Melanie Rubin

SAN DIEGO–License plate maven Melanie Rubin found herself another intriguing one.  Sara, we know, was the wife of Abram — before Hashem gave them both an ‘h’ in their names to become Sarah and Abraham.  F1?– well that is known only by the driver of this car and his/her friends.  But we can imagine that […]

SAN DIEGO — Hmmm, the vagaries of abbreviations.  The person who owns this license plate may be a purveyor of fine rings, watches, bracelets and such, or perhaps not interested in jewelry at all.  Melanie Rubin, our license plate maven who spotted the plate, says it’s possible the lady is interested in world Jewry. Or

SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– This license plate introduces the vehicle owner as an aunt.  “Tante” means aunt in Yiddish.  Whose aunt we can’t say, because IM could mean I’m, as in I am, or it might be the initials of someone to whom the driver is an aunt.  Regardless, score another interesting Yiddish-influenced license plate to

San Diego Jewish World staff report SAN DIEGO  (SDJW)– Like many of us, Melanie Rubin enjoys decoding personalized license plates.  CA 18,  she has decided, is double code.  CA is the Post Office abbreviation for California.  And 18 is the numeric value of the Hebrew word ‘Chai,” meaning “Life.”  Ergo, this license plate would appear

SAN DIEGO– We’re happy to say that the hobby of Jewish-interest license plate collecting is catching on.  Stacie Bresler Reinstein, a friend of our license plate maven Melanie Rubin, contributed this one.  In Hebrew, Lazuz means “to move” and we imagine some variant of the word is occasionally shouted on Israel’s crowded freeways.

SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, was en route to one of her appointments when she spotted this “crazy” plate.  For those who don’t know Yiddish, meschugenah is how one Jewish person might describe to another person someone whose ideas or actions clearly are far beyond the bounds of reality.

  SAN DIEGO (SDJW) –Our super license plate sleuth, Melanie Rubin, spotted this plate, which minus the “i” between the “m” and the “t” is the Hebrew girl’s name, “Shulamit,”  derived from the Hebrew root signifying “peace.”

  SAN DIEGO — Melanie Rubin, our license plate maven, was out with her camera again, and this time it wasn’t the plate, but its frame that attracted her attention. “Shalom, Have a Nice Day,” was the message on the frame. Rubin decided she’d do just that.   Click! went her camera’s shutter

    SAN DIEGO– Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, believes it was possibly fated that she should find a Jewish-interest license plate in a parking lot for the Israel Festival on Sunday, May 18.  Or as the license plate, puts it, it was “behshrt.”  Perhaps the plate indicates a strong bond between the driver and

SAN DIEGO– License plate maven Melanie Rubin informs us that this license plate — abbreviating the Yiddish word shlepping — was spotted on the back of a mini-van, driven no doubt by a busy parent. Shlepping means to carry, to haul, to drag behind you.  However you want to define it, this California plate indicates that it

SAN DIEGO–As read by Melanie Rubin, our maven of license plate-speak, this one means something to the effect that we are loved in God’s eye.  And the field of flowers in the background of the message tend to reinforce that idea.  Have you smelled the flowers today?

SAN DIEGO –When words are transliterated from one alphabet to another, a variety of spellings occur — for example “Chanukah” and “Hannukah.” While the most common translation for the Hebrew word for “the land” is “eretz,” this spelling too works.  And so our Jewish license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, gets one more notch on her

SAN DIEGO–Here’s a license plate that makes us think of matzoh, charoset, and hiding the afikomen.  Melanie Rubin, SDJW’s license-plate super sleuth, found this one.  As a child, no doubt, she was the first one to find the afikomen too!

SAN DIEGO — Just in case anyone isn’t familiar with the argot, adding “ela” to almost any name is an affectionate way for a friend or an older relative to say “oooh, you’re such a cutey, I could pinch your cheeks, such a beautiful punim you have.” It is not recommended, however, when addressing Latin