San Diego County

Philanthropists Jerome and Miriam Katzin remembered

Editor’s Note:  Among the speakers at the memorial service Tuesday, June 17, for Jerome and Miriam Katzin were Marjory Kaplan, president and CEO of the Jewish Community Foundation; Rabbi Philip Graubart of the host Congregation Beth El;  Katrina Kurnit, a granddaughter; Irwin Jacobs who described Jerry’s influence at Qualcomm; Dick Atkinson, former Chancellor at UCSD,

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San Diego County

Abayudaya tells of journey in behalf of his fellow Jews

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some day Armstrong Gidongo will be an airplane pilot, but it’s debatable whether he will ever experience as exciting a trip as the eight-month solo journey that he took  as a boy, not yet 18, from his impoverished village of Navugoya, Uganda, to Israel, where he hoped

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

San Diego teacher returns from pioneer’s hometown in Germany; school exchange celebrates Louis Rose

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—At a student assembly in the Grundschule (Elementary School) of Neuhaus an der Oste, Germany, the town’s Mayor Georg Martens proudly received a copy of a proclamation signed by San Diego’s Mayor Kevin Faulconer celebrating the “sister” relationship between the school which Martens was visiting and the Cabrillo Elementary School

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

San Diego’s Tony Gwynn was the antithesis of Korach

By David Ogul SAN DIEGO –Mr. Padre is gone. The greatest hitter of our time and the most celebrated San Diego State Aztec ever is dead at 54. Tony Gwynn’s passing on Monday, June 16,  from cancer caused by years of chewing smokeless tobacco has caused this city, this county, this region, to reflect on

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David Ogul, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions