Volume 2, Nu

mber 30
Volume , Nu
 
Volume 2, Number 249

 
"There's a Jewish story everywhere"
     
 


SAN DIEGO
JEWISH WORLD
is a publication
of The Harrison
Enterprises of
San Diego, co-owned
by Donald and
Nancy Harrison

Editor: Donald H. Harrison
Ass't Editor: Gail Umeham

Click on topics below to navigate this site:

*Advertisers in this issue
** America's Vacation Center
** Balloon Utopia
**Congregation Beth Israel
** Jewish American Chamber of Commerce
** Jewish Community Foundation
** Jewish Family Service
** Lawrence Family JCC
**
Life and Term Insurance Services
**
Rhodes Marketing Group
** San Diego Community Colleges
** San Diego Jewish Academy
Retirement Communities
** Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School
** Temple Solel
** Tifereth Israel Synagogue
** United Jewish Federation
** XLNC Radio

**Zeek Magazine

*Advertising and sponsorship information

*AJE Makor Calendar

* Amazing Stories of Judaism by Rabbi Baruch Lederman

*Bissel Sports Trivia with Bruce Lowitt

*Campaign 2008

*Community Happenings in San Diego County

*Community Phone & Email Directory

* Email headline service

* Gravesite inventory at Home of Peace Cemetery

*Guest Columns

*Jewish license plates

*Jewish sightseeing ~stories from around the world

*Louis Rose Society for the Preservation of Jewish Hstory

*Restaurant Reviews with Lynne Thrope

*Songs of Our People with Cantor Sheldon Merel

*San Diego Builders of Israel free copy

*San Diego Jewish History Index

*San Diego Trivia by Evelyn Kooperman

*Serialized Book: The Reluctant Martyr by
Sheila Orysiek


*Theatre Reviews with
Cynthia Citron in Los Angeles


*Theatre Reviews with
Carol Davis in San Diego


* Thursdays With the Songs of Hal Wingard

* Torah on One Foot by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal

* UJF Community Calendar

To Search Past Issues

* Search by date of issue

* Search by headlines

* Search by key word
--------------------------

Recent contributors:

Sara Appel-Lennon

Judy Lash Balint

David Benkof

Shoshana Bryen

Cynthia Citron

Carol Davis

Garry Fabian

Gail Feinstein Forman

Gerry Greber

Ulla Hadar

Donald H. Harrison

Natasha Josefowitz

Rabbi Baruch Lederman

Bruce Lowitt

J. Zel Lurie

Rabbi Dow Marmur

Cantor Sheldon Merel

Joel Moskowitz, M.D.

Sheila Orysiek

Fred Reiss

Rabbi Leonard
Rosenthal


Gary Rotto

Ira Sharkansky

Dorothea Shefer-
Vanson


David Strom

Lynne Thrope

Gail Umeham

Howard Wayne

Eileen Wingard

Hal Wingard

Complete list of writers

PLEASE HELP US POLICE THIS SITE: If you see anything on this site that obviously is not in keeping with our mission of providing Jewish news and commentary, please message us at editor@sandiegojewishworld.com , so that we can fix the probem. Unfortunately, large sites like ours can be subjected to tampering by outsiders. Thank you!




 

 


Today's Postings

Sunday, October 19, 2008

{Click an underlined headline in this area to jump to the corresponding story. Or, you may scroll leisurely through our report}

INTERNATIONAL

Arab-Jewish coexistence at the gym by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem

Not buying CITGO gasoline could send an economic message to Venezuela's Chavez by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.

CAMPAIGN 2008

Letter to S.D. Council candidate Lightner, by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego

JUDAISM


The roomer teaches a valuable lesson by Rabbi Baruch Lederman in San Diego

SPORTS

A bissel sports trivia with Bruce Lowitt in Oldsmar, Florida


ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY

March 10, 1950—Jewish War Veterans Post 185 Auxiliary

March 28, 1950—Chaplain Goldberg Honored at Reception

March 28, 1950—Interfaith Program At State College

March 29, 1950 -- Mrs. Berg Heads Presidents Council

COMMUNITY WATCH

Jewish Family Service:
The 7th Annual Run for the Hungry Thanksgiving Day 5K and 10K

Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center:
Former Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer and Middle East expert Scott B. Lasensky to urge U.S. involvement in Arab-Israeli peace at San Diego Jewish Book Fair

United Jewish Federation:
Yitzhak Rabin' Memorial sponsored by the UJF Israel Center

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

This week's stories on San Diego Jewish World:
Friday, Thursday Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday, Sunday

UPCOMING EVENTS


Want to know about exciting upcoming events? As a service to readers, San Diego Jewish World flags most event advertisements by date. Oct. 24-26, Oct. 28

DEDICATIONS

Each day's issue may be dedicated by readers—or by the publisher—in other people's honor or memory. Past dedications may be found at the bottom of the index for the "Adventures in San Diego Jewish History" page.


EMAIL HEADLINE SERVICE~Daily or Weekly

Dear Readers: We have re-established our Email headline service with a new provider, Constant Contact. Whether you are a previous subscriber to the Email headline service or would like to start it for the first time, please click the blue button just below and follow the steps. We now offer you the choice of daily Email headlines or weekly Email headlines. The weekly Email headlines will be sent out every Friday morning (or in some time zones Thursday evening.), and will list all the headlines from the editions of the past week, with links to each edition. —Donald H. Harrison, Editor

For Email Marketing you can trust


SEARCH THIS SITE

 

 

   







ZEEK MAGAZINE October 24-26 Crossing Borders Weekend



To learn more or to register, please click on the ad above




TIFERETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE



Please click on this ad to visit the website of Tifereth Israel Synagogue






LETTER FROM JERUSALEM



Arab-Jewish coexistence at the gym

By Ira Sharkansky

JERUSALEM—The central picture on the New York Times web site is of a "Peace Symbol (that) Sits Along Jerusalem's Divide." o The article tells about a statue erected at one of the meeting points between Jewish and Arab neighborhoods, donated by a Polish billionaire, and goes on to report about the tensions, violence, and accommodations between Arabs and Jews.

I had to read the New York Times to learn what happened in my home town. Perhaps the monument went up when we were visiting family and friends in the United States. If it made an impression on the Israeli media, I missed it.

When we were overseas I did not miss a report about a Jerusalem Arab who drove a BMW into a group of soldiers who were on an educational tour of the city.

The new monument is called the Tolerance Monument. It did better than the Center for Human Dignity Museum of Tolerance, planned to be financed near the city center with a $150 million gift from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. It stalled before the basement could be excavated due to its location on a Muslim cemetery. The site lies hidden behind a construction fence erected more than two years ago, while the courts ponder claims from Muslim religious institutions that the planners are concerned with something other than tolerance.

One does not need Polish billionaires or donors to the Simon Wiesenthal Center in order to find accommodation between Jews and Arabs in Jerusalem. I experience it twice a week when I go to the university gym. At my normal hours there are likely to be a half-dozen Arabs in the locker room. They include social workers, an accountant, and the owner of a shop on the main tourist street in the Old City. Some are Hebrew University graduates, including one of the best students in my workshop on policy analysis.

I cannot testify about the conversations in Arabic, but from the tones and body language they seem similar to the conversations in Hebrew. Mostly they resemble the banter I have heard in locker rooms over the course of several decades in different places. Humor is more prominent than philosophy or political preference. Multi-cultural themes include queries about one another's religious holidays, and whether or not someone has fasted on Yom Kippur or Ramadan.

A day after the riots in Acre the humor seemed forced, but that observation may reflect excessive sensitivity. I participated in one conversation that featured an Arab saying that the Arabs of Acre were known for their involvement in illegal drugs, and a Jew noting that the Jews of Acre were nothing to write home about.

One of my Arab students has made the point that the university remains a place of mutual accommodation. That is true in a limited sort of way. I never experienced a class discussion that got ugly, or even resulted in Arab students united against Jewish students. Occasionally an event will prompt Arab students and their left-wing Jewish allies to demonstrate at a busy location with signs and chants. This is likely to produce a count-demonstration by right-wing Jewish students, with university security personnel and the police between them, and police reinforcements located a few blocks away in case things get out of control.

Security has approached that at airports since a bomb exploded in a university cafeteria during the height of the intifada in 2002. That took the life of one of my students, and the eye of a young friend.

Some time later a critic asked why the university continued to employ Arabs among its security guards. "Why not?" was the official response.

When our children were in primary school, there were several cases of individual Arabs with large kitchen knives attacking Jews on the street. We did not want to be overprotective, or to produce children who were either racist or naive. We urged them to think of Arabs as likely to be decent, as we showed in our own conversation and behavior. However, we also told them to be careful. If they found themselves walking in front of an Arab, it would be wise to pause, and let the Arab get in front of them.

Our own neighborhood is integrated, with Arab students renting apartments, and a few Arab families buying apartments. Not everyone is happy, but I have not heard of any incidents.

It is not always obvious who is a Jew and who is an Arab. Complexion, clothes, language, and accent in Hebrew provide imperfect clues. Arabs killed an Arab who was jogging not far from my home. The organization that claimed responsibility granted the victim status as a martyr when it learned about the error. The Christian family of the victim, closely identified with the Palestinian national cause, declined the honor.
  
A Jewish friend noted that "half the people in this locker room are Arabs." I agreed, but noted that some of the Arabs were Jews. Among those likely to be chatting in Arabic are Jews from Baghdad, Cairo, or Morocco.

Sharkansky is professor emeritus of political science at Hebrew University. He may be contacted at msira@mscc.huji.ac.il





CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL





To visit the website of Congregation Beth Israel, please click on the ad above


TEMPLE SOLELNovember 8 Synaplex featuring Rabbi Daniel Gordis



To visit the Temple Solel website, please click on the ad above



LIFE & TERM INSURANCE SERVICES


To learn more about Life & Term Insurance Services, please click the ad above to visit
its website




THE VIEW FROM JINSA

Not buying CITGO gasoline could send an economic message to Venezuela's Chavez


By Shoshana Bryen

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Reuters reported in August that Americans drove 12.2 billion miles fewer miles less in June 2008 than they did in June 2007; the eighth month in a row that driving declined and essentially erasing five years of growth in gasoline demand. Energy Department data in August showed total U.S. petroleum demand shrank by an average 800,000 barrels a day during the first half of this year, the biggest decline in 26 years. According to Reuters, from November 2007 to August 2008, motorists drove 53.2 billion fewer miles than they did over the same period a year earlier. Bravo.

But an informal survey in our area shows gas prices down from a high of $4.35 to a recent $3.19 and dropping, a major difference in each fill up. We now run the risk of returning to our wasteful ways.

It would be a mistake for economic, ecological and national security reasons - getting the last one right is a prerequisite for getting the others right. It is a quirk that put the oil under despotic regimes, but it requires that one of America's military priorities is to maintain the free flow of oil and the waterways through which it flows. Whatever the price per gallon, filling up provides Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and Saudi Arabia with the funds to export revolution and terrorism, or to bend the political will of others to their liking. And it increases the difficulty of protecting the sources and passages.   

Now we have an opportunity for push back and we should take it.

According to a recent Associated Press story, the Venezuelan state oil company produced 3.2 million b/p/d in 1998, the year before Hugo Chavez became president. Daily output is now 2.4 million barrels. "About half of this oil is now delivered at a discount to Mr. Chavez's friends around Latin America. The 18 nations in his 'Petrocaribe' club, founded in 2005, pay Venezuela only 30 per cent of the market price within 90 days, with the rest in installments spread over 25 years. The other half - 1.2 million barrels per day - goes to America, Venezuela's only genuinely paying customer."

The story concludes, "Now that prices are falling, Mr. Chavez faces huge financial problems. Nobody is sure at what point his government would be unable to pay its bills, but most sources consulted believe this would probably happen if oil falls to $80 a barrel. Yesterday (13 October), oil was trading at $79.80."

Let's help him find out. CITGO exclusively sells gasoline made from Venezuelan oil. Stop buying it. Not because Venezuela is worse than Saudi Arabia, but because only with CITGO do we know where all the gas comes from.  

Let's see if we can maintain our newly diminished driving habits and shift our purchases away from Venezuelan gas in the interest of sinking a pro-Iranian, anti-American dictator in our own hemisphere. Then, as hybrids and (in the future) electric cars - plus drilling, nuclear, solar and wind further reduce our dependence on black stuff from nasty countries, who knows where we can next exert our influence?

Bryen is special projects director for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). Her column is sponsored by Waxie Sanitary Supply in memory of Morris Wax, a long time JINSA member and national board member.





UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF SAN DIEGO January 29 Men's Event



Please click on the ad above to register for the UJF Men's Event


Yitzhak Rabin' Memorial sponsored by the UJF Israel Center

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)—A memorial for Israel's slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will be conducted November 9, 2008, at 5 PM, at theLawrence Family JCC; 4126 Executive Drive La Jolla, CA 92037 

Ms Sherri Lightner
Candidate for San Diego City Council
District One

Dear Ms. Lightner:

SAN DIEGO—Back on September 19, San Diego Jewish World ran an interview with Phil Thalheimer, a member of the Jewish community, about his background and involvement with the Jewish community, his public advocacy for retaining the large Christian cross atop Mount Soledad, and his positions on constructing the Hillel House adjacent to the UCSD campus and stringing an eruv around the La Jolla community that includes Congregation Adat Yeshurun and Congregation Beth El. Here is a link to that particular issue

In the following day’s issue, we ran two letters to the editor on the race, one from a supporter of your position against Hillel’s construction, Alice Goldfarb Marquis, and the other from a 1st District constituent, Gail Forman, expressing appreciation for the backgrounding on Thalheimer.  Marquis, a member of the Jewish community, said good land use policy, not bigotry, motivated neighbors’ opposition to the Hillel House.  She did not comment on the controversy over the eruv.

In the last several days, a month after that article appeared, we have received a number of written communications from your supporters, alluding to the article, and asking—even demanding—that you be given an opportunity to express your views on the issues addressed by candidate Thalheimer.   Given the timing of this new round of letter writing, we assume that you or your campaign in some way appealed for these supporters to write these letters. 

In the interim, our publication has endorsed Thalheimer, explaining that while we strongly disagreed with his advocacy for retaining the cross on public land (we favor moving it to private land), we supported him because of your opposition to the Hillel House and to the eruv.

Rather than filter your opinions, and be accused either of bending over backwards to appease your supporters or of being biased against you in any story that might eventuate from a personal interview, we offer you a public interview.  We shall be happy to print your personal answers to the following questions:

Issue One—Do you support or oppose retaining the large cross atop Mount Soledad.?  Please state your reasons.

Issue  Two—Your opposition to the Hillel House is well known.  Your opponent says he changed his position from opposition to support after a court ruling upheld the sale of the land to Hillel by the city.  Why do you continue to oppose Hillel?

Question Three—The stringing of an eruv in La Jolla met with an outcry of opposition from many of the same people who opposed Hillel, yourself included.  Please explain your opposition to the eruv.

Question Four—In taking positions against the eruv, some La Jolla residents have expressed fears that it would lead to the “ghettoization” of your neighborhood.  What is your opinion of this characterization?  Do you think that San Diego City Councilman Jim Madaffer was correct or incorrect when he stated at one City Council hearing that anti-Semitism seemed to motivate some of the opposition? 

Question Five -- Assuming you do detect some anti-Semitism among those who have opposed Jewish communal interests, have you publicly repudiated such attitudes among your supporters.  If so, when and how?  If not, why not, and will you do so now?

Question Six—Given your opposition to both the Hillel House and to the eruv, please say what else might recommend you to any voter concerned with the well-being of the Jewish community.

I shall look forward to reading your responses as will, I'm sure, members of the Jewish community who live within the 1st Council District.

Very sincerely,

Donald H. Harrison
Editor, San Diego Jewish World

Harrison may be contacted at editor@sandiegojewishworld.com or at sdheritage@cox.net






SOILLE SAN DIEGO HEBREW DAY SCHOOL



Please click on the New Year's greeting above to visit the website of Soille San Diego
Hebrew Day School





JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE

jfs on go
Please click the ad above to learn more about JFS "On the Go" program for seniors. To read
a San Diego Jewish World story on the program, please click here.



The 7th Annual Run for the Hungry Thanksgiving Day 5K and 10K

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)--The 7th Annual Run for the Hungry presented by Pure Fitness will be held at 8:00am on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2008.

For more information, please click here


                                                   



AMAZING STORIES OF JUDAISMDvar Torah: Hallel


The roomer teaches a valuable lesson

By Rabbi Baruch Lederman

SAN DIEGO—"Even maasu habonim haysa lirosh pina."   "The stone that the builders despised became the head cornerstone."   (Hallel Liturgy; Psalms 118)

Sometimes there is greatness right in front of us but we don't see it, as the following story related by Mary Bartels Bray illustrates:

Our house was across the street from Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. We rented rooms to outpatients at the clinic. One evening there was a knock at the door. I opened it to see a truly awful looking man. "Why, he's hardly taller than my eight-year-old," I thought as I stared at the stooped, shriveled body. But the appalling thing was his face -- lopsided
from swelling, red and raw. Yet his voice was pleasant as he said, "Good evening. I've come to see if you've a room for just one night. I came for a treatment this morning from the eastern shore, and there's no bus 'til morning."

He told me he'd been hunting for a room since noon but with no success, no one seemed to have a room. "I guess it's my face...I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments..."

For a moment I hesitated, but his next words convinced me: "I could sleep in this rocking chair on the porch. My bus leaves early in the morning."

I told him we would find him a bed. I asked the old man if he would join us for supper. "No thank you. I have plenty." And he held up a brown paper bag.  It didn't take a long time to see that this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to support his large family.

He didn't tell it by way of complaint; in fact, every other sentence was prefaced with thanks to G-d for a blessing. He was grateful that no pain accompanied his disease, which was apparently a form of skin cancer. When I got up in the morning, the bed linens were neatly folded and the little man was out on the porch. He refused breakfast, but just before he left for his bus, haltingly, as if asking a great favor, he said, "Could I please come back and stay the next time I have a treatment?" He paused a moment and then added, "Your children made me feel at home. Grownups are bothered by my face, but children don't seem to mind." I told him he was welcome to come again.

On his next trip he arrived a little after seven in the morning. As a gift, he brought a big fish. He said he caught it that morning before he left so that it'd be nice and fresh. I knew his bus left at 4:00 a.m. and I wondered what time he had to get up in order to do this for us.In the years he came to stay overnight with us there was never a time that he did not bring us fish or vegetables from his garden.

I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made that first day. "Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away! You can lose roomers by putting up such people!" Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps their illnesses would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude to G-d.

Recently I was visiting a friend who has a greenhouse, As she showed me her flowers, we came to the most beautiful one of all, a golden chrysanthemum, bursting with blooms. But to my great surprise, it was growing in an old dented, rusty bucket. My friend explained. "I ran short of pots, and knowing how beautiful this one would be, I thought it wouldn't mind starting out in this old pail. It's just for a little while, till I can put it out in the garden."

She must have wondered why I laughed so delightedly, but I was imagining just such a scene in heaven. "Here's an especially beautiful one," G-d might have said when he came to the soul of the sweet old fisherman. "He won't mind starting in this small body..."

Dedicated by Dr. Al Salganick in memory of Mrs. Celia Rosen.

To visit the school's website, please click on the advertisement above




LAWRENCE FAMILY JCC, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS

journeys
To visit the Lawrence Family JCC website, please click on the advertisement above
.


Former Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer and Middle East expert Scott B. Lasensky to urge U.S. involvement in Arab-Israeli peace at San Diego Jewish Book Fair

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– Daniel C. Kurtzer, former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt and Israel, and Scott B. Lasensky, Middle East expert at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), will present their conclusions from lessons learned in past negotiations in their new book, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East, at the 14th Annual San Diego Jewish Book Fair, sponsored by U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management and presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS.  Kurtzer and Lasensky’s presentation is scheduled for November 11 at 7:30 p.m., with a book signing to follow.  

In Negotiating Arab-Isaeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East, Kurtzer and Lasensky share ten core lessons, as well as policy recommendations, to guide the efforts of future American peace negotiators in the Middle East.  After nine months of groundbreaking consultations with statesmen, political leaders and civilians who have defined the Arab-Israeli peace process in recent years, Kurtzer and Lasensky reveal what works and what does not in this distinctive diplomatic arena.

The authors contend that there can be no endgame, two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict without the United States playing an active role in the negotiations.  They urge the next U.S. President to establish the Middle East peace process as a priority early in the administration and work to convince all parties that Washington is committed to resolving the conflict.

“Winning back the hearts and minds of both Arabs and Israelis must be a top priority, but it can only be the beginning.  If the United States does not make the effort on a sustained basis, we cannot expect others to fill the gap, and the situation will only deteriorate in the long term,” says Kurtzer.

Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace is the culmination of the work of the Study Group on Arab-Israeli Peacemaking, convened by USIP in 2006-2007.  The study group conducted confidential interviews in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East with 100-plus negotiators, political figures, and civil society leaders, virtually every key participant from all sides of the conflict.




BASEBALL

A bissel sports trivia with Bruce Lowitt

OLDSMAR, Florida--
Q: Who is the only sports writer from a city without a major league baseball team to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

        1. Si Burick
        2. Shirley Povich
        3. Ira Berkow
        4. Bernard Malamud

This son of a rabbi was sports editor and featured columnist for the Dayton Daily News for 58 years. He also was inducted into the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame and was awarded the Red Smith Award, America’s most prestigious sports writing honor, by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR ANSWER






JEWISH-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE






Please click on the advertisement above to visit the Jewish American Chamber of Commerce,
of which San Diego Jewish World is a member



RHODES MARKETING GROUP

rhodes
Please click on the advertisement above to visit the website of the Rhodes Marketing Group

SAN DIEGO COMMUNITY COLLEGES


sdccd
Please click on the above ad to learn about the many programs of the San Diego Community College District




CAMPAIGN 2008
Beware politicians' promises—in any nation, by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem

INTERNATIONAL
That 'big elephant' in the Middle East by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C

ARTS
Angel Girl kid's book —too good to be true? by Dan Bloom in Miami, Florida

Mourning, a poem by Sara Appel-Lennon in San Diego

ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—March 10, 1950: Temple Beth Israel

—March 10, 1950: Temple Sisterhood

—March 10, 1950: Pioneer Women

COMMUNITY WATCH
Jewish Family Service: “At the Hop” Health Fair & Flu Shot Event

Lawrence Family JCC: Internationally best-selling novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated, to present most recent novel on November 10

Tifereth Israel Synagogue: Israel Advocacy Series at Tifereth Israel Synagogue

Thursday, October 16, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 247)

CAMPAIGN 2008
Abortion, ending Mid-East oil dependence major topics in final presidential debate by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
INTERNATIONAL
New Arab-Israeli battleground: textbooks; book review by Norman Manson in San Diego
Making Aliyah is like coming out by David Benkof in New York
ARTS
Thursdays With The Songs Of Hal Wingard:
#87, A Tiny Piece Of Paper
#55, The Whirlpool Of Love
#70, Shadows Of Midnight
ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—March 10, 1950: Tifereth Israel Sisterhood
—March 10, 1950: Daughters of Israel
—March 10, 1950: Beth Jacob Ladies Auxiliary
COMMUNITY WATCH
Lawrence Family JCC: Henry Winkler to present critically acclaimed book at S.D. Jewish Book Fair
Tifereth Israel Synagogue: The Great Debate of 2008: Wednesday, October 29th, 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 246)

CAMPAIGN 2008
RJC brandishes Jesse Jackson quote; NJDC flails McCain on energy; press releases from the campaign front
Vice presidential candidates compared by Gary Rotto in San Diego
Letter to Editor: Gert Thaler says she's for Obama too
JUDAISM
Avinu Malkaynu by Janowski is a classic by Cantor Sheldon Merel in San Diego, with a recording of him performing Avinu Malkaynu
INTERNATIONAL
The Jews Down Under, a roundup of Jewish news of Australia by Garry Fabian in Melbourne
—Rival organizations clash over how to commemorate Sir John Monash
—Financial market insecurity to impact on fund raising
—New chair for communal appeal
—Community groups call for tolerance
—75 Years for Elwood Shul
—Student with Down Syndrome graduates
—Rules for the observant during seven days of Succot
—Australian web application a hit in San Francisco
—Growing etrogim in Australia?
—Concerns about anti-Israel blogs
ARTS
The Light in the Piazza also illuminates Lambs Players Theatre in Coronado by Carol Davis in Coronado, California
ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
—March 10, 1950: News of the Fox
—March 10, 1950: House of Pacific Relations Election
—March 10, 1950: Tifereth Israel News
COMMUNITY WATCH
Lawrence Family JCC: Sex and the City star Evan Handler to present memoir at book fair on Nov. 8

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 245)

CAMPAIGN 2008
Ballot Recommendation: Barack Obama for President, San Diego Jewish World endorsement by Donald H. Harrison
Letters to the editor... from Bruce Kesler and Joel White

JUDAISM
Tunisia's great Sukkot legal battle by Isaac Yetiv in La Jolla, California

How you know its Sukkot in Jerusalem by Judy Lash Balint in Jerusalem

Important Jewish history occurred between the birth of Jesus and the Shoah by Sheila Orysiek in San Diego

ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY

Pre-1960 gravesites inventoried at the Home of Peace Cemetery by David M. Caterino
Archived stories from Southwestern Jewish Press:
—March 10, 1950: Inside AZA

—March 10, 1950: Hadassah Evening Group

—March 10, 1950: Jr. Pioneer Women

—March 10, 1950: Birdie Stodel B’nai B’rith Chapt. No. 92

COMMUNITY WATCH
Jewish-American Chamber of Commerce: Join us for our best mixer yet in the Beth El Sukkah

Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center: Family Day bookapalooza, Sunday, November 9, 2008; free for all ages

Monday, October 13, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 244)

CAMPAIGN 2008
Ballot Recommendation: Let's have a 'Block vote' in 78th A.D., a San Diego Jewish World editorial by Donald H. Harrison
Thalheimer endorsement draws disagreement, letters to the editor from Marsha Sutton and Larry Gorfine
Grandfolks hep to the 'Great Schlep' by Gary Rotto in San Diego
INTERNATIONAL
Authorities try to calm Acco, rest of Israeli nation in wake of Arab, Jewish rioting by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
Dogs may hate hot air balloons, but for some of us humans, they're romantic by Ulla Hadar in Sha'ar Hanegev,Israel
LIFESTYLES
Unexpected connection surfaces at simcha by Donald H. Harrison in Carlsbad, California
ARTS
1930's drama resonates in hard times by Carol Davis in La Jolla, California
ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY
March 10, 1950—Who’s New
March 10, 1950—J.C.R.A.
March 10, 1950—Labor Zionist Organization~Chaim Weizmann Branch
March 10, 1950—San Diego Bnai Brith Lasker Lodge 370
March 10, 1950 —Listen In
COMMUNITY WATCH
Jewish Family Service: Some Upcoming Activities Offered at College Avenue Senior CenterTifereth Israel Synagogue: Rabbi Rosenthal leads discussion on My Father, My Lord

Sunday, October 12, 2008 (Vol. 2, No. 243)

CAMPAIGN 2008
Why I support Barack Obama by Dennis Ross in Washington, D.C.
Ballot Recommendations: Two for the San Diego City Council, San Diego Jewish World endorsements by Donald H. Harrison
INTERNATIONAL
U.S. training potential Israel enemies by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.
JUDAISM
Did the Holocaust have a purpose? by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal in San Diego
The trusting Hebrew women of the Exodus by Rabbi Baruch Lederman in San Diego
SPORTS
A bissel sports trivia with Bruce Lowitt in Oldsmar, Florida
ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORY|
—March 10, 1950: Yo-Ma-Co Club by Lucille Weisel
—March 10, 1950:Letters to the Editor from Jackson J. Holtz and Mrs. Esther Schwartz
—March 10, 1950: Hadassah
COMMUNITY WATCH
Jewish Community Foundation—October 16 Jewish Community Foundation forum cancelled
Jewish Family Service—Great Activities Offered at College Avenue Senior Center
San Diego Jewish Academy—SDJA's Ali Tradonsky a semifinalist in national science fair competition
Tifereth Israel Synagogue—Hebrew Instruction at Tifereth Israel Synagogue


Link to previous editions

< BACK TO TOP

Copyright 2007-2008 - San Diego Jewish World, San Diego, California. All rights reserved.

 

 
     
       
         
         
         
         
.

 

...



 

.