By Jay Tell ENCINO, California–Just when you’re on top of the world, you get blindsided. I was 21, in LA two years, my stamp and coin business was growing. I’d not smoked, but tried cigarillos. In the mirror I saw tiny specks on my chest, tried to flick off the dust, but it didn’t budge.
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Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Israel is a normal country, but is strained to preserve that status against the rest of the world that is even less normal. That is not a sentence one would expect from a confirmed social scientist. It does not make sense according to the elemental rules of logic, but it does
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Registration is now open for the Teen Hebrew for Credit Program presented by the Agency for Jewish Education! The Hebrew for Credit Program is an accredited foreign language program (for grades 8 to 12), recognized by the public schools in our community. T his program mirrors the public schools in terms of
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San Diego CalendarJERUSALEM (Press Release)–Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky said he is deeply disappointed that conversion legislation proposed by MK David Rotem, which includes several controversial clauses, passed today (July 12) in Knesset committee. “We cannot divide the Jewish People with legislation which many in the Jewish world view as defining them as second class
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Travel and FoodCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff A Grievous Loss (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, September 3, 1954, Page 7 The Jewish Community lost one of its outstanding leaders last week with the passing of George Neumann, at the age of 69. He and his wife, Julia, had been pioneers and leaders in every worthwhile activity
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By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA– Perhaps it was their futile attempt at humor. Eight students at the University of California Irvine passed up their chance to answer university charges that they disrupted a speech presented by Israeli Ambassador Michael B. Oren last Feb. 8, a UCI administrator stated in a letter. Instead, they invoked their “Fifth
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SAN DIEGO — Sandi Masori of Balloon Utopia spotted this license plate– which in Hebrew means one redhead. Judging by the license plate frame, it’s one redhead with bladder trouble. The plate has been added to SD Jewish World’s online collection of license plates. If you see or have one you’d like to include, please
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Travel and FoodHAIFA (Press Release)–Israel’s and one of the world’s first scholarly journals on the Holocaust, published in conjunction with the University of Haifa’s Institute for Holocaust Research since 1979, is now being published in English as well as the original Hebrew. Dapim: Studies on the Shoah, The Journal of the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Cosmopolitan Hotel with 10 boutique hotel rooms in Old Town San Diego Historic State Park was rededicated on Saturday with cannon fire, a parade including a present day Marine color guard, historic Buffalo Soldiers re-enactors, costumed Old Town docents, and representatives of various faith groups that
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–At the same moment that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was being chided by the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for having clerked for the suddenly demonic “activist judge,” Thurgood Marshall, Marshall himself, in the person of actor Laurence Fishburne, was enthralling audiences in a dynamic nearly two-hour monologue at
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Cynthia CitronCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Double Talk Southwestern Jewish Press, September 3, 1954, page 5 By Janet and Susan Solof Now that vacation is almost at an end And school is just around the bend, “twas a lovely summer,” everyone said, So we sight and look ahead. Eileen Rivers got a superb send-off
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Adventures in SD HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Personals Southwestern Jewish Press, September 3, 1954, Page 3 Home From Abroad—Nelson Olf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Olf, has ended his midshipman summer training in European waters aboard the USS Wisconsin, and is expected home. He will have just a few days with his parents before
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Yes, it’s possible to make yourself happy even when you’re not feeling it. Some things you should know: • Contrary to popular opinion, satisfaction with life increases with advancing age. • On average, men and women experience emotions similarly, even though women have more fluctuations between positive and negative
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Natasha JosefowitzSAN DIEGO (Staff Report)–Erez Strasburg, former Israeli shaliach assigned to the Jewish Federation offices in San Diego, is now offering personalized tours of Israel for English speakers. He can be reached through his “Personal Tourism” company website. * Congressman Bob Filner, whose own political career began when he decided to run for the San Diego City
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