StandWithUs, with Students and Alumna, Submits Title VI Complaint Against Hunter College

LOS ANGELES (Press Release) — On November 10, StandWithUs, along with Jessica Shafran and Raphi Cooper, current students attending the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, and Silberman alumna Morr Mazal Barton, submitted a complaint against the Silberman School and Hunter College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, to

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

More Questions Raised About Governance of Friendship Circle of San Diego

Shoshana Grossbard, a respected economist who serves as editor in chief of the Review of Economics of the Household, has urged Acting U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman and San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan to look into the circumstances surrounding the domination of the nonprofit Friendship Circle of San Diego (FCSD) by the family of disgraced Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of Chabad of Poway. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

From Pogromnacht to Now: 83 Years of Antisemitism

By William Daroff (JNS) This week, Jewish communities around the world remember the 83rd anniversary of Pogromnacht (Kristallnacht), when the Nazis and their supporters carried out an anti-Jewish pogrom throughout Germany, decimating thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, neighborhoods and synagogues, and forcing as many as 30,000 Jews into concentration camps, never to return. Authorities sanctioned and

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International, USA

EPA outlines $630 million vision for curbing Tijuana sewage pollution in San Diego

Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — Top federal environmental regulators in California laid out a $630-million plan on Monday to capture and treat sewage-tainted water that routinely flows over the border from Tijuana into Imperial Beach and up the coast. The blueprint focuses largely on installing a pumping system in the Tijuana

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San Diego County

Novel Paints Stresses on Cheerleaders Who Take a Knee

This Young Adult novel focuses on the friendship between Eleanor  (Leni) Greenberg, who is Jewish, and Chanel  (Nelly) Irons, who is African-American.  Although they are members of different religious and racial groups, the two have been fast friends since childhood.  However, the friendship comes under stress during their senior year of high school when Leni is chosen as the team’s captain, even after being out most of the previous year with an injury, and Chanel, a natural leader of the team in the interim, has been passed over. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Various Forms of Communication: Visual, Auditory, Tactile and Chemical

By Natasha Josefowitz, ACSW, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Having just finished reading Suzanne Simard’s book, Finding the Mother Tree, I was bowled over by the ability of trees to communicate with each other through a microbial networks. The Mother Tree is in reality an old tree in the forest who is needed by younger

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Lifestyles, Natasha Josefowitz

Parashat Vayetzei: Strengthening Our Character 

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D.  In this week’s parasha we learn about the psychology of living life well, that is, how to strengthen our character. This includes a) reinforcing our spirituality and b) intensifying our commitment to a strong work ethic, two areas of contemporary societal life that are clearly in need of improvement. וְאַתֵּנָה

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

San Diego Symphony to Play at Nine Venues in Upcoming Season

The San Diego Symphony today announced its winter-spring 2022 concert season, offering 31 performances of classical and contemporary masterworks and chamber music from January 15 through May 28. Presented as “Hear Us Here,” the season will give the San Diego Symphony the opportunity to bring its music to a wider audience, with concerts performed at nine venues in the city and across the County, including the Symphony’s newest venue, The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. [San Diego Symphony]

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County