By Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — County Supervisor Kristin Gaspar on Friday announced formal plans to run for re-election in 2020, but a left-leaning poll obtained by Times of San Diego indicates she would be an underdog to Sara Jacobs, the Democrat who made a failed run for Congress in 2018. […]
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Ken Stone, San Diego County
By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — At the last minute on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 1, I received an invitation from Genine, my vivacious friend, to attend a program at the Hive. I had a long day of activities, and was ready to relax after dinner, but since the Leichtag campus is
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Rabbi Avi Weiss EN ROUTE TO SAN DIEGO — A central theme of my rabbinate has always been presence. In times of tragedy, it’s important to go – just be there. As a general rule, I have found that once going, matters fall into place. I write these words as I fly with my daughter,
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San Diego County, USA
By Rabbi Warren Goldstein JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Friends, at this tragic juncture in our shared history, I ask you a single question: As those fateful bullets punctured our world on the eighth day of Pesach in Poway – where were they aimed? That bullet, so heroically taken by Lori Kaye, may her memory be
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International, San Diego County, USA
By Chris Jennewein Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Poway of Chabad Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was injured during Saturday’s anti-Semitic attack, appeared with President Trump in Washington Thursday at the National Day of Prayer. “My life has changed forever, but it changed so I could make change,” Goldstein said at the White
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Chris Jennewein, San Diego County, USABy H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — By now we all know the facts: on the last day of Passover, 2019, an anti-Semitic fanatic attacked the Chabad synagogue in Poway. He killed a woman and injured several others including the rabbi. This latest attack on Jews in America comes just months after the worst attack on
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San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California — Congregation Beth El dedicated a 30 by 9 foot mural of a Tree of Life on Thursday, May 2, that incorporates, among other elements, ceramic butterflies symbolizing children who were murdered in the Holocaust. The outdoor Yom HaShoah ceremony led by the congregation’s former president Sonia Ancoli
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
By Peter C. Herman Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — As a Jewish professor who has published on terrorism, I’ve been asked a number of times for my thoughts on what happened in Poway. At first, I had nothing to say that has not been said a thousand times before. The shooter (I will
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Rabbi Rafi Andrusier SAN DIEGO –My association with Chabad of Poway began before we moved to San Diego to establish a Chabad House for the eastern San Diego region in 2012. Even before I met my San Diegan wife, Chaya, in 2010. In 2007, I was a young rabbinical student in Chicago, and I
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — This has been somewhat of a surreal few days for the San Diego Jewish community. From Pittsburgh to Sri Lanka, over the past few months we have heard about attacks on houses of worship. While we gathered together and mourned with faith communities around the world, the attacks
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Numerous activities have been scheduled to memorialize Lori Kaye, who was murdered by a gunman at Chabad of Poway last Saturday. San Diego State University students and the Jewish Studies Program plan a noon vigil on Wednesday, May 1, in front of Scripps Cottage on campus to stand “against all
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Alleged gunman John T. Earnest, 19, pleaded not guilty in Superior Court on Tuesday, April 30, to one charge of murder, and three charges of attempted murder stemming from the April 27 shooting at Chabad of Poway. He also pleaded not guilty to one charge of attempted arson
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy Eric George Tauber POWAY, California — It was a dreary evening, but that didn’t stop about 4,000 people from coming out to Poway High School for an interfaith vigil sponsored by the ADL (Anti-Defamation League). Folks who might not normally wear kippot on a Monday were sporting them proudly alongside hijabs, turbans and a few
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San Diego County
By Rachael Golembesky SAN DIEGO –Coming to my mind are all the memories and fun times I experienced every time I visited my sister congregation, Chabad of Poway. I first came to know Chabad of Poway through its youth camp. The camp run by my beloved friends, Rabbi Mendy and Rebbetzin Bluma Rubenfeld. The camp
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA