SDJA hosts free parent workshop Jan. 21

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will host a free Parent Workshop on Wednesday, Jan. 21, entitled, “Understanding Your Child: Brain-based Gender Differences – The Science and the Strategies for More Effective Parenting.” The 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. workshop will be conducted by Kelley King, an international consultant and author of three books in […]

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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

Safeway to pay $9.87 million for its unsafe ways

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– District Attorney Bonnie M. Dumanis announced on Monday, Jan. 5, that her office’s Consumer Protection Unit, working with 41 other California District Attorneys and two City Attorneys has obtained a $9.87 million settlement and permanent injunction against Pleasanton-based Safeway Inc. The settlement resolves allegations that more than 500 Safeway stores and distribution centers,

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San Diego County, The World We Share

Jerusalem Symphony to play for UNESCO in Paris

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (Tazpit) — The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, will perform at UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) headquarters in Paris on Monday, January 26 at the special opening concert of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year the day will also mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The concert

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International, Middle East

JFS sponsors mental health panel Jan. 21

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Jewish Family Service will present a Behavioral Health event, “Putting the Puzzle Together: Mental Health Policy and Community Options” on Wednesday, January 21, at Congregation Beth Israel, 9001 Towne Centre Drive. The free event begins at 5:30 p.m. with a resource fair and light appetizers and continues with a panel discussion from

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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education

Setting straight the factoid crowd

 By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — What’s a factoid? According to one definition, it’s a questionable or spurious (unverified, false, or fabricated) statement presented as a fact, but without supporting evidence. (Wikipedia) Factoids are what passes for knowledge among Westerners who vilify Israel and describe it as apartheid, neo-Nazi, warmongering, and more. Advocates for

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

A Rothschild biography tells of the baroness of jazz

The Baroness, the Search for Nica, Rebellious Rothschild and Jazz’s Secret Muse by Hannah Rothschild; Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2012 (Editor’s Note: This book was reviewed last year for San Diego Jewish World by Sheila Orysiek.  Here is a link to her review.) By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The House of Rothschild, the semi-official

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Travel and Food

Internet changes form, not substance, of politics

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Last week, while getting my nightly dose of a discussion program, I heard a political scientist talk about her research via Facebook and other meeting places on the Internet. She claimed that the number of Likes, and their changes over time, indicated the rise and fall of politicians. Maybe. Her presentation was

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East