By H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — If you are reading this, you are probably Jewish and live in California. Even if you’re not, you should do the right thing. There is an August 15th deadline to protest the proposed anti-Semitic California schools curriculum. The people who wrote the curriculum do not know (or don’t care)
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USACelebrated basketball coach Red Holzman was born this date (August 10) in 1920.
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Sports & Competitions
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — After our wedding in April 1949 in Beverly Hills, my husband, Sam Josefowitz, and I started our lives together in New York. Sam and his brother David came up with the idea—adapted from the Book of the Month Club—to start a record of the month club. David
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International, Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Right above the San Diego Jewish World masthead is a link to our updated Jewish community directory. In the directory, you will find telephone numbers and names of the rabbis at local synagogues; website links to those synagogues and to a variety of other Jewish organizations, both local,
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
A “Really Beautiful Letter” from Chairman Kim By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO: President Trump disclosed today that Kim Jong Un had sent him “a really beautiful letter.” Fortunately, a colleague who knows an anonymous White House source familiar with the letter has shared some of its contents to me. Most Esteemed Orange Buddha, Ever since
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — President Trump’s rhetoric that might have inspired killers like Patrick Crusius in El Paso and Connor Betts in Dayton, Ohio, last Saturday (Aug. 3) along with Mitch McConnell’s refusal to move gun control legislation, are certainly disgraceful, but their behavior can perhaps be taken up a serious notch. They
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International, USAComedian David Steinberg was born this day (August 9) in 1942. This bit in a Smothers Brothers Show was previewed to television stations, and cancelled before it could be aired.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire
LA JOLLA, California (SDJW) — Retired Economics Prof. Lawrence Krause has been notified by UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla that he will be awarded the 2019 Revelle Medal during the university’s Founders Celebration on Friday, Nov. 15. Krause, who lives in retirement at Seacrest Village in Encinitas, writes a column on world affairs
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Jewish History, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Jewish Family Service’s “On the Go” program in conjunction with Ed Brown Center is one of three senior centers selected from across the country to test an outreach and education program connecting older adults with ridesharing services, so they can participate in health and wellness programs. The pilot program is
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San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy H. Applebaum SAN DIEGO — Every time I move to a new city and join a synagogue, I ask the rabbi what he thinks about political talk in the synagogue. In my parents’ time, it wasn’t an issue. Being so close to the suffering Jews had experienced in Europe under a myriad of different political
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Jewish Religion, USA
33 1/3 House of Dreams through August 25, 2019, San Diego Rep, at the Lyceum Theater By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — As a baby boomer, I like music from the 1960’s and I think much of it is timeless. Many of the songs from the 1960’s were recorded at Gold Star Recording Studios in Hollywood.
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Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Travel and FoodHistorian Gertrude Himmelfarb was born this day (August 8) in 1922. Married to Irving Kristol, she also is known as Bea Kristol.
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Travel and Food
By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — It’s not widely known, but President Trump – very briefly yet seriously– considered converting to Judaism. It occurred recently when he felt the world was crashing in on him: people he’d considered extremely loyal were deserting him, even testifying against him; his constant denials of collusion and illegal
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Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Repentance as we know it today is not a biblical concept despite the thinking of many that the prophet Hosea talked about it. Hosea 14:2 states “Shuva Yisrael ad Hashem Elokekha,” “Return Israel to the Lord your God.” Actually, Hosea says in chapter 14 what he
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