By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Ever since 1852, the year Lewis Franklin was appointed foreman of the county Grand Jury and Louis Rose was elected as a member of the city Board of Trustees, Jews have played leadership roles in the affairs of the City of San Diego. So it’s not surprising that
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sometime before the Bill Clinton impeachment trial, the nation decided that a politician’s sexual conduct—in or out of marriage—wasn’t of our concern. Even the Republicans who were leading the charge to force Clinton out of the White House weren’t saying that it was because he had sex with
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Donald H. HarrisonCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Met Forum Asks About Sewer Crisis Southwestern Jewish Press, May 25, 1956, Page 5 The San Diego Metropolitan Forum will discuss the problem of the sewer crisis at the House of Hospitality, Monday, May 28, at 8 p.m. Dr. J.B. Askew, head of the City-County Health Department, will
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Mayor Jerry Sanders on Tuesday formally endorsed Bonnie Dumanis for the next Mayor of the City of San Diego saying she is “the best choice to make sure efforts to reform city government continue to move forward.” In a letter to supporters, Sanders cited Dumanis’s “proven leadership, chief executive experience and strength as
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San Diego CountyBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Go to war. Then think about it. It’s the story of Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Libya. The New York Times reported: “As NATO airplanes and attack helicopters struck fresh targets in Tripoli and the oil port of Brega on Sunday, senior British and American officials said there was no
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By Daniel Vahab NEW YORK– For more than I year and half now, I have been writing a book on antisemitism. To further my research, I developed a survey on the subject. . The short, anonymous survey, open to all, explores how Jews and antisemitism are perceived, as well as the thin line between a
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Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Crowds rushing another nation’s borders with malicious intent and with screams of “Death to the Jews!” are not an echo of the Gandhi-inspired US Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Firing missiles ceaselessly into Israeli towns and schoolyards from Gaza while swearing the bloody destruction of
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Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego City Council President Pro Tem Kevin Faulconer Tuesday formally endorsed Bonnie Dumanis for Mayor of San Diego, saying she “is the candidate who can best move San Diego forward.” Faulconer cited Dumanis’ proven leadership, chief executive experience and strength as a consensus-builder as examples of why he strongly supports her to
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San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Up in San Francisco, a measure headed for the Nov. 8 ballot asks city voters to ban male circumcision inside the city limits. Some see it as a thinly veiled attack on Jews and our religious beliefs. Others accept take proponents at their word that they are just
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By Carol Davis CORONADO, California — The very first time I heard the sound track from the original album of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man was back in the good old days before surround sound, digital sound, discs, iPods, iPads, 3 D, and color TV (kinda /sorta). It was all on vinyl. A friend of ours
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The Jewish Women’s Foundation (JWF), a program of the Jewish Community Foundation, touting more than 100 members held its annual luncheon meeting at the home of Hanna Gleiberman last Tuesday. The event featured keynote speaker Christine Grumm, President and CEO of the San Francisco-based Women’s Funding Network, an organization that
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By Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — Rabbi Eli Rosenholtz told me that Reb Dovid Leibowitz ztz”l, Rosh U’meyaseid Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim (RSA), used to cite the Talmudic dictum, that one should learn not only from the teachings of his rebbe, but from his actions. Reb Dovid would then exhort his talmidim (students): It looks
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Jewish ReligionCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Primaries Are Important (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, May 25, 1956, Page 3 There is talk all over town that a general apathy exists concerning the voting in the primaries on June 5. We hope this is not true because more good causes have been lost through apathy than
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Having read about Palestinian demonstrators’ plans for massing along Syria’s border with Israel, I had a fantasy about what Israel could have done…. Instead of shooting tear gas, rubber bullets and in some cases live ammunition, soldiers in my fantasy would have pulled back the gates and as the Palestinian crowd rushed
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