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I-8 Jewish Travel: SDSU’s modern Hillel Center

–31st in a Series– Exit 10, College Avenue, San Diego ~ Melvin Garb Hillel Center By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The Melvin Garb Hillel Center, dedicated in October 2014,  is a place for Jewish students to hang out, socialize, and make Jewish connections. Here, says Hillel’s SDSU’s campus director, Jackie Tolley, the students “engage in programs

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Al Schwimmer built Israel’s clandestine air force

  By Joe Spier  CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — Al Schwimmer, an American citizen, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1917, a hero of Israel’s War of Independence, died on June 10, 2011, his 94th birthday, at central Israel’s Tel Hashomer Hospital. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, described Schwimmer’s activities during 1947-48 as “the Diaspora’s single most

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I-8 Jewish Travel: Preserving local Jewish history

–30th in a series– Exit 10, College Avenue, San Diego ~Jewish Historical Society of San Diego By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Room 363 of the Love Library at San Diego State University  is the home of the Jewish Historical Society of San Diego, which lovingly preserves the written records and photographs of this county’s Jewish

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food