SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Congresswoman Susan Davis (D-San Diego), who played a central role in securing construction funding and working with the community on the name for the courthouse, on Monday, March 30, helped dedicate the new Judge James M. Carter and Judge Judith N. Keep Federal Courthouse at the Judge John S. Rhoades Federal Judicial […]
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San Diego County
{Eulogy delivered March 29, 2015 at the Home of Peace Cemetery, San Diego} By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO–At the Seder table we read a special book which has an unusual name. The name is derived from the answer to the question posed in the Bible where we are told that the day would come
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Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Men’s Club of Beth Israel of San Diego will welcome San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman as its featured speaker at the April 15 Dinner Forum, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Chief Zimmerman’s presentation will provide an update of both police department issues and crime trends. She’ll also share her journey from
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San Diego Calendar
SAN DIEGO — Israeli Food Critic Gil Hovav, who is a great-grandson of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the founder of modern Hebrew, will be the featured speaker at an event showcasing Israeli foods. At 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 25, he will lecture at the Bottles & Wood, 5039 Shawline Street in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood of San
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San Diego Calendar
ENCINITAS, California (Press Release)– On Sunday, March 15, 2015 The Anti-Defamation League hosted its second annual “Nation of Immigrants” community Seder at The Ranch in Encinitas. The Passover Seder celebrates the exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. This message of hope, liberation, and freedom is universal. The event was chaired by Jim Farley,
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San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Adopt a Family Foundation will host its annual fundraiser from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday, April 18 at Green Acre, 10300 Campus Point Drive, San Diego. Music is the theme of the evening: Am Echad, Shir Echad – One People, One Song. The significance of the theme is to promote
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San Diego Calendar
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — The community mikvah, providing waters for spiritual immersion for a variety of rituals, has decided to suspend its programs while its board reassesses communal needs and acceptance. With less activity in prospect during this transition, its executive director, Rabbi Lenore Bohm, will step down March 31 to pursue other opportunities. Following
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– On April 13, 2015 various theaters, cultural organizations and memorial institutions across the country will unite to honor victims of the Holocaust by joining in Remembrance Readings for Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah). This inaugural event is led by theaters from San Diego, including the La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, North Coast
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Jewish History, San Diego CalendarBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — (With a shout-out to our new followers in the San Diego Jewish World) In San Diego in 1888, Congregation Beth Israel hired its first rabbi, Samuel Freuder. What career move did Rabbi Freuder subsequently make that he later considered a mistake? A. In 1889, Rabbi Freuder converted to Christianity
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Mark D. Zimmerman, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Some 20 years ago, Brian Schottlaender was serving as an associate librarian for collection services at UCLA, when Doug Greenberg invited him to visit a movie studio lot in Burbank. Greenberg took him to the trailers which then were housing the interviews that volunteers had videotaped with survivors of the
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationEditor, San Diego Jewish World As we prepare for the annual Holocaust commemoration on April 19th, we are reaching out to ask for your help. We are searching for names of local Holocaust Survivors as well as those who have passed away in this last year. Although we work closely with the New Life Club,
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Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Bonnie and Raymond Schwartz are an unusual couple, although probably not unique in this regard: One is a transplant donor, the other is a transplant recipient, and their benefactor and beneficiary were not each other. Today, the couple often lectures about the emotions, the procedures, and the “how
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — For some, the results are spectacular as they have been for Carey Perloff, the Artistic Director of A.C.T., the American Conservatory Theatre based in San Francisco. Perloff has won numerous awards and distinctions for her work and collaborated with the likes of playwright Tom Stoppard, BD Wong (of Law
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — You don’t have to be Marcel Proust to recognize the association between the aroma of a Jewish deli and memory. It still happens every time I enter DZ Akins. For me, the intermingling of the scents of fresh challah, chicken soup, chopped liver, corned beef, flanken, grilled onions, lox,
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Lawrence Baron, San Diego County