Travel and Food

The Baroness: the Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild by Hannah Rothschild By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO —  Born with a fabled name and fortune doesn’t always give one a broad choice in life.  For the women of the legendary Rothschild family it often meant living in a gilded cage.   Prevented by the will of

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — How often have you heard people say that someone is spiritual? I always wonder what they mean exactly, and when asked, no one has ever given me a satisfactory explanation until now. Dr. Dean H. Hamer, a geneticist at the National Institute of Health postulates in his

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) -The Israel advocacy group StandWithUs – SanDiego is screening The J Street Challenge on Tuesday, June 10,  at the Arclight Theater La Jolla, 4425 La Jolla Village Drive, suite H60 San Diego, 92122. The J Street Challenge examines the rise of a well-funded activist organization with a powerful marketing effort and an idealistic message that appeals

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The Jewish Federation of San Diego County and community partners will hold their annual community event to celebrate Yom Ha’atzma’ut (Israel’s Independence Day) on May 18 at Nobel Athletic Field near the University Towne Center.  This is a free event to celebrate and educate our local community about Israel and her culture. The

SAN DIEGO — The recent congressional fundraising party at the home of Irwin and Joan Jacobs at which President Barack Obama was the featured speaker is still the subject of column items for the U-T’s Diane Bell.  In the Tuesday, May 13, edition, she reports on a conversation between the President and San Diego Police

The Fugu Plan by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Schwartz; Gefen Publishing House, ISBN: 978-965229-3299; 277 pages By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In 1939, escape routes for Jews fleeing from Europe to the west were closing.  One, however,  remained open but it was to the east – through Russia.   The Fugu Plan by Marvin Tokayer

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– In a letter to U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Robert Papp, Jr., U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-W.V.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) called on the Coast Guard to detail how it plans to use inspection information to hold

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California –This season’s final evening of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices, May 6th, in the Astor Judaica Library, JCC,  featured three outstanding poets from the San Diego County Jewish Community. Lee Ben-Yehuda read from her book, The Dreaming (2013). A former elementary teacher, she is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor and