SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Two Jewish San Diego County residents — Charles Wax and Linda Sax — have shared their families’ connections to the D-Day Invasion on June 6, 1944, that led to the defeat of Germany and the fall and repudiation of Nazism. Charles Wax, president of Waxie Sanitary Supply, wrote in a […]
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International, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – At first I thought that the San Carlos Recreation Center was an odd location for Chabad of East County to have a reading of the Ten Commandments followed by a Shavuot dairy meal on Wednesday, June 4. But I was wrong. I realized my mistake during a break
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (SDJW) — With victory under her belt, San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis plans to focus more resources in her fourth term on the following areas, according to the U-T’s Kristina Davis: human trafficking, elder abuse and cyber crime. * U.S. Senators Bernie Sanders, (Independent-Vermont) and John McCain (R-Arizona) have been attempting
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (SDJW)—District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis dominated the U-T coverage of Tuesday’s election, with a news story, two sidebars, an editorial and a pair of letters to the editor on the race which she won handily against the challenges of Bob Brewer and Terri Wyatt. A story by Kristina Davis was headlined, “Dumanis in
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A well-known San Diego Jewish family is investing its time, money, talent and several generations of local social contacts and volunteerism into A.J.’s Fish Merchant, a new informal “fish shack on the pier” style restaurant in the Keil’s Shopping Center at the intersection of Jackson Drive and
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – With 100 percent of the unofficial returns counted, San Diego’s June 3 election proved to be a big day for incumbents. They were returned to office. Among Jewish candidates, the biggest beneficiary of this trend was District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis who won a fourth term outright with 160,658
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– A member of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda, Gidongo Armstrong, will be the dinner guest at a meeting of the Men’s Club of Congregation Beth Israel at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 18. A resident of Mbale in eastern Uganda, the 26-year-old Armstrong will tell a story “which is one of
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Fund Approves Merger To United Jewish Federation Southwestern Jewish Press, April 18, 1958, Page 6 To keep pace with a rapidly expanding Jewish community in San Diego County and the increased growth of Federation Agency services, the Board of Directors of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego approved the merger of the Fund and
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Adventures in SD HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release) –– Elissa Greenberg, a Francis Parker senior, a member of the community outreach program Whatever It Takes (WIT), was among teens written up by the U-T’s Pam Kragen in her “Making A Difference” column. She and other teens had received a $10,000 grant to mentor younger students in making healthy eating
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – Funeral services are scheduled at 11 a.m., Friday, June 6, at El Camino Memorial Park for philanthropist Miram Katzin, for whom, along with her husband Jerome, the Memory Care Unit at Seacrest Village Retirement Communities in Encinitas is named. Besides by her husband, Miriam. Katzin is survived by her children,
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San Diego County
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — How can one have a healthier and more meaningful lifestyle? The psychologist Dr. Michael Mantell likes to use acronyms when conveying his healing messages as he believes they are a helpful way for people to remember them. For him, the acronym PERMA conveys an important message as
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Michael Mantell, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationLewis Katz, co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer died with six other people in a small plane crash in Massachusetts. He had attended a gathering at the home of Doris Kearns Goodwin, the presidential biographer, according to an AP story in the U-T. * Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ind-Vermont,plans to introduce legislation this week to permit veterans
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — With rhythmic incisiveness, virtuosic flair and technique to burn, Asi Matathias, violin and Victor Stanislovsky, piano, performed a riveting violin-piano recital last Thursday evening at the Lyceum Theatre. The America-Israel Cultural Foundation co-sponsored the evening, part of the Lipinsky Jewish Arts Festival. All proceeds went to the America-Israel Cultural
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, celebrating its 51st anniversary two nights before Erev Shavuot, paid tribute to two women of the Bible and to three women who have been essential to the school’s own success. Bobbe Reitman, the school nurse, was honored as volunteer of the year.
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