(Column 29, March 24, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Events (In Chronological Order) On his 204th birthday, San Diego’s first Jewish settler, Louis Rose, will have a point of land officially dedicated for him at 10 a.m. today (Thursday, March 24) at the foot of Womble Road at the Boat Channel. City and school [...]
(Column 28, March 21, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison * UPCOMING EVENTS (In Chronological Order) * Current trends in the Middle East will be the subject of a panel discussion at 7 p.m., Monday, March 21, at Congregation Beth Israel. Panelists are Hisham Foad, SDSU Assistant professor of economics on “The Economic Roots of [...]
(Column 27 . March 17, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Upcoming Events * Why wait for a Purim party to have fun, when you can have a Shabbat dinner the night before? Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah of The Chabad at San Diego State University is hosting at 6115 Montezuma Rd. from 8 p.m. to [...]
(Column 26; March 14, 2011: Events listed in chronological order) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison * ISRAEL AND SAN DIEGO * Dr. Eli Lewis of Ben Gurion Univerity of the Negev will discuss exciting developments in the fight against diabetes at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 15, at Ner Tamid Synagogue. 15318 Pomerado Road, Poway. * [...]
(Column 25, March 10, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison * San Diego and Israel * Audrey Jacobs, co-founder and co-chair of the San Diego Israel Coalition and Director of School Advancement of Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School has been awarded a 2011 Nahum Goldmann felllowship. She reports that the 1 ½ week-long summer [...]
(Column 24, March 7, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison San Diego Jewish Organizations Nechama Eilfort, rebbetzin at Chabad at La Costa, knows a thing or two about computers. So, she’s offering four classes, beginning at 7:30 p.m. tonight and continuing the next three Monday evenings, on the baiscs of personal computing, Internet and E-mail [...]
(Column 23, March 3, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Jewish Organizations The Agency for Jewish Education sponsors UCSD Political Science Professor Emeritus Sanford Lakoff lecturing March 14 at 7:00 pm at the library at 1776 Dove Lane in Carlsbad. His lecture is titled, “Turmoil in the Middle East: Democracy and [...]
(Col. 22, Feb. 28, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Simchas When Allison Ogul became a bat mitzvah over the weekend at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, the congregation led by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal welcomed many non-Jewish visitors, including relatives of her mother, Sharon Wilson-Ogul. They also came from the staff of the San Diego Union-Tribune, [...]
(Col. 21, Feb. 24, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Jewish Organizations The Agency for Jewish Education sponsors a presentation by Ghada Osman, SDSU’s director of Islamic and Arabic Studies, on encounters between Judaism and Islam at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 28, at the Carlsbad Library, 1775 Dove Lane. This weekend, the J*Company begins [...]
(column 20, Feb. 21, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Jewish Organizations In a “Save the Date” message for June 3-5, Alan Friedman, executive director of Camp Mountain Chai, says a planning committee is at work for the 3rd annual Men’s Getaway Retreat. Dreaming up activities for the weekend themed “Fitness for the Body and [...]
