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JFS outlines ways it is
supporting cancer victims
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)--The Jewish Response to Breast Cancer connects Jewish women facing breast cancer with local Jewish community organizations and provides culturally sensitive support services. A program of the Jewish Healing Center, Jewish Response to Breast Cancer helps San Diego area Synagogues reach out to Jewish breast cancer patients and increases community breast cancer awareness, coping, and survivorship among all Jewish women through outreach, education, and support services.
Following is a list of upcoming events. To learn more about any of them, contact Jewish Family Service at (858) 637-3000, or via http://www.jfssd.org/site/PageServer
Nature Walk & Sitting Meditation Group
Walking meditations (Rancho Penasquitos Nature Reserve): 11/15, and 12/20 • 10:00-11:30am
Sitting meditations: 10/18 and 12/6 • 10:00-11:30am
Learn walking and sitting meditation techniques to reduce tension and anxiety. Walking meditation is held in a beautiful natural setting. Facilitated by Jeff Zlotnik, Executive Director of The Meditation Initiative.
Breast Cancer Support Group
New Group Now Forming
Wednesdays • 2:00-3:30pm
Jewish Family Service – Turk Family Center, 8804 Balboa Avenue, San Diego, CA 92123
Join our weekly support group for cancer patients and survivors to explore Jewish healing through texts, poetry, and prayer. Co-facilitated by Rabbi Aliza Berk, LMFT, Director of the Jewish Healing Center, and Sara Fainstein, MPH, Ph.D.
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5K Walk/Run • Chai for Life Team
November 1, 2009 • Balboa Park • 8:00am
Join the Chai for Life team, a Jewish Community Team including local synagogues, community organizations and individuals sponsored by the Jewish Response for Breast Cancer, and experience an event that has changed the way the world views breast cancer. Whether you run, walk or stroll – discover your power to change the world with every step. The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure® Series, the largest series of 5K runs/fitness walks in the world, raises significant funds and awareness for the fight against breast cancer, celebrates breast cancer survivorship and honors those who have lost their battle with the disease. Since its inception in 1983, the Komen Race for the Cure series has grown from one local Race with 800 participants to a global series of more than 120 Races with more than 1 million people expected to participate in 2009. Everyone is welcome to participate and join the Chai for Life Team.
Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk
• Chai for Life Cheering Squad
November 22, 2009 • 10:00am
Can’t join the race? Join our cheering section instead for the Breast Cancer 3 Day Walk for the Cure to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Public cheering stations are a great way to show your support along the route to encourage walkers and let them know that you are with them every step of the way. Seeing familiar faces cheering them on can provide that extra burst of energy that gets them to take that next step or go the next mile. We'll create banners, hold up signs, bring some music and make some noise - anything to make them smile, get energized and keep walking. Click here to read about the race. Public cheering station locations and times will be posted approximately 1-2 weeks before the event. Upon registering, you will receive an email with the exact location 1-2 weeks before the event. Register Online>>
Healing Words: Writing Through Cancer
Thursdays, January 12, 26, February 9, 23 • Thursdays • 2:00-4:00pm
Jewish Family Service – Turk Family Center, 8804 Balboa Avenue, San Diego, CA 92123
Learn to develop perspective and cope more effectively through writing. No previous writing skills required. Facilitated by Sharon Bray, Ed.D., Writer & Author of When Words Heal: Writing Through Cancer.
Family Camp for Cancer Survivors and Their Families
Friday, March 19, 2009 – Sunday, March 21, 2009
Come celebrate your survival and share your experiences with other patients, survivors, and their families at Camp Marston, in Julian, CA. Enjoy archery, ga-ga, climbing walls, special Jewish programming, workshops for adults, hikes, and more. Both Jewish and non-Jewish families are invited. More information coming soon.
Deborah Hertz featured
AJE speaker Oct 21
CORONADO, California—The Agency for Jewish Education has announced the lineup of its Coronado lecture series. Deborah Hertz, UCSD, will kickoff the monthly series. Hertz’s lecture will take place in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on Oct. 21 at 10:30 am. Her lecture is titled, “Was Conversion Emancipation or Racial Suicide: Using Nazi Archives to Write Jewish History.”
Deborah Hertz is the Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies at the University of California in San Diego. She has previously taught at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Haifa, and Tel Aviv University. She spent two years at Harvard University on post-doctorate fellowships. She is the author of Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin (Yale, 1988) on the German Jewish Salon, and How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin, (Yale, 2007).
Future lectures will feature brilliant professors speaking on their own areas of research. Professor Sanford Lakoff of UCSD will speak in November on “Mideast Turmoil: Causes and Prospects.” In December, Eliza Slavet, Ph.D., UCSD will
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discuss “Freud and the Jewish Question.” Other speakers include professors Steven Cassedy, Chanan Naveh, Risa Levitt Kohn and Ghada Osman.
The Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series is a program of the Agency for Jewish Education and is free and open to the public.
For more information on this or future talks in the series, contact the Agency for Jewish Education, (858) 268-9200 ext.102 or www.ajesd.org.
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Author Joey Seymour debuts
San Diego's Finest Athletes
this Friday and Saturday
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)—Joey Seymour has worked for such professional sports franchises as the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and the Kansas City Royals. His weekly blog, “The SD Sports Report,” discusses various historical and current topics related to all San Diego sports, and also takes a quick look at the rest of the country’s sporting news and notes.
On Friday, October 16th, Joey will be participating in the San Diego County Library’s Page One: Celebration of the Written Word event, the County’s first annual book fair. Joey will be discussing his new book, San Diego’s Finest Athletes: Five Exceptional Lives, at 4:00 PM at the Bonita Branch.
Then, on Saturday, October 17th, Joey will be signing copies of his book at the Borders in Chula Vista—home of the Padres’ Adrian Gonzalez and the Little League World Series champions.
San Diego’s Finest Athletes profiles five athletes from San Diego who each shattered barriers for future minority athletes, while accomplishing outstanding feats in their chosen sports. The talent, dedication, and spirit of Maureen Connolly (tennis), Charlie Powell (boxing and football), Greg Louganis (diving), Tiffany Chin (ice skating), and Adrian Gonzalez (baseball) make this book perfect for sports fans.
SD Jews heading for L.A. Oct 20
for exhibition basketball between Clippers and Maccabi Tel Aviv
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)— Soille Hebrew Day School is joining Adat Yeshurun, Beth Jacob, & the NCSY Youth group to Team Up To Support Israel and the Children of Migdal Ohr Orphanage by attending the Oct. 20 exhibition game between Maccabi Tel Aviv and the Los Angeles Clippers.
The idea is to raise money for Migdal Ohr of Israel, the world's largest orphanage. For 37 years it has been transforming the lives of children from impoverished and disadvantaged homes, where the basic need for shelter, safety, and love could not be met. They provide over 6,500 boys and girls with the priceless opportunity toexperience family, live each day with a sense of wellbeing, and gain the education and skills needed to feel safe and live productive, rewarding lives.
Founded in 1972 by Israel Prize Laureate Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid
Grossman, Migdal Ohr provides a loving and nurturing home, meets the overwhelming emotional and physical needs, and offers outstandingformal and Jewish education to children from infancy through high school.
Click here for information on going by bus with San Diego's Orthodox Jewish community--with kosher food provided, Contact Congregation Beth Jacob about the $20 per person bus ride and the $25 per person game ticket. The game will be played at 7:30 p.m. at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Emerald hails actions on redevelopment, homeless
SAN DIEGO—Councilwoman Marti Emerald has congratulated State Senator Christine Kehoe on winning passage of a law requiring redevelopment funds to remain in the area where they were generated. She noted that $31 million in funds had been transferred from Allied Gardens to downtown San Diego, prompting a lawsuit and Kehoe's legislation. "Redevelopment revenues should stay in the ocmmunities that generate them, to protect the integrity of the redevelopment process and allow less affluent, older communities to improve their quality of life," Emerald said.
Emerald, whose 7th district includes Allied Gardens and San Carlos among other neighborhoods, also praised her colleagues on the City Council for again locating a winter shelter for the homeless downtown at 15th and Island rather than in residential areas of the city. Among the proposals rejected, to Emerald's relief, was one that would have put a 220-bed shelter in a tent on the parking lot of the San Carlos Library.
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