By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Former World War II Prisoner of War Sy Brenner in 2012 published a memoir called The Night I Got Killed, telling about the harrowing experiences he had keeping his Jewish identity secret from his Nazi captors and serving the camp as a medic. On Monday, March 9, […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Gosh, I never felt better while lunching on a hamburger and a Coke. You see, I was at the Temple Emanu-El Purim Carnival, and any profits from that quick lunch—as well as from any other food sold on Sunday, March 8 — were to be donated to the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
(Editor’s Note: At Monte Vista High School in suburban Spring Valley, a gun was found along with narcotics in the locker of a 14-year-old student, who was arrested on Friday, March 6, according to Sheriff’s Deputies. Meanwhile in San Diego, four schools were placed on lockdown after an anonymous email threatened violence. In the following story,
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – One of the nice things about a Purimshpiel is that it doesn’t have to follow the precise script. In fact, the whole megillah can be changed, just so long as the high points of the story from the Book of Esther are included. At Tifereth Israel Synagogue on
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release)– On Sunday, April 19, at 1:30 p.m. the Jewish Federation of San Diego County will present a special Holocaust commemoration (Yom HaShoah) program. The theme of this year’s annual commemoration is: From Auschwitz to Activism – 70 Years on From the Holocaust. The event will be held at the Lawrence Family
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San Diego CalendarBy Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO–I’ve been on a self imposed sabbatical. I needed to take a break from writing for a couple of years. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it, Rather, I just didn’t have the time to either write regularly or to create columns worthy of our readership. Most of us hit a
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (SDONA) –An SDSU alumnus and lecturer for the College of Business Administration has endowed the school’s Center for Leadership and Community Service. Jeffrey Glazer, Class of ’81, was joined by university and student representatives for a naming ceremony on Feb. 26 for the Jeffrey W. Glazer Center for Leadership and Service. “The more
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San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A fight is brewing at Mt. San Jacinto College in Riverside County over a proposed speech on May 13 by Miko Peled, the anti-Israel activist whose late father, Matti Peled, was an Israeli general who became part of the peace camp. As first reported by The Israel Group,
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—When Joseph Kanfer, the father of Purell hand sanitizers, focuses this week on Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speeches to AIPAC and to Congress, he will do so “because I think it is necessary for our very survival but my love is Jewish education.” Kanfer, whose GOJO manufacturing company is
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Yoav Talmi, one of Israel’s foremost composers and conductors, will be speaking during services at Ohr Shalom Synagogue, 3rd and Laurel, in San Diego, next Friday evening, March 6, 7:30 p.m. His talk will be: “From the Diary of an International Israeli Conductor.” Talmi, former conductor of the San Diego
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego CalendarBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — As the former director of the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University for 18 years and holder of the Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History there for 24 years, I was outraged by the Horowitz Center designation of SDSU as one of the top ten anti-Semitic universities in the United States.
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Lawrence Baron, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Women’s Philanthropy Division of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County is orchestrating a community wide art drive, dubbed Art from the Heart, in recognition of this year’s International Good Deeds Day, which will come to full fruition on March 15, 2015. Through collaboration with several community partners, Federation will
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Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – The Jewish Federation of San Diego has provided a grant to the MidraShow (www.midrashow.com), a joint project of The Orthodox Union’s NextGen Department in San Diego, OUNext, to be held at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 10, at the Lyceum Theatre in San Diego. Prior to the performance hors d’oeuvres and a beer
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CalendarESCONDIDO, California (SDJW) — Chesed Home, the Jewish community’s licensed board and care facility for adults with serious mental illness, announced on Monday, Feb. 23, that it has one opening available in its group home and two openings in its independent living homes. Here is a link to more information about who is eligible for
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education