Torah and the medieval philosopher Maimonides inspired investor Selwyn Isakow to raise money in 2021 from friends and associates in the Jewish community to start Hebrew Free Loan of San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
Young Israel of San Diego has progressed from renter to landlord in the small shopping center diagonally across from the trailhead of Cowles Mountain in the San Carlos neighborhood. Rabbi Eddie Rosenberg says the turnaround in the small Orthodox congregation’s fortunes was “miraculous.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
In Jewish tradition, the fate of the world depends upon 36 upstanding people known as the Lamed Vavniks. As a matter of interest, there are 36 leaders and officers of the Jewish Teen Foundation (JTF) in San Diego County. They will be awarding philanthropic funds that they have raised to various nonprofit organization at a 4 p.m. ceremony Sunday May 21 at Congregation Beth Am in the Carmel Valley neighborhood of San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Business & Finance, California, Donald H. Harrison, International, Israel, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAU.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) has returned to the Senate in a wheelchair after more than a two-month absence while recuperating from shingles. Democrats have needed the vote of the 89-year-old Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve President Biden’s judicial nominees. [Donald H. Harrison]
Susan Lapidus, director of the Murray Galinson San Diego-Israel Initiative, has announced next semester’s lineup of Israeli professors who will be teaching at two major universities in San Diego County. Coming to San Diego State University are historians Amos Nadan and Yoav Alon and poet Maya Tevet Dayan, all from Tel Aviv University; filmmaker Uri Bar-on from Reichman University; and literary scholar Dekel Shay Schory who divides her time between Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University. Coming to UC San Diego are filmmaker Dan Geva from Beit Berl Academic College and anthropologist Dan Rabinowitz from Tel Aviv University. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, California, Donald H. Harrison, International, Israel, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy a margin of 8-1, the San Diego City Council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to an ordinance that would require landlords to provide two to three months rent money to blameless tenants whom they have evicted. Seniors would receive a greater allowance under the proposal. Council President Sean Elo-Rivera, who proposed the ordinance that will come up for a final vote May 16, commented: “San Diegans who are paying their rent and abiding by their lease should not live in fear of eviction. Sadly, too often, San Diego renters are being evicted despite the rules. These evictions cause massive financial and emotional distress to families and can lead to displacement and put people at risk of homelessness. This ordinance provides the protections that San Diego renters need and deserve.” Councilwoman Dr. Jen Campbell was the lone vote against the measure, saying she was following the wishes of many constituents to whom she had spoken in her 2nd Council District. [Donald H. Harrison]
Holocaust Survivor Joseph Alexander, 100, will tell of his experiences at Chabad of Poway at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 27, exactly four years after a gunman murdered Lori Gilbert Kaye and wounded four other people. Reservations are required via chabadpoway.com. On May 4, Cheryl Rattner Price, executive director of The Butterfly Project, and Sandra Scheller, curator of the RUTH: Remember Us the Holocaust, will be among speakers at a 1:30 p.m. presentation on the Holocaust at Southwestern College in Chula Vista. Lee Ann Kim, former KGTV-10 reporter and founder of the Pacific Arts Movement, will emcee the event, which also will include a performance by singer Elizabeth Schwartz. [Donald H. Harrison]
San Diegan Eric Kaufmann is an executive coach who teaches managers, team leaders and executives that they need to utilize three essential elements of their personalities to achieve success: their wisdom, love and power. To actualize these qualities, he writes, one must correct one’s “ego myopia—the inability to recognize and manage your ego.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Lifestyles
As Shabbat nears, here are glimpses of how members of the Jewish community ae making news in the realms of politics, sports, and entertainment. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Jewish Celebrities, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, The Arts, USAAs this column has evolved, a name change from “B’Shalom” to “The Jewish Eye” is in order. My intent is to chronicle the participation of Jewish community members in such public activities as politics, science, the arts, sports, and business. Formatting will consistently place stories under geographic rubrics such as “International,” “National,” “California,” and “San Diego County.” Within those categories, the individuals will be listed alphabetically by surname. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, California, Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USA
Observant Jews will be ridding their household of food products with leavening in advance of the Passover holiday that begins the evening of Wednesday, April 5. While checking the labels, they might also want to see if any of the foods they are consuming contain brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, red dye 3, or titanium dioxide. Those are the chemicals that a bill (AB 418) by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) would ban from food manufactured or sold in California. The chemicals already are banned as toxic by Europe, where some manufacturers have consequently reformulated products that had contained them. [Donald H. Harrison]
B’Shalom: Proposed California Food Bans, Technology, Jewish Politics and Celebrities Read More »
Business & Finance, California, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Israel, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Rose Creek runs through Rose Canyon, which is known to seismographers as the site of the Rose Canyon Fault. The canyon, the creek, and the fault are not named for the rose flower. These locations are named for Louis Rose, who in 1850 became San Diego’s first Jewish settler. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, California, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
By Jacob Kamaras Times of San Diego LA JOLLA, California — From widespread layoffs to Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, the technology sector is not exactly a portrait of stability in this moment. But from a long-term perspective, for entry-level tech professionals and particularly those graduating from engineering programs, the future job market may not be
By Jacob Kamaras DEL MAR, California — One year ago, Meats and Eats opened in the Del Mar Highlands Town Center with the mission of offering San Diego a new option for kosher shopping. In the ensuing months, the business also came to embrace the diversity of the local Jewish community and its palate. Jacobo
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Business & Finance, Jacob Kamaras, San Diego County