The Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego (JCF) recently launched the giv4 homelessness in San Diego fund, a novel approach to encourage everyone in San Diego to participate in the solutions to one of our region’s most challenging issues. [Jewish Community Foundation news release]
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Published by BANG Showbiz English William Shatner thinks the Duke of Cambridge has the “wrong idea” following his criticism of space tourism. Prince William said this week that entrepreneurs should be focusing on saving the planet we’re living on instead of investing billions into finding “the next place to go and live”, with the likes
Published by New York Daily News NEW YORK — A Russian woman says in a new lawsuit that sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her early in 2019, in one of the few allegations to detail his crimes in the months before his arrest. Epstein, who died in August 2019 of an apparent suicide at a
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Shanda File
Published by BANG Showbiz English Howie Mandel has revealed how “consensual diarrhoea” led to him being hospitalised. The ‘America’s Got Talent’ judge – who was rushed to hospital on Wednesday (13.10.21) after he fainted in a Starbucks – has opened up on having a colonoscopy in the days before he collapsed. Speaking to his daughter
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Published by AFP Los Angeles (AFP) – US real estate scion Robert Durst was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with no possibility of parole for the killing of his best friend. Durst, a multi-millionaire who was the subject of an explosive HBO documentary entitled “The Jinx,” has always denied charges that he shot that
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Published by BANG Showbiz English Rachel Weisz is to star in ‘Seance on a Wet Afternoon’. The 51-year-old actress will join forces with helmer Tomas Alfredson, after he replaced Harry Bradbeer – who will remain as executive producer – as director on the motion picture. According to Deadline, Jack Thorne has penned the draft script
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Published by The Philadelphia Inquirer Just over a year ago, a deal was signed on the White House lawn between Israel and two tiny Arab Gulf countries. It was billed as a game changer in the Middle East. Called the Abraham Accords, the deal normalized relations between the Jewish state, Bahrain and the United Arab
Published by BANG Showbiz English George Takei has mocked William Shatner’s trip to space. The former ‘Star Trek’ co-stars have been locked in a feud for decades and now the 84-year-old actor has branded the 90-year-old star an “unfit specimen” to have been chosen to be the oldest person to get to the edge of
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Published by Loudwire Alice Cooper shredder Nita Strauss has debuted a music video for her new solo song, “Dead Inside,” which features Disturbed singer David Draiman. “This is my first time releasing my own music with a vocalist, and I am so honored to take this step alongside a legend like David Draiman,” commented Strauss,
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Published by Radar Online Sons of Anarchy star Katey Sagal is currently hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle crossing the street. Sources close to the actress say the 67-year-old was walking the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday when she was hit in a crosswalk. An eyewitness claims the driver who hit Katey did
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Sunbelt Publications Inc. published the first of the six books I have written so far. It was the biography, Louis Rose: San Diego’s First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur. In the event that you haven’t heard of him, he was the man for whom Rose Canyon, Rose Creek, and the Roseville section of the Point Loma neighborhood were named. The Robinson-Rose Building in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park is another reminder of his legacy. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County
This example of true ancient Hebrew poetry is a metaphor by Isaiah II during the mid-Babylonian exile c. 550 BCE. It repeatedly urges “renewal of strength” through trust in the LORD. As a liturgical teaching, these passages move from the realism of despair to near surreal ‘vision of victory.’ Isaiah assumes the voice of God. [Irv Jacobs, M.D.]
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish Religion
Across the world, we are conducting unsustainable practices and use of land for agricultural growing. The High Atlas Foundation, a foundation for the lasting and prosperous development of Morocco, has been working to address this problem. They have been following responsible procedures and using new technology to increase efficiency through primarily women and youth led campaigns. In addition, they have been working to address the problem of climate change through monitoring trees they have planted for carbon offsets. [Carter and Henry Prillaman]
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Published by NJ.com Elected officials in Monmouth County are denouncing an anonymous flier that called on residents to unite against what it said was a potential move by members of Lakewood’s Orthodox Jewish community into Upper Freehold Township. “I think it’s sickening,” Upper Freehold Mayor LoriSue H. Mount told NJ Advance Media, referring to the