A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt; directed by Kai Christiansen; Germany; 2014; 90 minutes in German with English Subtitles; Drama; to be shown three times during the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, at 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Carlsbad Village Theatre, 2822 State St., Carlsbad and at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb. […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — What lesson have we not learned from one of the most basic principles in Judaism, “Love your fellow Jew as yourself”? It’s preached on pulpit after pulpit, regardless of the sex of the rabbi, the color of the rabbi’s talit, whether the rabbi wears a kippah or
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – It would be difficult to say whether ventriloquist Joe Gandelman spends more time in his San Diego condominium or in his car driving to gigs at schools, fairs, senior homes, and private parties across the United States. On one national tour that stretched over eight months, he and
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Federation of San Diego County has launched a Directed Giving program, which enables donors to direct their gifts to the programs and issues they care about the most. For 80 years, Federation has served as the umbrella organization for San Diego County’s Jewish community, funneling funds and grants to many different
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San Diego CountyBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Life isn’t all politics. Some things are in the hands of Nature, the Almighty, or however you want to call it. Insofar as there is nothing more boring than someone else’s weather, feel free to stop at this point. With no hard feelings. That being said, Jerusalem’s weather, along with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, The World We Sharehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Yarrow
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LA MESA, California — Judy Friedel sent us this license plate, which literally means “pretty one” in Hebrew. So you might think this is a message about the car, or the driver, but in fact the license plate honors a family pet, a dog named Yofi. The 1 after the name was required because another
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Itamar Harari has been appointed as Director of Community Initiatives to oversee many initiatives of the Jewish Federation of San Diego, including the development of partnerships and collaborations. Harari was raised in Sha’ar HaNegev, which is San Diego’s sister city in Israel. He served as an elite paratrooper in the Israel Defense
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Sitting across a table from Ed Cherlin, you notice that he is a man with patience who doesn’t show even a flicker of annoyance when an interviewer changes the topic, or interrupts his answer. This probably is because Cherlin also is a man with patients – psychiatric ones, with
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — While researching this week’s D’var Torah I came across a commentary that I found somewhat disturbing. After Moses left Egypt his father-in-law, Yitro (Jethro), came to see him: Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought Moses’ sons and wife to him in the wilderness, where he was encamped at the mountain
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Jewish ReligionU.S. says its policy on Israeli settlement product labeling hasn’t changed (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) U.S. policy on labeling Israeli settlement products has not changed, the State Department said Thursday. Last week, the U.S. reissued guidelines on the labeling requirements for products manufactured in Judea and Samaria. The guidelines, which have been in effect since
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Marjory Kaplan, who last year returned to the Jewish Community Foundation as interim President and CEO, will once again retire on Feb. 1, it was announced by JCF Board President Jane Scher. Kaplan will be replaced on an interim basis on that date by Jeremy Pearl, who has been serving the
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