By Chris Jennewein Times of San Diego Poseidon Water and the San Diego County Water Authority said Wednesday they are monitoring the oil spill off Huntington Beach and are prepared to protect the Carlsbad desalination plant. The two organizations said in a statement that oil from Saturday’s underwater pipeline leak has not affected operations at
Novelist and historian, Leo Tolstoy once said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” This is born out in La Jolla Playhouse’s current production, The Garden. This two-woman show explores the complex relationship between a mother (Stephanie Berry) and her daughter (Charlayne Woodard). Woodard, a two-time Obie Award winner is also credited with writing the script. [Eva Trieger]
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving a La Mesa, California, family’s 20-year effort to reclaim a French Impressionist painting looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust and now hanging in a Spanish museum. Camille Pissarro’s 1897 work, “Rue Saint-Honoré, Afternoon Effect,” is worth by
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Why are Jews funny? Better stated, why do we love humor and why do we make it such a major part of our personalities? In 1978, Time magazine claimed that 80 percent of all stand-up comedians in the United States were Jewish. There are plenty of theories to explain why
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San Diego County
Before the expected sentence was handed down, family members of the murdered victim looked directly at the confessed shooter on Thursday, Sept. 30, and poured out their hearts. “What has your racist, entitled rage offered you in the end?” demanded Hannah Kaye of the defendant who had acknowledged murdering her mother, Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, in the lobby of Chabad of Poway on April 27, 2019, the last day of Passover. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — With victims and their families watching in a crowded San Diego courtroom, the gunman who opened fire at a Poway synagogue in 2019, killing one worshipper and injuring three others, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole. It was the expected sentence for John
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San Diego County
Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune Warehouses and other industrial facilities are popping up in Otay Mesa, a community in the southern section of San Diego on the border with Mexico, at a staggering pace — most notably in the form of an enormous new 3.4 million-square-foot Amazon distribution center. The expansion is being driven
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San Diego CountyThe name John Steinbeck evokes images of the hay-field covered American southwest, the Dust Bowl, hungry children with dirty faces, and men and women scarred by depression and poverty. Where Grapes of Wrath left off, a new, more hopeful tale is reimagined by American-born, Latino playwright Octavio Solis. His new play, Mother Road, will kick off the return to theater with San Diego Repertory’s run October 7-31. [Eva Trieger]
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
The Jewish Federation of San Diego County has updated its list of Jewish organizations and their leaders who have signed its statement condemning the anti-Israel resolution adopted by Local 1931 of the American Federation of Teachers, which represents faculty at the San Diego Community College District and the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District. The statement issued Sept. 17 by the Jewish Federation and other elements of the organized Jewish community may be read here. The AFT resolution that triggered the controversy may be read here. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
By Chris Jennewein SAN DIEGO — The Chancellor of the San Diego Community College District has expressed “sincere thoughts” to Jewish students and teachers offended by a local union’s condemnation of Israel and said the district will “foster an inclusive atmosphere.” “We recognize that the opinions expressed by some groups, including the American Federation of
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
There is a new chamber music series in town, taking place at the La Jolla Women’s Club. The inaugural opening concert, scheduled for this Sunday at 4:00 p.m., is sold out. The founder and director of the series is the French-Jewish pianist, Francois Chouchan. He is moving his nine concert series, Le Salon de Musiques, to La Jolla after an eleven year run in Los Angeles. [Eileen Wingard]
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
Hillel of San Diego will break ground today (Sept. 19) for a long-awaited center for Jewish students across La Jolla Village Drive from the UC San Diego Campus. [Times of San Diego]
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Chris Jennewein, San Diego County
If you’re a fan of the silver screen, you are in for a treat! Block off your calendars for October 14th through the 24th for the 20th anniversary of the San Diego International Film Festival. This extravaganza of films contains a vast array of genres including narrative films, documentary films and short films. With great sensitivity to the pandemic and public safety the SDIFF is offering many of the films virtually, while other films will be presented all around San Diego’s beautiful and iconic backdrops including Balboa Park, the USS Midway and the Catamaran Resort Hotel and Spa, paying homage to America’s Finest City. [Eva Trieger]
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Jewish Federation of San Diego County strongly condemns the San Diego Community College American Federation of Teachers Guild Local 1931’s “Statement Regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” and we do so with the full support of our valued community partners listed below. We are dismayed to find that the union representing community college and continuing education faculty and other employees in the San Diego Community College District and the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District voted in support of this misguided and simplistic statement that has caused sadness, fear, and anger as a result of its false claims and incendiary language. This statement creates an unsafe atmosphere for Jewish and Israeli students, faculty and staff, and other members of the San Diego and Grossmont Community College Communities. Consider how an anxious Jewish student might feel walking into the classroom of a professor who supported this statement. Consider the situation a Jewish junior member of faculty now finds themselves in with a department chair who supported the statement. [Jewish Federation of San Diego County]
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Middle East, San Diego County, USA