San Diego County

UCSD’s Jews Muslims team up for kosher, halal dining

By Zev Hurwitz LA JOLLA, California — The May 14 meeting of the Associated Students at UCSD —the governing student body —unanimously passed a resolution in support of a joint project brought forward by the Union of Jewish Students and the Muslim Student Association to establish kosher and halal dining facilities on campus. Over the past […]

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

D.A. promises to prosecute those who try to re- victimize fire victims; warns against looting, price gouging

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As San Diego County reeled under the impact of nine separate wild fires that burned more than 9,100 acres on Wednesday, May 14, District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis issued strong warnings against looting, price gauging, and scamming by anyone who would “revictimize those who have been victimized already.” Noting

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San Diego County, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

San Diego, Escondido Humane Societies agree to merge

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Gary Weitzman, president and CEO of the San Diego Humane Society and SCPA, joined Sally Costello, executive director of the Escondido Humane Society, on Wednesday, May 14, to announce their two organizations have agreed to merge “with a goal of saving the most vulnerable animals in our community.” They said their “community

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San Diego County

G’mach, Jewish Gift Closet, draws KPBS honor

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– In celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month and as part of its ongoing commitment to cultural diversity and responsible banking, Union Bank, N.A., has partnered with KPBS to honor three extraordinary Jewish Americans as local heroes.  The 2014 Jewish American Heritage honorees are: Helene Bortz and Myrice Goldberg, co-founders of San

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San Diego County

2 Qualcomm sales directors accused of insider trading

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Two former Qualcomm sales directors have been charged with four counts of insider trading in an indictment unsealed today. According to the indictment, Derek Montague Cohen and Robert William Herman were both directors of Qualcomm’s North America Sales Department.  In addition to their day jobs, they were also part of an

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San Diego County

San Diego Jews in the News: May 9, 2014

Editor’s Note:  This is a new column about newsworthy members of San Diego County’s Jewish community.  We’ll draw our accounts from local print, broadcast and Internet media, adding tidbits now and then from our own store of knowledge.  The names of  people we know  are Jewish community members will appear in boldface type. SAN DIEGO – Two Jewish

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Tunisian-born Jackie Gmach shares her American torment

Jacqueline Semha Gmach (with Hillary Selese Liber), From Bomboloni to Bagel: A Story of Two Worlds, Gefen Publishing House © 2014, ISBN 978-965-229-641-2, 288 pages including glossary and epilogue. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This is a difficult, shockingly honest book, by the woman who helped to engineer, and who perhaps even personifies, San

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 21, 1958, Part 1

  Attention Family Historians:  If you would like a JPG photo copy from the Southwestern Jewish Press of any “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” article that has been reprinted on the San Diego Jewish World website, simply copy the website address of the article, and send it along with the article’s headline, with a $5

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, March 7, 1958, Part 3

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