By Mimi Pollack LA JOLLA, California — “Hybrid Culture.” Those words resonated with me because I was brought up in a hybrid culture. On Wednesday, May 9, there was an interesting platica [discussion] given at the Lawrence Family JCC by Isaac Artenstein, a well-known producer, writer, and director of such movies as A Day without […]
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Jewish History, Mimi PollackA LOOK BACK OVER MY SHOULDER By Garry Fabian Editor’s Note: In 1936 Garry Fabian’s family fled Germany to Czechoslovakia, hoping to escape Nazi persecution, but in vain. By 1942 Garry, aged eight, was interned in Theresienstadt. He was to spend till May 1945 in that ‘model’ concentration camp and was one of only about
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Deceased Southwestern Jewish Press, December 14, 1956, Page 4 Samuel Tokman passed away on November 26 at a local hospital. Services were held at Greenwood Mortuary and interment at Home of Peace Cemetery. Rabbi Monroe Levens and Cantor Jos. Cysner conducted the services. Mr. Tokman was a member
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By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida –Jews come in many shapes and colors. One of the strangest is the Karaites, founded in the 7th century by a charismatic Jew named Anan Ben David. He totally rejected the holiness of the Talmud and strictly obeyed only the 613 mitzvot found in the Torah. The Karaite
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By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — On Tuesday night I shared a fascinating lesson plan from Yad Vashem (Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority) with my Community Jewish High students. The lesson juxtaposed two reports from a transport that carried Jews from Dusseldorf, Germany to Riga, Latvia that left on December 11, 1941.
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM — A few days ago, within a week of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, my mother’s youngest brother passed away. His passing made me reflect on the long tentacles of the Shoah that leaves its mark on lives until today. Isi was the youngest of five children, born in 1926
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — Whimsy was a theme of Grossmont College’s two-day festival celebrating its 50th anniversary. An old-fashioned sock hop in the college’s gymnasium on Friday, April 13, looked back to the college’s founding in 1962, and students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends gave the “old college try” on
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Stanley Schwartz, president of the Jewish Historical Society since 1994, and long-time member of the Congress of History of San Diego and Imperial Counties, has received the coveted Award of Distinction from the Congress of History. At the ceremony held in March at the at the Congress of History’s 47th Annual History Conference,
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Jewish HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Marriage Told Southwestern Jewish Press, December 14, 1956, Page 2 Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Smollar announce the marriage of their daughter, Judith Sandra, to David Edward Honig, son of Mrs. Mary Honig, of Phoenix, Arizona. Judy was a student at S.D. State College, affiliated with Pi Alpha Lambda
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Schulman & Ornstein Accept 1957 Campaign Leadership; Greatest Campaign Since 1948 Southwestern Jewish Press, December 14, 1956, Pages 1, 6 Victor Schulman and Dr. Walter Ornstein have accepted the co-chairmanship of the 1957 United Jewish Fund campaign. The announcement at the Fund’s 23rd Annual Dinner Meeting last
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, November 30, 1956, Page 11 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Living with Advertising It may seem far-fetched for Psychology to be interested in big business, even though it takes psychological factors to make a business big. However, when we
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– Hadassah’s centennial in the San Diego area was celebrated at a special Shabbat service on Friday, Feb. 24, at Congregation Beth El. Highlights of Hadassah’s achievements through each decade were shared with the congregation, including more than half of Israel’s hospital medical research and the rescue of thousands of children
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SAN DIEGO–Michael Naiman recently was looking through some old family albums when he came across a photo that his grandmother, Edith Naiman, had meticulously labeled. It was a photo of the B’nai B’rith Auxiliary taken on May 22, 1939. The auxiliary later became the Birdie Stodel Chapter of B’nai B’rith. The photo and its caption
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By Joel A Moskowitz, M D LA JOLLA, California– Survivors, trauma, psychological effects, memories, depressive disorder, OCD (obsessive compulsive), bitterness, deniers, and more recently PTSD (a term which is much overused) and rarely victory” These words have been associated with victims of the Holocaust. On assignment recently to cover the Seacrest Village gala for San
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