as she does.

This is extremely important to her, but this is one thing I can’t do. What do you suggest?

– All Mixed Up

MARNIE SAYS: Oy my friend. Remember what Tevye said in “Fiddler on the Roof?” If he bent too far his back would break. Well, honey, there it is. The question is, can you bend so far that you’ll meet your tailbone – and still call it “love?”

Why marriage? How about staying terrific friends. Friends come in all stripes and “types.” More, you rarely have to kneel or recite the Shma in front of them – especially while you’re dancing. You can agree to disagree and keep your beliefs separate while you’re touring the Colossus of Rhodes or sharing an omelet.

Ok, you adore each other. But there’s that Big “But.” Bending your 57 years of belief, values, and training isn’t a mere “gesture.” It requires a whole new human with a different way of thinking and being that will affect your DNA every day.

But you already know this, or you’d be doing a meet-and-greet with her fellow-believers to decide on Bible portions for the ceremony, instead of clacking away at me.

So ... be friends, or scour the world for like-minded women. At your age, the odds of finding another whoopdidooer who can “cut a rug” are about a million to one in your favor. Just open your door, up that Benny Miller … and hang a sign that says: “NICHT TRAMPLING.” A

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Vera was born on July 2, 1923, in Uzhorod, Hungary.

She was a holocaust survivor, who was liberated by the allies after World War II. After the war, she immigrated to the United States, and settled in Pittsburgh, where she attended the University of Pittsburgh and met and married the love of her life, her late husband, Sanford Barth.

Vera relocated to Youngstown and completed her education at Youngstown State University, earning a degree in teaching. She went on to teach elementary school.

Vera was a passionate homemaker, who loved her family deeply and was tremendously proud of their accomplishments. Vera and Sanford raised two sons, Richard and Kenneth.

Vera was a fabulous gourmet cook. She prided herself on being able to analyze virtually any gourmet food dish from the most famous restaurants in Youngstown and across America and duplicate them to perfection at home. Outside the home, Vera was active in the Youngstown community. She was very Jewish minded and actively participated, in Bnai Brith and Hadassah. “Sandy” and Vera moved to Palm Springs, Calif. in 1978, and ultimately settled in San Diego.

Vera loved her grandchildren, Amy and David, celebrating their birthdays, Bat and Bar Mitzvahs, and graduations, with much fanfare.

Vera leaves behind a great legacy. She will be remembered foremost for her love and celebration of family, life and great food.

Vera was buried at Hills of Eternity Cemetery in Colma, Calif. on Oct. 26, 2016. She is survived by her sons, Kenneth Barth of San Diego and Richard Barth and his wife, Lori, of Los Altos, Calif.; grandchildren David Barth of Los Altos and Amy Blum; son-in-law Kevin Blum of Los Angeles; and her sister, Elizabeth Redlich of Youngstown.

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