Judaism

Jewish Family Service explores two kinds of kosher

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — When Jewish Family Service announced the College Avenue Center would move Sept. 1 from Beth Jacob Congregation to Temple Emanu-El–with hot kosher lunches to be prepared at the JFS campus on Balboa Avenue–Leopoldo Kahn raised the issue of whether Orthodox lunch patrons would be left out. He explained […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County

I-8 Jewish Travel: ‘Team Davis’

–17th in a series– Exit 6, Texas Street, San Diego ~ District Office of U.S. Rep. Susan Davis By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The distance between this city and Washington D.C. is approximately 2,690 miles, or a five-hour jet plane ride.  Impractical to go back and forth every day between work in Washington and constituents

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

Rabbi blames Israel for Gaza civilian casualties

Editor’s Note: Seth Moreida recently interviewed Rabbi Arik Ascherman, director of Rabbis for Human Rights, who explains in the first part of this series his criticism of Israel’s conduct of last year’s Gaza War.  In the second part of this series, Moreida will provide a contrary perspective.  Moreida is majoring in political science and international relations and

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Jewish History, Middle East

I-8 Jewish travel: Qualcomm Way, Qualcomm Stadium

–16th in a series– Exit 6, Qualcomm Way, San Diego ~ Qualcomm Stadium, By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In 1997, Qualcomm, a telecommunications industry giant co-founded by Jewish electrical engineers Irwin Jacobs, Andrew Viterbi and others, paid the City of San Diego $18 million for San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium to be renamed for

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food

Setting goals for our prayers

By Michael R. Mantell, PhD SAN DIEGO — I recently went on the Rabbinical Assembly website and found 15 prayerbooks. Prayerbooks. Fifteen of them. Who needs fifteen different prayerbooks? I guess the Rabbinical Assembly, the international association of Conservative/Masorti rabbis believes we, the members of Conservative congregations worldwide, need them. But fifteen? Seriously? This got me

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

The story of the youngest of the Monuments Men

By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — During the Second World War as the Nazis stormed across Europe, they systematically looted millions of priceless paintings, sculptures and other cultural artifacts from museums, including their own, churches, libraries and private collections, mostly Jewish. The monetary value ran into the billions, but the cultural loss was incalculable. It

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International, Jewish History