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Today's Postings:
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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INTERNATIONAL
Iran and its proxies are warming some Arabs to Israel ... by Rabbi Dow Marmur in Jerusalem
President Shimon Peres dropped by for a chat with Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, the guru of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party. The media happened to be there, which gave the President an opportunity to muse about what’s happening in the world. READ MORE
North American campus anti-Semitism alive, sick as ever ... by Rabbi Dow Marmur in Jerusalem
We should not be surprised if the next generation of jihadists comes not from the Gaza Strip or the mountains and mosques of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but from university campuses across the U.S." That's how Khaled Abu Toameh, a distinguished Arab journalist and documentary filmmaker, sums up his speaking tour last month at universities across America. READ MORE
In reality, it's Lieberman's government—not Netanyahu's ... by J. Zel Lurie in Delray Beach, Florida
“On the first day of the new Israel government the fog cleared. It’s a Lieberman government.” That is the way the veteran left-wing journalist, Uri Avnery, described the first day of the new government, which is nominally headed by Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.READ MORE
Only the battle, not the war, is won against Somali pirates ... by Shoshana Bryen in Washington D.C.
Bravo, bravo to the U.S. Navy SEALs that dispatched three Somali pirates with three shots and saved Captain Richard Phillips. Like the Israeli naval special operations raid that captured the Iranian weapons ship Karine A, and as they should be, the American SEALs were quick and lethal. READ MORE
ARTS
An oratorio worth remembering in waning days of Pesach ... story and song by Cantor Sheldon Merel in San Diego
As we are still in the midst of the Passover holiday, (Chol Ha-mo-aid) I am reprising this musical selection from the oratorio, Haggadah, Search for Freedom.READ MORE
'Not the sex but the secrecy' made Brief Affair exciting ... by Cynthia Citron in Costa Mesa, California
Anna (Jenny O’Hara) has been almost dying for years. But each time she is carted off to the hospital, she rallies, bounces out of her “deathbed” and returns to her home in Brooklyn. While fiercely clinging to life, however, she is slowly losing her grip on reality. Or so it seems.READ MORE
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ADVENTURES IN SAN DIEGO JEWISH HISTORYCommunity Currents {Part II} by Albert Hutler READ MORE
Birdie Stodel B.B.READ MORE
Society Personals READ MORE
Historic Ad-Irving Friedman Insurance VIEWJEWISH INTERNET FAVORITES
We continue our examination of Jewish entertainers
Fred Sadoff as "Mr. Linarcos" in "The Poseidon Adventure" confronts Leslie Nielsen as the captain VIEW VIDEO
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Peter Sellers as Inspector Jean Jacques Clouseau in "The Pink Panther Strikes Again"VIEW VIDEO
Rod Serling previews for advertisers what "The Twilight Zone" will be all about VIEW VIDEO
Simone Signoret in "The Rom At The Top" with Laurence Harvey VIEW VIDEO
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Iran and its proxies are warming some Arabs to Israel
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur
 JERUSALEM—
President Shimon Peres dropped by for a chat with Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef, the guru of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party. The media happened to be there, which gave the President an opportunity to muse about what’s happening in the world. When he became president, one of the fears was that he’d continue to meddle in Israeli politics. So far, he has being doing it in ways that usually reflect a broad consensus.
Thus commenting on the current dispute between Egypt and the stooges of Iran (Hezbollah), Peres told the rabbi that “it’s good they’re fighting without us.” The capture some time ago of a large number of Hezbollah terrorists in Egypt (and more are on the run, probably hiding among the Beduin) seeking (a) to strengthen their soul mates Hamas in Gaza, (b) to attack Egyptian resorts in Sinai that receive many Israeli tourists, and (c) to cause havoc in Egypt itself has brought to light the open conflict between Iran and several Arab countries that fear an Iranian take-over.
What Al Qaeda is trying to do is now being attempted with much greater resourcefulness and determination by Iran, which, according to Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University, is an octopus with poisonous potential.
On the face of it, the dispute is a current version of the perennial Muslim internal struggle between the Shi’a and Sunni sects. Shi’ite Iran is gaining converts in Sunni Egypt and many other Sunni-dominated countries, and enlists them in terrorist activities at home. Though we normally think of the Iranian threat only to Israel, it may in fact be much greater to Sunni Arab countries. The fact that Muslims are fighting each other, reminiscent of the decade-long Iran-Iraq war, gives Israel a little respite.
Many Arab countries view with horror the devastation that Hezbollah has caused in Lebanon and they’re determined not to allow it on their own turf. Whether they’ll have the wherewithal remains to be seen. To have a chance to succeed, they’ll need Israel, which in turn prompts them to frustrate Hamas and promote the Saudi peace plan.
One reason for the United States - and Israel, for that matter - flirting with Syria is to wean it off Iran and bring it in line with Arab countries that have made peace with Israel, notably Egypt and Jordan.
The Hezbollah terrorists were apprehended in Egypt some four months ago, but the news has only now been made public. Dr Kedar suggests that the timing is in reaction to the softly-softly approach of the Obama administration toward Iran. Egypt and its Arab allies have reason to fear that negotiations with Iran may give it the legitimacy it seeks, which in turn will enable it to make further inroads into the Arab world, with or without the nuclear program. The prospect of a tougher US line toward Israel, including inhibiting it from preparing to attack Iran, may be not-so-good news after all for Arabs.
But Peres’ comment that they’re fighting without us is good news for Israel. Though the option of taking on Iran remains on
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Israel’s agenda, the prospect of unexpected allies may be a source of comfort and hope.
However, it’s too early to stop worrying, because this very unstable region may be further destabilized – and that’s never good for Israel. The fact that Iran stooges are lurking both on Israel’s northern border (Hezbollah) and in the south (Hamas) makes it impossible to relax. But the stooges being under notice from Egypt is a source of hope.
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North American campus anti-Semitism alive, sick as ever
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By Rabbi Dow Marmur
JERUSALEM—We should not be surprised if the next generation of jihadists comes not from the Gaza Strip or the mountains and mosques of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but from university campuses across the U.S." That's how Khaled Abu Toameh, a distinguished Arab journalist and documentary filmmaker, sums up his speaking tour last month at universities across America.
Writing in the newsletter of the Hudson Institute, he describes how a vociferous minority of students and professors, most of whom have neither visited the region nor seem to want to know much about it, made him realize that "there is more sympathy for Hamas there than there is in Ramallah."
Abu Toameh explains: "What's happening on the U.S. campuses is not about supporting Palestinians as much as it is about promoting hatred for the Jewish state." What masquerades as pro-Palestinian is just anti-Jewish.
"What struck me more than anything else," Abu Toameh continues, "was the fact that many of the people I met on campuses supported Hamas and believed that it had the right to `resist occupation' even if that meant blowing up children and women on a bus in downtown Jerusalem."
The mood doesn't appear to be very different in some Canadian universities. All who don't share the self-righteous canards of the agitators are at risk of being browbeaten into implicit compliance with the prejudices of the phony self-appointed champions of the Palestinians. Though the troublemakers are relatively few, their activities may turn many others into colluding bystanders.
This is anti-Semitism in the guise of human rights advocacy. It has echoes of what my parents' generation was subjected to in universities in pre-World War II Poland and which I myself experienced there as a child immediately after the Holocaust. It prevented me from going to school out of fear of Jew-bashing.
The fact that something similar is happening in universities here and now is cause for deep concern. Some seem to attend institutions of higher learning not in search of an education but for training in hatred. They make it difficult for bona fide students to achieve their legitimate goals. A few vociferous lecturers encourage them. Scandalously, they even advocate boycotting Israeli academics.
The attempts that York University is reported to be making to promote civility in the Israeli-Palestinian debate, and avoid the kind of atmosphere that has of late plagued it, are laudable, but probably insufficient. For it's not enough to deal with symptoms without tackling underlying causes.
We need a national debate about the nature of higher education to determine what must be done to promote truth, assure openness and safeguard mutual respect. Those responsible must shape policies that guarantee free exchange of ideas yet prevent the kind of malicious and indiscriminate manifestations of prejudice that Abu Toameh encountered.
Though there must never be less than absolutely open expression of all legitimately held opinions, there's also the need to scrutinize the poisonous agendas of some teachers to enable university authorities to create structures that prevent abuse.
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One way of doing it is to make sure that universities help students to grow unhindered into independent and mature individuals. Without such help, Abu Toameh's prediction about the next generation of jihadists may indeed come true. And we'll only have ourselves to blame.
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In reality, it's Lieberman's government—not Netanyahu's
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By J. Zel Lurie
 JERUSALEM—“On the first day of the new Israel government the fog cleared. It’s a Lieberman government.”
That is the way the veteran left-wing journalist, Uri Avnery, described the first day of the new government, which is nominally headed by Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.
The day began with a ceremony at the President’s House.
Bibi made a brief address about peace. Lieberman said “prepare for war” at a second ceremony at the foreign office.
The papers headed “prepare for war.” The people I talked to at dinner that evening knew about Lieberman’s speech but they were unaware that a new government had been sworn in.
At the official ceremony at the President’s House wrote Avnery: “All the members of his bloated government, 30 ministers and 8 deputy ministers, were dressed up in their best finery and posed for a group photo.”
Thirty-eight ministers and deputy ministers. That is almost a third of the 120-member Knesset. Why does Netanyahu need thirty ministers with eight deputies to govern? He needed them like a hole in the head. But he had to satisfy the ambitions of four diverse parties, actual rivals. Many of the ministers have phony titles or are “without portfolio” which means they will have nothing to do. But they will still get a Volvo and a driver.
Avigdor Lieberman, on the other hand, was busy as a beaver. With the 15 votes of Israel Beiteinu, 12 percent of the Knesset, he is Likud’s largest ally. He insisted on being named Minister of Foreign Affairs.
He stands astride a key post. His party is the only one of the three Likud allies which would topple the government if it withdrew.
After the President’s ceremony, where Bibi Netanyahu, made the usual speech about Israel’s desire for peace, Lieberman rushed to the Foreign Office to take over. For openers he quoted a Roman slogan. “Si vis oacem para bellum -- if you want peace, prepare for war.”
Concessions, said Lieberman, do not bring peace. Conciliation does.
Is a freeze on settlements, a basic point of the Road Map, a concession? Is rescinding the demolition orders for the homes of 5,000 residents of Silwan, a concession? Is lessening the harassment of Palestinians at checkpoints, far from the borders of Israel, a concession? Is removing the illegal outposts -- illegal under Israeli law -- one of which was shooting at Palestinian shepherds recently a concession?
Until the expansion of settlements is frozen and the illegal outposts are removed-- two basic provisions of the Road Map -- the Palestinians will not be conciliated..
Nor does Mr. Lieberman expect them to be.
His objective is the same as Netanyahu’s. While Bibi talks about the peace process and Lieberman talks about preparing for war, both are trying to fend off the Obama government which has persistently made clear that the status quo is unacceptable.
Somewhere between Turkey and Czech Republic, on April 6, President Obama issued his reply to Lieberman. He said:
“Let me be clear. The United States strongly supports the goal of two states. Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security… That is a goal that the parties agreed to on the road map and at Annapolis and that is the goal that I will actively pursue as President…”
George Mitchell, Obama’s special envoy for peace, will be in Israel soon after this article appears to work for a two-state solution.
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I too will be in Israel with my family celebrating the final days of Passover. While the press will be occupied with Obama vs. Lieberman and Netanyahu, I will look for Zionists, who follow in the footsteps of Martin Buber and Henrietta Szold .I know I will find them among the Jewish ladies of Mahsom Watch who go out to the checkpoints to alleviate the harassment of the Palestinian travelers.
I will stay at the hotel of the Oasis of Peace (Neve Shalom), the village in the Judean Hills where Jews and Palestinians live together and educate their children in two languages.
And I will search for a woman whom I rescued thirty years ago from the clutches of the Ministry of Interior who had ordered her deported to her native England. Although she was not a born Jew, she had been living as a Jew for five years in Rosh Pina. She had applied to study for conversion to Judaism with the approval of the Chief Rabbi of Rosh Pina. But the Ministry had refused and ordered her deportation.
How did I get the bigoted Ministry to change its mind?
Watch for the answer in my next column on May 5, when I’ll be back from Iseael and I’ll résumé a biweekly schedule.
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THE VIEW FROM JINSA
Only the battle, not the war, is won against Somali pirates
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By Shoshana Bryen
 WASHINGTON, D.C.—Bravo, bravo to the U.S. Navy SEALs that dispatched three Somali pirates with three shots and saved Captain Richard Phillips. Like the Israeli naval special operations raid that captured the Iranian weapons ship Karine A, and as they should be, the American SEALs were quick and lethal. Bravo, as well, to Captain Phillips who made himself a hostage in exchange for his ship and crew, and who remembered the obligation of prisoners of war and tried to escape at the first possible moment.
But this is NOT "all's well that ends well," because it has only ended for the ship and crew of the Maersk Alabama. Dozens, hundreds or thousands of ships sail every day through treacherous waters. Most are unarmed for a combination of reasons including, as Nikola Gvosdev said, "the expense, the hassle and the insurance liability of having armed guards aboard." Even private security services hired to protect ships are often unarmed.
Gvosdev, a teacher of national security studies at the United States Naval War College, noted in an interview some months ago that armed ships are less likely to be prey for pirates, and paying ransom has its own drawbacks - particularly in an ungoverned place like Somalia. He told of a British reporter traveling through Somali coastal villages. The reporter "learned that the piracy trade is well organized among criminal leaders who divide up the ransom money and set a percentage
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aside for improved equipment, such as better radios, GPS systems, boats and guns. 'Therefore, by paying the ransom, you're also enabling them to increase their capabilities to launch further attacks.'"
In Somalia, without a formal government since 1991, links between a lucrative, illicit business and terrorist organizations cannot be discounted. Former Under Secretary of Defense Fred Iklé laid it out in The Washington Post:
Terrorists...can easily force pirates - petty thieves in comparison - to share their ransom money... Somalia is an ideal fortress and headquarters for global terrorist activity... [and] not an easy place for our [American] military to establish law and order; two of our interventions there became embarrassing defeats -- in 1993 and more recently in support of Ethiopian forces.
This is not about unhappy Somalis turning to terrorism because of some real or imagined grievance against the West or the United States or Israel or Christianity or whatever. Piracy is as old as the seas. And the response to piracy is well enshrined in international law. Ikle´ continues:
[There are] powerful international laws that exist against piracy. The right of self-defense - a principle of international law - justifies killing pirates as they try to board a ship.
A "war on piracy" is no more possible than a "war on terror." But like the notion that there exists an obligation to defend against and defeat terrorists and the states that harbor and support them, captains and crews should not be sailing into known dangers without the arms and political support to defend themselves and their cargo.
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MUSIC OF OUR PEOPLE
An oratorio worth remembering in waning days of Pesach
To hear Cantor Merel sing "Search for Freedom," please click here
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By Cantor Sheldon Merel
 SAN DIEGO—As we are still in the midst of the Passover holiday, (Chol Ha-mo-aid) I am reprising this musical selection from the oratorio, Haggadah, Search for Freedom.
With music by Morton Gold, and lyrics by Harold Lerner, it so beautifully synthesizes the message of Passover that I could think of no other song that could more dramatically conclude the holiday.
The Passover story began with a forty year journey through the desert from Egypt to freedom in the Promised Land. Our journey for freedom has never ended, nor should it, as we read in the Haggadah, “ V’hi Sheh-amdah, in every generation, in every age, some rise up to plot our annihilation, but a Divine Power sustains and delivers us”.
Fortunately, throughout our history, special individuals chose to become partners with God to foil such plots, and saved our people. We are reminded particularly of Moses, who led the Israelites from slavery to freedom and helped change the course of human history. Through the centuries, his example was followed by many others who faced tremendous life-threatening odds to rescue Jews from death, or made major contributions to our society.
At our home Seder, we skip the story of the four sons, and pre-
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assign four members from among my family and guests to report on heroes who have made a difference in Jewish history: people who have saved lives, alleviated suffering and serve as role models. At this year’s Seder, we learned about: Commodore Uriah P. Levy, Justice Louis Brandeis, Irene Sendler and Raoul Wallenberg (Righteous Gentiles, who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust).
The search for freedom in the world must continue, and each of us can make a difference by speaking out against oppression and intolerance, so that all men may be free. I hope this musical selection and the previous four songs from the oratorio, Haggadah, Search for Freedom, have given new insights into your Passover.
Here are the lyrics, which say it all,
“Hear us O God, King of the world: Listen to the song of our search for freedom. You exalt us through the gift of Torah, the source of wisdom. You bless us with your festive days, the season for thanks and rejoicing. Freedom is the song of love. One God, one world, one earth, one flesh. Oh let it be one freedom for all, a white freedom, a black freedom, a yellow freedom, a red freedom, a freedom of body, of mind, of spirit and soul. Let all who are slaves be free. Let all men be free! Halleluyah”
Chag Sa-mey-ach. Happy Passover, may it be thought provoking and inspiring.
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L.A. BEAT
'Not the sex but the secrecy' made Brief Affair exciting
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By Cynthia Citron
 COSTA MESA, California—Anna (Jenny O’Hara) has been almost dying for years. But each time she is carted off to the hospital, she rallies, bounces out of her “deathbed” and returns to her home in Brooklyn. While fiercely clinging to life, however, she is slowly losing her grip on reality. Or so it seems.
Her grown children have once again gathered at her bedside. Seth and Abby (Arye Gross and Marin Hinkle) are twins, both gay, and both apparently dedicated underachievers. Seth is creatively content with his career: he writes obituaries. Abby lives in California with her partner and their baby girl, conceived, as Anna derisively assumes, “with a turkey baster.” “I like returnable children,” Anna says.
Anna talks about Seth’s musical history: he studied viola at Juilliard, an instrument, she says, that was “designed for recessive personalities” and dismisses it with the comment that “the viola is the same as a violin, except that no one cares about it.”
With this fast-paced beginning, playwright Richard Greenberg quickly establishes the relationships in his play “Our Mother’s Brief Affair,” commissioned by, and now having its world premiere, at the South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa. While the initial story line and the Jewish family will be familiar to those who saw Greenberg’s earlier play “Everett Beekin,” which premiered at the South Coast Rep in 2000, “Our Mother’s Brief Affair” veers off in an entirely new and unexpected direction.
As in the earlier play, there is another character: Anna’s husband Abe, who storms around the stage in fits of bad temper. He is played by Matthew Arkin, who also plays Anna’s secret lover, Phil, her partner in their “brief affair.”
Perhaps because she believes she may actually die this time, Anna suddenly reveals to her children the family secrets she has been squelching for years. She tells them about her romance with Phil, their clandestine meetings while Seth was having his viola lessons at Juilliard, the excitement of having a private adventure of her own. “It wasn’t the sex, it was the secrecy,” she explains.
And then she provides a shocking postscript. Phil wasn’t actually Phil; the name was a pseudonym adopted by an infamous political informant whose deception and double-dealing led to the deaths of his family members. To which an enraged Seth explodes, “It’s like discovering that your mother had an affair with Adolph Hitler!”
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 There is also a childhood misdemeanor that has tormented Anna all her life, but it is so relatively insignificant that her children are easily able to lift that burden from her shoulders. Nevertheless, in the end Seth and Abby are left to ponder their mother’s stories and try to determine which, if any, are true.
“Our Mother’s Brief Affair” is a fascinating play, mostly because the actors are so good under the tight direction of Pam MacKinnon. But also for the star turn delivered by Jenny O’Hara, well-known in Los Angeles and New York, but here making her South Coast Rep debut. She is funny, quirky, mentally adrift, shrewd, and dreamy, and is a real delight to watch.
Further, Sybil Wickersheimer has designed a deceptively austere setting which turns out to serve the story well. It is a neighborhood park, surrounded by brick buildings, with a bare tree off-center and a scattering of benches that serve as various backgrounds as the story moves along. As each actor completes a scene, he retires to a less prominent bench, so no one ever actually leaves the stage. And no one in the audience leaves either. They remain gripped to the very end.
“Our Mother’s Brief Affair” will continue at the South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 2:30 and 8, and Sundays at 2:30 and 7:30, through May 3rd. Call (714) 708-5555 for tickets or purchase them online at www.scr.org.
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VISTA, California (Press Release) -- The Vista Library, 700 Eucalyptus Avenue, will host a concert in remembrance of Jewish composers persecuted by the Nazis on Friday, April 24 at 12:30 p.m. A collection of compellingcompositions will be performed by young European instrumentalists and singers – competition winners from the international festival, Ostracized Music.
The concert is part of the San DiegoCounty’s World Music and Cultural Arts Series and is co-sponsored by the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center and its San Diego Jewish Music Festival 2009, as well as by the Friends of the Vista Library.
The concert will include songs by composers such as Arnold Schönberg, Viktor Ullmann, Alexander Zemlinsky and Erwin Schulhoff. The Ostracized Music festival teaches students from Germany and throughout Europe about the Holocaust and the short-lived careers of persecuted Jewish composers and musicians during World War II.
Among the award-winning young musicians are master pianists Ji Ling, Sefuri Sumi, Justus Barleben, Daniel Beider and Helge Aurich, and soprano Claudia Roick. Other young performers will accompany them in this one-hour concert.
"This music is such a huge treasure today," states Jennu
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Swensson, archivist at the Schwerin Music Conservatorium’s
Center for Ostracized Music in Germany. "When you hear (it),
then you realize that this could have disappeared."
The Ostracized Music project is under the patronage of Dr. Christian Stocks, General Consul of Germany in Los Angeles. This event is free and open to the public. Reservations are
not required. For more information please call (858) 694-2415.
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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History
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Community Currents {Part II}
Southwestern Jewish Press January 9, 1953, page 2
by Albert Hutler, Director, United Jewish Fund
For The Anti Semite—The November issue of Newsweek had an article in which all Jews well can take pride, though we hear all kinds of rumors about the rabbis and the service. In this article, Major Ivan L. Bennett, the Army Chief of Chaplains, stated that the Army was definitely short of Chaplains and that the churches were not providing them in adequate numbers. He explained that the services take Chaplains under a quota, 68 percent Protestant, 29 percent Catholic and 3 percent Jewish, based on National proportions.
Then he went on to explain that only the Jewish bodies, Orthodox, Conservative and Reform, cooperating through the Jewish Welfare Board, had filled their quotas. The JWB has set up a voluntary draft, whereby all men entering Rabbinical Seminaries, promise to serve the Armed Forces for two years if needed.
J.S.S.A. Annual Meeting—The Jewish Social Service Agency’s annual meeting is going to be held on Thursday, January 29, 1953. It certainly will be an interesting meeting for anyone who is interested in the work of a Jewish Family Service agency. I suggest that many of us attend to find out what this member of the Federation is doing, under the direction of Harry Mallen as president and Mrs. David Rubenstein as Executive Secretary. You will be amazed when you hear the report of the work that is being accomplished in our community by our agencies.
Birdie Stodel B.B.
Southwestern Jewish Press January 9, 1953, page 2
Mrs. Ted Brav, Pres., invites members, friends and neighbors to the next regular meeting, to be held Monday, Jan. 12th, luncheon at 12 noon at Temple Beth Israel Center. This will be an entertaining and informative afternoon, no business on hand to be taken care of. Along with a wonderful luncheon planned by Mrs. Chas. Bloomfield, Chairman, and Mrs. Dave Friedman, Co-chairman you will hear a timely and vital talk on Juvenile Delinquency by Dr. Richmond Barbour, Doctor of Philosophy, and Director of Child Guidance, S.D. City Schools. Mrs. Reuben Aved, Program Chairman, informs us a Social Hour will follow this talk.
Members of B’nai B’rith are invited to attend the Leadership Training Class, sponsored by the four branches of B’nai B’rith, Bay City chapter, Birdie Stodel Chapter, Lasker Lodge, and Samuel I. Fox Lodge. This class is to start Wed., Jan. 14th at 8 p.m. at the New Adult Education Building, Normal at El Cajon Blvd., and is being set up by Mr. Imel, head of Adult Education, City Schools.
We of S.D. Birdie Stodel Chapter have added another project to our already full schedule, that of being Hostesses once a month to our U.S.O. every first Wednesday evening of the month, at Temple Beth Israel Center. Our members baked cakes and cookies. Feb. 9th at 12 noon, we are having our initiation of new members at Temple Center, starting with a luncheon. It will be something different as the Degree Team and Choral Group will be down from Southern California Conference of Los Angeles.
Society Personals
Southwestern Jewish Press January 9, 1953, page 3
Philips-Levitt Rites Solemnized—Announcement has been made of the marriage of Mrs. Paula Phillips, daughter of Mr. Abe Goldmam of Los Angeles, to Lou Levitt, son of Mrs. Esther Levitt on Saturday, December 27th. Rabbi Monroe Levens conducted the ceremony at an intimate and charming family wedding in the home of the groom’s mother.
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The bride was attired in a toast-colored suit with black and white accessories and wore a corsage of white gardenias and rosebuds. Mrs. Leavitt wore a blue suit with white accessories.
Personals—Joanne Rosenfeld, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Rosenfeld, has returned to her studies at U.C.L.A. after spending the holidays with her parents. Waiting to greet her upon her arrival in San Diego was brand new nephew, Craig Allan Silverman.
Blessed with the recent two long weekends, San Diegans took the opportunity to holiday in near and not-so-near vacation spots. Las Vegas attracted the Morris Ackermans, Sidney Smiths, and Harry Epsteins; sunning at Palm Springs have been the Murray Goodriches and Rabbi and Mrs. Morton J. Cohn; Ceil and Al Doctor played at Highland Springs, while the desert life of Borrego called to Dr. and Mrs. Harry Kaufman and family, the George Martin family, and Julia and Mac Kaufman.
Among the celebrants who preferred the big city lights of Los Angeles were the Jack Wyners and the Leon Heimans.
Mrs. and Mrs. F. Elias are taking an extended trip through Arizona and Nevada. That part of the country is especially beautiful this time of the year, it is said.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Wax entertained at an open house on January 4th in honor of the 25th wedding anniversary of Ida and Harry Wax. It was a big day for Ida and Harry— later in the evening, Harry was installed as president of Lasker Lodge and he and Ida were presented with a gift in honor of the occasion.
Our children can teach us—Nancy Lustig, daughter of the Dick Lustigs, raised over $40.00 among her neighbors with which to buy a gift for the two children who were recently operated on in a local hospital to correct the blindness.
Upon hearing of Nancy’s thoughtfulness, a local dealer sold Nancy a $80.00 radio-phonograph for her $40.00 and added 12 records toward the gift.
Mrs. Leon Cole informs us that daughter, Sandra, is enjoying every minute of her WAF training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio.
Mrs. Fannie Schwartz, Mrs. Rose Sarfan, and Mrs. Becky Kaiser wish to thank their friends for their kindnesses and condolences at their recent loss.
Mrs. Henry Weinberger wishes to thank her friends for their many kindnesses show her following her recent accident.
The family of Miss Mary Leff takes this opportunity to thank all their friends and relatives for their kindness during their recent bereavement.
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