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FRIDAY, AUGUST 8
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8TH
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2008 Temple Solel S'more Shabbat
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MON., SEPT. 29-THURS., OCT. 9
 
The JEWISH CITIZEN
With all those medals, will Israelis be able to keep their luggage under 50 pounds?
By Donald H. Harrison
 SAN DIEGO—The trip home for the Israeli athletes from Sha’ar Hanegev and neighboring cities in the Negev may prove more expensive than they had anticipated. With today’s day of play still remaining in the 2008 JCC Maccabi Games, the Israeli athletes have won an impressive number of medals so far—19—and nowadays airlines are charging extra for added weight in passenger baggage.
Also, there’s the potential problem with Israel’s Customs Service, as the student athletes will bring into their home country a variety of precious metals—gold, silver, and bronze—and who knows what kind of import fee the authorities might dream up?
Notwithstanding these “risks,” the Israeli athletes have been enthusiastic in their praise for the JCC Maccabi Games, which began with impressive opening ceremonies on Sunday, and continued with competitions and evening field trips to such San Diego tourist attractions as Sea World and the San Diego Zoo.
The swimmer with nine medals so far—and four more chances today (Thursday)—is Efrat Rotsztejn of Nir Yitzhak, who recently became Israel’s national champion among swimmers age 16 on the strength of her powerful breast stroke as well as her mastery of the other three parts of individual medley competition: back stroke, freestyle, and butterfly.
Her San Diego medals thus far include five golds and one silver in individual competitions, and one gold and two silvers in team competitions. Having competed all over Israel, as well as in Cyprus and Germany, Rotsztejn was diplomatic in describing the competition she found among the young American swimmers. “It was all right,” she said.
Few of the swimmers against whom she competed probably follow a typical daily routine like hers—in the pool at 6 a.m. for an hour of practice under her coach’s guidance, before going to school, and then, after school, back to the pool for another two-hour session.
I asked what she thinks about as she swims lap after lap alone in the pool, and she responded, “everything!” Her coach, Amir Yossi Cohen, a former Israeli national swimmer himself, suggested that surely she must be thinking about “homework!” prompting a smile from the shy Israeli champion.
A year younger that Rotsztejn, and ranked Israel’s second best swimmer among 15 year olds, is Yarden Avital of Sderot, who also is coached by Cohen, a kibbutznik of Mefalsim, Israel.
When I asked how many medals he had won, he said was not sure, so he reached into a pocket and displayed them on a table in the Astor Judaica Library in the Lawrence Family JCC, Jacobs Family campus, where we were conducting the interview. Let’s see, there were three gold, three silver and one bronze—seven in all.
Between the two protégés of Coach Cohen (whose nickname is “Fish”) there was thus far a total of 16 medals. Sixteen! That puts them up in the kind of territory once occupied by the likes of a Mark Spitz, or a Lenny Krayzelburg, and , if fate smiles in the upcoming Olympic games, Michael Phelps.
“Is the Olympics next for you?” I asked the two swimmers, who immediately looked down at the table in embarrassment. “We don’t talk about such things!” explained Cohen.
But he did say that he is hoping that the two young swimmers will be accepted onto the Israel National Swim Team, which would be a step toward such international aspirations.
I wondered if at the Zoo and Sea World, the two dedicated swimmers had sought out every kind of swimming animal, just to see if they could pick up a technique here or there. “Hah, they didn’t even see Shamu,” said the “Fish.” They went on the roller coaster instead.
The dance trio of Or Salom, Oksana Alpaev, and Gal Milo performed in the first day of competition in the “open dance” category, showing how they integrate gymnastics with more routine dance moves, all to hip hop music. In a match up with four other teams, the three Israelis—hailing respectively from Or Haner, Netivot, and Mefalsim—took away gold medals.
Salom, 13, speculated that their team’s victory was “because we brought something different to the competition—no one did what we did.” The routine, she said, included “a few gymnastic elements like hand-standing, flip flops, splits and a few jumps.”
She added that the threesome had been practicing together and competing for four years, and that she personally had been involved in gymnastics since was in kindergarten.
Salom and Milo, 16, said although they prevailed over the other teams, she saw some dance moves on the part of the other competitors that were intriguing.
Also intriguing to the dancers was the way Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, was rendered during opening ceremonies. In the approving estimate of Alpaev, 16: it sounded like a rock song.
 
Left without medals—but nevertheless happy for the opportunity to have participated—were basketball players Avishai Shustak, 15, and Bar Zion Mizrachi, 14, who were integrated into San Diego basketball squads which did not have much opportunity to practice or play-make together before the competitions. Shustak’s team lost its first two games, then won the next two, making it to the upper bracket of the tourney. However, it was eliminated from the competition yesterday. Mizrachi’s team had an even more difficult experience, losing four straight on the way to tournament elimination.
Nevertheless the boys were philosophical. “It was very much fun,” said Shustak, who played guard. And besides, “my English is better and I have met a lot of new friends—a great experience.”
This sentiment was seconded by Mizrachi, a forward. His own team had “lost all the games but it was great. It didn’t bother me. All the games were fun, all this week is fun.”
I didn’t have a chance to meet three other team members from the Negev region—volleyballerShir Eskanazi and soccer players Gon Soussana and Noam Israel. Like the basketball players, they had been integrated onto San Diego teams in their respective sports. As the rest of us spoke, the mixed soccer team appeared headed toward the semi-final rounds.
So there may be even more medals bound for Israel on the return flight.
Coach Cohen told me that the ten members of his team had been preparing for the JCC Maccabi Games since March, and whereas all the team members wanted to be in the medal hunt, they also were urged to relish “the experience of meeting many athletes from other cities and of other nationalities” among their fellow Jews. He said he told the athletes to try to make friends and to show to the American people what he described as “the unknown side of the Israeli people.”
“We have a reputation that we are tough, and things like that,” he said. “But there is another part of us: our kids are like those from any place else—they have the same ideas, the same games, the computers, i-Pods, and i-phones.”
THE JEWISH GROTTO
Where do you take JCC Maccabi athletes in San Diego County on 'host family night?'
By Gary Rotto
 SAN DIEGO—“What did you do last night?”
What was a popular question posed by the Maccabi participants after day two of the JCC Maccabi Games. It was Host Family Night after all!
The players had completed first round play in most of the sports, experienced the spectacular of the opening ceremonies and marveled at the marine life and shows at Sea World. “Let’s make this easy,” suggested Joey Braband, who like me is hosting two boys this week. “I think that everyone is tired.”
Sounded like a good, inspirational suggestion to me! Host Family Night is a time to show our guests the uniqueness of San Diego and an opportunity for families to get together, cooperating in a fun night out. So geared to our four guests and our own three kids, we sought something that not every one could experience from around the country. There were many options as some families were meeting at the beach for an informal beach party and others headed to Old Town for a uniquely old California-Mexican experience. But we chose an afternoon at Chargers Park.
Since local host and player Bobby Braband is on the San Diego “Heb-Bros,” the flag football team, and of our combined four guests, three play on flag football teams, we juggled carpooling schedules between the venues, picking up our daughters at the JCC Habima Camp and rounded up our guests early. The competitions happened to end by 2:30, so we had no difficulty being at the practice by the starting time of 4 p.m.
While Jewish Charger Igor Olshansky sat out this practice, many of the other players practiced in the drills during the two hour session including Philip Rivers, Quentin Jammer and rookie first round draft pick Antoine Cason. It was a nice, casual afternoon as we talked about what the players were working on as the horn sounded signaling time to begin the next drill or to rotate to the next practice station. “Preseason is nothing like this at the Cardinals camp,” remarked one of our guests from Phoenix. The boys were psyched!
While many people attend the practice, there is plenty of room to roam the perimeters of the three fields or sit in the bleachers. Our kids, from San Diego, Phoenix, and Springfield, Massachusetts, were perfectly perched by the fence line, prepared with footballs and sharpies to seek those elusive autographs. And several players happily obliged. Darren Sproles, Jacque Cessaire, and Keith Grennan were amongst several players who worked the fence line, signing autographs and giving away their workout gloves.
We retreated to a nearby pizza joint and then went for ice cream. This was an evening to laugh and talk in a relaxing, casual restaurant and figure out is which type of chocolate ice cream was the best. And to satisfy the soccer players in the group, we wandered around Soccer Crazy checking out the jerseys and cleats of this other type of football.
Across the county, families choose many ways to entertain their guests. And hopefully, they had as much fun and got to enjoy their guests as much as we did.
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2008 JCC Maccabi Games
 SAN DIEGO—At 11, Marty Hartman (at right) of Sonoran Trails Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona, has learned a lesson for getting ahead that many adults have yet to master.
“Don’t be shy!” she summarizes.
With more than 40 JCC Maccabi teams competing this week in San Diego, Marty set for herself a goal of collecting every team pin available.
As of yesterday, she had perhaps 60, and, of course, there is still today to go, with closing ceremonies at the JCC Athletic Field expected to be a pin-trading fest.
As her older siblings compete for the Phoenix team, Marty, who won’t be eligible for JCC Maccabi sports until next year, is on a quest of her own. Wherever she goes, when she meets an athlete, coach, or parent, she pulls out her sack of Phoenix pins and inquires whether they would like to trade for one of theirs.
Those that already have Phoenix pins may say no, but she’s never daunted. She just heads for the next possible trader.
When Marty gets home, she said, she will place all the Maccabi team pins on a sheepskin that hangs in her bedroom. She said she already has collected perhaps another 140 pins from skiing competitions and from previous years’ Maccabi games. —Donald H. Harrison
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Basketball, 'Jewish geography' and socializing all part of Maccabi games
SAN DIEGO—Wednesday was tournament day in most sports during the JCC Maccabi Games. It was also my day to volunteer at the Games. My assignment brought me to Cathedral Catholic High School where the Girls Basketball Tournament was underway.
A very game and gusty Houston team took on a very tall and talented Stamford (Connecticut) team on one court while the San Diego Five battled Phoenix on the far court (San Diego prevailed 38-35). The girls proved that you don’t have to be tall to play well as many players demonstrated fine technique and good jump shot form. As a girls’ basketball coach, I like to see defensive prowess– which can keep the team in contention even when defending players who are 6 inches taller.
What’s a Jewish event without playing Jewish geography? It turned out that Houston coach Melanie Kaplan is best friends with someone I knew growing up in El Paso. After the game, David Friedman walked up to me to say hello – I went to school with him at the University of Texas a “few” years ago. His daughter, Lauren Friedman is on the Houston team. And teammate Eliana Levy’s dad, Bobby, was at the University of Texas the same years we were..
At this game, a much taller Stamford/Allentown team dominated the Houston team, winning 49-23. In the afternoon session, I was the official scorekeeper for the game that pitted players from Orange County, Omaha and Palo Alto against a team blended from the Kansas City and Birmingham contingents. I also scored ta San Diego/Las Vegas match against Boca Raton.
In the first game, Kansas City/Birmingham eventually broke away in a tight 65-53 game. Coach Toler Goodwin, the head women’s basketball coach at Coronado High School, put together a team of eight women from San Diego and Las Vegas for this tournament. The squad went 2-2 entering the single elimination round. Tight defense kept the score close at halftime 18-11. But a quicker Boca team broke open the game with a 22-point third quarter, eventually winning 51-23.
Sarah Bookbinder had 15 points and Lauren Victor had 6 for the hosts while the visiting Floridians were led by Courtney Dolnick’s 13-point effort.
After handclasps and congratulatory assurances of “good game” were exchanged by the two teams, the girls raced out of the gym. Even more important than the final outcome, the girls knew that a big night on the aircraft carrier museum, USS Midway, was promised for all the delegations. Clearly, while winning may be important, good sportsmanship – or sportswomanship – and the opportunity to socialize with other Jewish youth are even more important in the JCC Maccabi Games. —Gary Rotto
LETTER FROM JERUSALEM
The clowns who make policy in Palestine and the U.S. embarrass both governments
By Ira Sharkansky
 JERUSALEM—In writing several of these columns, I have been tempted to use the term "clowns" for the Palestinian leadership. Due to my standards of political correctness, I have deleted the term before sending on my composition.
Now there is another occasion to use the term, and to apply it to American officials as well. Two recent cases justify the word, and illustrate the folly of relying on American leadership to impose peace on this corner of the Middle East.
Maybe this time the word will survive my editing.
One case illustrates the severe retardation in the development of a Palestinian community. It justifies Golda Meir's comment that the Palestinians do not exist as a people.
The episode began in Gaza, whose antipathy to the Palestinians of the West Bank is part of the problem. A week ago forces of the ruling Hamas party attacked the homes of an extended family, identified with the Fatah party. Hamas charged that members of the family had killed a number of Hamas activists.
When the battled turned dramatically in favor of Hamas, some 180 surviving fighters fled to the border with Israel. Israeli forces granted them temporary refuge, with the intention of sending them to the West Bank.
But the people in charge of the West Bank did not want them, and urged that Israel return them to Gaza. One explanation was that the Fatah leadership on the West Bank did not want to encourage Fatah people to leave Gaza, and thereby assure continued Hamas control of Gaza. Another explanation was that the family that fled Gaza belonged to the wrong faction of Fatah, and was not welcome by the Fatah leadership in the West Bank.
When the Israeli military began sending the family back to Gaza, Israeli civil rights organizations obtained a temporary injunction from the Supreme Court. They argued that the fighters would be seized, tortured, and perhaps killed by Hamas.
Some members of the family had been returned to Gaza, and were immediately arrested by Hamas. Within a day, the Fatah leadership in the West Bank capital of Ramallah relented, and agreed that Israel could transport members of the family to the West Bank city of Jericho. Israel did this, except for those held for questioning because of suspicion that they had been involved in acts of violence against Israelis.
The bizarre behavior of American officials also concerns the Palestinians of Gaza.
The Fulbright Foundation and other American sources awarded fellowships for study in the United States to several young people from Gaza. Israel would not grant them permission to transit the country in order to reach the United States, in line with a policy of not granting entry to Palestinians from the Hamas ruled area, except for cases of medical emergency. Secretary Condoleezza Rice led a campaign of pressure. Israeli officials Israel acceded to its best friend, examined the cases, and found that some of the students could pass through the country.
Then State Department officials began acting like clowns. While two Palestinians were on the way through Israel to Jordan, the American consulate personnel accompanying them found that the passport of one student had expired. After some haggling at the border between Israel and Jordan, Israeli officials granted a new travel document.
Then the Americans discovered something else that they should have known earlier, that Jordan does not open its border to transits from Israel except in cases of prior notification.
At this point, one of the American officials sat on the ground in protest against the Jordanians. Perhaps it was a case of "how dare" the Jordanians embarrass the United States Government.
Then the Jordanian border post closed for the night.
Further communication between American and Jordanian officials managed to wave the lack of prior notice and the closing of the border post, and the students entered Jordan on their way to the Amman airport.
They flew from Amman to the United States, but on arrival in America they learned that their visas to the United States had been cancelled. Immigration officials put them on the next plane back to Jordan.
The Americans are not explaining the visa cancellations other than by saying that information received after the visas were granted led to their being cancelled. Secretary Rice has ordered an investigation.
What should Israel do when pressured by the American government to accept the creation of a Palestinian state? The Palestinians are light years away from being ready to manage their own affairs in a way to serve their people and live in peace alongside Israel. The highest ranking American officials do not seem to understand Palestine, or some other places in this region. Lower ranking Americans have not shown the sense to check the validity of passports before beginning a journal, transit requirements of Jordan, or whether the visas earlier granted by their own government are still valid.
In the presence of the American empire, no matter how incompetent, Israel can never say no in a manner than is explicit and insulting. But Israel must look after its own interests. This may involve some tough negotiations and occasional military incursions when there remains intense hostility in the West Bank and Gaza. It may also involve independent action with respect to the more ominous problem of Iran.
Clowns should limit themselves to circuses and birthday parties. In positions of authority they may make us laugh, but only to hide our fear.
THE VIEW FROM JINSA
U.S. following nonsensical policy in Gaza
By Shoshana Bryen
 WASHINGTON, D.C—There is no "Palestine" and it is a mistake for the State Department to treat Palestinian- controlled territory as if it is sovereign. Israel is the security guarantor of both Israelis and Palestinians in areas that the IDF can reach - and along the border of the places it can no longer reach on a day-to-day basis. It is foolish in the extreme for Americans to believe that Palestinians selected by Hamas or by Fatah for American scholarships, visas or military training are what they say they are. People in both organizations are dedicated to the violent destruction of America's friend and ally, Israel. If America is going to have a relationship with Palestinians, it is right - and only practical - that the United States be cognizant of Israeli security concerns.
Two months ago, we told the story of seven young men from Gaza awarded Fulbright Scholarships by the State Department to study in the United States. Israel, not having been informed that they were supposed to be scholars, denied them exit visas. Secretary of State Rice was furious with Israel - "livid" was the word an anonymous State Department employee used - and intervened personally.
We were livid as well - in all of the world, the State Department went to the one place a Fulbright selection official was attacked and three young men in his security detail killed by terrorists. The case remains unsolved. And to choose people from Hamas-controlled territory makes mockery of the State Department position that we boycott Hamas and want to "strengthen Abu Mazen." (Yes, it is an unworkable policy, but it is their policy, so go with it for now.) And finally, even though Israel was not told that these men were selected for scholarship, the State Department said Israel "should have known that these were a special case." In light of the number of young men going to Iran from Gaza for military training, including missile training, Israel was right to worry.
It turns out the Gazans were, in fact, "a special case."
Three of the seven have had their American visas revoked after the State Department received "additional information" according to a spokesman for the Department. Another man, enrolled in a different American program also had his visa revoked. One of them had reached Washington's Dulles International Airport before he was turned back.
Here, as they say, is the rest of the story.
According to an Israeli news source, Dr. Rice's fury was prompted by Israel's refusal to let three of the seven Gazans travel to Jerusalem to be interviewed for their scholarships, citing "security concerns." Four others were permitted. American officials went to the Israel-Gaza border to meet the three and issued their visas. Post hoc, however, the State Department spokesman said, "We decided that we needed to take a closer, harder look at them." The story doesn't say where they got the additional information to take this "closer, harder look," but we can safely guess.
We can also safely guess which three of the seven were revoked.
Thursdays with the Songs of Hal Wingard
 Editor's Note: We continue our presentation of the songs of Hal Wingard, moving this week to the songs he wrote on the theme of quarrels. Here is a link to an index of Wingard's songs published by San Diego Jewish World. To hear Hal performing the song, click on its title.
#54, I Wear A Hat
Seeking solace from the street
One San Francisco night,
I follow all my city sense
To find a place that's right.
I wander into Vic's Saloon
In an alley called a street.
I step inside to spend some time
And see who I can meet.
I wear a hat.
That's where I'm at.
I always wear a hat.
I take a seat at Vic's long bar
And order up a beer.
A guy beside me starts to stare
And shouts for all to hear:
"Hey, there, mister, let me ask
Before we start to chat:
Do you always come indoors
And not remove your hat?"
I wear a hat.
That's where I'm at.
I always wear a hat.
Well, I've been asked all sorts of things
And never lost my cool;
But how does one reply with zap
When questioned by a fool?
Ask me why I cross my legs
While sitting at the bar--
I'll say I'd rather cross my legs
Than cross my eyes, by far.
Or ask me why I gulp my beer
Instead of taking sips--
I'll tell you I can't stand the cold,
So sensitive my lips.
Or ask me why I always wear
My glasses on my nose--
I'll tell you they are better there
Than where my mustache grows.
I wear a hat.
That's where I'm at.
I always wear a hat.
But why I wear my hat indoors!
The question blows my mind.
The only answer is the truth,
'Though truth is hard to find.
"Sir, if you must really know,
Then let me now explain.
I always wear a hat indoors
To hear the fools complain."
I wear a hat.
That's where I'm at.
I always wear a hat.
#109, I Won't Put Up With You
No, I won’t put up with you,
If you got to put me down.
If you got to put me down,
I won’t put up with you.
Although I’m not the greatest,
You make me seem so small.
I feel my fragile ego melt
‘Til nothing’s left at all.
You’re always finding fault,
Always picking nits.
You’ll needle me to doom and death
Before you call it quits.
No, I won’t put up with you,
If you got to put me down.
If you got to put me down,
I won’t put up with you.
Perfection’s not for me.
I’ve known that since my birth;
But, hell, I must do something right,
Something has some worth !
If you have need for put-downs,
You have no need for me.
Instead, just face a looking glass
And put down what you see.
No, I won’t put up with you,
If you got to put me down.
If you got to put me down,
I won’t put up with you.
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#283, I Hoped That You Would Love Me
I built the hope that you would come to love me.
I felt with time that you would learn to care,
That whether near or far in thinking of me,
You’d want to have a lasting love affair.
We always had such fun alone together.
In common we had so much we could share.
There never seemed to be a question whether
We two were meant to be a loving pair.
And then one day we had a tiny quarrel
On who would use the single bathroom first.
What happened then seems now almost immoral.
The bubble of our love completely burst.
You argued so I had to leave your yelling.
I bolted to the bathroom, slammed the door.
You packed and left. I had no way of telling
That I would never see you anymore.
I built the hope that you would come to love me.
I felt with time that you would learn to care,
That whether near or far in thinking of me,
You’d want to have a lasting love affair.
ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
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Vote Yes! On Library Bond Issue
From Southwestern Jewish Press, November 14, 1949, page 1
Speaking in behalf of the three Jewish congregations of the city, Rabbi Morton J. Cohn urged the necessity of voting in favor of a bond issue for a new library system…Proposition A on the November 8th ballot.
Rabbi Cohn pointed out that a good main library is badly needed and a good branch library service depends on an adequate main library.
Choosing the present site for the location of the new main Library building, the San Diego City Council has placed a Library Bond Issue for $2,000,000 on the Special City Election ballot of November 8.
The money to be voted on at the election of November 8, plus $500,000 already saved by the city from capital outlay funds, will finance a new Main Library Building and improvements to 10 branches throughout the city.
The present Main Library, where the need for replacement is greatest, was erected in 1900 for a population of 17,000 but today is headquarters for a library system serving 400,000 people or 23 times the population for which it was built. Antiquated, expensive to maintain, bolstered by an Annex which is costing $800 a month to rent, the present Main Building’s upkeep is becoming a drain on the city’s treasury. Crowded conditions have all but pushed reading tables out of the building; shelving obstructs windows, and stairwells have been converted into workrooms.
Improvements or new buildings for braches will help give service to residential areas and provide improved facilities for children close to their homes.
Popularlity of the San Diego Public Library and its branches is evidenced by a circulation of 1,600,000 books last year, with the rate still climbing. It has been pointed out that this large circulation from a book stock of 260,000 volumes makes San Diego’s library the fourth largest city library in the state, but the worst housed.
Success of the Library Bond Issue on November 8 will assure San Diego modern efficient library service. Vote ‘Yes’ on Prop. ‘A.’
Rev. Grauel and Mme Oppert To Speak For United Jewish Fund
From Southwestern Jewish Press, November 14, 1949, page 1
The United Jewish Fund of San Diego will present John Stanley Grauel and Madame Paulett Oppert in a public meeting to be held at the Temple Beth Israel on Tuesday, November 10, at 8:00 p.m.
Reverend Grauel is a young Christian minister, who served as a volunteer crew member aboard the world famed illegal refugee ship “Exodus 1947,” in order to learn at first hand the true story of the plight of the Jewish refugees. He is a writer, lecturer, and radio commentator, as well as a church man. This young Christian veteran of the Jewish struggle for justice has just returned to this country following an extended visit to Israel and to the Algerian refugee camps for homeless Jews.
Madame Oppert was a French underground resistance leader, and was responsible for saving the lives of thousands of Jewish boys and girls. She also has recently completed a comprehensive study of the conditions and needs of the Jewish survivors in the DP camps, and communities in Europe.
There will be no solicitation of funds, according to Eli H. Levenson, President of the United Jewish Fund. He stated that the meeting was being sponsored by the Fund as an educational evening, and as a possible stimulation to the payment of pledges which have already been made.
“Cash is so vitally needed,” continued Levenson, that it is hoped that these two dynamic people will stimulate payments so that additional monies can be forwarded to the United Jewish Appeal.
Community Chest Campaign On
From Southwestern Jewish Press, November 14, 2008, page 1
Through the work of the Jewish Welfare Society, the Catholic Welfare Bureau and the Salvation Army, all three major faiths are represented in the Community Chest federation of forty-two health, welfare and character-building organizations.
The Jewish Welfare Society serves the needs of Jewish families and individuals through counseling and planning services, consultation on matters of immigration and naturalization, services for locating persons whose whereabouts are unknown, and it also acts as a representative for cARE. It provides case work and resettlement to Jewish newcomer refugees and the San Diego Hebrew Home for the Aged.
As an agency of the Community Chest, it benefits from contributions made during the Chest campaign, and it is also working to make this campaign a success. The Society has taken over the solicitation of the Northwest Downtown business firms. The territory it covers is from Broadway to Ash and from Third Street to the Bay. Mr. Harry Mallen is chairman of this division and he is being assisted by Mrs. Josephine Tobias, Carl Esenoff, Al Hutler, Al Douglas and others.
This perhaps is one of the most important campaigns in the history of the Chest. The campaign has failed to reach its goal for the past three years and another failure may mean that some agencies would have to cut down on operations, thereby curtailing needed services. Such a curtailment would necessarily deny many people in need.
Agencies giving institutional and hospital care take in more than 2000 children each year. Neighborhood House gives free dental care to 60 children n one month and more than 50 persons pass through Guadalupe Clinic each day. Through Scouts, Y’s, Camp Fire Girls, boys Club and neighborhood centers, seven out of every ten families in San Diego City and County receive direct benefits from the Chest. These are only a few examples of the number of people, of every race and religious belief, dependent upon the success of this drive.
This is not only a campaign to extend a helping hand to the needy, but it is, in reality, a federated effort covering a vast network of services reaching throughout San Diego County. The entire community benefits from the work of the agencies in this federation, for poor health in one section of the City directly influences the health of the rest of the city. In the same way a community’s normal pattern of progress and development is held back by crime records, neglected children and insufficient health and welfare planning.
This is one campaign for forty-two agencies, serving people of San Diego. It will take $756,206 to adequately finance these agencies for one year. This money must be provided by contributions to the drive now in progress. This must be a successful year for the Chest and we urge everyone to support it to the very best of their ability.
Take It Away
From Southwestern Jewish Press, November 14, 1949, page 1
By Lou and Ray Solomon
With this issue Maxwell and Julia Kaufman are taking over the ownership and management of the Southwestern Jewish Press. Since February 1940, we have published the paper, ever endeavoring to raise its reading quality and standards as well as cement public relations.
It is with a great deal of pride and pleasure that we turn the management of the Press over to the Kaufmans. With their past experience and keen ability to feel the pulse of communal activities, we retire with a clear and with deep confidence that the community will be well served.
We wish to thank our many friends who have supported the Jewish Press during our regime.
 Nancy Harrison
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SAN DIEGO JEWISH WORLD THE WEEK IN REVIEW
International
Abbas' refusal to accept refugees from Gaza underscores West Bank's separateness by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.
New Israel Baseball League president vows to pay its debts and forge a 12-team future by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Arts
Jews are also the 'people of the comic book' by Joseph Laredo in San Diego
Lifestyles
Jewish-Korean wedding provides blend of two cultures with two distinct ceremonies by Eileen Wingard in Malibu, California
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—October 1949:San Diego B’nai B’rith Women
—October 1949: Council to Celebrate National Council Day
—October 1949:Ladies Auxiliary J.W. V. Post No. 185
—October 1949: Tifereth Israel Sisterhood
Sports/ 2008 JCC Maccabi Games
'Why Volleyball?' nets many responses by Danielle Potiker and Daniela Federman in San Diego
U.S. Jewish athletes ready for Beijing Olympics in four different sports by "SD Pipeline" staff in San Diego
San Diego
Father transforms his grief into helping thousands in the name of his daughter by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Arts
The Receptionist will soon lure you into office comedy/drama at Cygnet Theatre by Carol Davis in San Diego
Pen: A writing implement, or a prison? by Cynthia Citron in Beverly Hills, California
Lifestyles
Two Jewish women win acclaim for their restaurants: Lehn Goetz and Tracy Borkum by Lynne Thrope in San Diego
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—October 1949: J.C.R.A
—October 1949: Jolly 16 Celebrates 35 Years of Service
—October 1949:Senior Pioneer Women
—October 1949: Birdie Stodel Chapter No. 92 B’nai B’rith
by Ulla Hadar in Kibbutz Ruhama, Israel by Joel A. Moskowitz, M.D. by Sheila Orysiek in San DiegoOctober 1949:October 1949:October 1949October 1949:
InternationalBush hopes to salvage Mideast success unrealistic with decline in Olmert's power by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
Decisions continue with or without Olmert by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.
Judaism
Leaving matters on a positive note by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal in San Diego
Sports
JCC Maccabi Games: Co-ed flag footballers are "two-a-dayers" by Gary Rotto in San Diego
A bissel sports trivia with Bruce Lowitt in Clearwater, Florida
Arts
Lombrozo's 'Air Filter' reflects skyline, role of 'urban tree' as waterfront show launched by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—October 1949: Kaufman Appointed New Managing Editor Of The Jewish Press
—October 1949: Notice {Publication Date Change}
—October 1949:New Federation Plans Survey
—October 1949: Editorial Page… Policy
—October 1949: Overseas News and Views by Maxwell Kaufman
Environment
Abramson is helping to preserve the earth one diatom and polar bear at a time by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Arts
Yank! A New Musical explores the travails of gays in the military during WWII by Carol Davis in San Diego
Assassins:Creepy subject, yet good musical by Cynthia Citron in Hollywood
Chapter 19 of Reluctant Martyr, a serialized novel by Sheila Orysiek
Sports
Backroom hums as Maccabi Games near by Gary Rotto in La Jolla, California
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—September 1949: San Diego Lasker Lodge B’nai B’rith News by Morrie Kraus
—September 1949: Samuel I. Fox Lodge No. 1747, B’nai B’rith
—September 1949: Kaufmans Return From Two Year European JDC Work
—September 1949: Esther Weitzman Given Signal Honor
International
Peace negotiations produce little news by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
Temple Solel travelers inspect soldiers' quarters as part of 'Project Kibbutz' by Ulla Hadar in Kibbutz Ruhama, Israel
National
How kosher was the U-T's meat coverage? by Gary Rotto in San Diego
Arts
Thursdays with The Songs of Hal Wingard
—#37, Growing Old
—#293, As People Grow Old
—#303, Home for the Aged
A literary giant emerges from self-exile by David Strom in San Diego
Basic Jewish concepts to our children—and perhaps to Chinese workers too by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—September 1949: Make Fall Plans For Community Center
—September 1949: Closing Program Climaxes Day Camp
—September 1949: Jacobson to Be Honored at N.Y. Presentation
—September 1949: Men’s Club of Temple Beth Israel Holds Election of Officers
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