-19th in a Series- Exit 8, Fairmount Avenue, San Diego — San Diego Family History Center By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — It may seem strange that a series focusing on “Jewish stories” along the Interstate 8 would direct you to a facility operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but if it’s
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Travel and FoodWords Without Music by Philip Glass, Liveright Publishing Company, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Philip Glass is a composer of “new” music and his book becomes a paean on his lifelong search to “hear” music in all things. Thus, it is perplexing, as indicated by the title to his autobiography, that he doesn’t
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Travel and FoodNew all-female Yazidi brigade determined to avenge Islamic State atrocities (BreakingIsraelNews.com/JNS.org) A renowned singer has recruited 123 Yazidi women to form an all-female fighting unit in order to fight back against the Islamic State terror group, which has been committing systematic genocide against the Yazidi community. The fighters, aged 17-30, are currently in training to
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By Ellen Brazer MIAMI BEACH, Florida — I always believed that angels were a symbol of Christianity. As a matter of fact, when I thought of angels, I thought of death. And so, I never bought a single card, a stuffed animal, a doll or a picture that depicted an angel. I wanted them
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By Phil Jacobs/JNS.org BALTIMORE, Maryland — “Batman” has died. And it doesn’t matter that the recently deceased Leonard “Lenny” Robinson lived in the suburbs of Baltimore, rather than Gotham, for all of us to feel the pain of that loss. Robinson took his black Lamborghini—which looked like the Batmobile—and for many years became an icon
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-18th in a series– Exit 6, Texas Street, San Diego — Old Tifereth Israel, Beth Jacob By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Although San Diego’s Jewish community started in Old Town San Diego in the 1850s, moving to downtown and environs in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it was on the move again
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