Below: Jewish San Diegans in the News
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – On three upcoming Thursdays — Jan. 25, March 21, May 23 – the “Shabbat market” will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. outside the Lawrence Family JCC in the areas known as the Jerri-Ann & Gary Jacobs Family Harmony Village, Hannah & Mark Glieberman Playground, and the Sharon & David Wax Family Pavilion.
Vendors will offer “a diverse array of foods, Judaica, challah, table décor and more,” according to organizers at the JCC, which is located at 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla. Each market comes a day before Shabbat’s commencement on Friday night. Additionally, the market days are scheduled prior to Tu B’Shvat, Purim and Lag B’Omer respectively. Reservations may be made via this website.
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A gift of an undisclosed amount from Joan & Irwin Jacobs will help underwrite the costs of an exchange between the Technion University in Haifa, Israel, and UC San Diego under which students from both universities collaborate with residents of Jisr Azzarqa and Logan Heights respectively “to undertake community-driven projects aimed at overcoming conceptual and geographical barriers,” according to Susan Lapidus, director of the sponsoring Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative. The Jisr Azzarqa neighborhood is a Palestinian community within Israel. Logan Heights is predominantly Latin and African-American. Director of the exchange is Mor Shilon, a lecturer at UC San Diego’s Urban Studies and Planning Department.
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Laurie Baron, SDSU History professor emeritus and a San Diego Jewish World columnist, will discuss “the absence and rare presence of women rabbis in feature films and television series” as part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series at 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 17.
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San Diego City Council President Sean Elo-Rivera has shuffled committee assignments. He will continue to lead the Rules Committee, and the council’s other Jewish member, Jen Campbell, will lead the Neighborhood Services Committee. Campbell also will have memberships on two other committees, one that focuses on the environment, and another that deals with economic development and governmental relations. Although all eight members of the City Council are Democrats, two factions have developed with one containing Elo-Rivera, Kent Lee, Vivian Moreno, and Joe LaCava; the other including Campbell, Marni von Wilpert, Stephen Whitburn, and Raul Campillo.
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County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer has won praise from San Diego City Councilman Raul Campillo for recommending to the Board of supervisors funding for “another recuperative care center for unhoused residents and a new training initiative for local behavioral health workers … This is the kind of action we need from our partners at the County to be able address our behavioral health crisis. … I will continue to bang the drum for more action on behavioral health” including support for Prop. 1, a statewide ballot measure to provide beds for 11,150 patients around the state and slots for another 26,700 outpatients.
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In a current newsletter, Rabbi Rafi Andrusier of Chabad of East County offers the tale of an archaeologist who finds a mummified body and announces that the man died 3,000 years ago of a heart attack. Medical examiners verified the cause of death, and wondered how the archaeologist could tell the cause of death. “It was simple,” came the reply. “There was a piece of paper in his had that said, ’10,000 shekels on Goliath.’”
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San Diego Jewish World staff report