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Ruach, plenty of spirit, at Camp Mountain Chai

By Donald H. Harrison ANGELUS OAKS, California—Along with a few other San Diegans, I visited Camp Mountain Chai in the San Bernardino Mountains last week.  On arrival, I saw a Baer. It turned out that Dan Baer is the director of the camp, located 134 miles from the parking lot of the Jewish Federation of

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Rube Goldberg still inspires fanciful art

By Oliver Pollak SAN FRANCISCO — The Contemporary Jewish Museum just celebrated its 10th anniversary. The celebration coincided with an exhibit on cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg, curated by Goldberg’s granddaughter, Jennifer George.  Initially that exhibit had opened in Seattle, then came to San Francisco from Canadian, Texas, and goes next to Portland, Maine. It

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11 million stamps, 18 collages recall the Holocaust

    From The Israel Philatelist FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts –Students and faculty leaders at the Foxborough Regional Charter School have completed 18 collages made with donated postage stamps and celebrated with an open house.  The 18 signify Chai (Life).  They have collected over 11 million stamps for the 6 million Jews and 5 million others murdered

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Wanted: Better listeners, who don’t interrupt!

By Sheldon F. Merel ENCINITAS, California — You’re sitting around chatting with a group of friends, and someone says ,” I just bought a new Honda.”  Quick as a flash….another person  immediately chimes in , “ Well, my friend bought a Cadillac.!”, OR , at another time,  a person says, “My cousin went to Miami,….”

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Searching history for original wines

Tasting the Past, The Science of Flavor & the Search for the Original Wine Grapes by Kevin Begos. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, ISBN 9781616-205775, 277 pages, $26.95 By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California —  Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant in Berkeley was the 2nd stop on a three-week, nine-event book tour traversing Florida, California and New York.

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Those special touches on a cruise ship

Editor’s Note: This is the 17th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 By

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