SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – San Diego LGBT Pride honored Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) with the 2019 Light of Pride Award for its role in making San Diego a better place for the LGBTQ community during the 5th Annual Light Up the Cathedral Interfaith Pride Celebration hosted by St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral
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By Jerry Klinger HOLLY SPRINGS, Mississippi — I have dedicated scores of historical markers and memorials across America as President of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP). Almost all the projects have a Jewish theme or background story. Next month in Marietta, Georgia, JASHP will dedicate the first ever anti-lynching memorial to all
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USABy Eric George Tauber (he, him, his) SAN DIEGO — Splashed all over the news was this weekend’s Pride Parade. What began as a riot in 1969 is now a celebration with municipal support and corporate sponsorship. With roughly 300,000 participants, San Diego has one of the largest in the world. Less publicized was the Trans-Pride
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USARemembering songwriter Dorothy Fields who was born this day (July 15) in 1904.
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Travel and FoodBy H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — Thousands of Africans, sick, malnourished, and frightened, were huddled together on the floor of the hold, and many died on the trip. It wasn’t the hold of a 19th century slave ship, but a plane that had been stripped of seats to accommodate more people. It was May, 24,
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International, Middle EastBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — American financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested earlier this month on child sex trafficking charges. After an early career as a teacher, Epstein became an options trader at Bear Stearns, eventually becoming a partner before going out on his own and building a highly successful financial consulting firm.
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
H Mart grocery store food court, 7725 Balboa Ave San Diego, CA 92111 SAN DIEGO — My son Shor and I were getting in some mom-son time before he goes off to UC Berkeley this fall and found ourselves in Kearny Mesa. I had read about the new food court in the H Mart
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Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodHonoring award-winning illustrator Brian Selznick who was born this date (July 14) in 1966.
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Travel and FoodBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — After five months of struggling her way out of Rodney-Dangerfield status, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren could lose much of the voters’ respect through a crisis of her own making – hiring a campaign staffer assailed for a long history of harsh, one-sided opposition to Israeli policies. It is
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Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France –Although in my mind I’m still the eager, naïve 22 year old who came to Israel to work and study (and get away from the depressing climate and weedy men of the UK), I have to face the fact that time has not passed me by. I’m constantly getting messages
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Travel and FoodRemembering Jewish composer Ernest Gold who was born this day (July 13) in 1921.
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Travel and Food
POWAY, California (Press Release) — Table tennis champion Estee Ackerman of West Hempstead, New York, visited the Poway Chabad Day Camp, north of San Diego on Tuesday July 9. She spoke to the campers about her ping pong career, her Shabbos challenges and her chance at the 2020 Olympics. After all the campers and most
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San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USABy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, Californi — Picking up where Guys and Dolls left off, writer Mark Saltzman and director Larry Sousa collaborated to bring us more of Damon Runyon’s loveable gangsters, their Judys, and a few unlikely types who were swayed to the shady side for love or money in the world premiere of Another
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — To continue my life story… During a European car trip with my parents in 1948, it felt like we were entering a different world when crossing the border from Italy to Switzerland. The aftermath of the war on Italy was obvious in the still-scarred countryside, while Switzerland
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food