San Diego County

Sha’ar HaNegev native fills S.D. Jewish Fed’n post

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Itamar Harari has been appointed as Director of Community Initiatives to oversee many initiatives of the Jewish Federation of San Diego, including the development of partnerships and collaborations. Harari was raised in Sha’ar HaNegev, which is San Diego’s sister city in Israel. He served as an elite paratrooper in the Israel Defense

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Middle East, San Diego County

I-8 Jewish Travel: 4 family business stories

-41st in a Series– Exit 13B, Jackson Drive, La Mesa ~ Grossmont Center, The Legacies of Adolph Levi, Nathan Straus, Isaias Hellman, and Joseph Sherwood By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California – When you see the large “Grossmont Center” sign on the hillside above Jackson Drive, what images come to mind?  How about the signs

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

Film Festival Preview: ‘The Prime Ministers’

The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers directed by Richard Trask; Moriah Films; USA; 2015; 114 minutes; English, Hebrew; English Subtitles, Documentary; Southern California Films; to be shown twice at the Reading Cinemas 14, at 4665 Clairemont Drive, San Diego, at 5 p.m., Sunday February 7, and at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11; and once the

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Cerullo’s ‘theme park’ will target Jews for conversion

By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — Imagine a resort for evangelicals.  Imagine a theme park like setting encompassing 18 acres a Jewish World Outreach Pavilion, attractions named Wings over Israel, March of Prophecy, and Walk Through the Bible, along with “the Wailing Wall and Plaza” and a training center for evangelist outreach to Jews. This is

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Jewish Religion, San Diego County

Gala will raise funds for special Seacrest Village TV

ENCINITAS, California (Press Release)– The Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities will host its 38th Annual Gala, “Silver Screen” on Saturday, February 27th at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla with Esther Fischer and Linda Platt serving as Gala Co-Chairs. Being long-time friends of each other and of Seacrest, the two women are delighted to serve

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San Diego Calendar

I-8 Jewish Travel: ‘The Yiddisher Cowboy’

  -40th in a Series- Exit 13 A, Spring Street, La Mesa, California – ‘La Mesa Village’ By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California – In the quaint shopping village on both sides of La Mesa Boulevard stands a furniture and accessory store that identifies itself as “Mostly Mission.”  A plaque further identifies the building

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA