Kehilat Aish Kodesh will have a havdalah movie at 6:30 p.m. today at the 1490 N.E. Pine Island Road 7C, Cape Coral.

The murals of the Mission District are being elevated to high - but still very hip - art status, thanks to a free party and book launch extravaganza at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum on Friday to celebrate "Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo .

Editor's Note: Aaron Davidman is the director of the current stage version of the bestselling novel The Chosen by Chaim Potok.

Signs wouldn't be worst blight on S.F.'s Market John King The 1968 book "How to Kill a Golden State" devotes one page to a photograph of a sign-cluttered stretch of Market Street, where striped awnings and neon collide with promises of everything from "ivory" to "nudes."... Streets give up secrets on Scenic Route app Christine Lagorio, Special to ...

Photograph by Mark Kitaoka BATTER UP: Reuven recalls a street game between himself as a boy and Danny .

A word is worth one coin but silence is worth two, the Talmud teaches us. That bit of wisdom from the Jewish holy book reverberates throughout "The Chosen." Based on Chaim Potok's beloved 1967 novel, this poignant tale of boyhood friendship in 1940s Brooklyn is filled with tiny silences that echo in the ear like bells.

Meanwhile, Saturday night Plot and Duck drove down to Mountain View to catch the Opening of the beautiful Chaim Potok story "The Chosen." It would be easy to say that the story of two Orthodox Jewish boys, one Hasidic, or ultra-religious, and one secular, in Brooklyn in the 1940s, would have trouble resonating with a non-religious American ...

The Chosen: By Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok, adapted from Potok's novel. Directed by Aaron Davidman.

Corey Fischer first read Chaim Potok's "The Chosen" right after it came out back in 1967.

Corey Fischer says something will be missing from The Jewish Theatre, San Francisco's upcoming 2009-2010 season: Corey Fischer.

Pundits may claim the recession is over, but try telling that to Silicon Valley FACES, the 44-year-old agency formerly known as the Silicon Valley Conference for Community and Justice.

Puck bays at the moon like a wolf. A demented master of ceremonies with a bald pate and feathered limbs, Puck is the only fairy minion in Aaron Posner's bold interpretation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Since the Bard's beloved comedy, one of the most frequently produced plays in the canon, often seems overstuffed with preciousness, it's striking ...

My Name Is Asher Lev: Drama. By Aaron Posner, adapted from the novel by Chaim Potok.

From left, Patrick McNulty, Peter Stadlen and Danielle Levin are in My Name is Asher Lev, adapted by Aaron Posner from the novel by Chaim Potok.

Playwright Aaron Posner probably feels like the chosen one. After all, he adapted for the stage not one but two of Chaim Potok's novels, both with the blessing of the late author.

THE MARIN THEATRE Company opens its 43rd season with the West Coast premiere of Aaron Posner's adaptation of "My Name Is Asher Lev." One of only two productions in the United States during the 2009 10 season, the play, adapted from the novel by Chaim Potok, runs from Sept.

Published June 03, 2009, issue of June 12, 2009 . I wasn't thinking about Mormons on March 4, when I tweeted about my review of "My Name is Asher Lev." Thirty-six minutes later, I heard from William Morris, an expert on Mormon arts and culture.