Six ‘women of valor’ saluted at Jewish Arts Festival

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Young playwrights Ali Viterbi, Leah Salovey and Sarah Price-Keating–saluted six San Diego “women of valor” in a Lipinsky Family Jewish Arts Festival production on Sunday in which they and other talented actresses portrayed the women in six successive 10-minute segments. The composite sketch of female Jewry of San Diego celebrated […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Eileen Wingard

Imagine what hypocrites would do without Israel to condemn

By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–Sometimes one wonders what the media, the pundits, the leftists, the Presbyterians, and most of Europe would all do if they did have not the Jews to examine and excoriate.  Certainly it’s a collective straight line away from their own inexhaustible layers of racial hypocrisies, inquisitions, crusades, slave-trading, and discarding-all-principles-for-oil

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Middle East, USA

Peace activists or accomplices?

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Is it just me, or did you also wonder how these “peace activists” found the free time to join the mission defying Israel’s blockade? Did you also wonder how they could afford to travel the world for this purpose? Here’s the critical question: How could educated, compassionate people fail to

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Middle East

Eagle Scout gives back to thank Sharp staff

By Sara Appel-Lennon SAN DIEGO — Last June, University City High School  student Zac St. Louis explored volunteering options for his Eagle Scout Leadership Service  Project, coming upon The Ranchero Fund, which offers medical  equipment to paralyzed patients with no health insurance. St. Louis learned  that Rebecca and Niel Pollock started The Ranchero Fund after

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Travel and Food

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, May 28, 1954, Part 4

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Southwestern Jewish Press, May 28, 1954, page 6 Tifereth Israel Sisterhood installation ceremonies and brunch will take place June 1 at 12:00 noon in the Tifereth Israel Center.  A wonderful program, “Color Through the Years,” has been planned, with Mrs. Victor Weiss in charge. Ann Schloss is circle

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Sha'ar Hanegev social workers win national award for excellence

By Ulla Hadar TEL AVIV -On the 8th of June during the nationwide conference of social workers from all over Israel, the national organization conferred the “Henrietta Szold 2010 Award of Excellence” on the Sha’ar Hanegev municipality social service workers, headed by Marva Meizeles. The committee’s citation said  “This team has in the last years

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Middle East

Poll shows Israelis support Gaza blockade

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Of Israel’s major newspapers, Ha’aretz is the least friendly to the present government. It is also the most likely to criticize the lack of empathy for Palestinian interests that it finds among officials and the population.  The journalist who wrote a long article in the weekend edition could have been referring to colleagues when

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

J*Company, its director and actors win numerous awards

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – J*Company Youth Theatre, a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, announced its National Youth Theatre and Old Globe Theatre nominations and awards for the recently completed 2009-2010 season, which featured productions of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved musicals South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music,

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Travel and Food

At 75 years young, Jewish Federation tacks onto new course

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The umbrella agency of San Diego’s Jewish community celebrated its 75th anniversary with a new name, new logo, new board chairperson and a newly-defined six-part mission. All this became clear Thursday evening, June 10, when the agency formerly known as the United Jewish Federation announced its board had changed its

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East