SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –City Councilwoman Marti Emerald, currently the president pro tempore of the City Council, will discuss issues facing San Diego as well as her career both as a broadcast journalist and as a public office holder, during a kosher dinner meeting sponsored by the Tifereth Israel Men’s Club and open to all.
The event will begin with a choice of vegetarian or meat dinner at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 1, at the synagogue located at 6660 Cowles Mountain Boulevard, and will be followed at 7:15 p.m. with the presentation by the councilwoman. There will be time also for questions and answers, according to Men’s Club program committee co-chair Donald H. Harrison.
A dinner ticket costs $15 with an RSVP to 619-697-6001 or mensclub@tiferethisrael.com, whereas the price is $17 for those who come without reservations. Those who RSVP should do so by Monday, June 29, and please state whether they prefer a meat or vegetarian selection.
Emerald spent 30 years as a broadcast journalist, including 22 years as the “troubleshooter” for KGTV, San Diego’s ABC affiliate. She was elected in 2008 to the San Diego City Council, and for six years to date she has chaired the Council’s Public Safety & Livable Neighborhoods Committee.
While undergoing treatment for cancer, Emerald remained unfazed by her hair falling out. Sometimes she wore a scarf to council meetings but more often than not she simply did her work while bald, in the process becoming a symbol of cancer recovery to many.
While Emerald’s mother was Jewish and she grew up comfortable with Jewish tradition, the councilwoman has said it wasn’t until 2002 that she embraced her Jewish identity with any sense of commitment. She credited two local rabbis with being important in the further development of her Jewish identity—Rabbi Martin S. Lawson, now emeritus rabbi of Temple Emanu-El, and Rabbi Laurie Coskey, executive director of the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice.
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Preceding provided by the Tifereth Israel Men’s Club.
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