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Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Thursday to hear a case involving a La Mesa, California, family’s 20-year effort to reclaim a French Impressionist painting looted by the Nazis during the Holocaust and now hanging in a Spanish museum. Camille Pissarro’s 1897 work, “Rue Saint-Honoré, Afternoon Effect,” is worth by […]

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Why are Jews funny? Better stated, why do we love humor and why do we make it such a major part of our personalities? In 1978, Time magazine claimed that 80 percent of all stand-up comedians in the United States were Jewish. There are plenty of theories to explain why

Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO — With victims and their families watching in a crowded San Diego courtroom, the gunman who opened fire at a Poway synagogue in 2019, killing one worshipper and injuring three others, was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without parole. It was the expected sentence for John

Published by The San Diego Union-Tribune Warehouses and other industrial facilities are popping up in Otay Mesa, a community in the southern section of San Diego on the border with Mexico, at a staggering pace — most notably in the form of an enormous new 3.4 million-square-foot Amazon distribution center. The expansion is being driven