Council of Jewish Women Plan Nautical Party For Members Southwestern Jewish Press, July 27, 1956, Pages 1, 3 National Council of Jewish Women, San Diego Section, will weigh anchor this year on August 1 with a “Council to the Rescue” party beside the pool at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Sims, 4884 […]
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Jewish Center News Southwestern Jewish Press, July 13, 1956, Page 5 On Wednesday, July 18th, the registration for the Youth Camp will close for the season. Boys and girls, 13 to 17 years of age, have been participating in a Youth Camp experiment three days a week for
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—This past weekend had me settled in the Uptown/Hillcrest area catching two very different shows but both worthy of mention. Diversionary Theatre and Moxie Theatre have teamed up to mount the U.S. Premiere of Canadian playwright Michele Riml’s new play Poster Boys. Just down the street @ 6th and Penn Ion
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastSAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Students at San Diego Jewish Academy’s (SDJA) Golda Meir Lower School raised $756 to help the people of Japan after devastating earthquakes and floods ravaged their country in March of 2011. Initiated and inspired by SDJA’s fourth grade class, students as young as four years old took action to help those
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San Diego CalendarBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Some of the top leadership of the organized Jewish community of San Diego turned out for a service to memorialize Steven Weening, 64, and to comfort his wife, Leslie, who had been a long-serving executive assistant to the director of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, and
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego CountySymphony Season Opens At Bowl July 17 Southwestern Jewish Press, July 13, 1956, Page 3 The San Diego Symphony’s 1956 series of summer concerts will begin next Tuesday evening, July 17, at 8:30 p.m., with some of maestro Robert Shaw’s most ambitious conducting in three years as conductor. The concert will feature the Beethoven Ninth
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Kuchel Sponsors Resolution Outlawing Discrimination Against American Jews Southwestern Jewish Press, July 13, 1956. Page 1 The Southern California Division of the American Jewish Congress today hailed the action of Senator Kuchel who co-sponsored Senate Resolution No. 298, aimed at outlawing the discrimination practiced against American Jews by
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Carol Davis LA JOLLA, California—Some might call director David Schweitzer’s adaptation if Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” entertaining and they would be right. Some will agree that’s it’s pretty weird and they would be right as well. Some might look for a hidden meaning under it all and they may find that exercise well worth
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Star-Light Opera Opens 11th Season Thursday night Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Page 5 Star-Light Opera opens its 11th season of outdoor musicals in Balboa Park Bowl Thursday, June 28, at 8:30 with “The King and I” starring John Powell and co-starring as Anna, the “I”
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Page 3 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Vacation Precautions This is the time of year when things happen to personalities, to vital statistics, to resolutions made at the end of the previous year, and to plans
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By Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California – As the aroma of kosher hot dogs and hamburgers wafted from the barbecues on the parking lot of Ner Tamid Synagogue in the early evening of July 4th, Rabbi Nadav Caine and congregational president Mitchell Freedman, each in turn, contemplated how American ideals reflect those articulated in Jewish
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Betrothal Southwestern Jewish Press, June 29, 1956, Page 2 Mr. and Mrs. Rubin Recht announce the engagement of their daughter, Lucille, to Donald Goldman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Goldman, on June 15. Donald attended San Diego Jr. College and is currently attending Calif. State Polytechnic College
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By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO — I have my “own” State Senate District. No, I’m not planning to run anytime soon for the State Senate (or Assembly or Congress). But Paul Mitchell and his folks at Redistricting Partners created a proposal shaping it on my suggestion. A long-time political consultant in North California, Paul started Redistricting
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Mayor Ron Huldai of Tel Aviv, after showing the Oscar-winning short-subject documentary Strangers No More at a private gathering June 30 to promote the work of the Tel Aviv Foundation, found himself discussing a subject that has preoccupied both Israel and the United States recently: what should be done to
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