Donald H. Harrison

True stories from the Holocaust create strong connection

When students learn about a child who was murdered in the Holocaust and paint a butterfly in honor of that child’s life, they become grounded in history in a way that textbooks alone cannot accomplish. They understand that the Holocaust was not just a historical event, but a collection of individuals with lives, hopes, and dreams just like their own. [Debra Feldstein]

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California, Holocaust, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors

Novel paints picture of celebrities of the pre-World War II era

This novel spins a story of Einstein and Chaplin taking the luxury Santa Fe Super Chief from Chicago to Los Angeles, along with fellow historical personages J. Robert Oppenheimer, Charles Lindbergh, Mickey Cohen, Lena Horne, and Fritz Duquesne, a Nazi spy. {Donald H. Harrison}

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Jewish Agency to build 1,000 housing units in Western Negev

The Western Negev Building Project represents the transition from recovery to renewal — not simply rebuilding what was destroyed but expanding communities and laying the foundation for long-term demographic and communal growth in the region. The project is being led by The Jewish Agency in partnership with Israel’s Ministry of the Negev, Galilee and National Resilience, the Ministry of Finance, the Tekuma Directorate, and the Ministry of Construction and Housing. [Press Release]

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Business & Finance, Israel, Press Release

Jewish biography: Karl Schwarzchild, astrophysicist

His work on the theory of relativity contained the first exact solutions to the equations of general relativity with spherical symmetry—the so-called Schwarzschild inner solution for a non-rotating spherical body of homogeneous fluid and the Schwarzschild outer solution for static empty space around a spherically symmetric body (the latter is now usually referred to simply as the Schwarzschild solution). [Alex Gordon]

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‘The Sacrificial Service’: Leviticus teaches valuable lessons

Grossman argues that sacrifices are not primitive rituals intended merely to appease God. Instead, they are symbolic acts through which worshippers express gratitude, repentance, devotion, dependence, celebration, and reconciliation. (Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin)

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JCC Camp aromas will trigger future memories

Years from now, one of those familiar scents may suddenly bring a camper back to the friendships they formed, the counselor who believed in them, the joy of singing Shabbat together, and the discovery that being Jewish is not simply something you learn, it is something you live. [Betzy Lynch]

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Solomon’s contributions to the Bible weighed through Rashi’s lens

The book begins with a puzzle. The passionate love poetry of the Song of Songs, the practical wisdom of Proverbs, and the philosophical skepticism of Ecclesiastes appear so different that many readers wonder why they belong together in Scripture. [Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin]

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Three divas sing songs by American Jewish composers at JFest

The three jazz divas were introduced by JFest’s producing director, soon to be JFest’s co-director, Becca Myers. They were Whitney Shay, Mara Kaye and Elizabeth Schwartz, who curated the program. Each sang a selection from every one of the American Songbook’s Jewish songwriters featured in the program, Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen and Bert Bachrach. [Eileen Wingard]

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Eileen Wingard, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors

Hillel of San Diego reaches 3,500 students on 4 college campuses

In 2020, during the height of COVID, we were barely reaching 400 students (no small feat when everyone was gathering online exclusively), but this year, we served 3,500 students. That’s 3,500 students connecting to Jewish life in San Diego in ways that are meaningful to them. Transformational growth. [Karen Parry]

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JNF-USA plans national get-together in Chula Vista

Jewish National Fund USA announces its “Global Conference for Israel: Unite for Israel’s Future” Thursday, November 12 through Sunday, November 15 at the Gaylord Pacific Resort and Convention Center in Chula Vista.

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Cailin Acosta, Israel, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USA