Other items in this column include
*High Holy Day observances
*March of the Living interview
*Short stories, fiction welcome
SAN DIEGO – With less than two months to go until election, Democratic candidates in technically non-partisan local races are touting endorsements from big-name Democrats.
For example, Assemblyman Todd Gloria, who is running for mayor of San Diego against City Councilwoman Barbara Bry, is sending out a short video showing U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for vice president, endorsing him.
In the race for the 3rd District of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, challenger Terra Lawson-Remer, who is facing incumbent Supervisor Kristin Gaspar in the Nov. 3 election , will have online fundraising events at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct 7, with actresses Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and on Oct. 14 with California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Meanwhile, the race for the 53rd Congressional District seat between Sara Jacobs, who came in first during the March 3 primary election, and San Diego City Council president Georgette Gomez continues along the familiar theme of Gomez describing herself as the people’s candidate and Jacobs as “someone who’s buying this seat.” Jacobs in the granddaughter of Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs. Says Gomez: “You deserve someone who’ll best represent you in Congress — someone who’s familiar with financial hardships. Someone who may look like you. Someone who takes the same public transportation as you. Someone who’s willing to fight the good fight because they know what it’s like to struggle, even with working multiple jobs. That someone is me — and because we come from the same community with similar experiences, in Congress, I’m beholden to you and only you — never billionaires.”
High Holy Day observances
*Chabad of Chula Vista plans outdoor High Holy Day services “with social distancing and masks required,” according to Rabbi Mendy Begun. Rosh Hashanah services will be held in a tent at Chabad of Chula Vista at 6:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18 (Erev Rosh Hashanah); 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19 (Rosh Hashana Morning); 10 a.m., Sunday Sept. 20 (2nd Day Rosh Hashanah). Yom Kippur services will be held at the Hampton Inn in the Eastlake section of Chula Vista at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27 (Kol Nidre) ; and on Monday, Sept. 28 (Yom Kippur Day) at 10 a.m. (limited seating indoors); 5:30 p.m. (Yizkor, outdoors), and 6 p.m. (Neilah, outdoors.) Reservations and more information via this website.
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March of the Living Interview
The International March of the Living organization, which annually sends thousands of Jews on a march of remembrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps in Poland, and then to Israel for celebration of its independence, this year was forced to cancel the commemorations because of Covid-19 virus.
Marcia Wollner, Western Region director for the organization, messages that at 1 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 13, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, the former Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, will be interviewed in a “fireside chat” by Malcoln Hoenlein, vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, about his experiences leading 31 past annual marches.
The International March of the Living organization bills the interview as a “compelling story of a young boy’s survival, his determination to remember and his commitment to tell and retell the story of the Shoah.” Register to attend the internet program via this website.
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Short stories, fiction welcome
We have been receiving an enthusiastic response to our decision to welcome poetry and short stories on Jewish subjects from volunteer writers, thereby expanding our mission to be not only a publication offering news and opinion, but also an online literary magazine as well. We won’t pay for your work (as we are an all volunteer publication, existing simply to serve the Jewish community), but you will have the pleasure of having your poems and stories read and appreciated by our highly intelligent and well-educated audience. If you would like to make a submission, please send it by email to the editor, whose email may be found below.
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Donald H. Harrison is editor of San Diego Jewish World. He may be contacted via donald.harrison@sdjewishworld.com Names in this report appearing in bold face type are self-identified members of the Jewish community. It is possible the names of other Jews, unknown to us, appear in regular type face.