SAN FRANCISCO (Press Release) Do you know a Jewish teen who is changing your local community or the world? Now in the sixth year, the coveted Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards provide one of the most prestigious and rewarding opportunities for Jewish teenagers in the state of California. Recognizing a wide range of community service […]
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Travel and Food
By Carol Davis CHULA VISTA, California–“It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything that people are truly good at heart”. “It is utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference, a documentary that will premiere Nov. 29 on a Florida public broadcasting station, is being submitted to various outlets, including KPBS here in San Diego, for possible airing in March. The concept behind it, according to producer Raphael Shore, is
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East
By Lloyd Levy LONDON– Europe is being convulsed by the most remarkable and unwelcome events. The elected legitimate Prime Ministers of both Greece and Italy have been forced to resign. They have been forced out effectively by diktat from the Germans, with France hanging on to the German coat tails in an attempt to retain some
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International, Lloyd LevySAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The College Avenue senior center, operated by Jewish Family Service inside Beth Jacob Synagogue at 4855 College Avenue, has announced its schedule of events for December. They are as follows: Brain Fitness Registration: The College Avenue Center offers the popular and fun PositScience, Brain Fitness program for the January session. Do
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San Diego CalendarBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In an accompanying column, Rabbi Ben Kamin tells of the deaths of 61 homeless people on the streets of San Diego. He says “something has to be done” and he is right. I’d like to offer a proposal for consideration, but first let me offer some background. Recently,
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–When the local director for a homeless rescue agency called on me to participate in yesterday’s interfaith vigil, I was glad to accept. Then I felt embarrassment while learning in the communications that sixty-one homeless persons had died on the streets of San Diego since the last annual vigil and
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USABy Joel A Moskowitz MD and Arlene S Moskowitz JD LA JOLLA, California– The son of Ariel Sharon was the opening attracton for the San Diego Jewish Book Fair at the Lawrence Family JCC. On a table to the left of the lecturn was a single lit candle fronting a photo of Ariel Sharon. Before
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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County
By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — One of the pleasures of attending the Nov. 6 performance of City Ballet of San Diego is the continuity of taste and purpose which has guided and built the Company. A few years ago a decision was made to make the Spreckels – a gem of a classic theater –
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Travel and FoodBy Dan Brodsky SAN DIEGO (Special)–Israel has over 2,000 soldiers who put their lives on the line by coming to Israel and joining the IDF, even though they have no family in Israel. Their dedication is amazing, and many of them have virtually not enough money to live on. These Lone Soldiers need a little
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Jewish History
By David Amos SAN DIEGO–One of the most rewarding times in being involved with a performing arts organization is when choices have to be made in what will be programmed and presented to the public. In the case of musical groups, at any level of professionalism, many factors have to be carefully weighed, such as
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San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis COSTA MESA, California — The trip from my house in San Diego County to The South Coast Repertory Theatre in Orange County to see Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful, took me about 90 minutes from door to door with medium traffic along the way. Carrie Watts’ (Lynn Milgrim) trip from Houston,
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — headline in The Economist: “One side gets even lonelier . . . Binyamin Netanyahu gets brickbats from Palestinians and Israelis” http://www.economist.com/node/21536644 Visiting American relatives told us that their rabbi was saying “Israel is on a precipice,” and that members of the congregation must increase their political and economic support. Those
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — So once again British hooligans managed to disrupt a concert given by Israeli musicians in London, this time one given by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the Proms last September. This follows a similar interruption of a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet at the Wigmore Hall earlier in
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East