By Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — His parents are as pious and kind as they are broken and devastated. Yesterday, on Valentine’s Day, I helped them bury their 31-year old son, who died from a drug overdose. The scene at the burial field was hopelessly painful—a mother cried out from the abscess of her […]
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San Diego CountyBy Jack Forman SAN DIEGO — An improbable plot in a film is not necessarily a liability, especially when a movie has other things going for it — great acting, a funny and touching script with a good heart and an uplifting message, sure-footed direction, excellent cinematography and appealing, and off-center characters. Dough, a British comedy-drama
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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Norm Katz is a conversationalist who can speak with insight about a great number of fields, including the government’s use of microfiche; diseases of the retina; how to detect submarines while they are under water; data jukeboxes; police communications; retirement funds; credit card theft; genome sequencing; and ways
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Hundreds of guests are expected at the Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities’ 38th Annual Gala, themed the “Silver Screen,” on Saturday evening, Feb. 27, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla, according to co-chairs Esther Fischer and Linda Platt. Proceeds from the gala will support the Jewish organization in
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A movie about an Israeli boy who drops a Torah in his Moroccan Jewish neighborhood prompted a discussion at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival on Wednesday, Feb. 10, about the time that the wooden roller of a Torah scroll rolled off the reader’s table and onto
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-43rd in a series- Exit 14A, Grossmont Center Drive, La Mesa, California ~ La Mesa Cardiac Center By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California –Dr. Ronald Goldberg, the senior of three physicians at the La Mesa Cardiac Center on the campus of Sharp Grossmont Hospital, tells of a woman who periodically and for no apparent
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Have you been to a mall recently? There is a new uniform: skinny jeans or leggings with boots of various shapes and styles. It is really appealing. I decided that I, too, wanted to look fashionable. I found some old, opaque tights—as they were called back in
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San Diego County, The World We Share
By Donald H. Harrison Alan Goldenberg SAN DIEGO — Alan Goldenberg joined the Navy, served eight years, and he still gets to see the world in various civilian jobs that were an outgrowth of his Navy service. The skills he learned as an electronics technician led to positions with a variety of land-based companies that
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Across the United States and in Conservative congregations around the world, Men’s Club members and guests spent Sunday morning, Feb. 7, well in advance of the televised Super Bowl game, learning about the significance of tefillin and the prayers said in association with wearing the ancient phylacteries. The
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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Shor M. MasoriVictor ‘Young’ Perez directed by Jacque Quaniche; Bulgaria, France, Israel; French with English Subtitles; Drama; to be shown twice at the San Diego Jewish Film Festival: At 8 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 7, at Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Blvd., San Marcos, and at 4:30 p.m., Sunday, February 14, at the Reading
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Caterer Olga Worm was honored Friday night, Feb. 5, with the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Sisterhood President’s Award. Speakers lauded not only her contributions to Sisterhood, but also her commitment to foster children, outreach to people down on their luck, and her generosity to the employees and clients of Bekker’s
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-42nd in a Series– Exit 13A, Jackson Drive, La Mesa ~ Chabad of East County By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California – If I were to ask you what a pioneer looks like, perhaps you would describe him as a man wearing a coonskin hat, a buckskin jacket and pants, and moccasins. Maybe you
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Fifth graders at the Benjamin Franklin STEAM Magnet Elementary School on Monday, Feb. 1, helped to explain to the news media how a low-tech Israeli invention will help their school conserve rainwater, and may prove to be an important tool in California’s fight against periodic droughts. STEAM is
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jewish Family Service on Sunday, Jan. 31, dedicated a reconfigured and re-imagined campus intended to architecturally incorporate Jewish values and principles within its buildings and on its grounds. At a ceremony to affix a mezuzah to a property at 8788 Balboa Avenue and to honor lead donors Joan
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