SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Brotherhood of Tifereth Israel Synagogue will host the FBI’s Special Agent in Charge of the San Diego Division, Eric Birnbaum, Ph.D, at a kosher deli dinner open to both men and women beginning at 6:15 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 12, at the synagogue, 6660 Cowles Mountain Blvd. Birnbaum, whose PhD in […]
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San Diego Calendar
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Men’s Club of Beth Israel of San Diego hosts Mark Neville as its featured speaker at the October 21 Dinner Forum. Neville will provide an inside look at San Diego’s two season-ending College Football Bowl Games. He will discuss the pageantry and excitement the games bring to the
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San Diego County, Sports & CompetitionsSAN DIEGO (SDONA)– Local Jewish organizations are joining a national effort to ask President Obama to allow 100,000 more Syrian refugees to settle in the United States. Jewish Family Service of San Diego and the Leichtag Foundation in Encinitas are joining HIAS, the oldest international migration and refugee resettlement agency in the U.S., to petition the government. As over
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Middle East, San Diego County, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Tamara Azizov, formerly an accounts payable clerk at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center (“JCC”) in La Jolla, was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 11, by U.S. District Chief Judge Barry T. Moskowitz to 12 months and one day in jail for embezzling over $150,000 from the JCC, and concealing this income
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San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Chabad Hebrew Academy and the various Chabad houses within San Diego County are staging a one day fundraiser beginning at noon Wednesday, Sept. 9, and ending at noon Thursday, Sept.10, with the object of raising $1.1 million for the many Chabad institutions in the county. Each Chabad unit is in
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Becky Guttin is a diminutive woman with a large presence. She is a whirlwind of energy and creativity who sees art where others might not. She is known for collecting all kinds of discarded objects and giving them new life. She works daily in her studio on Miramar Road. She
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Mimi Pollack, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal, spiritual leader of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, has announced he will retire from that position on March 5, 2017, which with accumulated vacation days, will conclude his tenure officially on July 31, 2017. In all, he will have served San Diego’s oldest Conservative congregation for 29
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Donald H. Harrison, Michael Mantell, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (SDONA)–After decades of delays, Jonas Salk Elementary School in Mira Mesa will open its doors to students for the first time Tuesday as the San Diego Unified School District begins its new academic year. The $24 million school is named after Dr. Jonas Salk, who invented the first successful polio vaccine and later
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Jewish History, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison CARLSBAD, California – Within a matter of months, most probably before the end of the 2015 calendar year, the San Diego County Water Authority will receive 50 million gallons of fresh water each day from the new $1 billion Carlsbad Desalination Plant and pipeline that was financed by Poseidon Water
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, The World We Share, USA
Saying Goodbye to Mom By Saul Schwartz WASHINGTON, D.C. — My mother, Geraldine Myra (Young) Schwartz, lived most of her life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before she retired to San Diego with her husband, Norman Schwartz, 20 years ago. This is the story of her last few months and what I learned from about life from her
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
-20th in a Series- Exit 8, Mission Gorge Road, San Diego — Mission San Diego By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Under any circumstances a trip to Mission San Diego is worthwhile because it is the oldest mission in the chain that runs more than 600 miles along the coast of California and served as
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Federation of San Diego County has announced the launch of the community-based Center for Volunteer Service Learning, an initiative designed to catalyze more immersive and ongoing service learning opportunities for San Diego teens. The initiative is supported by a matching grant of more than $3,000,000 from the San Francisco-based Jim Joseph
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San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Soille Hebrew Day School already boasts an award winning science program, with its students winning more awards at the County-wide Fair each year than any other K-8 private school. New for this school year is an engineering and design program which has been created by the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
LA JOLLA, California — Judge Murry Luftig, long-time resident of San Diego, passed away on August 27 at the age of 92. He is survived by his wife of sixty-eight years, Rita Luftig, and his children, Vicki Pierce, Mitchell Luftig, Andrea Ferber, and Laura Luftig, along with seven grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Judge Luftig
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County