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Friday, July 11 Congregation Beth El Kabbalat Shabbat Services
FRIDAY, JULY 18 Temple Solel Shabbat at Beach
MONDAY, SEPT. 29-THURSDAY, OCT. 9
THE VIEW FROM JINSA
Are the French modern-day Delilahs?
By Shoshana Bryen
 WASHINGTON, D.C—Editor's Note: Two people were wounded when three Kassam rockets hit Israel from Gaza. Islamic Jihad said that although they fired the rockets, Israel was to blame. A Hamas spokesman said the attack "came as result of Israeli provocation..." adding that Hamas was "committed to the calm."
Seduction is very French. President Sarkozy's speech before the Knesset was nothing if not seductive and most of his audience was nothing if not willing.
He touched some great notes, quoting the Bible a la President Bush, including the part about God giving the land to Abraham. He referenced Israel as the protector of Jews, present and future, calling Israel the "only place in the world where everyone is sure that Jews will never have to wear a yellow star, where Jews will not be prohibited from riding buses, going to cinema or theater or holding certain jobs, where they will not be forced to live only in Jewish neighborhoods or only go to Jewish restaurants, stores or schools."
 He said, "A nuclear Iran is intolerable... Anyone trying to destroy Israel will find France blocking the way...Israel must know it is not alone in the battle against Iran's nuclear ambitions." And, "My dear friends, the 21st century has arrived and I say this will be the century of peace for Israel."
All of this is very good, particularly from the man who assumes the EU presidency in July. But seduction is pressure to give in to an ill-advised desire. No matter how good the feeling engendered by the attachment of Nicolas Sarkozy to Israel's present and future, Israel and its friends have to be very clear-eyed about the difference between Sarkozy the man and French foreign policy as promoted by the French Foreign Ministry and the eternal French civil service. These have not changed.
All Israel has to do, he said, is remove the checkpoints that allow Israel to stop terrorist activity; stop building houses for Jews in places the Palestinians don't want Jews; and agree to use the capital city of the Jews as the capital city of someone else. There can be, he said, "no peace without a solution to the problem of the Palestinian refugees," and "no peace without a halt to settlement activity." "Peace is not possible if the Palestinians cannot move about freely." He suggested that Israel "encourage legislation that would entice settlers to leave the West Bank."
Along with what appeared to be a sincere profession of friendship, and a nod in the direction of Palestinian obligations to "fight terrorism," Sarkozy made a threat. "We must tell friends the truth, and the truth is that Israel's security can never be assured unless an independent, modern, democratic and viable Palestinian state is established finally beside it."
So is it Israel's obligation not only to permit the establishment of a Palestinian state, but also to ensure that it is modern, democratic and viable? And to ensure that it is Judenrein on their behalf?
"I didn't come here to preach morality," he said after the speech. Perhaps not, but seduction may turn out to be a problem.
FROM THE GATES OF THE NEGEV
No time for electioneering, Israeli
mayors in the Negev tell two Ehuds
By Ulla Hadar
 SDEROT, Israel--Three Kassam rockets fired at Sderot broke the five-day cease fire between Israel and the Gaza terrroists. The Islamic Jihad organization took responsibility for the rockets, saying they were revenge for the killing of one of their members yesterday in the west Bank by the IDF.
Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak visited the area alongside the Gaza strip today and joining him were several mayors from the municipalities of Israel’s southern area.
The mayors asked Barak to refrain from seeking national elections as they might cause political instability in Israel
They contended that an election at this point will adversely impact this region’s priorities of constructing rocket-resistant buildings and securing the whole area. It would cause a serious set back in the time schedule
The plea was included in a joint letter from Mayor Alon Schuster of Sha’ar Hanegev and Chaim Yellin of Eshkol to the leaders of the Kadima and Labor parties, Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak.
The two mayors stated that the situation is immensely fragile and that a political struggle
will add to the difficulties. They asked that the two rival Ehuds to cooperate in an effort to maintain governmental stability, and to stand together rather than electioneer against each other.
The construction of reinforced buildings has been moving very slowly for a variety of bureaucratic reasons. Political and military calm will provide an opportunity to get those buildings constructed, the two mayors said,
MUSICAL NOTES
Cantor becomes a conductor—of a tour
By Eileen Wingard
 LA JOLLA,California—Cantor Arlene Bernstein, whose decade of service was recently celebrated by Congregation Beth Israel, embarks on a new role, leading a group of 70 people on a twelve-day tour to Israel. Departing San Diego July 2, the group consists of the members of Congregation Beth Israel’s Youth and Teen Choir and their families. The trip will combine sight-seeing with performances. They will be featured at the Reform Synagogue Ohr Hadash in Haifa, at the Hadassah Youth Village, Meir Shefaya, and
participate in services at the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem and at the
Reform Synagogue Yozma in Modi’in.
The May 17 celebration of Bernstein’s outstanding service featured the
Adult Choir, the Youth and Teen Choir, the Chai Band, Cantor Bernstein herself, and guest vocalist, Danny Maseng. The memorable event began with two hundred fifty people dining at Congregation Beth Israel’s festively-decorated patio area.
Later, they assembled in the sanctuary for an impressive Havdalah service led by Cantor Emeritus Sheldon Merel assisted by guitarists Buddy Voit and Jeremy Gimbel. Although retired from CBI for eleven years, Merel continues to project a voice of beauty and warmth.
MC Marty Levin, news anchor for NBC, introduced the musical program which opened with Cantor Bernstein, accompanied by the youth and teen choir, in a rousing Yom Zeh L’Yisrael. The cantor’s full burnished mezzo soprano inspired the youngsters as they alternated in the spirited rendition. The Youth Choir followed with an Am Yisroel Medley, then came Mi Ha Ish by the Chai Band with
beautiful solos by violin and flute.
The featured performer, Danny Maseng of Hollywood’s Temple Israel, sang two selections accompanied by the Adult Choir and the Chai Band. This was followed by five of Maseng’s signature songs accompanying himself on guitar, rendered in his electrifying style. Concluding this portion of the program, Maseng was joined by Bernstein and Heidi Gantwerk in Shir Ha’emek and by Bernstein in
Asseh L’cha Rav.
Tributes to the cantor were delivered by the current CBI rabbi, Michael Berk; former CBI rabbi, Jonathan Stein, who proudly boasted, "I hired her!" and by Emily Jennewein, chair of the 10th Anniversary Event Committee. Bernstein offered eloquent words of thanks.
Danny Maseng again performed with the Adult and Youth Choirs and the Chai Band in a lovely arrangement of Anim Z’mirot by Chai Band pianist Andy Mayer. The musical program concluded with Katzir Baemek and Yerushalayim sung by Bernstein with her coach and mentor from Hebrew Union College, Joyce Rosenzweig, at the piano. All joined in for the concluding Hatikvah and Yerushalayim Shel Zahav.
Several of the songs sung that evening will be repeated in Israel. May the talented musical ambassadors from Congregation Beth Israel have a nesiah tovah –a good journey. Leading this trip is yet another crowning achievement of CBI’s beloved cantor, Arlene Bernstein.
 Nancy Harrison
cruise & tour specialist
(619) 265-0808
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EIGHTEEN
{Editor's Note: In this column, in cooperation with San Diego Jewish Academy, San Diego Jewish World will be republishing works that appeared in Eighteen, a student publication emphasizing creative writing.}
Remember
By
Rebecca S. Rudin
Remember
the hot tears
falling down frozen faces
and shattering on cold pavement
slowly turning
to watery cinders
like extinguished flames
they are sitting,
waiting,
dreading,
hearing footsteps, nearly stomping
causing lungs to almost refuse to breathe
and then
the creak of a door
the slicing breeze as it swings open
hands clenching
hearts pounding
and the split second
that feels like an eternity
when one is awaiting the truth to his fate
murder
to an innocent child
his mother
the life in their eyes swept away
like ashes on a windy street
in the dead of night
their throats pulsing with screams
six million screams
that never escaped
they were silenced
never forget
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That’s What I Think
From Southwestern Jewish Press, May 22, 1947, page 2
{Editor’s Note, 2008: ‘Released time’ referred to in Ray Solomon’s column below was a proposal to give public school students a brief recess or partial dismissal from each day of school to allow them time to pray}
By Ray Solomon
Sitting here as editor of the Jewish Press with a more or less “bird’s eye” view of the community, it never ceases to be a wonder to me, how many dissenting voices there are on every action taken in the community. Every speech, every move, everything and everybody has two or more camps. There are always those who take a negative and those who take a rallying stand—though I’m afraid those who find fault are usually louder than those who praise.
The latest such dissention (and most surprising of all to me) came to my attention this week, when I learned that criticism was aimed at the Jewish “objectors” of the released time plan—and that, in the following words: “That Rabbi Cohn, and those others who wrote letters and took an active part in the fight (which must also mean me) were unduly stirring up the muddy waters of anti-semitism.”
First, I must say that those who found such fault, could not have had much interest in the issue, because if they had, they would have attended the open meeting … and if they had attended the meeting, they could not possibly have made such remarks. Because I, and I am sure every open-minded person (Jewish and non-Jewish) that was there, approved of every word that Rabbi Cohn said in opposition to the plan. When Orton E. Darnall, president of the Board of Education asked that someone be chosen from the opposition to represent them, it was a spontaneous action on the part of one of the spectators, to call out the name of Rabbi Cohn. Since no one else was called upon, and since rabbi Cohn was well qualified from the standpoint of information and representation, he rose and spoke briefly and effectively on the evils of released time—to the complete satisfaction of the more than one-hundred non-Jewish opponents of the plan. As spiritual leader of one of the church groups that took a stand against the plan—as a member of the local Community Advisory Committee, that represents every walk of Jewish life in San Diego—and as a private citizen who is well acquainted with the problem—who was better qualified to speak than he?
Secondly—in answer to the statement that the plan would not have been accepted anyway—that it is not too likely, as told to me personally by one of the members of the Board, who said, “Last year when the plan was first introduced, I, and others on the Board were not particularly in favor of it, but you must realize that public opinion must be the determining factor in our decision. I am glad to know of your stand now.”
Contrary to the implication that the “released plan” issue was a Jewish issue, let me point out that the number of Jewish people attending the open meeting was perhaps less than ten percent, and the number of letters far less Jewish than Christian. The Jewish angle was brought up, yes—but only by a bigoted few, who were answered immediately by many men and women who were there—all of them not Jewish and saying so.
Above all, it is important to note that there were many liberal and progressive church people, who did not approve of introducing religious segregations in the school and they were not ashamed to say so.
S.O.S. Wants Books!
From Southwestern Jewish Press, May 22, 1947, page 3
With the realization that emigration will be slower than expected, it is necessary to provide for a longer stay of Jewish survivors in Displaced Persons’ Centers. Therefore, books for educational, cultural and leisure-time activity have become increasingly important. To date, communities have been slow in responding to this part of the collection campaign. San Diego is asked to collect as many books as possible during the months of May and June, so that the first shipment will be available to go to Europe by July 1, 1947. Books should be mainly in Yiddish or some foreign language useful to the survivors such as Hebrew, Polish, German, Hungarian, Roumanian, Bulgarian, French and Russian. Very important, medical journals in all languages, including English, are needed. Picture magazines can be used. The books must be in good condition.
Bring your contributions to Douglas Tire Col, 11th and Market St., or go to the Hebrew Home for the Aged. Don’t delay! Surely every family can spare two books.
Home Camp Registration Now Being Taken
From Southwestern Jewish Press, May 22, 1947, page 3
Registration opened Monday, May 19, for the home camp to be operated by the Community Center Planning Committee. The registration schedule has been set up running from May 19 to May 30 as follows:
May 19 to May 30, 209 First National Bldg, 5th and Broadway, 9 to 5 P.M.
May 26 through May 30, Beth Jacob Center, 3206 Myrtle, 3 to 5 P.M.
May 26 through May 30, Beth Israel Center, 5th (sic) & Laurel, 3 to 5 p.m.
Attendance at the home camp will be limited so that all are urged to register as early as possible.
The home camp has the answer for your question, “What are you going to do with the kids this summer?” It is a camp at home for children from 6 to 13, operating five days a week, Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There are six glorious, fun packed hours a day loaded with trips, hikes, sports, nature study, camp-lore, swimming, camp dances, cook-outs, arts and craft and other activities. All children will be under the supervision of paid, trained counselors.
Including all expenses, the fee for enrollment for the full five weeks will be $35. A minimum enrollment of two consecutive weeks will be $35. A minimum required “Camperships” or “scholarships” will be available for children. Those interested in obtaining a campership are asked to consult Mr. Hutler.
A typical week at the camp as announced by Albert T. Hutler, who will direct the program, is as follows:
Monday—Trip day, tour Naval Training Base.
Tuesday—Nature hike, camp songs, arts and craft, sports, story telling.
Wednesday—Beach day.
Thursday—Farm day.
Friday—Organized games and activities in the park, lunch at the Center, square dancing and children’s services.
It is also planned, Mr. Hutler announced, to have two over-night camp-outs and several cook-outs.
Children will be grouped by ages and each counselor will have a maximum of ten children. Two counselors, both social service students at San Diego State College, have already been hired and others will be hired in the near future.
Rabbi Wolf to Speak For Sisterhood
From Southwestern Jewish Press, May 22, 1947, page 4
The next regular luncheon meeting of the Temple Sisterhood on Wednesday, May 39th, will have as guest speaker Rabbi Albert Wolf of Los Angeles, whose subject will be “Ladies First.”
Upon his graduation from the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1941, Rabbi Wolf served as rabbi of Temple Emanu-El in Dothan, Alabama, from 1941 through 1946. Rabbi Wolf came to Los Angeles in July 1946 to open the UNION’s Western regional Office and to serve as its first director. He represents in this Region all the affiliates of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, which co-ordinates activities in the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada and Idaho. The affiliates are the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, Temple Brotherhoods, and Temple Youth as well as the Hebrew Union College.
Reservations for the luncheon should be made not later than Monday, May 26th, with Mrs. H. Haimsohn, T-4090; Mrs. M. Schreiber, J-7391, or he Temple Secretary, F-9-4631.
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SAN DIEGO JEWISH WORLD THE WEEK IN REVIEW
The Arts
What You See Isn't Quite What You Get by Ronit Hakakha in Netanya, Israel
The awful revenge of a mediocre artist by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
TICO builds reputation as soloist's haven by Eileen Wingard in San Diego
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—May 8, 1947: Victor Schulman Heads Allocations, Budget Committee
—May 8, 1947: Hadassah
—May 22, 1947: Flash! {Hillel}
—May 22, 1947: Women Raise Record Sum
Middle East
How Sha'ar Hanegev elementary school protects Israeli kids from the rockets by Ulla Hadar in Kibbutz Ruhama, Israel
Possible attack on Iran, negotiating for hostages prompt many ethical questions by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
Israel is now appeasing its Arab enemies by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.
San Diego
Jewish-Catholic dialogue focuses on the crucifixion and on the Holocaust by Donald H. Harrison in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California
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—April 24, 1947: Lasker Lodge B.B. {Hillel}
—April 24, 1947: Jewish Labor Com
—April 24, 1947: Birdie Stodel B.B.
—April 24, 1947: Variety Show Saturday Nite
The Arts
My Old Friends a joyful romp of the aged by Cynthia Citron in Burbank, California
A Jewish dancer’s road to freedom by Sheila Orysiek in San Diego
)Middle East
Murtha owes Marines an apology by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.
Judaism
Conservative movement insists kosher processors treat employees humanely by Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal in San Diego
The importance of a Hebrew name by Rabbi Baruch Lederman in San Diego
San Diego
Garden and square memorialize two favorite professors at San Diego City College by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—April 24, 1947: 'And A Little Child Shall Lead Them'
—April 24, 1947: Beth Jacob Congregation
—April 24, 1947: S.O.S. Still Needs Your Support
—April 24, 1947: S.D. To Have Summer Camps
The Arts
S.D. weighs festival of new Jewish plays by Carol Davis in San Diego
Middle East
Costs, benefits to Hamas regularization by Eran Lerman in Jerusalem
Wars among the Jews heat up in Israel by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
U.S. and Israel prefer stability among Arab nations rather than real democracy by Shoshana Bryen in Washington, D.C.
San Diego
UJF backs programs to transport local seniors, build school in Sha'ar Hanegev by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Jackie Gmach receives Marla Bennett Humanitarian Award from AFMDA by Yvonne Greenberg and Paul Greenberg in La Jolla, California
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—April 10, 1947: Organizations 'working with' UJF
—April 10, 1947: USO-JWB Activities
—April 24, 1947: San Diego Sends $50,000 From Emergency Fund To Aid European Jews
The Arts
Chapter Thirteen of Reluctant Martyr, a serialized novel by Sheila Orysiek of San Diego
)Middle East
Skepticism over Israel-Hamas ceasefire by Ira Sharkansky in Jerusalem
Canada
Jews and Canada's First Nations have much to learn from each other's experiences by Rabbi Dow Marmur in Toronto
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—April 10, 1947: Prof. Sheldon Warns of Bundist revival
—April 10, 1947: We Were There by Albert Hutler
—April 10, 1947: Eminent Speakers to Appear in San Diego This Week
The Arts
Thursdays with the music of Hal Wingard
—#14 The Dog, The Cat And Me
—#153 Have You Hugged Your Cat Lately?
—#278 Boasting
Lifestyles
Have you ever tried making 'old' friends? by Donald H. Harrison in San Diego
Middle East
Hamas will rebuild during the ceasefire by Shoshana Bryen in Washington D.C.
Australia-New Zealand
The Jews 'Down Under' by Garry Fabian
—New Zealand TV group apologizes for slurs
—Jewish achievers honored in Queen's birthday list
—Community event makes comeback
—Police allegations rattle Adelaide community
—Victoria and Israel—Best of friends
—Jews champions for indigenous rights
—Community celebration for Israel's 60th
—Anti-Semitic graffiti marks disturbing trends
—World B'nai B'rith President to visit 'Down Under'
San Diego County
Russert's death prompts walking regimen by Donald H. Harrison in El Cajon, California
San Diego Jewish Trivia: Journalists by Evelyn Kooperman
Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
—March 20, 1947: UJF Youth Division Organizes
—March 20, 1947: Sergeant Inspires Youth Division
—March 20, 1947:‘Personality’ Talk Impresses TYL
Arts
—L'il Noodle, a kid who'll steal your heart by Cynthia Citron in Los Angeles
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