Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, April 18, 1958, Part 1

S.D. Community to Mark Israel’s Tenth Anniversary Southwestern Jewish Press, April 18, 1958, Page 1 Dr. William C. Rust, President of California Western University will speak at a Civic Celebration marking the Tenth Anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel. This momentous event will be celebrated by the San Diego community Sunday, April

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Adventures in SD History

Volunteers honored for fixing, driving , sewing

LA MESA, California (Press Release) — The Grossmont Healthcare District recently announced recipients of its awards as 2014 Healthcare Heroes. The annual awards are presented to volunteers who help advance the delivery of quality healthcare in San Diego’s East County region. One honoree was Glenn Farber of the San Carlos neighborhood of San Diego, a

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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Holocaust biography looks at child’s new American life

Steven L. Richards, Sitting on Top of the World, © 2014 Create Space Independent Publishing, ISBN 978-1-49492-541-3, 516 large print pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Holocaust memoirs and titles like Sitting on Top of the World seem to contradict each other until one remembers that they are written about people who survived the Shoah.

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Hong Kong delegation impressed by Israeli innovation

By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM–For a group of 34 Hong Kong businessmen, investors and entrepreneurs, a visit to Israel last week (May 18-22) proved to be an eye-opening experience. The group was on a mission led by Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), a department of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government that seeks foreign direct investment

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International, Middle East

The mutual push and pull of religion and state

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — With the Pope’s visit still echoing, it’s appropriate to reflect on religion, and its role in politics. Alongside the Pope in Bethlehem, Mahmoud Abbas proclaimed that all the problems are Israel’s fault, and that Palestinians are the true protectors of Christians hereabouts. He may have been hard pressed to assemble

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International, Ira Sharkansky, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA