Midrash Psalms 118:17 When you are asked in the world to come, “What was your work?” and you answer, “I fed the hungry,” you will be told, “This is the gate of Adonai, enter into it, you who have fed the hungry.” By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While the above is certainly a
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Travel and Food
By Rabbi Benj Fried Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A Times of San Diego article portrayed the major leaders and clergy in the San Diego Jewish community as passively mum in the face of President Trump’s anti-Semitic portrayals of Jewish Democrats as disloyal and vicious attacks on Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar. The article
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — There’s plenty of drama in dance studios, especially when there are competitions coming up. It’s a lot of pressure to put on these kids and rivalries among friends complicate their relationships. The characters are “tweeners,” children in their pre-teen years filled with rambunctious energy, insecurities and curiosities navigating
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Harry Litman, a former United States Attorney for western Pennsylvania and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, will address the Beth Israel Men’s Club at a 6:30 p.m. dinner buffet Wednesday, Sept. 18, at the temple, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. Litman teaches Constitutional Law and National Security Law at both the UCLA
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San Diego Calendar, USA
By Peter C. Herman Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Now that public outrage has forced the retraction of the K-12 ethnic studies curriculum proposal because it contained way too much jargon (e.g., “cisheteropatriarchy,” “hxrstory,” and “accompliceship”), leftish propaganda, and the exclusion of such ethnic groups as Jews and Indian-Americans, we still have another
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
LA JOLLA, California — Seacrest Village Retirement Communities, in association with the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, has announced it will be offering a series of discussions concerning issues facing elderly family members. The series has been titled “Navigating & Advocating for You and Your Aging Loved One: Medicare, Housing Options, Legal Matters, and More.”
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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education
This story was updated on August 26, 2019 By Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A week before the November 2018 election, 17 San Diego-area rabbis signed a letter denouncing Rep. Duncan Hunter‘s “fear mongering” attacks on the Palestinian ancestry of Christian opponent Ammar Campa-Najjar. They said the Republican congressman’s attacks on the
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As Arlene Bernstein became less and less “observant”of halacha in her religious practice, she became more and more deeply involved in Jewish life. Today she is a cantor as well as a rabbi. And for the next year, she is serving as the Acting Senior Rabbi of the
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Donald H. Harrison, Eileen Wingard, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California – After President Donald Trump’s administration began enforcing its “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers, the flow of migrants arriving at the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown San Diego was reduced to a trickle. This posed a big question – what to do now? — for the
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, USA
-Last in a series- By Nicole Nocon COTTBUS, Germany — When my friend Steven Schindler of San Diego first asked me if we should bring The Butterfly Project to my daughter’s school in Cottbus, Germany, I would never have dreamt of what this initiative would set in motion. Steven is the son of the Holocaust
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International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA
How do we make the Holocaust accessible to students? What’s at stake, for them, for us, for the world? But equally important, what can we learn from working with one another? – Sondra Perl -Second in a series- By Maren Oom Galarpe SAN DIEGO — As an arts educator and perpetual student of life, I
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International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USA
By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — As a student at Southern California Yeshiva (SCY) High, La Jolla native Uriel Green would often hear from alumni who returned to the school to speak to current students about their experiences living in Israel and serving in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Green, 19, will soon count
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Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – With more than 100,000 students preparing to return to city schools on August 26, their safety is uppermost in the minds of those in charge of their education, San Diego City School Superintendent Cindy Marten told a small but animated gathering Sunday night at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. “We
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – Up and down San Diego County, Jewish congregations and organizations are beginning to embrace the celebration of Tu b’Av, a relatively unknown holiday in the United States, but considered to be the equivalent of Valentines Day in Israel. This secular year, it arrived on the evening of August
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast