By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Jerry Greenspan, a youthful looking senior with a keen sense of humor began the May 9 evening of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices. He is a founder of the Coronado Scribes. One of his poems, an ode to his home town, is printed below. The next featured poet, Sylvia Levinson, has
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Susan Horowitz, director of the Canadian American Active Retirees in Israel (CAARI), will brief the public at 6:45 p.m., June 15, at Ohr Shalom Synagogue on plans for CAARI’s 2018 mission to Israel. Under the auspices of the Jewish National Fund, retirees or semi-retirees (age 50 plus) sponsor tours of
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Middle East, San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Hillel of San Diego Board of Directors has named Rabbi David Singer Acting Executive Director of Hillel of San Diego, effective July 1, 2017. Hillel of San Diego’s current Executive Director Michael Rabkin has been named to a key new position with Hillel International as a Campus Support Director. In
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San Diego County, USALA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – An occasion like this only happens once every 45 years! On June 1, after nearly half a century of service, Executive Director Michael Cohen is retiring as Executive Director of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (JCC) in La Jolla. Cohen will be honored at the JCC’s annual Patron Party
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — What’s that you say? A gospel choir will be performing at a Conservative Jewish synagogue? Yes, it’s true: immediately following Havdalah at 8:16 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, the 80-member, multiracial Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Choir San Diego (MLKCC) will perform in the sanctuary of Tifereth Israel
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By Rabbi David Kornberg SAN DIEGO — Early on Shabbat morning, our Carmel Valley community was rocked with a tragedy of unprecedented scope. A 15 year old student at Torrey Pines High School called police officers to himself in the early hours of the morning. When they arrived he drew an airsoft gun and aimed
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Subsidized trips to Israel for non-Jewish student leaders have helped improve understanding of the situation in the Middle East as well as the campus climate at San Diego State University, Hillel representatives reported at a parlor meeting Thursday night in the home of Jeremy and Joan Berg. The
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – There was a thought-provoking moment during a staged reading Wednesday night of Janet Tiger’s one-act play “Caregivers Anonymous” at Ohr Shalom Synagogue. A newcomer ridden with guilt shame facedly admitted to a group of fellow caregivers that the thought had crossed her mind that her troubles would be
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — How does one live to be 95 and in good shape mentally and physically? Common wisdom tells us to eat well, exercise, stay positive, be part of a community, etc. Of course, it also helps to have good genes. In the case of Deborah Szekely, who turned 95 on
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International, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodA day after the fatal mass shooting in San Diego Sunday, a Go Fund Me page was set up to raise money to cover the victims’ medical expenses. The shooting at a gated pool area in the La Jolla Crossroads complex killed one woman and left six people injured. The Go Fund Me page was
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San Diego County, USASAN DIEGO (SDJW)– One woman was slain and seven other persons were wounded, some critically, by a beer-drinking, white, male gunman on Sunday in the swimming pool area of an apartment complex in the University City area of San Diego. Peter Selis, 49, was later identified as the gunman who went on a rampage at
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San Diego CountyPANAMA CITY, April 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the Disney Wonder transited the Panama Canal as the first passenger vessel to go through the canal’s new set of locks, marking a milestone for the cruise industry. The Disney Cruise Line 2,713-passenger ship was transformed in late 2016, expanding the length of the Disney Wonder to
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –David Amos, who is best known to the Jewish community as the conductor of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra and as a music columnist for San Diego Jewish World, on Thursday evening received a plaque naming an orchestra pit at Patrick Henry High School in his honor, and
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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The University of California San Diego will host His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at a 9 a.m. public event June 16, where he will speak about “Embracing the Beauty of Diversity in our World” to an estimated 25,000 attendees on the campus’s RIMAC Field. On May 1 at 10
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