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Ken Stone is a contributing editor of Times of San Diego, a daily newsite accessible at www.timesofsandiego.com. His stories are republished with permission on San Diego Jewish World under auspices of the San Diego Online News Association.
House Republicans had an ulterior motive for sustaining the six-week shutdown of the federal government, Halie Soifer, CEO of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, charged today (Friday, Nov. 14). [Donald H. Harrison]
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Joan Jacobs was praised Monday as a woman of “grit, grace and glamour” whose “joyful generosity” — along with her Qualcomm founding husband, Irwin — made San Diego a cultural powerhouse amid her “unwavering commitment to make the world a better place.” [Ken Stone, Times of San Diego]
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Tuesday night at the U.S. Grant Hotel, where partying Republicans booed Democrats as their names were displayed in county results, Wells said: “Sara is an outsider. She comes from a billionaire family. She doesn’t understand what it’s like to be a regular person in San Diego County. Now maybe that’s not her fault. But I kind of think that people want somebody … who’s had trouble paying the rent some time (and) had to get on the phone with SDG&E and make arrangements.” [Ken Stone, Times of San Diego]
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“I will not let anything be swept under the rug, and when I understand what the truth is, I will share that with you,” Wells said. “We may have to be a little patient because this may take a little bit of time.” [Ken Stone, Times of San Diego]
The 17-minute Letter to a Pig, a nominee for an Academy Award as the Best Animated Short Film, will be screened at 7 p.m., Monday, Feb. 5, at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival. [SDJW staff report]
Chabad of Poway’s former head rabbi faces a maximum five-year prison sentence for tax-evasion and other financial crimes he pled guilty to last July. But sentencing of Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein won’t take place Monday — a day short of two years after he lost his right index finger in the deadly shooting attack on his congregation. [Ken Stone, Times of San Diego]
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Rep. Sara Jacobs says she feared for her life Wednesday as she and other members of Congress seated in the House gallery were led to safety amid the sound of flash-bangs. [Ken Stone, Times of San Diego]
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Ken Stone, San Diego County, USATom Metzger, one of the nation’s most notorious white supremacists and anti-Semites, has died, according to a post on his White Aryan Resistance website. He was 82. The post said: “Thomas Linton Metzger, born April 9th, 1938 in Warsaw, Indiana, passed away in Hemet, California, on November 4th, 2020.” [Ken Stone, Times of San Diego]
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By Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO –In Fiddler on the Roof, Tevya’s daughter Chava wants to marry a Russian Orthodox intellectual. In real life, Jared Kushner weds Ivanka Trump, and she converts to Judaism. Interfaith romances are common. San Diego Jewish World editor Don Harrison says the intermarriage rate among Jews in San
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News of the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday was met in San Diego with expressions of grief and hope. The stalwart liberal on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1993 died at age 87, the court said, giving President Trump a chance to expand its conservative majority with a third appointment at a time of deep divisions in America with a presidential election looming. [Times of San Diego report]
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In today’s column, I would like to share with you current editions of websites that I routinely visit as I familiarize myself with Jewish news from around the world. If you have the time and inclination, I’m certain that the hard-working staffs who publish these websites would very much welcome your readership and support, as, of course, do I. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Chris Jennewein, Donald H. Harrison, Joe Gandelman, Ken Stone, Michael Ordman, Miriam RafteryThe Encinitas, California-based Leichtag Foundation expressed shock and sadness over the Aug. 4 explosion that destroyed most of the port of Beirut, Lebanon, killing more than 150 people and leaving thousands homeless. “Responding hospitals, already stretched thin due to COVID-19 are now at overcapacity,” reported Charlene Seidle and Sharyn Goodson, respectively the Foundation’s executive vice president and vice president for philanthropy and organizational development. [Our Shtetl San Diego County column by Donald H. Harrison]
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More than 300 passengers from the Grand Princess cruise ship had arrived at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar by Wednesday to begin a mandatory 14-day coronavirus quarantine. Approximately 270 cruise ship evacuees arrived at the base Wednesday afternoon, joining 42 passengers who were flow in Tuesday night. More could be coming, according to media reports. [Times of San Diego report]
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In an otherwise peaceful debate Sunday, two Democrats with military backgrounds launched salvos against the front-runners in the race to replace Rep. Susan Davis in the 53rd Congressional District. Their targets: Qualcomm heir Sara Jacobs and San Diego Councilwoman Georgette Gómez (with the local Democratic Party as collateral damage). [Ken Stone, Times of San Diego]
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