SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — In a special Memorial Day section which many readers will keep as special souvenirs, the U-T quoted Rabbi Irving Elson, deputy chaplain of the Marine Corps as well as force chaplain of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Pendleton, on the time he, as a non-combatant, had his life saved […]
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The Eight Day Test Southwestern Jewish Press, April 4, 1958, Page 11 By Rose Lee Rothblatt Call it Pesach or call it Passover, But know that nothing could be greater; Than for all Jews to earnestly observe The first and second seders. Sponge cake instead of apple pie, Wine instead of beer; Nuts instead of
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Adventures in SD HistorySAN DIEGO (SDJW) — A U-T/10News poll shows District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis leading challengers Bob Brewer and Terry Wyatt respectively by a margin of 44-27-6 with a whopping 22 percent of the voters undecided. A story by Mark Walker quote Jay Leve, founder and editor of Survey USA, saying if the undecided voters split
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Campaign Reaches 43% of U.J.F. Goal Southwestern Jewish Press, April 4, 1958, Page 7 The 25th United Jewish Campaign opened this week with 43% of the goal reported pledged, according to Campaign Chairman Harry Wax. Over $130,000 has been secured toward the $303,000 goal for 1958, the highest quota set in San Diego’s history. Plans
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Passover 1958 Southwestern Jewish Press, April 4, 1958, Page 3 Passover, history’s first revolt against human bondage, never seemed more vivid to us than it does today. It was four thousand years ago that Moses, intrepid spokesman of God, made it clear to the ruler of Egypt that to oppress human beings is to blaspheme
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Adventures in SD HistorySAN DIEGO (SDJW) — U.S. Rep. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) cast two newsworthy votes in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, May 22. The U-T and Associated Press reported that the House of Representatives had rejected Pentagon and White House pleas for spending cuts, with Davis among those voting for a $601 billion defense authorization …. The
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{Happy Passover!} Christian Committee of Jewish Fund Names Leaders Southwestern Jewish Press, April 4, 1958, Pages 1, 7 A native San Diegan was named to head San Diego’s Christian Committee of the 1958 United Jewish Fund Campaign. Frank G. Forward, President of the Union Title Insurance and Trust Company, accepted the chairmanship, according to Harry
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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Nobel Prize laureate Gerald Edelman has died at age 84, reports the U-T’s Bradley Fikes. Edelman, who died in La Jolla on Sunday, was director of the Neurosciences Institute as well as a professor of neurobiology at the Scripps Research Institute. Robert Porter and he shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in
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San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (Press Release) – That’s a wrap! City Councilmember Marti Emerald walked the red carpet on Wednesday evening, Mary 21, along with local student filmmakers at San Diego’s cinematic event of the year. The City’s Annual Waste No Water Film Contest Red Carpet Premiere took place at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center IMAX
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David Cohn, head of the Cohn Family Restaurants in San Diego, has been touring the National Restaurant Association’s trade show in Chicago, and the U-T’s business writer Lori Weisberg caught up with him as he was touring the 2,000 exhibits with his son Jeremy Cohn and son-in-law Mike Feinman. With that many exhibits to see,
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San Diego CountySAN DIEGO (SDJW) — In follow-up stories to those we’ve noted in the past, the morning U-T San Diego reported on Tuesday, May 20, that: –The San Diego City Council decided to submit to a Charter Review Commission the question of whether voters, in the wake of Bob Filner’ resignation as mayor in a sexual
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego on Monday, May 19, announced a $1 million matching gift donation from local philanthropist and campus supporter Ernest Rady. The gift from the Rady School naming donor will fund fellowships that will help attract outstanding MBA students. Rady has pledged to donate one
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– For Pauline Foster, community philanthropist and longtime supporter of the University of California, San Diego, giving $7.5 million in support of the new cancer care hospital at the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center is a gift from the heart—both her husband and brother died of cancer. The campus announced today that
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationSAN DIEGO (SDJW) –Mayor Kevin Faulconer, in his inaugural issue of The Mayoral Monthly issued May 19, praised 9th District City Councilwoman Marti Emerald in two separate articles. Emerald, a member of the Jewish community, was cited for her work as chair of the Council’s Public Safety and Livable Neighborhoods Committee, in implementing Faulconer’s “One
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