Travel and Food

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

  SAN DIEGO (SDJW)–Congressman Susan Davis (D-San Diego) is seeking a full time staff assistant in her district office in San Diego. According to a notice se nt out by her office, “Job responsibilities include fielding constituent calls, processing mail, coordinating the internship program, assisting with casework and constituent requests for information, maintaining a photographic

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –On the anniversary of the Senate passing the bipartisan Marketplace Fairness Act, U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) called Tuesday, May 6,  on the House of Representatives to take up the legislation, saying this common sense fix will allow main street businesses in Minnesota and across the country to compete on a level

By Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — I have noticed that often when I am at a party, a meeting, or any event where people gather around a table—be it a coffee, dining, or conference table—there is a tendency to be more vocal if one discusses something that elicits strong emotions—and what elicits strong emotions