By Rachael Golembesky SAN DIEGO –Coming to my mind are all the memories and fun times I experienced every time I visited my sister congregation, Chabad of Poway. I first came to know Chabad of Poway through its youth camp. The camp run by my beloved friends, Rabbi Mendy and Rebbetzin Bluma Rubenfeld. The camp […]
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USATALLAHASSEE, Florida (Press Release) –The Florida Senate unanimously passed an anti-antisemitism bill which was previously passed by the Florida House unanimously. The bill now moves to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to sign. The new bill defines antisemitism and mandates that discrimination against Jewish people be treated the same as acts of racial discrimination in Florida’s K-20 public
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Jewish History, USA
WASHINGTON , D.C. (Press Release) – Rep. Scott Peters (CA-52) led the House of Representatives in a moment of silence Monday following Saturday’s shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue: “Madame Speaker, it is with great sadness that I rise today to speak of the tragic shooting that took place at Chabad of Poway on
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Jewish History, USA
SACRAMENTO (Press Release) – The California Legislature observed Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday at the State Capitol and hosted ten Holocaust Survivors who shared their stories on the Assembly floor. The California Legislative Jewish Caucus also held a press conference attended by Governor Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, Assembly
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International, Jewish History, USA
By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – Fifteen people mounted the bima at Chabad of Poway to remember and praise Lori Gilbert Kaye and to sing their appreciation for God and America. Hundreds more were inside the sanctuary. And a crowd stretching well down a walkway was outside listening to the story of a woman
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USABy Eric George Tauber LA JOLLA, California — Sunday’s Community Holocaust Commemoration had been planned for months, long before the terrorist attack on Chabad of Poway the day before. But it felt that much more important to be there. And I’m glad we got there early as the house was packed with a multi-generational crowd
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Eric George Tauber, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — As death closed in on the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, some of those coping amid the wretched conditions affirmed life in an extraordinary way: They operated a clandestine medical school. By one estimate, as many as 500 students received some medical education through the school
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He found ways to obtain U.S. visas for persecuted European Jews By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — On April 26, President Donald Trump declared Holocaust Remembrance Week to culminate with Yom HaShoah, May 1-2. Ebie Wood is the president of the historical society of Pound Ridge, New York. Many months earlier, she and the
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A 25-minute documentary on the life of Holocaust Survivor Ruth Goldshmiedova Sax, who recently died at age 90, had its premiere Sunday night at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on a doubly sad occasion. It was Yom HaShoah, which is the annual date for memorializing victims of the Holocaust, and
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Editor’s Note: Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of Chabad of Poway, back at his post after surgery attempted to save his index finger, described his experiences when a shooter came into his synagogue on Saturday, which was both Shabbat and the last day of Passover, and killed a dear friend, and wounded three other people, including the
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USATo watch the NBC interview click here By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, recuperating from the loss of an index finger in the shooting at his synagogue in Poway, paid tribute from his hospital bed to a congregant who may well be responsible for saving his life. Interviewed by telephone by
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Obituaries & memorials, USABy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Hiddush is an organization that by its self-definition is “for religious freedom and equality.” I referred to an opinion poll it sponsored recently in my April 25 reflections when I argued in favor of a Likud-Blue and White unity government in Israel (without Orthodox and ultra-right parties). In the
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Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — My father Rabbi Dr. Nathan Drazin was a very wise man. He was a rabbi in Shaarei Tfiloh Congregation in Baltimore, Maryland for 31 years. I enjoyed listening to his sermons. The one I liked the best concerned his true interpretation of the incident where many
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
Victims identified as Lori Gilbert Kaye, z”l; Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein; Almog Peretz, and young Noya Dahan; Alleged shooter John P. Earnest taken into custody By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – A white male shooter opened fire during Saturday morning Shabbat services on the last day of Passover, killing one woman at the Altman Family
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County