By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — In his short lifetime, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. collected a cadre of loyal and fervent friends and colleagues. The majority of them, including Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, Andrew Young, John Lewis, and Jesse Jackson, have been African Americans. A notable exception to this list of King’s inner
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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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SAN DIEGO — Our chief license plate spotter, Melanie Rubin, saw these two license plates for titled grandparents. Dr. Bubbe evidently refers to a grandmother who has a doctorate, whereas HonZady, may well mean “honorable grandfather,” perhaps a holder of public office.
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By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan – I do not accept Jeffrey Zaslow’s death. But before I explain why, or rather, as I am explaining why, let’s review how the tragic incident unraveled, how those several days happened, that is to say, the days leading up to that tragic, ill-fated day, the outcome of
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Travel and FoodPosted 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
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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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 & BroadcastBy 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 & BroadcastBy 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 FoodPosted 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
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, USAEditor’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 HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta put the Israel-Iran issue back on the front burner, with comments indicating that Israel is likely to attack sometime in the period of April to June. His comments came in the shadow of a prominent address by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei that described Israel
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Travel and FoodBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — As a service to readers, we’re now reposting our stories on Facebook. Quickly after an article goes up on San Diego Jewish World, it is also placed on the FB page: /San Diego Jewish World. We hope that as people see this service they will click on the
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