SAN DIEGO – Taking care of your health is very important and so is finding a doctor you can talk to. At my appointments with specialists, I write down medications and questions to ask beforehand. I have gone home and questions pop in my head that I should have asked. My doctors have been thankful for the beforehand questions as it makes the appointments more productive. Recently, I was a driver for a friend who was having a procedure and needed a ride to and from her appointment. Prescreening is very important as we get older, and it is better to be safe than wait too long.
Speaking of health tips, 102-year-old, Deborah Szekely of San Diego continues to work at a wellness resort she co-founded in the 1940’s at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Baja California. Szekely shares her longevity tips, including walking every day. Click here for the article.
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Hadassah San Diego will screen the powerful documentary Screams Before Silence at 10 a.m., Sunday, July 21. The documentary captures the first-person testimonies of survivors, first responders, eyewitnesses, released hostages, forensic experts, and advocates for the victims of October 7, led by Sheryl Sandberg. Screening will be followed by a discussion with licensed therapist Keri Green. Click here to register and to receive the address.
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Congregation Beth Israel will host the Tribe Oneg group at 7:30 p.m., on Friday, July 26. Tribe is for adults in their 20’s-40’s who want to do Jewish activities together. Tribe Oneg meets immediately following Erev Shabbat Services, which begin at 6:15 p.m. Click here to make your reservation.
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Congregation Beth Israel’s Caring Community “Mending Hearts” sessions will start Sundays in September and will meet in the Foster Family Chapel. Mending Hearts is a bereavement program that provides support and comfort in a small group setting for those who have experienced a recent loss. Past participants have bonded and continue to meet up. Click here to register.
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San Diego poet, Jane Muschenetz, whose debut collection, All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents won first place in the Creative Verse, Chapbook category of the California Press Women Professional Communications Awards and third place at the National Federation of Press Women Conference. Muschenetz, who arrived in San Diego as a Jewish child refugee from Soviet Ukraine, drew on her personal history and current global events to create her award-winning work.
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Beth Jacob Congregation’s Kids Torah Lending Library of San Diego and currently has more than 65 Jewish books available for kids of all ages to borrow, read, and enjoy. Reading levels range from beginning readers and picture books to chapter books for elementary, middle, and even high schoolers. There are novels, leveled-readers, non-fiction, biographies, mysteries, Torah books, and lots more. All books are from frum publishers with Torah values. Click here to check out the list and reserve books.
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Chabad of East County shared the following joke, “What’s in a name?” Sam is a nice young man who tells his father about a girl he has just met. His father just wants to know her family name. When Sam tells him that the girl’s name is Ford, his father says that Ford is not a good Jewish name, and he must forget her and go find a Jewish girl. Time passes and Sam finds another girl. Her name is Smith, so his father tells him to find a nice Jewish girl with a nice Jewish name. More time passes and Sam finds another girl, but this time he is sure that he has solved the problem because the girl’s name is Goldberg. “Goldberg,” exclaims his father, “this makes me very happy because it’s a real good Jewish name, and from a good established family.” Then his father asks, “Is her first name one of my favorite names, like Rachael, or Rebecca?” “No Father,” replies Sam, “It’s Whoopi.”
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Chabad of Poway shared the following joke, “Sadie was making some pancakes as a treat for her two young sons, Simon and Nicky. But the boys began to argue as to who should get the first pancake she made. “Shame on you boys,” said Sadie. “If the wise King Solomon were here today, he would say, ‘let my brother have the first pancake’.” Nicky looked at Simon and said, “OK, Simon, you be King Solomon today.”
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GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
The County Board of Supervisors approved Terra Lawson-Remer’s plan to crack down on Wall Street investors manipulating the local housing market and increasing the cost of living. “We need to safeguard housing for renters, first-time homebuyers and working families,” said Lawson-Remer. “This action gives the County the tools it needs to help us keep homes in the hands of our friends, family, and neighbors, not greedy corporations.”
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OBITUARY NOTICE
The funeral for Geoffrey Fox was at 3 p.m., on Monday, July 15 at El Camino Memorial Park, the House of Israel reported. Geoff and Joanna Fox were long-time volunteers, and their service included the distribution of tomato plants during Earth Day, printing and providing signs, banners, decorations and working on the House of Israel website.
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Cailin Acosta is the assistant editor of the San Diego Jewish World.