By Chris Stone Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California –At nightfall Sunday on the first day of Hanukkah, the candle on an oversized menorah was lit by members of UC San Diego Hillel for profound gratitude after many years of persistence akin to their forefathers. With major donors including Joan and Irwin Jacobs, Herbert […]
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Hadassah celebrates its ‘Women of Excellence’ By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Dafna Michaelson Jenet, an author and Colorado state legislator, perhaps felt that she was preaching to the choir when she addressed the San Diego area contingent of Hadassah Southern California on the issue of community problem solving. In 2009, she had traveled to
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Daniel and Phyllis Epstein’s move to La Jolla in 1986 started them on a path to becoming loyal advocates and supporters for their neighbor, the University of California San Diego. “UC San Diego is so important to the community, including contributing to the regional economy and producing talent for our
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By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California — Steven Schoenherr, a professor emeritus of history at the University of San Diego, researched information for a book celebrating the Chula Vista Centennial, published in 2011. As the book could not contain all Schoenherr’s research, unpublished material subsequently was put on line. In 2014, Schoenherr and Susan
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Robert Gilleskie, who has more than 30 years experience in energy management and power quality, including 20 years at San Diego Gas & Electric, will discuss man-made climate change at a dinner meeting of the Beth Israel Men’s Club at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 19, at the temple at 9001
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego Museum of Natural History, familiarly known as “The Nat,” began attracting new visitors last July when it installed an Escape Room on its bottom floor, with the idea of inducing gamers to come to the museum. Escape Rooms grew out of video games, only instead
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodSDSU Jewish Studies Program sponsors Chanukah concert Dec. 4 San Diego State University’s Jewish Studies Program will present a Chanukah concert, “Shimmering Lights,” featuring Yale Strom’s Broken Consort at 7 p.m., Dec. 4, in the Smith Recital Hall. Strom, who serves as artist in residence for the Jewish Studies Program, says the concert will include
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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — The vivacious pianist, Ines Irawati, welcomed the overflow crowd in Monique Kunewalder’s living room before her partner for the Piano Duo Recital, Daniel Wnukowski, introduced their first selection, Dance Macabre by Saints-Saens. This transcription for two pianos from the orchestral original was carried off with crackling demonic fervor, and Wnukowski’s
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “I know this Christmas, every wish won’t come true, but I’m dreaming of Christmas with you.” Everyone who has had a family member come back from a tour of duty knows that they never come back quite the same. You see in their eyes the dark shadows of
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By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Three years after she converted to Judaism, actress Marilyn Monroe made the Billy Wilder comedy Some Like it Hot in 1959 with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Now, almost 60 years later, this city across the bay from San Diego still remembers her vividly. The Hotel del Coronado, where
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Patrick Henry High School’s new PHAME Auditorium was the setting for the first of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra’s (TICO) recent pair of concerts, Sunday, November 4 and Tuesday, November 6. I heard the Tuesday evening performance at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, but I learned from others that the excellent
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyBy David Ogul SAN DIEGO — It’s all about equality. That was the message from Cheryl Temkin, an executive member of the Speakers Bureau for the Jerusalem-based Women of the Wall, who was the featured speaker Nov. 16 at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego following Kabbalat Shabbat services. Just months after Israeli paratroopers liberated Jerusalem’s
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David Ogul, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego CountyBy Howard Wayne SAN DIEGO — More than a week has passed since the last ballot was cast in the 2018 election. We know that Democrats took control of the House of Representatives and that Republicans strengthened their numbers in the Senate with a net increase of one or two members. Democrats have a net gain
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San Diego County, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Robert Gilleskie, former director of engineering at the California Center for Sustainable Energy, will address the need to counter climate change in an address at the Beth Israel Men’s Club dinner meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 19, starting at 6:30 p.m., at 9001 Towne Centre Drive “Based on overwhelming evidence of
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