Column 14, January 31, 2011
Compiled by Donald H. Harrison
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Jewish organizations
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Seventeen eighth graders, or 75 percent of the 8th grade class, at Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, recently presented science fair projects that were deemed qualified for entry into the Greater San Diego County Science Fair. Among the winners were 1st place, Dovid Wohlgelernter, Microbiology: Killer Spices; 2nd place, Hannah Kaye, Product Testing: Swimming Pool Simulator; and 3rd place, Emily Attia – Behavioral & Social Science: Kaleidoscopic Memory.
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Members and friends of Chabad of La Costa will be phoned Wednesday, February 2nd from 5 – 7:30pm, with a request for items that may be auctioned off at the synagogue’s Purim Banquet on Sunday, Karen Miller is leading the fundraising effort to help the Chabad house “cover some of the costs of our new buildings,” according to Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort. If you care to donate an auctionable item (not garage sale stuff), please call 760-943-8891.
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Conservative Jewish congregations throughout the world have set aside 9 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 6, as “World Wide Wrap,” a day for everyone to lay tefillin. At Tifereth Israel Synagogue the event will be followed with a pancake breakfast cooked up by the Men’s Club. Says its president, Norm Katz, “The event also includes a fundraising component to help provide Tallitot and Tefillin to disadvantaged Jewish Communities in South and Central America. I have met several of the men from Honduras, Ecuador, and Uruguay who have benefited from this program, and I cannot tell you how appreciative they are and how much it means for them to feel a part of our community.”
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Rabbi Adam Shapiro reports that the Moshav Band from Moshav Me’or — mentored and influenced by the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach — will perform at 9 p.m., Saturday evening, Feb. 12, at the Lawrence Family JCC, at a Jewish Student Union fundraiser for programs to send teens to Israel. Ticket prices are $25, $40 and $55. More information at 619-663-8672.
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Dr. Daniel Ben-David, executive director of the Taub Center in Jerusalem, discusses “Israel’s Threat From Within,” as part of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County‘s Israel Learning series at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb 15, at the Lawrence Family JCC. More information: 858-737-7152.
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Lay women leaders from a variety of different religious traditions, including Reform and Conservative Judaism, Baha’i, Protestant, Catholic, New Thought, Mormon, Unification, Sikh, Islamic Sufi and Hindu will give presentations about their beliefs at a Poway Interfaith Team symposium from 1:30 to 4 p.m., Sunday, March 6, at Ner Tamid Synagogue, 15318 Pomerado Road. More information may be obtained from Lea Segel, at 858-487-2683 or lgsegel@sbcglobal.net
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Jews in the General Community
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Assemblyman Marty Block (D-San Diego) hosts a community town hall from 6 p.m.. to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 3, at the Patrick Henry High School auditorium, 6702 Wandermere Drive, San Diego, to discuss Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget cuts. More information: (619) 462-7878.
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Pioneer Jewish merchant Abraham Klauber, subject of The Sounding, a biography by his descendant David Klauber, will be the subject of a book talk 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 22, at the San Diego History Center, in the Casa de Balboa in Balboa Park.
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In Memoriam
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Dora Kozin, a Holocaust survivor and member of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, died last week and was buried on Sunday at Greenwood Memorial Park in San Diego.
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Harrison is editor of San Diego Jewish World