On Sunday, the rabbi’s and Audrey’s nest was empty

By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California — Samantha, the third among our four children in a hyphenated family, departed Sunday, Feb. 16,  for six months abroad—in South America. She’s been there before; the mosaic of Mapuche cultures, the agrarian hills and low-lying villages, the Polynesian footprints, the vineyards, the quad-gods and mingled human-animal cosmology, the […]

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Travel and Food

Yeshiva U model UN allows head-on focus on issues

STAMFORD, Conn.—The United Nations is in session. Sam Collins.  Croatian delegate to the World Intellectual Property Organization, rises to address the debate on a topic currently occupying the Global Access to Knowledge Movement (A2K): Should free or low-cost smartphones be distributed to populations of developing countries? He suggests, “Instead of giving them information, let us

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Hadassah president reaffirms commitment to hospitals

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The national board of Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America (HWZOA) sent a message this week to the Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) and those it serves expressing solidarity during HMO’s restructuring process. HMO’s board announced on February 7 that it would apply to the Court for a relief under Section

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Alternative to two-state solution won’t benefit Israel

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– Chapter 16 of the memoir, Once Upon a Country, by the distinguished Palestinian public intellectual, spokesman, activist, philosopher and current president of Al Quds University Sari Nusseibeh is called, “Annex Us!” It tells how he rattled Israelis and confused Palestinians by proposing that Israel annex the West Bank and Gaza.

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Middle East

Yvonne Greenberg, teacher and journalist, dies at 82

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Cultural affairs journalist Marion Yvonne Greenberg, 82,  died February 11 at Emeritus in the Carmel Valley neighborhood Born to Paul and Friedel Blumenthal (Haimann) in Mexico City on August 20, 1931, she graduated from the American School in San Antonio,Texas in 1948. Fluent in Spanish and English, she graduated from The

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San Diego County

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 20, 1957, Part 2

Attention Family Historians:  If you would like a JPG photo copy of any “Adventures in San Diego Jewish History” article that has been reprinted on the San Diego Jewish World website,  simply copy the website address of the article, and send it along with the article’s headline, with a $5 payment per article,  to Family

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Adventures in SD History