By Eva Trieger CARLSBAD, California — Who doesn’t wax nostalgic for those halcyon days of summer camp? Even if there are snakes in the lake or bug juice or pit toilets, there is nothing that connotes summer vacation like a stint at a summer camp, replete with singalongs, poison ivy, and mosquito bites. New Village
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — On September 2, 1939, much of the world was clueless that the Nazis had opened their first concentration camp to obliterate the Jews and Poles of Danzig, just after the outbreak of World War II. The camp, Stutthof, was in a marshy area where inmates were subjected to starvation,
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Eva Trieger, Holocaust, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
ENCINITAS, California —The opportunity to honor Pam Ferris is indeed a celebration in every sense of the word. Pam began her professional career with the organization in 1989, though she had previously served as an intern while in graduate school at SDSU. Her career spans several decades, and she has been an instrumental part of
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Opening doors in late-August in Torrey Pines, Tracy Borkum, principal of Urban Kitchen Group (UKG), has announced plans for Gold Finch, a modern delicatessen rooted in Jewish immigrant culture. Gold Finch is a deeply personal endeavor for Tracy—who draws on her childhood memories of growing up in London’s Jewish epicenters, Golders Green and Finchley
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San Diego County, Travel and Food
LA JOLLA, California — Dr. Beatrice Golomb, head of the UC San Diego Golomb Research Group, describes her father as “far and away the smartest person anyone who knew him had ever met.” That statement might sound like hyperbole until you learn more about the late Professor Solomon Golomb, a Harvard University-educated mathematician known as
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Israel, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — If you think Coronado Playhouse is going to let a pesky thing like covid upset their plans, you’ve got another thing coming! While this show was canceled a few weeks back due to the virus, the big-hearted little theater company offered a free matinee to patrons today. As a
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Doron Krakow SAN DIEGO — This week saw the return of the JCC Maccabi Games®. In this, its 40th year, the Games drew 1,600 Jewish teen athletes from 57 delegations and 67 JCCs across Canada and the U.S., as well as delegations from Bulgaria, Mexico, and Israel, to San Diego for a week of
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Doron Krakow, Opinion, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USA
By Selwyn Isakow SAN DIEGO — This week we mark Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. So many tragedies have happened to the Jewish people on this date – the 9th of Av, including the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem by the Greeks, and 656 years later the Romans destroyed
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Opinion, San Diego County
ENCINITAS, California (Press Release) — Seacrest Foundation and Guardians of San Diego will host the 30th Annual “Take a Swing for Seniors” Golf, Tennis and Pickleball Day with presenting sponsor, William Gumpert Foundation, on Monday, October 24, 2022, at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort & Golf Club. All levels of players are welcome, and all
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — First, there was the Revolutionary War’s “shot heard ’round the world” in 1775. Then, there was Bobby Thomson’s shot heard ’round the world to win the 1951 National League pennant for the New York Giants. But for San Diego Jewish World this past year, the focus has been
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Jacob Kamaras, Opinion, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — For more than half her 20-year tenure as a Democratic member of Congress from San Diego, Susan Davis encouraged the exchange of students from Jerusalem and San Diego, remembering that her own time spent as a young woman on an Israeli kibbutz was formative in her own life.
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This publication held its first annual event on Sunday, July 31, at an afternoon reception in a private home with a sweeping panoramic view of the La Jolla coastline. Jacob Kamaras, San Diego Jewish World’s editor and publisher, emceed the affair at which Roz Rothstein, a co-founder and CEO
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Donald H. Harrison, Opinion, San Diego County
By Eva Trieger What do you get when you combine the brilliance of actor/director/lyricist/playwright, Omri Schein with the actor/artistic director/heart of North Coast Repertory Theatre, David Ellenstein, with the “incredibly talented and joyously spirited cast” of The Remarkable Mister Holmes? A witty, delightful musical that is most assuredly Broadway-bound following this world premiere. Four years
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
CARLSBAD, California (Press Release) — Temple Etz Rimon of Carlsbad hosted an open house event in the Ocean Hills Community of Oceanside. The gathering was a complete success. Prospective new members learned everything the Reform Congregation has to offer. Speaking at the event were Cantor Caitlin Bromberg, the Temple’s spiritual leader and Mary Weiss, the
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County