SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Congregation Beth Am’s Center for Lifelong Jewish Learning, sponsored by the Mizel Family Foundation, has several new classes starting in February. To Cry Laughing: Jewish Comedy will be held Tuesdays from 7:00-8:30pm from February 16, 2010 to March 16, 2010. In this multimedia class, Rabbi David Kornberg will lead the group through […]
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San Diego CalendarCARLSBAD, California (Press Release)– Temple Etz Rimon of Carlsbad will formally install Rabbi Karen Sherman at a special Havdalah Service at 6 p.m. on Saturday, January 9 at the Temple. The festivities will commence with wine, cheese and hors d’ouevres followed by the 7 p.m. Havdalah Service and installation ceremony. Dessert and socializing will follow the services. Temple
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League disseminated the following press release urging attendance at the annual All People’s Breakfast , in which ADL is a participant. “On January 18, 2010, 7:30am people throughout San Diego County will gather together for The 22nd Annual All People’s Breakfast. Hosted by the YWCA of San Diego County, the theme
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San Diego CalendarENCINITAS, California (Press Release)– The Women’s Auxiliary of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities is excited to announce its 32nd Annual Gala, “Cirque du Seacrest Masquerade Ball,” which will take place on Saturday, February 6, 2010 at the beautiful Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. Honorary Co-Chairs Esther and Bud Fischer are pleased to lead this year’s
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San Diego CalendarEthan Bronner, “Weighing Netanyahu as a Peacemaker,” in New York Times Dean Calbraith, “Sol Price valued his workers over stockholders,” in San Diego Union-Tribune Helen Gao, “Library’s Secret Treasure: Wangenheim Room,” in San Diego Union Tribune Blair Grubb, “It Should Again See Light,” on Chabad.org. (Thanks to Phyllis Kahn for spotting it) Donald H. Harrison,
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Compiled by Gail Umeham Lasker Lodge News Southwestern Jewish Press February 6, 1954 Page 4 By Lou Levitt Lasker Lodge is looking forward with interest to the forthcoming visit of Supreme President Phil Klutznik. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for many of 0our members to meet him. As far as we know, it is the
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CalendarBy Donald H. Harrison CARDIFF BY THE SEA, California—The leadership of Temple Solel is helping to evolve the concept of Judaism as a spiritual buffet. First, the Reform congregation announced its Synaplex program in which on several Shabbat evenings throughout the year, congregants could go temple and find a number of simultaneous offerings – much
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The United Jewish Federation of San Diego County has announced two major fundraising events to be held in 2010, the Men’s Event and the Women’s Division “Options.” The Men’s Event, to be held from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Wednesday, January 27, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla will feature Brigitte Gabriel,
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San Diego CalendarCompiled by Gail Umeham ** United Jewish Fund Head Outlines Plans for 1954 Campaign Southwestern Jewish Press February 6, 1954 Page 1 Louis Moorsteen, newly elected president of the United Jewish Fund, announced that the 1954 campaign is scheduled to open on Monday, March 29. Selection of campaign leadership will take place during the early
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Adventures in SD History, Middle East, San Diego CalendarCORONADO, California (Press Release)–What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel that have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to think about race without reducing it to racism or to physical differences? Writing on the eve of the Holocaust, Freud proposed that Jewishness is constituted by the inheritance
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San Diego CalendarBy Peter Eisner LA JOLLA, California–Sol Price, the founder of Price Club and the acknowledged father of warehouse superstores who was a life-long advocate of liberal politics and quietly gave millions to charity, died at his home in La Jolla, California, on Monday at the age of 93. His family said he had been in
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SHOPPING SPREE–Students and parents of Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School purchase presents for needy children. _______________________________________________________ SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Ten San Diego needy Jewish families’ Chanukah wish lists were granted on Sunday thanks to the generousity of the students from Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School. Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School wanted to bring
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San Diego CalendarDavid Brooks, “The Hannukah Story” in The New York Times (a different take) Keith Darce, “Scripps Hospital in Encinitas Gets $10 million donation (from Leichtag Foundation,” San Diego Union-Tribune Daniel Gordis, “A Real Miracle or the Doing of Extraordinary People,” in the Jerusalem Post Phil Jacobs, “Sharansky comes to Baltimore,” in Jewish Times of Baltimore
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–As described in a previous article, Alan Cohen, a New York father of two, suddenly diagnosed with leukemia with only weeks to live, needs a matching bone marrow donor to save his life. For a transplant to be successful, both donor and recipient must match genetically. Because patients are most likely to
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