SAN DIEGO – Each year, the Jewish Federation of San Diego County provides many opportunities to connect as a community while helping address the needs of Jews in San Diego, Israel and around the world. Five signature events will be presented under the theme of “Doing a World of Good” as part of the 2012
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San Diego Calendar
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — When Jerry Seinfeld said “Yada yada yada” you could interpret it to mean “and so on and so forth” or “blah blah blah” or even “stuff that’s too insignificant to talk about right now.” When Lani Shipman says “YADA”, however, she is talking about something that’s very significant to
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Cynthia Citron
By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — When I was a counselor at Camp Ramah in Ojai, California, the director was Dr. Walter Ackerman, a well-known and formidable educator. He was not the easiest man to approach and the staff was in awe of him. He seemed second only to God in stature and authority.
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Jewish Religion
By David Amos SAN DIEGO — Nothing can recharge one’s emotional batteries to such a high level and at the same time drain you of physical energy beyond belief than to spend two weeks on the road with two active grandchildren. This is what we did in August, when we traveled 2600 miles with children,
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USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–Though an imposing figure of bulk and professionalism, rarely not dressed in his suit and tie, or in his naval reserve attire that he wore with quiet pride, he was a man of raw language, practical pursuits, and the New York streets. And this for the most part meant the
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USA
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO–Yosef Greenwald* was hired to work as an Information Technology Professional for Bond-Oppenheim Ltd. While working there, Bond-Oppenheim announced that they were eliminating their IT department. They were going to contract with Infosol Ltd. to provide their IT needs. About half of the IT professionals lost their jobs. The rest
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Jewish ReligionHutler-Biran Lecture at S.D. State College Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 5 Avraham Biran, Consul General of Israel at Los Angeles, and Albert Hutler, executive director of the United Jewish Fund of San Diego, will speak at the Institute on World Affairs at San Diego State this month. Biran will speak on “The
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Ira Sharkansky Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Our late summer trip began with several days in Rochester, New York, where Mattan is doing his PhD in political science. His career choice is the best indication that I have not been a complete failure. Before our trip, we heard from several people that Rochester is less
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Ira Sharkansky, USA
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – Imagine that you learned one day that the mother who died during your childhood was, in a sense, still alive; that without your knowledge, or that of any member of your family, cancerous cells from your mother’s cervix had been taken by her gynecologist, cultured in a
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CalendarHeart Association Gets Funds Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 3 Realizing that the greatest benefit t the individual heart patient will come from advances in scientific understanding of the cardiovascular diseases, which can only be gained through research, the San Diego County Heart Association isinvesting $40,394.00 in research and fellowship grants this year,
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Jewish HistorySDJW staff report SAN DIEGO — Sylvia Rouss, famous for her ‘Sammy the Spider’ series of Jewish books for children, has co-authored a new book with former Israeli ambassador Asher Naim, entitled “Jognau, the Dreamer.” It is about the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, as told by one of the young immigrants. In an
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Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — He is understandably remembered and cherished as the iconic civil rights leader, “the drum major for justice,” and for his brilliant oratorical skills. Some also recall his provocative, brave cri de coeur as the vanguard protestor against the Vietnam War—which did not line up in his “moral field
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USA
By Judy Lash Balint JERUSALEM –The brit milah of Yishai and Malkah Fleisher’s second child, Eliezer Menachem, took place Sunday night in their apartment in Maale HaZeitim, overlooking the Temple Mount. The brief ceremony that initiated the baby into the covenant of Abraham closed circles for several of the people who crammed into the Fleisher’s home
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Middle East
By Carol Davis GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Arizona–For decades I have wanted to visit the Grand Canyon. Finally, on my 74th birthday in May, my friend Debbie and I set out (from her Las Vegas home) to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon for a three-day excursion. Never in my imagination had I pictured