Judaism

Blue and White Days raise money for Poway victims

  By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – Once again it will be “blue and white day” this coming Friday at the Bellus Academy here.  Students will dress in blue and white, contribute $2 a piece, and tell customers at the cosmetology school about the tragedy that struck Poway on April 27 when a gunman […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA

Yom HaZikaron: The pain and privilege of memory

Editor’s Note: Following are remarks delivered at the Yom HaZikaron observance Tuesday evening, May 7, at the Lawrence Family JCC. By Yiftach Levy LA JOLLA, California — We typically think of memory as a purely mental exercise – we remember in our heads and our imaginations – but remembering is a fully multisensory experience. We

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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County

Lori Kaye, Pittsburgh victims mourned in Israel

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Tributes to the 12 Jews killed in the synagogue shootings of October 2018 in Pittsburgh and April 2019 in Poway took center stage Wednesday during The Jewish Agency for Israel’s memorial service for Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s annual day of remembrance for fallen soldiers and victims of terror attacks. The special guests

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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Review: ‘A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir’

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Rabbi Dr. Marc D. Angel’s A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir reads like an engrossing novel. It describes the transition of the Angel family from an immigrant Sephardic community into an Americanized group over several generations. In the process, it “reminisces” about the immigrant generation,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion

State Senate adjourned in memory of Lori Gilbert Kaye

She was murdered during gunman’s attack at Poway of Chabad East County Magazine SACRAMENTO, California — In the wake of the shooting in Poway, Senator Brian Jones (R-Santee) adjourned the Senate floor session on April 28th in memory of Lori Gilbert Kaye, a Chabad of Poway synagogue congregant who died during the synagogue shooting on

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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USA

Citation honors U.S. volunteers in Israel’s 1948 war

By Jerry Klinger WEST POINT, New York — After 70 years, and considerable effort by the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, the volunteer veterans of Israel’s War of Independence were finally, officially, thanked by the State of Israel. A citation was presented by Major General Michael Edelstein, Israel Defense Attache to the U.S., in

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, USA

Seeking names of Jewish officials, past and present

This article will be updated with additional names as they become available By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In Sunday’s edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune, reporter Peter Rowe wrote an overview story about San Diego’s Jewish community entitled “Jewish San Diego: Unique Odyssey.”  The subhead of the article was “Pain, promise over a history of

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County

Visiting israeli professor shares tears with her class

By Ronit Weiss Berkowitz Translated from Hebrew SAN DIEGO —  I am still emotionally overwhelmed by the powerful experience I had recently in class. I apologize for writing in Hebrew, it comes to me faster and I do not want those moments to slip away. I planned to talk to the students briefly about the

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA