By Brian Tauber SAN DIEGO –Lest I repeat the mistake of Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of a Martian invasion of earth that created widespread panic across America, Federation is NOT closing. But…what if it did? What if the decades of leadership, programming, services and financial support locally and around the world ended? What if
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San Diego CountyBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Celebrating its tenth anniversary as an annual part of the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, this year’s Women of Valor featured seven outstanding local Jewish women, Jaqui Silver, Pianist and Educator; Allison Price, Philanthropist and Body Builder; Theresa Dupuis, Chair of San Diego Jewish Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy;
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By Amy Robins SAN DIEGO — My son Sean Lewis Robins dreamed up The Seany Foundation in his bed. Sean, 16 at diagnosis, had been trapped in his illness, Ewing sarcoma, a rare pediatric bone cancer for six years already. Due to his isolation and inability to have a normal teenage life, Sean reached out
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After Margaret Hunter pleaded guilty June 13 to conspiracy in the misuse of the campaign funds of her husband, Congressman Duncan Duane Hunter (R-Alpine) and in so doing helped prosecutors lay out a case against the congressman, questions arose what will happen in Hunter’s 50th District should it
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San Diego County, USABy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — David Radzynski became the youngest concertmaster of a major symphony orchestra when, in 2015, the 28-year-old violinist was selected to fill that post in the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO). Up until then, Radzynski had never played in a professional orchestra, but his formidable talents, honed in the United
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Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — Madeleine Albright, the first woman to be appointed a U.S. Secretary of State, warned graduating UC San Diego students Saturday to beware when “pride in ‘us’ hurdles into hatred of ‘them’” in multi-cultural America. “When pride in ‘us’ hurdles into hatred of ‘them,’ the American tapestry unravels
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) surprised and mollified a restive crowd of environmentalists Saturday when she announced that when she returns to Washington for Tuesday’s congressional session she will “be signing onto the Green New Deal.” Her announcement was greeted with 16 seconds of applause, which might
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – Democratic U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris and Dianne Feinstein , both from California, on Thursday applauded the approval of a resolution condemning the recent anti-Semitic attack on worshipers at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue. S. Res. 231, Condemning the horrific Anti-Semitic Attack on the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San
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San Diego County, USASAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Mayoral candidate Todd Gloria will bring his campaign to opponenet Barbara Bry’s home turf when he speaks July 17 at Congregation Beth Israel, where Bry is a member. Her forum will be hosted by the Beth Israel Men’s Club at a buffet dinner to be served at 6:30 p.m. at
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San Diego CountyBy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — While there is little to laugh about when it comes to the subject of the Holocaust, Simon Wiesenthal (Tom Dugan), began the one-man show with a joke. The longer the show went on, the more the actor revealed the character, and perhaps a trace of hubris, of Simon
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Eva Trieger, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – As the House Armed Services Committee considers the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) throughout the day on Wednesday, Congresswoman Susan Davis (CA-53) added key measures to the base bill. As a senior member of the committee, Davis influences policy changes and crafts key provisions each year in the bill.
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By Zev Bar-Lev SAN DIEGO – A student, let’s call her Ida, says: “I find the Hebrew language completely opaque, as if hidden from me by a thick curtain. I’ve memorized the whole alphabet, all the shapes & their sounds, but I can’t make much out of words, much less sentences—even with a bunch of
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO –The 2019 Fringe Festival is in full swing, eleven days and nights of “Eyeball Busting” shows. To qualify, each show can be no more than an hour and the festival organizers like to keep the venues close to each other so that audience members can easily go from one
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Playwright Ali Viterbi , judging by In Every Generation, is a fresh young voice with much to say. The play, presented Thursday evening, June 6, as part of the 26th Annual Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival, is in four parts. It zig-zags between eras, managing to deal
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