By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—As in a game of ‘Treasure Hunt,’ clues about San Diego’s history under three flags can be found in a variety of places outside the graceful Serra Museum – including on one of the three flagpoles! “In recognition of the financial contributions made by the inhabitants of the San […]
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By Lynne Thrope SAN DIEGO –My fondest memories of celebrating Mother’s Day were spending them with my siblings and Mommy over a pot of cheese fondue laughing about that year’s Mommy obsessions, books she had made us read, and how she wasn’t quite ready for her guest appearance of The French Chef (a personal
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Travel and Food
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – The award-winning J*Company Youth Theatre, a program of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, is pleased to announce its production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA, the first ever made-for-television musical. The production will run May 6-16, 2010, at
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Travel and Food
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C — The U.S. Department of the Army put out a request for information on “Afghanistan National Army Air Corps English and Pilot Training.” The Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training & Instrumentation (PEO STRI) is conducting market research by seeking sources with innovative business solutions to (1) train and certify
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Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Chief docent Janet Bartel removed a barrier and stepped into the archaeological dig area at Mission San Diego, beckoning others to follow. Two sets of shallow pits, with a dirt walkway in between, were on the southwestern side of the mission quadrangle. Approximately at the middle of the inner
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SAN DIEGO–Once again Melanie Rubin, license plate spotter extraordinaire, has found a license plate to ponder. Someone loves Maya, but is she a wife? A girlfriend? A daughter? Maya is a popular name in Israel. Among bearers of the name is one of the granddaughters of President Shimon Peres. He also loves Maya! This license
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Middle EastBy Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — On Mondays and Thursdays, the market days of times gone by, we read the Torah during daily minyan. We normally read the first three aliyot of the parasha of the approaching Shabbat. On Thursday a member of our minyan nudged me during the Torah reading and said, “I
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Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Baruch Lederman The bombing at Sbarro’s restaurant is a distant memory to most people. Not so to the Lavie family. Mrs. Lavie and her four children were all wounded in the August 2001 bombing. Far worse than the physical injuries they sustained, however, are the emotional scars that linger in the form of
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO — Our license plate-spotter-in-chief Melanie Rubin found this Hebrew transliteration meaning “Pretty One.” The intriguing question, of course, is whether the license plate refers to the driver, the car, or to the language in which the sentiment is expressed! We add ‘Yofi 1″ to our online collection of Jewish-interest license plates. If you
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Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—It is not uncommon on Saturdays at Mission San Diego to find a bride posing at the landmark bell tower – two romantic images in white. “Whenever they established a mission, they would put a cross in the ground, and some kind of bell, and dedicate the mission
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Donald H. HarrisonSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced on Wednesday the arrests of eight suspects in connection with an auto fraud ring case. The individuals arrested under Operation Hit and Run are suspected of faking traffic collisions and filing fraudulent personal injury claims with insurance companies. Since October 2009, 11 suspects were arrested in connection
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Travel and FoodBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Numbers are not everything in the assessment of public policies, but they can at least justify questions about the efforts officials are making in X as opposed to Y. The X in this case is the dispute between Israel and the Arabs. The Y is greater violence close to the Mexican border
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish Community Foundation (JCF) recently announced the hiring of Sharyn Goodson as Program Officer for the Leichtag Family Foundation, with which the JCF has a consulting relationship. As program officer, Sharyn will develop and implement grant-making and other programs to further the Foundation’s strategies. “We are delighted to welcome Sharyn to
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San Diego Calendar
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Rebuilt in 1931 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, the church at Mission San Diego features a broken crucifix that intentionally has not been repaired. There are no arms on the figure of Jesus on the cross, but in 1970 when Monsignor Brent Eagen saw it in
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