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Artist Allison Adams celebrates pioneering women

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Among the 40 portraits of “Groundbreaking Girls” on exhibit through April 28 at the Women’s Museum of California are six people who self-identified as Jews or were of Jewish descent.  A seventh portrait of particular Jewish interest is of Irena Sendler (1910-2008), who estimated she saved the lives […]

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Auschwitz artifacts to go on exhibit in New York City

NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust has announced plans to present the most comprehensive Holocaust exhibition about Auschwitz ever exhibited in North America. Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. is produced in partnership with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland and the international

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Dan’s Place: A chance to eat and do a mitzvah

By Mo Bailey POWAY, California  – Dan’s Place is a restaurant that celebrates the spirit of the late Dan Green and  local community, while  giving opportunities to people with disabilities who are often underestimated and marginalized. Many things make Dan’s Place a unique and holistic experience that patrons seem to ‘eat up’ (pun half-intended). Each

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Lawrence Halprin’s West Coast kibbutz: The Sea Ranch

By Oliver B. Pollak SAN FRANCISCO — In 2004 my law partner and I went to Washington DC for a conference. Our sightseeing included The Watergate, Jewish War Veterans Museum, and the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial on the Mall. The Memorial first conceived in 1960, authorized in 1974 with Lawrence Halprin’s winning design went unfunded

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Sightseeing ~ Adventure Hornblower whale watching

Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison and Shor M. Masori  SAN DIEGO – Even before one comes aboard the Adventure Hornblower for a 3 1/2 -hour whale-watching tour, one begins learning about the California Gray Whale, which is the sightseeing vessel’s quarry.  Yellow-shirted volunteer “whalers” from the San Diego Museum of Natural History –

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5 playwrights under 19 to see works on Old Globe stage

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Sponsored by the Sheila and Jeffrey Lipinsky Family Fund, young California playwrights entered their original writing for consideration in an annual contest. This year there were 415 submissions from which to choose, and a cohort of judges and script evaluators read works written by authors under 19 years of

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Editor’s E-Mail Box: January 11, 2018 (3 items)

Adam Schiff: Proposed national emergency to fund wall an abuse of power U.S. Rep. Adam Shiff (D-California) on Friday issued this statement concerning the ongoing partial government shutdown: “President Trump used the Oval Office to push for his wall in a prime time national television speech replete with falsehoods and fear mongering, and walked out

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