By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — American financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested earlier this month on child sex trafficking charges. After an early career as a teacher, Epstein became an options trader at Bear Stearns, eventually becoming a partner before going out on his own and building a highly successful financial consulting firm. […]
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
H Mart grocery store food court, 7725 Balboa Ave San Diego, CA 92111 SAN DIEGO — My son Shor and I were getting in some mom-son time before he goes off to UC Berkeley this fall and found ourselves in Kearny Mesa. I had read about the new food court in the H Mart
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Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodHonoring award-winning illustrator Brian Selznick who was born this date (July 14) in 1966.
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Travel and FoodBy Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — After five months of struggling her way out of Rodney-Dangerfield status, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren could lose much of the voters’ respect through a crisis of her own making – hiring a campaign staffer assailed for a long history of harsh, one-sided opposition to Israeli policies. It is
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Middle East, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France –Although in my mind I’m still the eager, naïve 22 year old who came to Israel to work and study (and get away from the depressing climate and weedy men of the UK), I have to face the fact that time has not passed me by. I’m constantly getting messages
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Travel and FoodRemembering Jewish composer Ernest Gold who was born this day (July 13) in 1921.
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Travel and Food
POWAY, California (Press Release) — Table tennis champion Estee Ackerman of West Hempstead, New York, visited the Poway Chabad Day Camp, north of San Diego on Tuesday July 9. She spoke to the campers about her ping pong career, her Shabbos challenges and her chance at the 2020 Olympics. After all the campers and most
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San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USABy Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, Californi — Picking up where Guys and Dolls left off, writer Mark Saltzman and director Larry Sousa collaborated to bring us more of Damon Runyon’s loveable gangsters, their Judys, and a few unlikely types who were swayed to the shady side for love or money in the world premiere of Another
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — To continue my life story… During a European car trip with my parents in 1948, it felt like we were entering a different world when crossing the border from Italy to Switzerland. The aftermath of the war on Italy was obvious in the still-scarred countryside, while Switzerland
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food
Jews in Medicine, Contributions to Health and Healing through the Age by Ronald L. Eisenberg Jerusalem and New York: Urim Publications, 2019, 464 pages, $34.95 By Oliver B. Pollak JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming — This 464-page encyclopedic reference book starts with the Talmud and comes into the present including still living practitioners. The author identifies Jewish
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “If you want something, you just gotta take it.” Rock of Ages -a rom-com musical with Classic 80s Rock and a greedy corporate villain- is playing at the Cygnet Theatre in Old Town through Aug 25, 2019. Welcome to The Bourbon Room, a seedy little dive on the Sunset
Times of San Diego POWAY, California — Vice President Mike Pence and his wife met with leaders of Chabad of Poway Thursday during a day-long official visit to the San Diego area. “Karen and I were honored to stop by the Chabad of Poway, the site of a terrible shooting in April,” Pence tweeted after
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Jewish History, San Diego County, USARemembering Louis B. Mayer who was born this day (July 12) in 1884, we offer this silent documentary about the MGM film studio which he headed.
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Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — This Shabbat, Tifereth Israel will be marching in the San Diego Pride Parade. Together, we will celebrate and support the LGBTQ community and our society’s journey towards equality and acceptance, both legally, as well as in all of our hearts and minds. Over the years there has been
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Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar