SAN DIEGO—For more than a month, workers have been laboring at county-owned Heritage Park in Old Town to restore the original Temple Beth Israel and six other historic buildings to the glory of their 19th century conditions, while preparing the overall development for a new life as a reception hall and bed-and-breakfast park. Partners Bill […]
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Donald H. HarrisonSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Edith Palkowitz, local Holocaust survivor, held 60 students spellbound at the Lindsay Community Day School on Thursday, May 13, as part of the Words Alive Adolescent Book Group program. The Lindsay Community Day School is a part of the Juvenile Community Court School (JCCS) system, which offers an alternative school setting for
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USABy Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–On Shavuos we rejoice as we appreciate our wonderful Torah. Our Sages tell us (Shabbos 88b) that when Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses), was up on Har Sinai (Mount Sinai), receiving the Torah from Hashem (G-d), the Angels were in an uproar. They complained Hashem should give them the Torah, not the
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Israel suffers from two prominent fault lines in its society. Both are complex, and fragment into further splits that confound any simple remedies. One sets the Arab minority against the Jewish majority. Complicating any application of conventional minority/majority analysis is the proximity of the Palestine and the larger Arab and Muslim communities.
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Ira SharkanskyBy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Today, May 14, is the sixty-second anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel—which had been voted into existence by the Security Council of the United Nations. We have no apologies; we are elated; we regret that the two-state solution legislated by the UN at that time has
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Middle EastSAN DIEGO–After two years of studying together, the 10th graduating class of the Agency for Jewish Education’s Melton Adult Mini-School in San Diego gathered together with their families and friends at the Lawrence Family JCC to celebrate their achievement. The 40 local graduates and matriculating students are part of 3,000 adult Melton students in 60
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Frankie and Johnny, two losers on the food chain of love, find each other while working together in a small greasy spoon restaurant. She is a waitress and he is the short order cook. We come across them in her New York walk-up tenement in the West 50’s after
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Carol Davis, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSACRAMENTO (Press Release)–California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner on Thursday announced that 1,010 insurance companies – more than 75 percent of insurers licensed to do business in California — have agreed to forgo future investments in 50 companies identified as doing business with Iran’s nuclear, energy or defense sectors. “This is a great victory for California
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–“Rhapsody in Blue” & other dances will be presented by the Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Company at 8 p.m., Saturday, May 15, and 8 p.m., Sunday, May 16, at the Don Powell Theate on the San Diego State University campus. Highlighting the evening will be the world premiere of “Rhapsody in
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Today, Katherine Olivia Sessions (1857-1940) might have gotten an argument from conservationists who believe introduction of new plant species adversely impact the surrounding eco-system. However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when San Diego was attempting to attract businesses and new residents, Sessions was highly admired
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Donald H. HarrisonHAIFA (Press Release)–A new intervention, the result of a collaboration among researchers from the University of Haifa, City University of New York and Indiana University, was found to reduce the self-stigma and improve the quality of life and self-esteem among persons with serious mental illness. “Just like wheelchairs and Braille have increased social integration for people
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We all know that the devil is in the details, and that the language of politics is hyperbole. Those two platitudes will come together in the “proximity talks” between Israel and Palestine that the Americans are reminding us that they worked so hard to create. They may well doom the talks, assuming
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Roz Rothstein and Roberta R. Seid LOS ANGELES– An increasing number of students report that efforts to demonize Israel have intensified on college campuses. Most recently, the student senates at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), held marathon debates about anti-Israel divestment resolutions. In May, the annual Hate
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Middle EastNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Wednesday expressed its appreciation to University of California officials for their strong, unequivocal statement in which they announced their decision not to recommend to the university’s board divestment from companies doing business with Israel. Student organizations at the University of California recently put forward two bills
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