LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 28th Annual Hanukkah Happening, co-sponsored by the Nierman Preschool – Glickman Galinson Education Complex and the JCC Youth Department, will take place at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, on Sunday, December 11 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Hanukkah Happening is San Diego’s largest Hanukkah event […]
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http://youtu.be/xBZNqqa_qts By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan –In many countries, languages ebb and flow as generations replace generations and new words replace old words. In Taiwan, where 23 million people live on a tobacco-leaf shaped island where several languages mix on a daily basis — from Mandarin Chinese to Hoklo Taiwanese to Hakka and
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By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — What is your personality style? Find out; it influences the way you feel, think and behave on an unconscious level. It is only when you have identified the unconscious forces that move you that you can consciously decide to try some different behaviors if the ones
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan– Back in June, I wrote a rather contentious commentary for another publication headlined ”Let’s Stop Pretending Getting a Star on the Walk of Fame Is a Real Honor” in which I spilled the beans on how celebrities today get stars on the famous Walk of Fame in Hollywood. And
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Travel and FoodSAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) Do you know a Jewish teen who is changing your local community or the world? Now in the sixth year, the coveted Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards provide one of the most prestigious and rewarding opportunities for Jewish teenagers in the state of California. Recognizing a wide range of community service
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By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — One of the pleasures of attending the Nov. 6 performance of City Ballet of San Diego is the continuity of taste and purpose which has guided and built the Company. A few years ago a decision was made to make the Spreckels – a gem of a classic theater –
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By Doug Gladstone ALBANY, New York — Like a lot of Jews, I’m of the opinion that you can’t have justice for yourself unless other people have justice as well. That’s especially true now that we’re in the month of Heshvan, which is widely considered to be Jewish Social Action month. As the author of
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — David & Lisa by James Reach is the featured production of the Pickwick Theatre Nov 11-13 and 18-20. The play is a strange, appealing, and utterly fascinating telling of two mentally disturbed adolescents: David, who is tortured by his mania against being touched, and Lisa, who has a split personality.
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Waters of Eden is the Community Host for the San Diego Jewish Book Fair program The God Upgrade: Finding Your 21st Century Spirituality in Judaism’s 5,000-Year-Old Tradition with author Rabbi Jamie Korngold, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. Founder of the “Adventure Rabbi” a Boulder,
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — The work of three artists from Sha’ar HaNegev, San Diego’s sister region in Israel, will be featured at the Nov. 3-13 San Diego Jewish Book Fair at the Lawrence Family JCC. The San Diego – Sha’ar Hanegev partnership is administered by the Jewish Federation of San Diego. The artwork, by Hana
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–The New York Yankees, those imperial contenders in pin-stripes, bowed out in the division series, taking with them a significant slice of the crowd that was only consoled by Boston’s ample free-fall and collapse. Never mind: we had been hoisted by the most dazzling, 24-hour wild-card frenzy in the game’s
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Travel and FoodLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The 17th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, with continuing support from Founding Benefactors The Viterbi Family Foundation and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, will run November 3-13. A complete schedule of Book Fair speakers can
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Travel and FoodCARLSBAD, California (Press Release) — The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Scholar Lectures Jewish Studies continues at the Carlsbad Dove Library with Professor Gershon Shafir of UCSD discussing the history of Israeli-Palestinian relations, at 7 p.m., Nov. 14. series. Shafir’s lecture will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on November
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Travel and FoodBy Ira SharkanskyJERUSALEM — My cynic’s view of events sees a connection between Arab Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter and the protests in Tel Aviv and on Wall Street, also said to be happening in 900 cities of 80 countries. (Ha’aretz, October 16, p. 7) Crowds of decent people, along with politically correct leaders, who seek improvements with little
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