A woman of valor who can she be? I believe her name is Fanny. Holocaust Survivor Fanny Krasner Lebovits, born October 27, 1922, passed away at 5 p.m. on September 7, 2023, less than a month short of age 101. {Sandra Scheller}
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Holocaust, International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Sandra Scheller, USA
Beth Sirull, president and CEO of the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, has announced she will be leaving that post when her contract ends in June of next year. [SDJW staff report]
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San Diego County
By Chris Jennewein Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — City Councilmember Raul Campillo announced Thursday he will introduce an ordinance to make the distribution of flyers inciting hate a misdemeanor littering offense punishable by up to a year in jail. San Diego Police have recorded eight incidents over the past several months involving thousands
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Chris Jennewein, San Diego County
(Melody: Margaritaville) In memory of Jimmy Buffett, who was an environmental activist By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Gasping for fresh air. Don’t heed the Lib scare. Or all of the experts at the UN. It’s getting hot here. But I have no fear. That it will cool off, And life here won’t end. Closing
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
From the most expensive item down to the least expensive, here are the Biblical Zoo’s 17 wishes for its 30th anniversary at its present location in the Malha neighborhood of Jerusalem: {Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori, The World We Share, USA
Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech 5783 By Rabbi Daniel Reich LA JOLLA, California — Rabbeinu Yonah, the great 13th-century Torah scholar, describes in his monumental work “Sha’arei Teshuva – The Gates of Repentance” the importance for each one of us to audibly reaffirm to ourselves on a daily basis, “Hashem loves me” or “Hashem believes in me.” In
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Daniel Reich-Rabbi, Jewish Religion
It all comes to a boil at the end of the first act, when at a party celebrating the engagement of Schultz and Schneider one of the inn’s resident ladies of the night tells Ludwig that Schultz can afford the party because the Jews have all the money anyway, thus bringing to his attention Schultz’ ethnicity. [Sandi Masori]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Jill Castellano/inewsource via Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A neo-Nazi who once lived in San Diego County has been extradited to the Netherlands to face hate speech charges in connection with an antisemitic incident that took place at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam earlier this year. Forty-one-year-old Robert Wilson, a former
Jewish students who will enter the ninth or tenth grade next year and who have demonstrated leadership qualities at their synagogue, Jewish school, or youth group may become eligible to travel to a European country next July with peers from Sha’ar Hanegev, Israel, under the auspices of the Global Ambassadors Program administered by the Jewish Federation of San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, International, Israel, Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — We had the great honor of marketing a lovely apartment in Jerusalem’s Sha’are Chesed neighborhood for the estate of Yehuda Avner. Standing in Avner’s office and viewing numerous photos of him with leading world leaders felt like I was taking a stroll through the history of the State of Israel.
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Gedaliah Borvick, Israel, Jewish History, Opinion, USA
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Their offense was to shake hands with the devil. After literally shaking hands with a foreign athlete during an international competition last month, an Iranian weightlifter was barred for life from entering his nation’s sports facilities. A state senator from Dearborn, Mich., apologized to her Arab and Muslim constituents
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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Middle East, Opinion, USA
Published by ANI News Tel Aviv [Israel], September 6 (ANI/TPS): September 16 marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in Iran. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman died in custody after being arrested in Tehran by Iran’s “Morality Police,” allegedly for improperly wearing her hijab. Iranian police said that Amini
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Middle East
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Just as fights exist between religious Zionists, they exist among the Zealots. Judaism is destroying itself. Maggid Books in Israel has reprinted the original 1920 version of the classical mystical book “Orot” (Lights), by the famous Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook. The 2023 publication appears in
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion
By Rabbi Rosette Barron Haim (JNS) When I think of the High Holy Days, I think of generations of our people who have come together to worship and reconnect to the tradition. Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the days in between the holidays present an ideal time to strengthen our ties to God, Torah and
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Israel, Jewish Religion, Opinion, USA