January 2010 – Page 8 – San Diego Jewish World

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 19, 1954, Part I

January 20, 2010

Compiled by Gail Umeham Mrs. Roosevelt To Speak Here April 3 Southwestern Jewish Press March 19, 1954 Page 1 Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak at Russ Auditorium Saturday, April 3, at 2 p.m. for the San Diego Chapter of American Association for United Nations aid in the nation-wide membership drive. Her topic will be […]

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San Diego Jewish Academy sets Feb. 2 open house

January 20, 2010

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will be hosting its Annual K-12 Open House on Tuesday, February 2nd, for both prospective parents and current SDJA families. The event will provide an opportunity for parents and students to learn about the school, view classrooms and speak with faculty, staff and administrators. “People

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San Diego Calendar

Helen and Sol Price Charitable Fund established at Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego

January 20, 2010

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–To honor the memory of Sol Price, founder of Price Club which was later merged into Costco, the Helen and Sol Price Charitable Fund was established at the Jewish Community Foundation. “Helen and Sol’s legacy will live on through the thousands of lives they improved,” said Marjory Kaplan, president and chief executive

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Middle East, San Diego Calendar

OECD highlights poverty among Arabs and Haredi

January 20, 2010

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM (Press Release)–You only have to read The Marker, the business section of the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, to be aware of the economic dynamism in the country. Whether it’s the ads for expensive cars or the availability and prices of luxury homes, the reader is soon persuaded that there’s scope for

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Middle East

RJC lauds Scott Brown Senate victory in Massachusetts

January 20, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) congratulates Scott Brown on his victory in the special election to the U.S. Senate seat for Massachusetts. His win sends the clear message that the electorate has serious concerns about the Obama administration’s health care proposals, its out of control spending, and the rising debt

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USA

A Teenager's Life-Changing Trip to Israel

January 20, 2010

By Marissa Palin SAN DIEGO — Life-changing events are all around us. The good ones help us discover who we are. They teach us how to cry, how to laugh, how to live. They teach us to learn, to look within, to grow. For some of us, good ones happen all the time. For others,

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Middle East, USA

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: La Camara Oscura

January 20, 2010

Mama never seemed to miss the finer things of life If she did she never did say so to daddy She never wanted to be more than a mother and a wife If she did she never did say so to daddy The only thing that seemed to be important to her life Was to

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Travel and Food

Obama's rocky few days, Netanyahu's household problems

January 20, 2010

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It has not been a good couple of days for Barack Obama. Instead of celebrating the anniversary of his inauguration, he is pondering his party’s loss of a special election in what may be the most liberal state in the nation, and Iran’s rejection of a lead item on his

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA

Israel's humanitarian efforts in Haiti

January 20, 2010

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — As the first Israel Defense Forces (IDF) emergency aid team (there is now a second) left for Haiti, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Given Israel’s security needs, we have accumulated much search and rescue experience over the years. We have applied this experience previously in disaster scenes throughout the

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Greece's prime minister should condemn arson of Crete synagogue — ADL

January 20, 2010

NEW YORK (Press Release)– In the wake of a second synagogue arson attack on the Greek island of Crete in as many weeks, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday urged Prime Minister George Papandreou to “make clear that anti-Semitism has no place in Greece.” The Etz Chaim synagogue in Hania sustained substantial damage over the

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USA

'Grapes of Wrath' to be read countywide

January 20, 2010

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The San Diego County Library will launch The Big Read, its grant-funded county-wide reading of John Steinbeck’s masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath, between January 30 and March 15. Residents throughout the county are invited to read the book and attend any of the 330 free events related to the theme. The series

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San Diego Calendar

German Jewish journalist Ernst Cramer dead at 96

January 20, 2010

BERLIN (WJC)–Ernst Cramer, a Jewish journalist who fled Nazi Germany and served as an American soldier in World War II, has died in Berlin, one day before his 97th birthday. He was a champion of Israel who also fought to improve relations between Germans, Jews and Americans. Born in Augsburg in 1913, Cramer was incarcerated

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Middle East, USA

Yad Vashem honors Dutch couple for sheltering Jews they had never met

January 20, 2010

JERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel’s Holocaust Memorial institution Yad Vashem has named the late André Reeders and Aaltje Reeders-Wittermans as Righteous Gentiles Among the Nations for sheltering the Jewish couple Sally and Claire Gimnicher-Hirsch in their home near Amsterdam in 1942, at the request of the Dutch resistance movement. Unlike most cases, the two couples had had no

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Middle East

Sobibor survivor tells what happened, but can't identify Demjanjuk

January 20, 2010

MUNICH, Germany (WJC) — Thomas Blatt, 82, a survivor of the Sobibor death camp where Ivan Demjanjuk was allegedly employed as a guard by the Nazis, has given testimony at Demjanjuk’s trial in Munich. Blatt’s family was killed at Sobibor, and at the age of 15, Blatt was ordered to sort out the belongings of Jews

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 19, 1954, Part I

San Diego Jewish Academy sets Feb. 2 open house

Helen and Sol Price Charitable Fund established at Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego

OECD highlights poverty among Arabs and Haredi

RJC lauds Scott Brown Senate victory in Massachusetts

A Teenager's Life-Changing Trip to Israel

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: La Camara Oscura

Obama's rocky few days, Netanyahu's household problems

Israel's humanitarian efforts in Haiti

Greece's prime minister should condemn arson of Crete synagogue — ADL

'Grapes of Wrath' to be read countywide

German Jewish journalist Ernst Cramer dead at 96

Yad Vashem honors Dutch couple for sheltering Jews they had never met

Sobibor survivor tells what happened, but can't identify Demjanjuk

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