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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced on Wednesday the arrests of eight suspects in connection with an auto fraud ring case.  The individuals arrested under Operation Hit and Run are suspected of faking traffic collisions and filing fraudulent personal injury claims with insurance companies. Since October 2009, 11 suspects were arrested in connection […]

ENCINITAS, California (Press Release)–Congregation Beth Am and Temple Solel will host a traditional Lag B’Omer Bonfire at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas.  Please join the congregations for bonfire, kosher BBQ, beach and buddies on May 2  from 4pm-6pm. There is no charge for this event, but reservations are appreciated. Please bring your own blankets and beach

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO—The Hebrew month begins with the new moon. It is a time of renewal. This symbolizes the fact that we can always make a new start. We can always shed off our  crusty cynicism, and recapture the purity and sincerity of our youth. If we allow ourselves to reflect, there

JERUSALEM–My wife Varda has not been this happy since she violated Obama-Clinton prohibitions by hanging new curtains in the living room of our French Hill home. Her smile, along with a loud “Aha,” came with the news that Uri Lupolianski had been arrested for involvement in the Holyland scandal. According to the charges, he had

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Dr. Eliza Slavet discusses some of the ideas in her book Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question during Friday evening services, April 16, at Congregation Dor Hadash. What makes a person Jewish? Why do some people feel they have physically inherited the memories of their ancestors? Is there any way to

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–“From My Hammock,” a tongue-in-cheek essay about gardening by the late Jewish writer Bernard Levin will be among the short pieces read at Write Out Loud’s presentation of “Rhapsody in Bloom,” a collection of stories about the garden, at 7 p.m., Monday, April 19 at Old Town Theatre.  Tickets for the one-night

 SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – Assemblymember Marty Block (Democrat, San Diego) on Tuesday announced that, in partnership with Assemblymember Ira Ruskin (Democrat, Redwood City), he is leading an effort to honor Holocaust survivors and World War II veteran concentration camp liberators during a special ceremony in the Capitol on April 19,  at 12:00 p.m., as part of Holocaust

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Harvard University Prof. Susan Rubin Suleiman will lecture Friday, April 30,  on the experiences of murdered novelist Irene Nemirovsky, a Jew who converted to Roman Catholicism, but still was sent to Auschwitz under Nazi laws. Suleiman, who served as scholar in residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in San Diego, has

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. Ritual: any practice or pattern of behavior regularly performed in a set manner; a prescribed code of behavior regulating social conduct, such as the shaking of hands in greeting.[1] Tradition: the handing down of legends or customs from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice; a continuing