Remembering Ernest Gold
Remembering Jewish composer Ernest Gold who was born this day (July 13) in 1921.
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Travel and FoodPoway Chabad hosts champion ping pong player
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, USA‘Another Roll of the Dice’ recalls Damon Runyon
By 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 & BroadcastA nostalgic trip through Europe
By 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 FoodBook Review: ‘Jews in Medicine’
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, & EducationRock the Cygnet
By 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
Vice President Pence visits Chabad of Poway
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
Remembering 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 FoodTaking part in the Pride parade
By 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 CalendarCan Herzog bridge the growing Israel – Diaspora gap?
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Isaac Herzog is a prince in Israel. His father was the country’s sixth president, his grandfather its first chief rabbi. He himself was a Member of Knesset for 15 years, some of it as a cabinet minister. As the head of Israel’s Labor Party he was also the Leader
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International, Middle East, USANotes on Torah reading for July 13
Hukkat (Numbers: Chapters 19-21, v.1) By Irv Jacobs, M.D. LA JOLLA, California —Commentators loved to comment on and justify the laws in the Torah. In most cases, they reasonably understood the logic of individual laws, as they made sense. However there are some laws that defy logic. Though the rabbis attempted explanations, they eventually threw
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Irv Jacobs, MD, Jewish ReligionHolocaust analogies? Helpful or harmful?
By Dorian de Wind AUSTIN, Texas — A Cagle cartoon at The Moderate Voice used images of Nazi concentration camps to bring attention to the plight of detained illegal immigrants and asylum seekers and their children – many separated from their parents – languishing at barbed-wire-enclosed, cage like detention centers. The final image in the
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Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish History, USA80 groups protest SFSU Prof’s anti- Zionism posting
SANTA CRUZ, California (Press Release) — Eighty organizations on Thursday wrote to California State University (CSU) Chancellor Timothy White to alert him about San Francisco State University Professor Rabab Abdulhadi’s “hateful” posting, and to demand he take immediate action to address her “unlawful” conduct. The concerns are also being raised to CSU General Counsel Andrew
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAEthiopian Jews protest ongoing Israeli bias
By Daniel Sokatch SAN FRANCISCO — “I lost a boy.” My heart breaks to read those words from Vorka Teka, the grieving father of Solomon Teka z”l. It has been just over a week since Vorka’s son Solomon was shot dead by an off-duty police officer in a public park in Kiryat Haim, a suburb
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