SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Kurt Eisemann, a protégé of Albert Einstein, died July 7 at the age of 95 following 26 years of retirement from his position as a professor of mathematical sciences and director of computing services at San Diego State University Born in Nuernberg, Germany, his family escaped to France in 1933, but […]
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Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – Lillian Faderman, an historian of gay and lesbian progress and struggles in America, is the curator of the San Diego History Center’s newest exhibit “LGBTQ+ San Diego: Stories of Struggles and Triumph,” which will last a year, or more if attendance merits.
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By Donald H. Harrison ANGELUS OAKS, California—Along with a few other San Diegans, I visited Camp Mountain Chai in the San Bernardino Mountains last week. On arrival, I saw a Baer. It turned out that Dan Baer is the director of the camp, located 134 miles from the parking lot of the Jewish Federation of
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — When Monty Python and the Holy Grail was released in 1975, their wildly irreverent treatment of the Arthurian legends seemed the height of chutzpah. With the advent of VCRs, it became a cult classic that true devotées could recite by heart. Adding a few more gags and songs, Spamalot
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
40 rabbis tour migrant centers in Tijuana, urge U.S. welcome immigrants This week, nearly 40 rabbis from across the country toured migrant centers in Tijuana as a part of a delegation to the U.S.-Mexico border. A growing number of asylum seekers have found temporary shelter and social services in Tijuana as they try to seek
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Celebrate, Commemorate: The History and Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community, editor Joellyn Zollman, San Diego History Center, ISBN 8780918-740090, 91 pages including acknowledgments and room for personal remembrances. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The recent exhibition at the San Diego History Center about our local Jewish community contained more information than most
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By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — How often do you catch yourself humming a tune, or singing along with lyrics, when you suddenly experience that moment of clarity as you realize the song’s message? The instant when you learned that “Ring Around the Rosie” was about Black Plague or that U2 was singing about
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Eva Trieger, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — For his final season as Music Director of the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, before handing over the director’s reins to the brilliant Israeli pianist, Inon Barnatan, violinist Cho-Liang Lin has assembled an outstanding group of artists to perform at sixteen concerts. Each concert includes a Prelude Lecture or
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO — The Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative brings together professors and researchers in Israel and San Diego for joint projects. Recently the organization named in honor of the late philanthropist and San Diego Jewish community leader Murray Galinson listed four of these projects in an email advisory. SDSU and Technion Joint Engineering Capstone
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USASACRAMENTO (Press Release) — The State of California appropriated $3.6 million to create the California Holocaust Survivor Assistance Program, the first California-funded program that ensures that Holocaust survivors are able to live out their lives with dignity. The proposal for the program was initiated and stewarded by Jewish Family Service of San Diego, in partnership
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel’s Men’s Club has scheduled Ruth Hohberg as guest speaker at the July 18 Dinner Forum beginning at 6:30 p.m. Her presentation will cover Getting Here, an Odyssey through WWII recounting some of the memories of her experiences as a child during the war. This program is open to all. Membership at Beth
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International, Jewish History, San Diego Calendar“Don’t fight forces, use them.” Buckminister Fuller. By Pamela Pollack-Fremd SAN DIEGO — There is an ethical sweetness on display in the film The House of Tomorrow, written and directed by Peter Livolsi and based on the novel by Peter Bognanni, possibly because the ideas and behavior are based on ideas expressed by architect, philosopher, dreamer,
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“And it shall be to you as a fringe that you may look upon it.” (Num.15:30 Koren) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Okay, so the Fringe Festival is not quite the same thing as the Biblical reference. But if you’re a true lover of the performing arts, it can be nice to get away
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Israeli Reserve Duty to Earn Academic Credits The Knesset on Monday passed in its third and final reading a law that will provide two academic credits to students who serve a minimum of 14 annual days of reserve duty. The measure was a initiated by Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home), MK Meirav Ben-Ari (Kulanu),
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