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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008 Temple Solel S'more Shabbat
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THE VIEW FROM JINSA
Average Americans more resolute than Congress in responding to gasoline crisis
By Shoshana Bryen
 WASHINGTON, D.C.—There is a good reason public opinion polls put Congress's popularity at 14 percent in the middle of a national emergency. It is a know-nothing, do-nothing institution. Congress is so far behind the public curve that it should be ashamed of itself, the Democratic leadership in particular, but not only.
When the price of gas hit The Tipping Point (read the book) the very American belief in the power of the individual kicked in. Never mind Congress's inability to pass new fuel efficiency standards. Sales of large cars plummeted, sales of small or hybrid cars with far higher miles per gallon figures than Congress is even willing to debate have risen. Thirty-five thousand people (including some of us) signed up for the Chevy Volt electric car that won't be available for another two years. On the save side, Americans took 10.3 billion trips on public transportation in 2007, the highest level in 50 years. We drove 11 billion fewer miles in March 2008 than we did in March 2007 - billion - the largest drop since recording began during wartime 1942. If the Sun is 92 million miles away, how many times could we have made the trip?
But Congress is still dithering about drilling, refining and building nuclear power plants. "We can't drill our way out of this," they chant. No, we can't. But we can drill, refine, generate, reuse, reduce and recycle. Congress could drop the tariff on imported sugar from our Caribbean friends and make sugar ethanol (which takes much less energy to produce) the way Brazil does, instead of paying producers to put food in our gas tanks. But it won't.
Democrats are so adamantly opposed to increasing domestic energy that they are willing to bollix up the whole government. Rather than debate offshore drilling - for fear it would pass - Democratic leadership of the House and the Senate cut off all budget debate. Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid (and budget chairmen David Obey and Robert Byrd) will go with a Continuing Resolution for spending until next February because no way will they give President Bush what he wants now.
And therein lies the problem. What about what We the People want?
One major difference between the oil shocks of the 1970s and now is that the American people now know that oil from abroad is not only expensive, it is dangerous. Then, we didn't have al Qaeda - and hadn't had September 11th with 11 of the 19 hijackers coming from Saudi Arabia. The oil shock of the Iranian Revolution came when most Americans didn't know how bad the Mullahs would be. Now we know they are building nuclear weapons capability, threatening Israel and supporting Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria. Now we have Hugo Chavez spouting anti-American garbage and supporting the drug and terror lords in Colombia, subverting a democratic friend of the United States.
Most Americans now understand that, in a quirk of fate and geology, a lot of oil is under land governed by people who wish us ill, and a lot of energy lies at home. We have an economic and national security emergency, and the ability to address at least part of it domestically. The people get it, but Congress clearly doesn't. It makes us wonder what the 14 percent are thinking.
FROM THE GATES OF THE NEGEV
Amid such beauty, once was such horror
By Ulla Hadar
 MEINA, Italy —For the past 25 years my family and I have visited Italy frequently. My husband’s ancestors are Italian and both his parents are survivors of the holocaust. Our trips for the last 10 years have been centralized mainly in the mountains and this year has been no exception. As a special bonus our son got permission from the Israeli army (he has been a soldier for 2 1/2 years) to go abroad for a week.
Never before have I looked very thoroughly into the Jewish connection to the area we’re visiting, but this year as a writer for San Diego Jewish World, my priorities were a little different. Before departing from Israel, I did some research and the story of the village of Meina began to unravel.
Meina is a small village situated on the shore of the Alpine Lake Maggiore, about an hour from Milano. Walking through the streets you get only the impression of a very tranquil, idyllic and romantic Italian small town. Nothing indicates that something horrid happened here once. But this is what happened:
 Hotel Meina (pictured at right as seen today), situated at the shore of the Lake Maggiore, was owned by an Istanbul Jew named Alberto Behar. During WWII, he felt safe because of his Turkish citizenship, Turkey was neutral throughout the war.
From Saloniki, Greece, the Fernandez, Torres and Mosseri families, all Jewish, arrived, escaping from the Germans in Greece. All of them had Italian citizenship. Another Salonikian Jew, who had been living in Milano, Daniel Modiano, joined them at the Hotel Meina.
A total of 16 people took refuge in the hotel. The Nazis were informed of the Jews staying in the hotel. On September 16, 1943 a week after the German occupation of Italy, the SS stormed Hotel Meina. For a week the soldiers held the victims under guard apparently debating what to do with them. After the week passed all the victims were shot in the back of their necks and tossed into the lake. Most of the bodies rose in the morning to the surface of the water, but only to be taken back to the center of the lake to be thrown in again.
Only one body was recovered later for proper burial.
The Jewish owner Alberto Behar and his family were saved only because the Turkish consul had intervened and asserted to the SS that they were citizens of a neutral country.
As I was sitting next to the lake near the deteriorating Hotel Meina, I told my children of this horrific massacre. It was a scene difficult to envision, particularly when you are sipping a coffee while the sun is splashing over the waters of the lake.
 Later in the week, we relocated to the Valley of Anzacsa. The valley finishes at the foot of the Monte Rosa. On one of our hikes we reached the pass of the mountain Moro and I was told that there were many Jewish people escaping on this route, although the valley had a lot of German activity.
The pass is situated very close to the Swiss border. It is a beautiful and tough walk up and down the mountain (today there is a possibility of going by cable car all the way up). I tried to imagine how difficult and frightening the ascent would for our fellow Jews during that Nazi era.
Another incident puzzled me when visiting a close- down gold mine located in the valley. On one of the old oil lamps was a Star of David. I asked our guide how that could be, but in this case there was apparently no Jewish connection. The German company producing these lamps was called "Star" and this was its symbol.
THE JEWISH CITIZEN
Germans paying compensation to survivors who worked in ghettos run by the Nazis
By Donald H. Harrison
 LA JOLLA, California—Within a short walk of the Holocaust Memorial that graces the front grounds of the Lawrence Family JCC, members and summer associates of the law firm of Cooley Godward Kronish LLP are helping to locate Holocaust survivors who, at any time during the Nazi years, had a wage-paying job, however small those wages were, in a Nazi-administered ghetto.
They are coordinating colleagues in three other law firms in the San Diego area in a similar program of outreach to let the survivors know that the modern-day German government has agreed to make a one-time payment to them of 2,000 Euros, which is worth more than U.S. $3,000 at current conversion rates. The other law firms involved in the program are Heller Ehrman LLP, Latham & Watkins LLP, and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP. In all, the outreach involves 31 attorneys and 13 summer associate just in the San Diego County area.
Michael Levinson is the partner who interested the multiple-office Cooley Godward Kronish firm in performing the work for free, with associate Samantha LaPine coordinating the project. Explained Levinson: “I am always looking for opportunities for our attorneys to do pro bono work. The firm is committed to and dedicated to having every attorney put in a certain amount of time of pro bono work. Being on the business side of the firm, it is not as easy to find pro bono opportunities as it is in other fields.
“The second part of it,” said Levinson, “is that I have been a long-time active member of the Jewish community here,” having served on the board of the United Jewish Federation, and as a chairman of one year’s UJF fundraising campaign. He and his family have memberships in two Conservative Jewish congregations: Congregation Beth El in La Jolla and Congregation Beth Am in the Carmel Valley area of San Diego.
The payment is different from the Holocaust reparations that the German government has made to survivors in the past, because these are not to compensate people who were forced to perform “slave labor,” but rather people who found jobs—albeit at exploitive wages—in and around the ghettoes where they were forced to live under the Nazi regimes. Levinson said the payment is similar to a one-time Social Security payment, or pension, in recognition of the “voluntary” labor that the survivors performed.
Levinson said that LaPine typifies the fact that an “amazing number of non-Jewish attorneys and firms have been working on this, including our non-Jewish partners. It has been amazing watching them as they work with the survivors, and learn from them about the Holocaust.”
LaPine said that in meeting the survivors, she has been impressed by how little bitterness the survivors express about the Nazi years. The ones she has met so far have been “funny, always laughing.”
“The interviews are now taking enormous amounts of time because the survivors all want to tell their stories, and in some ways, one of the biggest benefits of the program we are doing is not filling out the application or getting them the reparations, but giving them to opportunity to tell their story to a young attorney who may never have heard that story before,” Levinson said.
After making contact with the survivors, the attorneys schedule an appointment for them to come to one of the participating law offices, or in cases when survivors are too frail to make such a trip, the lawyers or summer associates will go out to their homes to conduct interviews.
The interviews are necessary to properly fill out the application form that the German government requires to determine whether a survivor is eligible for the payment. LaPine said that if the application is not completed to the German government’s exacting standards, it will be sent back to be done again—delaying the process. The attorneys and their summer associates—as law school students are knownd—have been trained in the ins and outs of meeting the German government’s requirements.
If you are a survivor, or if you have a member of your family or friend who is, Levinson recommends that you or they call the hotline listed at the end of this article to schedule an appointment. On the recorded message, you will be asked to leave your name and number for someone to get back to you.
Levinson said that even though the four firms have taken logical steps to find survivors in our area—contacting the New Life Club of Holocaust Survivors, asking Jewish congregations to announce the program, asking Jewish Family Service and other agencies to pass on the information to their clientele—“I worry every single day that we will not reach some of the survivors in time.”
Most of the survivors are in their 80s, and their ranks worldwide are thinning every day. “This hit home a couple of weeks ago, when I was trying to get hold of Gussie Zaks (a long-time leader of the New Life Club), and when she called back, she said she was sorry she had taken awhile to get back to me, but she had to attend a funeral of one of the members of the New Life Club. They’re at that age where that happens.”
Among those participating in the program for the Cooley Godward Kronish firm are summer associates S. Max Barker of the University of Chicago Law School; Megan Donohue of the University of San Diego Law School, and Kelsey Radke of the University of Michigan Law School.
Levinson said he was anxious that all the summer associates have a hands-on opportunity with the program before they return to their campuses. He explained that with so many attorneys and associates at so many law firms across the United States having volunteered to participate in the program, there is a waiting list of attorneys who went through the training, and who have yet to get the opportunity to handle a single application.
Too few survivors and too many volunteer attorneys is a situation that has become particularly critical in New York City, whereas in San Diego County, the numbers are better balanced, Levinson said.
The hotline number for survivors or family members to telephone is (858) 550-6494.
THE JEWS DOWN UNDER
Jewish delegation greets Pope Benedict XVI in Australia during World Youth Day fete
By Garry Fabian
 SYDNEY - Rabbi Jeremy Lawrence (shown below) delivered a welcome speech to Pope Benedict XVI at an interfaith event held at St Mary's Cathedral last Friday as part of World Youth Day celebrations.
The meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and a select group of Jewish leaders culminated last week with both sides expressing a deep commitment to unity and ongoing dialogue.
 About 40 interfaith leaders attended the meeting, including Jews, Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus. Rabbi Lawrence, chief rabbi of the Great Synagogue in Sydney, gave the welcoming speech on behalf of the Jewish community.
He said that such encounters serve to emphasize "our shared concerns" for the environment, humankind and social justice.
"Our faiths teach that we are all children of one body cast in God's image. Our two faiths revere that moment almost 3500 years ago, when the people of Israel heard the voice of God at Sinai," he said.
"Although we may differ profoundly in the details or interpretations, our shared points of origin should bind us together with an amity."
The Jewish delegation included David Knoll, president of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies (BOD); Rabbi Jeffrey Kamins, chief minister of Temple Emanuel; Robert Goot, the president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry; Josie Lacey, BOD interfaith chair; John Landerer, president of the Sydney Jewish Museum; and Rabbi Zalman Kastel, national director of the Together for Humanity foundation.
Two youth representatives, Judith Levitan and Josh Levin, also attended.
Warm feelings flow from World Youth Day
SYDNEY —Despite initial concerns over the Stations of the Cross procession planned for Pope Benedict XVI's visit, Jewish leaders have come out praising World Youth Day (WYD) and the interfaith forums held as part of the celebrations, which concluded on July 20.
"It gave us a good opportunity for networking, and we're further than we were in interfaith dialogue," said Josie Lacey, the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (BOD) interfaith chair.
She added that while she was still "sad" the procession had depicted Jesus Christ's final hours and included a scene of him being condemned by the Sanhedrin, the ancient Jewish tribunal, she said the re-enactment on July 18 "wasn't as bad as I expected."
For months leading up to the event, ongoing concerns over the march and its possible negative portrayal of Jews had become a point of contention between the two communities.
Talks between the church and the BOD eventually led the church to make some changes to the procession.
BOD CEO Vic Alhadeff said this week that he was satisfied with the outcome and the "sensitive manner" in which the church had handled the re-enactment.
"We were especially moved by the reference in the commentary to the Church's rejection of anti-Jewish teachings and by the recollection of the Good Friday prayer of the 1970 Roman Missal in the mention of 'our Jewish brothers and sisters the first to hear the word of God'," he said.
Youth representative Judith Levitan, who met Pope Benedict and participated in an interfaith forum presented by Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald last week, said she walked away from the event with a "positive experience."
Discussions from the forum were so successful that the groups -- including Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Catholic and Hindu leaders -- are in talks about starting up a new interfaith project.
"In terms of getting a better understanding of other faiths, [the event] did its job," she said.
Courage to Care chairman Andrew Havas said many pilgrims also stopped by the B'nai B'rith centre in East Sydney to see its exhibition based on the Holocaust.
"They especially came because we're a Jewish organisation and they wanted to see something Jewish," he said. "They were incredibly supportive."
Overall, he said, WYD had helped to build dialogue between the faiths. "The whole event was a grand affair."
Pilgrims also attended Israeli Harmony Dance Workshops by the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia NSW division and took tours of The Great Synagogue where they learned about the history of the shul and Australia's Jewish community.
Pope entertained by Jewish singers
SYDNEY - Two young Jewish girls from Canberra sang for Pope Benedict XVI during the recent World Youth Day activities in Sydney.
Ruby Dixon 14, and Sarah Berger-Alexander 14 - both members of the Australian children's choir - Gondwana Voices - sang at the welcoming ceremony for the Pope.
"I was really close to the Pope - it was pretty cool" said Dixon, who is also currently touring with the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
"It's something I will remember for the rest of my life. It went insane when the Pope and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd arrived and waved to us" Berger-Alexander said.
Dixon has been a member of the Gondwana Voices for four years, while Berger-Alexander joined last year. Dixon follows in the footsteps of her mother Jo, who sang for Pope Jophn Paul II in 1986.
Community move against bogus collectors
MELBOURNE - A new group that registers door-to-door collectors in the Orthodox community wants to increase awareness about bogus operators.
Businessman Shimon Allen, a member of the Chabad community in Melbourne, said the new group, Chesed, would attempt to ensure that all collectors for overseas Jewish organisations carry a certificate identifying themselves and their cause.
The campaign, supported by most of Melbourne’s Orthodox rabbis, also wants to make the community aware of the new identification process, and is urging residents to request to see a certificate.
Allen said Chesed – which is part of a global Orthodox Jewish network – has been set up primarily to combat collector fraud by overseas visitors, “to establish the bona fides of people who are coming, and why they are collecting."
"Hopefully, the community will understand that if a collector comes and has a certificate from Chesed that they can be confident that everything’s above board.”
The Chesed certificate will carry the name of the collecting organisation, a photo of the collector and the dates allocated to the collector. It will also include security features to guard against copying or altering.
Chesed has spoken to the majority of Melbourne’s rabbis and explained its intentions and will launch its registration process later this month, Allen said
The call to establish Chesed in Melbourne came after a rise in complaints about “unsavoury incidents in the community.”
Chesed is also launching a website for people to check for any fraudulent collectors who have been reported to the organisation.
Allen said the problem had grown in recent times because the community had become less close-knit, and permitted collectors “whose motives are not pure, to prey” on the “goodwill” of residents.
“The stories can vary from collecting for a sick child to collecting for an institution that doesn’t even exist.”
Educator honoured by former teacher
MELBOURNE- Life can be full of funny twists and turns and last week Dr Miriam Munz, one of the community’s foremost Jewish educators, was presented with the 2008 Sylvia Gelman Award by her year 8 science teacher, Sylvia Gelman.
“She was a real role model,” Dr Munz said. “She respected the students and they respected her back.”
The Sylvia Gelman Award is an annual honour presented by the Victorian division of the National Council of Jewish Women Australia. It was established to honour Mrs Gelman for her lifelong commitment to education, women’s issues and the Jewish community.
Now working as a research associate at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Dr Munz taught at Mount Scopus College where she rose to head of Jewish studies and then spent five years as principal of Leibler Yavneh College. Since 2004, she has been involved in informal Jewish education with Limmud Oz.
At Monash, and earlier at the University of Melbourne, Dr Munz conducted research into education and Jewish issues. In her masters degree, she examined the influence of teachers on the lives of children in the Warsaw, Lodz and Vilna ghettoes, and in her subsequent doctoral studies, she examined the influence of culture and religion in schools.
Early immigration records now on line
CANBERRA- Hard-to-find documents detailing the history of Australia’s Jewish community are becoming more readily available since the National Archives in Canberra commenced digitising its massive collection.
The National Archives maintains such a large number of government records that immigration documents alone fill 22 kilometres of shelf space.
Senator John Faulkner launched the Making Australia Home project earlier this month -– a plan that will progressively make Australia’s immigration records available on the internet.
A search of the National Archives website reveals information that will fascinate Jewish history buffs.
A copy of a 1933 Census document demonstrated the demography of the Jewish population in Australia before World War II.
According to the file, Australia had 23,553 Jewish residents in 1933. Of those, 10,305 lived in New South Wales, 9500 lived in Victoria and 2105 lived in Western Australia, with the rest scattered around the country.
In the 2006 Census, taken 73 years later, 88,000 people declared themselves to be Jewish, with the actual number predicted to be closer to 100,000.
Other documents now available digitally include records of Jewish arrivals to Australia and cabinet documents.
For example, Morris “Shmon” Einstock’s “form of application for registration for alien resident in Australia” is available digitally. It records that Einstock, whose nationality is recorded as Jewish and birthplace as Palestine, came to Australia in January 1926.
Confidential cabinet minutes from 1943 reveal that the Australian Jewish Welfare Society was given special permission to bring 150 young Jewish refugees to Australia in the midst of the Holocaust.
National Rabbinic Conference Held
SYDNEY— Australia's rabbis gathered in Sydney last week for the biennial National Rabbinic Conference.
Organised by the Organisation of Rabbis of Australiasia (ORA), the two day conference aimed to give rabbis an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences and to discuss the best way to serve the Australian Jewish community.
"It's important for all the rabbis to get together to dicuss matters of mutual interest" Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick, the outgoing ORA president said. The program commenc ed with reports by Rabbi Gutnick, Rabbinical Council of Victoria president Rabbi Meir Klugwant, Rabbinical Council of NSW Rabbi Mendel Kastel and Rabbi Dovid Freilich from Perth. Attendees then heard presentations on a variety of topics, including rabbinic guidelines on contemporary issues, such as abortion and organ donation; interacting with the community lay-leadership; combatting intermarriage and Christian missionary activity; dealing with mental and physical health issues; Jewish education; and rabbis' roles as counsellors.
Youth movements unite in South Australia
ADELAIDE- The youth of South Australia's small Jewish community have put aside their political differences to form one youth movement - JAZY.
JAZY stands for Jewish Adelaide Zionist Youth and was developed by three young people - Nicole Hassan, Elinor Cozens and Nat Lockshin - who saw need to attempt to unite Adelaide's small and sometimes fractured community.
The community's two existing movements Habonim Dror and Netzer, found it difficult to attract participants, so they joined forces to create a non-partisan group for Adelaide's Jewish youth.
JAZY's aim is to instill a Jewish identity and foster love of Israel through education, fun and games and is supported by the Zionist Federation of Australia. The leaders, who have completed Shnat programs, also provide families with information on the various activities run by the national youth movements, including biannual camps and Israel programs.
The Jewish and kosher community of Fiji (News from 'halfway down under')
SUVA, Fiji—Nearly all Jews in Fiji live in Suva, the capital. Jewish settlement in Fiji can be traced back to the arrival from Australia of 20 year old Henry Marks in 1881. Marks laid the foundations of what was to become one of the most extensive enterprises in The Western Pacific. Marks was later joined by Jews from India and elsewhere in the Middle East and The Orient. Until very recently, there was no organised Jewish life in Fiji.
However, this changed with the creation of a communal organisation called The Fiji Jewish Association. Religious life has been confined to a communal seder organised by the Israeli Embassy and attended by 50 to 60 people.
THE JEWISH GROTTO
San Diego teen athletes ready to host and to compete in JCC Maccabi games next week
By Gary Rotto
 SAN DIEGO—The JCC Maccabi Games are less than one week away! You could feel the excitement building at the Local Delegation Party held poolside at the Lawrence Family JCC on Sunday. At age 10, my daughter isn’t old enough to participate yet. But she is a member of the JCC Junior Maccabi group and has an idea that this is something big.
Along with her friend, Andie, we helped greet and credential the 350 local athletes who will comprise the San Diego delegation. The teens and parents teemed in from all parts of the county to collect not only their official credentials, but also the “Official Games Schedule” and the practice schedule for the final week. And then there are the uniforms. Andie was excited to see her brother, Bobby, in the very sharp blue and gold Adidas warm ups. “Wow, he looks good!” exclaimed JM, Bobby’s mom. The football jerseys are just as sharp with the JCC Maccabi Games logo – a Star of David encompassing a sprinter - above the uniform number on the chest.
All of the participants have been asked to open their homes to players from across the US as well as international participants from Mexico and Israel. After the kids received their uniforms and equipment bags, the parents attended a final briefing and orientation while the participants stayed poolside for the official delegation photo. Teen Coordinator and San Diego Delegation Head, Heather Barbash, and Local Delegation Committee Chair Jean Gaylis, beamed with pride and a sense of accomplishment that so many San Diegans are a part of the games. You can see it in their faces in the official photo.
As much fun as the kids had on Sunday, there is a whole week of work ahead as the teams have there final week of practices. Many, such as the Flag Football team, will have “two-a-days”- a practice in the morning and one in the afternoon. . And if you wish to attend any of the games, just register online at http://www.sdmaccabi.org/. Your spectator credential is free and good at all venues.
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From Southwestern Jewish Press, August 1949, page 4
By Red Borscht
… The group of Guardians was listening attentively (yea enraptured) to the most interesting speaker – Roscoe Porter—as he spun a fascinating web of early San Diego history. The old timers—Leo Greenbaum, Its Penter, Max Rabinowitz, Irving Schulman, Sol Rosenberg, and many others—re-lived the incidents of two and three decades ago—the growing San Diego, exotic Chinatown, water problems—“It was cheaper at 4th and Market Streets” – and with the suddenness that always accompanies the unexpected, Murray Goodrich toppled off his chair onto the floor, and Porter quipped: “That’s the way a good speaker leaves ‘em – in the aisles…
Beta Tau
From Southwestern Jewish Press, August 1949, page 5
A new social organization for Jewish men students of San Diego State College has recently been founded. The club, the Beta Tau Club, will affiliate in the very near future twith a national men’s campus organization. Elected to offices were: Mr. Richard Silberman, president; Mr. Bruce Witte, vice president; MR. Sheldon Sackheim, secretary; Mr. Al Tepper, treasurer, and Mr. Jerome Zweig, historian.
A reception and barbecue for new members and members and alumni of Zeta Beta Tau as held at the home of Mr. Sheldon Sackheim Sunday afternoon and evening, July 24.
Jewish men students at San Diego State College interested in Beta Tau may call Mr. Richard Silberman, R-6575, or Mr. Sheldon Sackheim, W. 8-3364.
Hear About Brandeis
From Southwestern Jewish Press, August 1949, page 5
By Sid Stokes
On August 6, Hillel and Masada will jointly sponsor a welcome home party or those members who have returned from a month at The Brandeis Camp Institute, in Santa Susana, California. This affair is open to the entire community in order for them to become more familiar with this camp institute, welcome home those who have returned from camp, and have an all round good time. Dancing, singing and refreshments will follow a brief description of the camp and camp life. Remember 8:00 p.m., August 6, at the temple Center (3rd and Laurel). Admission is free.
Solomon Attends Youth Conference
From Southwestern Jewish Press, August 1949, page 5
The annual Jewish Youth Conference of the Union of American Hebrew Congregation, which was held recently at Carmel, was ably represented by the newly elected president of the local affiliated group, Herbert Solomon.
Hebert spent a week in the company of many young people who came from as far north as Washington, and as Far East as Nevada. Many subjects were covered which will add materially to the progress of the Temple Youth League of San Diego.
A report on the conference will be given by Herbert Solomon at the first Fall meeting of the T.Y.L.
The San Diego representative to the Conference was sponsored by the Sisterhood of the Temple Beth Israel.
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SAN DIEGO JEWISH WORLD THE WEEK IN REVIEW
Politics
Hanging conservative in a liberal closet by Sheila Orysiek in San Diego
Arts
Chance meeting leads to one-day, one-woman show for Israeli-born Shosh Ernst by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—August 1949: San Diego B’nai B’rith Women
—August 1949: Birdie Stodel Chapter B’nai B’rith by Jeanne Camiel
—August 1949: J.W.V. Auxiliary by Binnie Brooks
—August 1949: J.C.R.A. by Anna B. Brooks
—August 1949: Yo-Ma-Co News by Alice Solomon
International
Senator Obama in the Middle East: Part III by Shoshana Bryen in Washington D.C.
Judaism
Bearing false witness: a compassionate lie by Sheila Orysiek in San Diego
California
Two emotional rites in the land of the free by Donald H. Harrison at Camp Pendleton, California
Arts
Play is searing indictment of Roosevelt and his 'accomplices' Wise and Rosenman by Cynthia Citron in Los Angeles
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—August 1949: JWV and Auxiliaries Convention Held
—August 1949: Awards Given at Hillel Banquet
—August 1949: A Miracle Conceived and Born Can Yet Become A Mirage
—August 1949: Senior (Negebod) Pioneer Women
International
Senator Obama in the Middle East: Part II by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.
China: A link in the Jewish diaspora by Cynthia Citron in Los Angeles
Judaism
A biblical lesson in setting priorities by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal
Arts
'Phantom' is ba-a-ack, and she's loving' it by Carol Davis in San Diego
How love conquers even humongous birds by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Sports
A bissel sports trivia with Bruce Lowitt in Clearwater, Florida
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—June 1949: Ladies’ Auxiliary S.D. Post No. 185 J.W.V. of the U.S.
—June 1949: Tifereth Israel Sisterhood
—June 1949: Women’s Chapter, Samuel I. Fox Lodge
—June 1949: Registration Opens for Day Camp
—June 1949: Alpha Phi Pi
Middle East
Senator Obama in the Middle East: Part I by Shoshana Bryen in Washington D.C.
Israel's embarassments: Katsav, Olmert by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
San Diego/ Sports
Maccabi Games: 'portals' for Jewish youth by Donald H. Harrison in La Jolla, California
San Diego Jewish Trivia: Sports by Evelyn Kooperman in San Diego
Arts
Chapter 18 of Reluctant Martyr, a serialized novel by Sheila Orysiek
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—June 1949:Welfare Society Adds New Service
—June 1949: J.C.R.A by Anna Brooks
—June 1949: Daughter Born to Rabbi and Mrs. Stern
—June 1949:Ida Nasatir on Speaking Tour
—June 1949: Poale Zion
The Arts
Former Navy base bursts with creativity by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Thursdays with the Songs of Hal Wingard
—#71, The Magic of Love
—#125, Camaraderie
Author believes Israel's salvation is secular by Fred Reiss in Winchester, California
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—June 1949:Shevous Services Feature Confirmations
—June 1949:Leaders Spur Activities to Complete 1949 Fund Drive
—June 1949:Hillel Awards Interfaith Scholarships at San Diego State College
—June 1949:Developing Youth Leadership
Middle East
Key to Mideast peace not change among the Israelis but among the Palestinians by Shoshana Bryen in Washington D.C.
Australia
A Roundup of Jewish news of Australia by Garry Fabian
—Jewish scholar sees softening attitudes among Jews towards 'Messianic Jews'
—Alarm about Messianic Jews
—Star studded line-up for Sydney Jewish Writer Festival
—Makor Jewish Resource Library to expand
—Courage to Care - A tool to fight racism and prejudice
—Should Shoah education be made compulsory?
—From Jakarta to Perth
—Jewish Community Chatfest
—South African Community continues consolidation
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—April 1949: Caravan of Hope Arrives April 11th
—May 1949: Fund Leaders Attend Celebration of First Anniversary of the Republic of Israel
—May 1949: Hadassah
—May 1949: Beth Jacob Auxiliary
—May 1949: Nu? by Red Borscht
—May 1949: Ceremony May 30 {Decoration Day}
—May 1949: Personality of the Week (Levi Eshkol)
Arts
A lesbian comes out to the Orthodox followers of her father, the Rav by David Strom in San Diego
Israel's history, geography, customs for preschoolers before the High Holidays by Donald H. Harrison
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