The life of the late former state Assemblyman Howard Wayne was remembered by approximately 150 friends and relatives on Saturday, Nov. 18, as one exemplified by a sharp wit and a deep understanding of government and politics. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Cynthia Wynn Taylor Citron, born September 16, 1934, in Boston, died November 11, 2023, in New York, of pneumonia and old age. For nearly 20 years she was a well known theater critic in Los Angeles, writing for the Santa Monica Daily Press, San Diego Jewish World (for which she served as L.A. County Bureau
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A “celebration of life” for the late former Assemblyman Howard Wayne (D-San Diego) has been scheduled for 1 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 18, at Elijah’s Restaurant, 7061 Clairemont Mesa, according to his wife Mary Lundberg. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Sahar followed in the footsteps of her dear older brother Dvir, whom she so highly looked upon, and drafted into the Iron Dome unit. She signed an extra two years in the army in order to be in a combat unit and become a commanding officer. After many challenges and roadblocks along the way, Sahar finally did it. She became a first (and later on second) lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Force. She was a mother to her soldiers, caring for their every last need, educating them with true values and morals, and training them to perform and succeed. [Tova Winick]
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William Medwied, 90 a Holocaust survivor from Ukraine, passed peacefully on September 30. There is a tradition that when people die on Shabbat they are immediately in heaven with G-d. [Sandy Scheller]
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A woman of valor who can she be? I believe her name is Fanny. Holocaust Survivor Fanny Krasner Lebovits, born October 27, 1922, passed away at 5 p.m. on September 7, 2023, less than a month short of age 101. {Sandra Scheller}
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Sadie Weiner — beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother to members of the San Diego Jewish community — passed away on May 15 in Perth, Australia. She was 96 and lived independently until the final few weeks of her life. She was born Sadie Navias on August 9, 1926, in Johannesburg, South Africa, before living in
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In Jewish tradition, the fate of the world depends upon 36 upstanding people known as the Lamed Vavniks. As a matter of interest, there are 36 leaders and officers of the Jewish Teen Foundation (JTF) in San Diego County. They will be awarding philanthropic funds that they have raised to various nonprofit organization at a 4 p.m. ceremony Sunday May 21 at Congregation Beth Am in the Carmel Valley neighborhood of San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]
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News of Jewish interest broke on Tuesday at the International, National, State and Local Levels: [Donald H.Harrison]
News developments on Monday, April 10, found Jewish officials playing important roles at the international, national and local levels. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Mazal tov to Alyssa Sepinwall, who by a process of nominations by students, has been honored as the best professor in the California State University System. She was lauded for engaging students in discussions rather than simply lecturing to them from behind a lectern. [Donald H. Harrison]
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Two honorees of the Women’s Museum of California died on March 15. One was author and columnist Natasha Josefowitz who was 96. Lucid until the end, she had been writing columns for La Jolla Village News and San Diego Jewish World through the end of February. An archive of her articles that appeared on
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The very fact that we Jews can gather today is because of Rose Schindler and those like her. Our standing here is a testament to just how durable she was, and how resilient Jewish civilization is. Rose could record her story and tell it over and over again because she survived it. And we can tell it today because we’re still here. [Rabbi Mathew Marko]
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Chabad at La Costa community member Adeline Glovsky Hale passed away on August 31, 2022. She was 87. Adeline was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Portland, Maine, in May 1935. The family had emigrated from the Ukraine. Addy, or Channah to her Jewish friends, grew up in a close-knit family where Yiddish was
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