Subjects in this column:
*Dr. Peter Salk to Discuss the Works of His Father, Dr. Jonas Salk, Oct. 28
*Beth Israel Men’s Club hosts San Diego Jewish World publisher Donald H. Harrison Oct. 16
*Love Chocolate? You’ll love LFJCC’s Oct 29 Exhibit and Jan. 14 Lecture by Rabbi Prinz
Dr. Peter Salk to Discuss the Works of His Father, Dr. Jonas Salk, Oct. 27
SAN DIEGO — The Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s will host a speech and dessert reception for Dr. Peter Salk, whose father Dr. Jonas Salk, z”l, was the discoverer of the polio vaccine, at 7 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 27, at the Conservative synagogue, located at 6660 Cowles Mountain Blvd.
Everyone is welcome to attend Dr. Salk’s lecture, which is entitled “Remembering Jonas Salk – The Shot Felt ‘Round the World.” An admission charge of $10 defrays the costs of security and refreshments.
“I will be reviewing, with personal anecdotes, my father’s work in the discovery of the polio vaccine, and aspects of his later work following his founding of the Salk Institute,” Peter Salk said. “I plan to include a discussion of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation, and what is being done to continue my father’s work and memory.” He added that October 28, the day after his lecture, will be the 105th anniversary of his father’s birth.
A news release prepared by Phil Lorang, co-president of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club, stated:
From 1972 to 1984, Peter Salk conducted research on immunotherapy of cancer, autoimmune diseases, and vaccine production.
He worked again with his father from 1991-1995 on a project to develop an inactivated vaccine for HIV infection, and subsequently worked on the introduction of AIDS treatment programs in Africa and Asia.
Aa President of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation, he is currently devoting attention to the various aspects of his father’s legacy and is actively addressing present and future challenges to global health and wellness.
Salk will be introduced at the meeting by Tifereth Israel Synagogue member Stuart Karasik, who is a second cousin.
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Beth Israel Men’s Club hosts San Diego Jewish World publisher Donald H. Harrison Oct. 16
A far less well-known speaker is on the docket for the evening of Wednesday, October 16, at a 6:30 p.m. buffet dinner meeting of the Beth Israel Men’s Club to be held at the temple at 9001 Towne Centre Drive. That would be me.
As the author of six books dealing with San Diego Jewry, I’ve been asked to give an overview of the Jewish community at the meeting, which I will endeavor to do. Published most recently was the two-volume Schlepping and Schmozing Through San Diego County.
Lou Galper, a Congregation Beth Israel member who wrote the news release that is being sent out to the media, described me as the “dean of the Jewish press,” which simply means that I’ve been around longer than anyone else who covers our Jewish community on a regular basis. I got started in journalism way back in 1962 when I joined the staff of the UCLA Daily Bruin, went on to write for the Associated Press and The San Diego Union, before eventually deciding in 1986 to devote myself to Jewish journalism.
I rose to the editorship of the late San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage, and after that folded, I was a columnist for its friendly rival San Diego Jewish Times. Later when that newspaper also succumbed, my wife Nancy Harrison and I started San Diego Jewish World, an all-volunteer newspaper which has approximately 50 correspondents contributing stories to us on a fairly regular basis.
To give you an idea of how extensive a resource San Diego Jewish World is, as of this writing there are 32,815 separate articles on this website which may be searched by topic, key word, or author’s name. If you peruse our site, you will see that there are many Jewish-interest topics, that the writers’ viewpoints are diverse, and that love for Judaism and our fellow Jews permeates our site.
The buffet dinner fee is $18 or those who RSVP by clicking here, or $20 for those who show up without reservations.
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Love Chocolate? You’ll love LFJCC’s Oct 29 Exhibit and Jan. 14 Lecture by Rabbi Prinz
Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz, formerly spiritual leader of Temple Adat Shalom in Poway, will return to the greater San Diego area on January 14 for a lecture on her global travels and research into the connections between Jews and the manufacture of chocolate.
Prinz is the author of On the Chocolate Trail: A Delicious Adventure Connecting Jews, Religions, History, Travel, Rituals, and Recipes to the Magic of Cacao.
Admission to her sweet lecture is $18 for visitors and $15 for JCC members. The lecture will overlap an Oct 29-Jan. 31 free exhibition in the Lawrence Family JCC’s Gotthelf Gallery titled (cleverly) “Semi(te) Sweet: On Jews and Chocolate.
Organized by the Bernard Museum of Judaica of Temple Emanu-El of New York City, the exhibition offers “tantalizing and contemporary archival materials, decorative arts, and bibliographic materials that celebrate these contributions of Jews to the business of chocolate,” according to the JCC websie
For more details, click here.
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Harrison is editor of San Diego Jewish World. He may be contacted via donald.harrison@sdjewishworld.com