SAN DIEGO—City Councilwoman Marti Emerald, lone member of the Jewish community now serving on the San Diego City Council, has announced her plan to seek re-election in the new ninth district. The council districts had been increased from eight to nine , resulting in the territory of Emerald’s seventh district being cut nearly in half. […]
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San Diego CountyEditor’s Note: The president and chief executive officer of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County, Steven J. Morris, on Friday sent out the following message to the community regarding renewed violence along Israel’s borders with Gaza and Egypt. Sha’ar Hanegev, the partnership region of the San Diego Federation, lies alongside Gaza in Israel’s northern
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SACRAMENTO—I had worked in the building as a news reporter during the 1960s and 1970s, spanning the gubernatorial administrations of Ronald Reagan and Jerry Brown. Shuttling from hearings to news conferences to floor debates, and then back to my desk at the Associated Press, and later at the Capitol bureau
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO –The last few verses of the traditional Birkat Ha-mazon (Grace after Meals), consisting of verses from the book of Psalms and Jeremiah, are usually sung with a cheerful and uplifting melody. One verse, however, is not sung out loud by some participants. Among the other verses praising God is
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By Sheryl Rowling Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO –Dear Money Maven: The unprecedented debt ceiling issue and recent market volatility are making me schvitz with worry. Should I move to cash or change my investment strategy to protect against a possible market slide? Fearfully, Fermisht Dear Fermisht: During these tumultuous times (and always), it is important
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and Food
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Local premieres are great motivators for audiences interested in seeing productions not mounted in our fair city before. Unless you do a lot of theatre travel to catch world premieres the next best things are local premieres. Ion Theatre Company, always in the front lines of risk taking and in its
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
SAN DIEGO — Our friend Melanie Rubin spotted another Jewish-interest license plate. So to her a mazel tov.
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — He started out with the most outrageously un-rabbinic analysis of why Haiti suffered so much more than did the other part of the island, the Dominican Republic, during last year’s catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake: it was due to the widespread practice of homosexuality and the per capita AIDS
Homophobic rabbi is wrong on theology; embarasses fellow Jews Read More »
USA
By David Amos SAN DIEGO — When I read a book for the first time, I like to lightly mark with a pencil the important thoughts, concepts, and paragraphs I encounter. This is especially useful if it’s a subject of a personally intense interest, or one which will become a book review. Interestingly, when reading Musicophilia,Tales
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Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison ABOARD SEA PRINCESS — One day while strolling aboard the ship, I asked a pianist who was playing both classical and show tunes whether he often was asked to play the theme from The Love Boat, made famous by singer Jack Jones. The young pianist, from Argentina, responded that he was
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Donald H. HarrisonBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)– Stocks of companies that are committed to corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies perform statistically similarly to those corporations that do not have these programs, according to a new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers. These findings were presented at the Ninth Annual International Conference on Business Accounting, Finance, Management
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Science, Medicine, & Education
By Isaac Yetiv, PhD LA JOLLA, California — In the last 13 articles I attempted to tackle the most arduous problems plaguing America today, and I offered some solutions in the belief that the dire situation is not an act-of-God: the predicament is man-made, and the medicament will be man-made too. I trust the following
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USABy Roz Rothstein and Roberta Seid LOS ANGELES — The recent coordinated terrorist attacks on Israel and the latest poll of Palestinian public opinion offer insight into why Middle East peace remains so elusive: The Palestinian public is simply unwilling to recognize the human rights of Jews. Consider Palestinians’ reactions to the grisly coordinated attacks
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Ben Kamin Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — On a just-completed trek to the Yucatan Peninsula and its environs, something was reinforced for me that I had just learned during a Ramadan visit to the central mosque here in San Diego: if we all just calmed down and listened to each other, we’d
Mayans, Muslims, Jews and God’s other peoples are all very similar Read More »
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