San Diego County

Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 11, 2018 (3 items)

Adam Schiff: Proposed national emergency to fund wall an abuse of power U.S. Rep. Adam Shiff (D-California) on Friday issued this statement concerning the ongoing partial government shutdown: “President Trump used the Oval Office to push for his wall in a prime time national television speech replete with falsehoods and fear mongering, and walked out

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International, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

A whirlwind hospital visit for shortness of breath

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — I am 92 and had recently noticed that I was getting a little short of breath just walking the hallways. I had not seen a cardiologist in years, so I decided to check things out—the question always being: Is it a normal age-related symptom or something else?

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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 10, 2019 (3 items)

Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin congratulates United Hatzalah “The Talmud teaches us that saving one life is as if a person saved the entire world. You save the lives of children, men, and women, 24-hours-a-day and 365 days a year,” President Reuven Rivlin told a contingent of United Hatzalah emergency responders. “You are called United Hatzalah,

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 7, 2019 (6 items)

Hebrew University distances itself from remarks of anti-IDF professor Five days following the incident in which a Hebrew University professor, Dr. Carola Hilfrich, scolded a student for wearing her IDF uniform to class, the university published a rare ad calling on students in uniform to come study at the university. “Students in Uniform? Welcome!” read

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Harold Brown, former Secretary of Defense, mourned

WASHINGTON D.C. — Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan issued the following statement about the death in Rancho Santa Fe on Friday of former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, a member of the Jewish community who also had served as president of the California Institute of Technology. It is with deep sadness that I extend

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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USA

Judge Gothard cites Biblical roots of U.S. legal system

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Retired Judge Sol Gothard of Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal told a kiddush luncheon audience at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Saturday, January 5, that some major tenets of the American legal system are derived from the Torah and the Talmud. Adding that “justice doesn’t win law cases,

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, USA

Lederer, Garin, Floto at JCC poetry night Jan. 8

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — One of the most stellar line-ups of poets since” Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices’” inception a decade ago, the Tuesday, January 8, at 7 p.m. program in the Lawrence Family JCC’s Astor Judaica Library will feature two local literary celebrities, Richard Lederer and Nina Garin, as well as Abigail Floto.

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, San Diego Calendar

Sightseeing Review: Oasis Camel Dairy

Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori RAMONA, California – Camels know all about water conservation.  Just ask Gil Riegler, the Canadian-born, Israeli-raised owner of the Oasis Camel Dairy located in this inland San Diego County town. “Camels can go two weeks without drinking, lose 25 percent of their body weight in

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 3, 2019 (4 items)

Four boys’ names from Hebrew Bible make San Diego County’s top 10 in 2018 Four names from the Hebrew Bible made the top 10 for boys born in San Diego County during 2018, according to records on file with the county Health and Human Services Agency.  These were Noah in second place with 202 instances,

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

San Diego County: America’s animal capital

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori and Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego County is the animal capital of the United States, and possibly the world. I say this without reservation or qualification after a 10-day vacation period during which my son David and grandchildren Brian, 10 and Sara,

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 2, 2019 (7 items)

Barbara Bry announces candidacy for San Diego Mayor in 2020 election Barbara Bry, one of two Jewish members of the nine-member San Diego City Council, has announced her candidacy for mayor of San Diego in the 2020 election.  The incumbent mayor, Kevin Faulconer, will be termed out. “Instead of making decisions designed to preserve a

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International, Jewish Religion, John McCormick, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USA