Remembering Bess Myerson
Remembering Bess Myerson, Miss America 1945, who was born this date (July 16) in 1924.
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Travel and FoodTaking a risk can lead to great community awards
By Sarita Mehta MARRAKECH, Morocco — As a child, I frequently remember many lazy summer days spent lugging my purple Huffy bike up the cement dunes of my suburban neighborhood. Following the parade of my two older brothers and my neighbor, I would often times find myself summiting hills that turned my palms sweaty. Looking
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationShalom Mausoleum Crypts for Sale
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Travel and FoodTwo- state solution not on any major party’s agenda
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — It’s still labeled the two-state solution, despite clear evidence that it requires at least three states. With Gaza kept separate from the West Bank, as its leaders seem to desire. Americans imagine that it’s only the Israeli right that frustrates the creation of a Palestinian State. Yet the reality is
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastLGBTQ Pride celebrates Jewish Family Service
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – San Diego LGBT Pride honored Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS) with the 2019 Light of Pride Award for its role in making San Diego a better place for the LGBTQ community during the 5th Annual Light Up the Cathedral Interfaith Pride Celebration hosted by St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral
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San Diego CountyJewish group helps dedicate Ida Wells- Barnett marker
By Jerry Klinger HOLLY SPRINGS, Mississippi — I have dedicated scores of historical markers and memorials across America as President of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation (JASHP). Almost all the projects have a Jewish theme or background story. Next month in Marietta, Georgia, JASHP will dedicate the first ever anti-lynching memorial to all
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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USAOpening my ears at Trans- Pride
By Eric George Tauber (he, him, his) SAN DIEGO — Splashed all over the news was this weekend’s Pride Parade. What began as a riot in 1969 is now a celebration with municipal support and corporate sponsorship. With roughly 300,000 participants, San Diego has one of the largest in the world. Less publicized was the Trans-Pride
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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USARemembering Dorothy Fields
Remembering songwriter Dorothy Fields who was born this day (July 15) in 1904.
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Travel and FoodIsrael can be proud of its Ethiopian Jewish record
By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — Thousands of Africans, sick, malnourished, and frightened, were huddled together on the floor of the hold, and many died on the trip. It wasn’t the hold of a 19th century slave ship, but a plane that had been stripped of seats to accommodate more people. It was May, 24,
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International, Middle EastJewish trivia quiz: Jeffrey Epstein
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 & SatireNoshing with Sandi: H Mart Korean food court
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 Brian Selznick
Honoring award-winning illustrator Brian Selznick who was born this date (July 14) in 1966.
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Travel and FoodBerger is Sen. Warren’s self- inflicted campaign wound
By 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, USAFeeling the ravages of time
By 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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