Temple Emanu-El sells kits for emergencies
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Interactive brief on upcoming S.D. Jewish Film Festival
San Diego Jewish Film Festival will include 37 feature films plus 21 shorts to be shown Feb. 8-18 at four different locations in San Diego County. WHAT: The San Diego Jewish Film Festival presented by San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS; www.sdjff.org WHEN: Thursday, February
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San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastCouncil woman Barbara Bry to address CBI Men’s Club
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel’s Men’s Club has scheduled San Diego Councilmember Barbara Bry as guest speaker at the 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 17 Dinner Forum where she will discuss “Keeping San Diego Safe, Clean, and Prosperous”. Councilmember Bry was elected to the City Council in 2016 and represents San Diego District 1
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San Diego CountyCabrillo National Monument announces fee increase
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Cabrillo National Monument will be increasing the daily park entrance fee on January 1, 2018 for non-commercial vehicles. The commercial vehicle fees are not changing. The new rates for vehicles will be $15.00 per vehicle (good for everyone in the vehicle,) walk-ins/bicyclists $7.00 per person and motorcycles will be $10.00.
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San Diego CountyHonors for JFS Corner Market providing free food
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Jewish Family Service of San Diego’s (JFS) Hand Up Food Pantry has been awarded “Best Choice Pantry” for its Corner Market at the 2017 San Diego County Hunger Conference. Each year, the Hunger Conference, hosted by the Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank, convenes to discuss how to stop
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San Diego CountyButterfly project flutters into S.D. History Center Jan. 28
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) —In recognition of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) San Diego History Center in historic Balboa Park will host a powerful call to action through the arts on Sunday, January 28, from 1:30-4 p.m. The program will utilize the lessons of the Holocaust, to discuss the dangers of hatred and bigotry. This timely
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San Diego CalendarImperial Beach mayor stresses community, ecology
By Donald H. Harrison IMPERIAL BEACH, California – Serge Dedina is a 6’4 surfer, a PhD in geography, a descendant on his Jewish father’s side of Holocaust survivors, a renowned coastal conservationist, and, since December 2014, mayor of the small city of Imperial Beach. There were so many facets of his life to talk about
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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, The World We ShareHoliday classic strikes universal themes
“Some people think Ebenezer Scrooge is [Jewish] Well, he’s not. But guess who is: all Three Stooges.” -Adam Sandler By Eric
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastThe paradox at the Israel- Jordan border
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – The paradox of the border between Israel and Jordan is that, on the one hand, the cold peace between the two countries has resulted in some laudable cooperative projects. On the other hand, the political situation in the Middle East is such that too much attention given
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Middle East, San Diego CountyThe arts mean opportunity, former Klezmer musician Merryl Goldberg teaches at Cal State San Marcos
By Donald H. Harrison SAN MARCOS, California – Arts professor Merryl Goldberg of California State University at San Marcos declares that arts equal opportunity. She explains that the more that arts are incorporated into a child’s life, the better career prospects he or she will have as an adult. A former saxophonist with the Klezmer
Israel’s foreign relations improving, SWU gala told
By Donald H Harrison SAN DIEGO – Amid growing indignation over aggressive Palestinian tactics at universities throughout the Diaspora, Dore Gold, former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, provided a note of optimism at a StandWithUs banquet Saturday night attended by over 500 Israel supporters. Interviewed on stage by Waxie Sanitary Supply Chairman
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAMusic fans, fellow Jews lay George Fogelman to rest
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Fellow Jews and fellow musicians joined forces on Wednesday, Nov. 27, to pay last tribute to George Alan Fogelman, 72, who died of cancer on Nov. 22 while under hospice care, leaving his wife Gail, two children, three grandchildren, nieces and nephews and many friends. Rabbis Joshua Dorsch
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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyQualcomm heiress is a top contender for Congress
By Colleen O’Connor Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — I have never met the woman. Never met her parent or her grandparents, her friends or enemies. Don’t live in the District. But, seriously, give the woman, Sara Jacobs, a fighting chance. A recent article in the San Diego Union-Tribune contains the opening salvo in
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San Diego County, USASan Diego climate change efforts – less money?
San Diego has a well-deserved reputation for its consistently “Goldilocks” weather: It’s often just right, seldom too cold or too hot. Rainstorms come in quickly but rarely linger. The typical forecast when it’s not sunny all day? Overcast until 11 am, followed by sunshine in the afternoon. But that doesn’t mean climate change isn’t already
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