San Diego County

Infant care center dedicated at Tifereth Israel

    By David Ogul SAN DIEGO  – Tifereth Israel Synagogue’s Silverman Preschool in the San Diego neighborhood of San Carlos on Thursday, May 14, officially dedicated the Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg Infant Care Center, an addition that enables the rapidly expanding preschool to accommodate newborns and infants of working parents. Enrollment at Silverman Preschool has nearly […]

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David Ogul, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

I-8 Jewish travel: Roseville section of Pt. Loma

Editor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.”  Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from

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

Tourists get an inflated welcome to San Diego

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego International Airport wanted to celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week with some excitement and enthusiasm, but, goodness, not with a bang! That’s why costumed characters such as Matilda the Koala from San Diego Zoo and Max from Legoland gently coaxed children who were among arriving

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

I-8 Jewish travel: Valley View Casino Center

Editor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.”  Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food

Davis says vote will protect vets from loan sharks

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) – During consideration of National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in the House Armed Services Committee, Congresswoman Susan Davis voted to let the Department of Defense (DOD) move forward in expanding financial protections for our men and women in uniform. Language in the NDAA would have blocked the DOD from extending those

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San Diego County, USA

Port, HTA cut ribbon at bayside info center

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – For reporters and photographers covering groundbreakings and ribbon-cuttings, such events can tend to blur together in that there often is little to differentiate one from the other.  For the participants however, these events can be important milestones marking the beginning of new chapters in their corporate lives

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

Federation coordinates local Nepal relief effort

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Federation of San Diego County is mobilizing a communal response to the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal and caused widespread destruction throughout Southern Asia earlier this week. San Diegans can donate at http://jewishinsandiego.org/nepal-earthquake-relief 100 % of all donations will go directly to those affected by the earthquake.

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International, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share

Elie Alexis Shneour (Dec. 11, 1925 — April 14, 2015)

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Elie Shneour was born in France on December 11, 1925. The son of Zalman and Salomea Shneour, he had one sibling — Renee Shneour, who later became Spanish dancer Laura Toledo. Shneour was raised in Neuilly sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris. His family was of Jewish heritage, his father having emigrated from Czarist Russia

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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County

Rabbi David Singer to head Hillel at UCSD

LA JOLLA, California (SDONA)–Hillel of San Diego announced Sunday the appointment of a new director for its programs for Jewish students at the UC San Diego campus. Rabbi David Singer will begin work in La Jolla in July. He was previously founder and director of Makom, a spiritual community for millennials affiliated with one of Dallas’ largest

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Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Inter- religious invocations honor San Diego’s history

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Although invocations by Rabbi Michael Berk of Congregation Beth Israel and Monsignor Richard Duncanson of Mission San Diego de Alcala came in reverse chronological order as far as San Diego history was concerned, they were in correct historical order from the standpoint of world history. Jews were first on the

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County