barrettCome Celebrate! Hanukkah and Kwanzaa are connected and because the Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar, they are occuring at the same time this year […]
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Jewish High Holy Days 2024 (5785)
The month of October is packed, from beginning to end, with the Jewish high holy days this year (remember that the Jewish calendar is a […]
Summer Freedom Shabbat
This past Friday evening, a private home in San Diego was filled with warmth, laughter, and delicious aromas as part of a midsummer Shabbat. This […]
Jewish Diversity & Solidarity at The Juneteenth Freedom Festival 2024
For the second year in a row Playing together, joined by other Jewish organizations in San Diego, participated in the Cooper Family Foundation’s annual Juneteenth […]
A Musical Dream Regenereated
A dream of a utopian Black-Jewish music collaboration is going forward — even after the war in Gaza complicated it ‘Generate Music’ was conceived as […]
No Playing Together Happening at School
When the ADL Center on Extremism recently analyzed statements made by more than 130 university encampment organizers, they found that found that more than two […]
Islamic Terrorism, Propaganda and Solidarity Between Israel and Africa
The Institute for Black Solidarity With Israel produced this on Monday June 3, 2024. It is a captivating program analyzing the past and present use […]
Read “The Human Stain” – The Black Americans – Jewish Americans Book Club
It was a film starting actors Anthony Hopkins and xx xx but it was originally a book by Philip Roth. It brings up the question […]
Mothaland Bouncing!
(Also appearing in San Diego Jewish World online news outlet) Who could keep a packed theatre full of people on their feet, dancing and singing […]
Supporting Our Dream
Launching Playing Together Project has been nerve-wracking, exciting, and rewarding. There is so much that has gotten done and so much to do. You play […]