By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — “You have to visit Israel to know Israel,” reflects Jacqui Schneider, Jewish National Fund-USA’s Regional President in San Diego. “It is a tiny country on the map, but once you are there, you realize that it has depth, layers, and a diversity of population, climate, and cultures. Each city has […]
Soul Doctor: Journey of a Rockstar Rabbi is a filmed stage show about the friendship and mutual support between Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and African-American singer Nina Simone. Starring Josh Young as Carlebach and Nya as Simone, the musical will be shown in more than 600 theatres across the country at 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 13, including selected AMC’s and Regal Theatres in San Diego County. [Donald H. Harrison]
Sadie Weiner — beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother to members of the San Diego Jewish community — passed away on May 15 in Perth, Australia. She was 96 and lived independently until the final few weeks of her life. She was born Sadie Navias on August 9, 1926, in Johannesburg, South Africa, before living in
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MGSDII operates parallel programs, with different professors, at San Diego State University, Cal State University San Marcos, and the University of San Diego. One year, an Israeli professor taught at Cal Western Law School. Cumulatively, the universities in San Diego County host the largest ongoing Israel Studies program in the United States, having attracted through the 2022-2023 academic year 43 visiting professors from Israel. [Donald H. Harrison]
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA), a pluralistic community K-12 school with a thriving early childhood center, marked a major milestone in the school’s ambitious Sustainability Initiative (SI), celebrating the success of the school’s food waste diversion program that is currently diverting thousands of pounds of food waste each week from
While people rightly consider Albert Einstein a genius for his groundbreaking theories in physics, not every paper he published was brilliant, John said in his soft German accent. “He published another 100 papers that were just okay.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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NEW YORK (Press Release) — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev bestowed honorary doctoral degrees on six distinguished individuals during the 53rd annual Board of Governors Meeting on the Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva on Tuesday evening. They included global health activist Dr. Chelsea Clinton, noted philanthropist Patrick Drahi, and former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Elyakim
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Israel, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Marsha Sutton Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — At its May 10 board meeting, the San Diego County Office of Education adopted a resolution proclaiming May 2023 as Jewish American Heritage Month, and offered ways for school communities to observe JAHM. This is not the first time SDCOE has passed this resolution, which
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Author Esther David tells of the history and cuisines of five Jewish communities in India –the Bene Israel, centered in Mumbai; the Cochin Jews on India’s southwestern coast around Kochi; the Baghdadi Jews on India’s northeastern coast around Kolkata (close to Bangladesh); the Bene Ephraim of Andhra Pradesh on India’s central eastern coast around Machilpatnam; and the Beni Menashe of Manipur and Mizoram on the northeastern arm of India bordering Myanmar (Burma). [Donald H. Harrison]
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Published by DPA Twitter owner Elon Musk drew accusations of anti-Semitism after attacking financier and Holocaust survivor George Soros on Twitter and during an interview with US business channel CNBC on Tuesday. Musk wrote on Twitter that Soros “hates humanity” and wants to “erode the very fabric of civilization.” Israel’s Foreign Ministry criticized the remarks
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Published by Reuters By Nidal al-Mughrabi and James Mackenzie GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s latest round of airstrikes against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip left familiar images of towering spirals of smoke and wailing sirens but none of the buildings left in rubble by the jets belonged to its main enemy, Hamas. Instead, the strikes
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By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, recognized as one of the most distinguished writers of the Shoah, and Bertha Kling, a Belarus-born Bronx resident, who composed Yiddish songs and poetry in the early 20th century, will be the two featured poets for the “Poets of the Past” program on
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — Two antisemitic thugs in London and Boca Raton, Fla., picked on Jewish targets their own size to badger, as disgusting as these attacks are. However, two of their confederates chose Jewish schoolchildren outside a religious school in north London to blare a Hezbollah battle song from their car. “We
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GoGo, Yip and Dave are three dogs who are very much like humans — that is, the variety of humans who are gentle, kind, and care about others. Author Linda S. Klibanow and her illustrator daughter Natalie J. Klibanow have conjured up for young readers a world where dogs talk to other animals, as well as to people, and live by themselves in houses very similar to human abodes. {Donald H. Harrison]
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