February 2012

In 26 years under Jill Spitzer, JFS grew to 40 times its size

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Already Jewish Family Service has named the administrative wing of its Turk Family Center at 8804  Balboa Avenue for Jill Borg Spitzer.   If some visitors walking down the corridor should chance to look up and ask, “What did she do?” how would they be answered? The community […]

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Donald H. Harrison

Calendar Postings

  Posted February 15 SAN DIEGO — Numerous press releases cross our desk concerning upcoming events in the Jewish community.  As we get them, we’ll pass them onto you so you can add them to your personal calendars. * FILNER FUNDRAISER— U.S. Rep. Bob Filner, a member of two members of the Jewish community considered

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Travel and Food

Romney and Obama both struggle with religious issues

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The confluence of Barack Obama ‘s problem with contraception and Mitt Romney’s candidacy reminds me of that often expressed sentiment that the United States is a “religion soaked” country. It leads western democracies–including Israel–for people who express a belief in God and pray on a regular basis. The existence of

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Ira Sharkansky, USA

Intrepid Shakespeare’s ‘An Enemy Of The People’ a must see

By Carol Davis ENCINITAS, California–You don’t have to be politically astute to understand the goings on in An Enemy Of the People. You just have to open a newspaper today and read about this country being torn apart by the political schism that is being ramped up by a few loud, narrow minded and hypocritical

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Magic and a lot of hard work benefit Seacrest Village

By Joel and Arlene Moskowitz LA JOLLA, California –Seacrest Village Retirement Community in Encinitas is a senior facility  where marvels and wonderments occur on a daily basis. Staff members nurture, help, and assist almost 400 resident-seniors who have a myriad of ailments, elements of aging or who have just ‘grown’ older.  That is magic. What

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

San Diego Jewish Film Festival Review: ‘Shorts in Winter’

By Paul Greenberg SAN DIEGO –From the schmaltzy Ladies and Gentlemen…, Biddie Schitzerman, to Don’t Tell Santa You’re Jewish’s ironic ending, to  David and Goliath‘s chilling story of a dog (a German Shepherd, no less) saving a Jew fleeing for his life from German soldiers in a Czechoslovakian forest during the Holocaust, to the animated (very)

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Travel and Food

Calendar Postings

Posted Feb. 14 SAN DIEGO — Numerous press releases cross our desk concerning upcoming events in the Jewish community.  As we get them, we’ll pass them onto you so you can add them to your personal calendars. SHABBAT DINNER — Chabad House near San Diego State University welcomes community members to an 8 p.m. Shabbat

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Travel and Food

Protecting the right to privacy has biblical precedents

 By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Most rabbinical students attribute omnipresence and omniscience as qualities befitting a Creator. Only God is called, “The Knower of Thoughts,” and “The Searcher of the human heart.” Rabbinical wisdom has long taught, “Always keep in mind these three things, and you will never come to the

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, Nov. 30, 1956, Part 2

Editor’s Note: Part 1 of the November 30, 1956 issue was reprinted out of sequence Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Press Notes Southwestern Jewish Press, November 30, 1956, Page 3 By Julia Kaufman “Books lead us into the society of those great men with whom we could not otherwise come into personal contact. 

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Adventures in SD History

Jessica Kort named as San Diego Leadership Alliance fellow

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Jessica Kort, communications and program associate for the Jewish Community Foundation, has been named as a fellow of the San Diego Leadership Alliance. Kort will participate for six months in SDLA’s New Leaders Council Institute program, which “provides young progressive professionals with skills and relationships to make changes in

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San Diego County