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From the Holocaust to Santa Barbara: Stories of ‘Thrival’

By Eva Trieger SANTA BARBARA, California — As we celebrate Passover, the Festival of Freedom, it feels appropriate to write about a Holocaust documentary to which I was recently introduced. In 2008 filmmaker, podcast host and comedian, Louise Palanker teamed up with Jennie Reinish to bring us “We Played Marbles: Remembering a Stolen Childhood.” The […]

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California, Eva Trieger, Holocaust, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

‘Edu-tainment’ on ‘Seal Tour’ and at San Diego Zoo Safari

So, it was off to the San Diego SEAL tour on Thursday and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Friday to engage in what Old Town Trolley Tours’ parent company, Historic Tours of America, calls “edu-tainment,” which refers to educating people while entertaining them. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Adat Yeshurun’s Eruv Prompted Stiff Opposition From La Jolla Organizations

When South African-born civil engineer Brian Marcus relocated from his first American home in Dallas to La Jolla, it was just in time to volunteer his help for three major projects for Congregation Adat Yeshurun.  First came the building of the sanctuary and campus of the Orthodox congregation.  Next came the completion of a mikvah on the property.  And third came the most complicated task of all: erecting an eruv. [Donald H. Harrison]

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California, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County

B’Shalom: George Soros, Trump Indictment, Jewish Political Scene, Business, and Celebrities

When former U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney who has been conducting a grand jury inquiry into a “hush money” payment from Trump to porn star Stormy Daniels, he called Bragg a “Soros backed animal who doesn’t care about right or wrong no matter how many people are hurt.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Teralta Neighborhood Park Praises ‘Unity in the Community’

Teralta Neighborhood Park is remarkable in several ways: 1) It is built right over the Interstate 15 freeway between Orange and Polk Avenues in the City Heights neighborhood.  2) It now boasts a 270-foot long, 7 ½-foot high mural titled “Unity in the Community,” which features faces, activities, and landmarks of the diverse City Heights neighborhood.  3) It serves a largely immigrant community in which at least 30 languages are spoken, with four major language groups—English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Somali—incorporated into the mural. [Donald H. Harrison]

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California, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

San Diegan Is Social Media Voice of Baseball’s Team Israel

Avi Miller, a Baltimore native who investigated other parts of the USA before deciding to move more than a year ago to San Diego, was the clever communicator for Team Israel on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook during the recent World Baseball Classic.  [Donald H. Harrison]

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B’Shalom: Proposed California Food Bans, Technology, Jewish Politics and Celebrities

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]

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San Diego’s Jewish Pioneer Built Area’s First Tannery in Rose Canyon

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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Ahead of San Diego Visit, Israeli College President Shares Vision for Engineering Education’s Transformation

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

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Major Jewish Orgs Urge San Clemente Rhinos to Pull Out of Rugby Tournament That Banned Israel

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — In a letter organized by The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, major Jewish and religious organizations on Friday urged the U.S. team, the San Clemente Rhinos, to pull out of tomorrow’s Mzansi Challenge competition in South Africa.  The organizations note that there is an appearance the

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San Diego Continues to Experience Antisemitic Incidents; California, US Reach All-Time High

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents issued today found that in 2022, the Jewish community of San Diego experienced 36 recorded incidents (slightly down from 38 incidents in 2021), including 26 incidents of harassment (up from 23 in 2021) and 10 incidents of vandalism of businesses (down

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On Armenia-Azerbaijan Tensions, Don’t Take the Headlines at Face Value

By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — San Diego was thrust into the foreign policy spotlight last week when President Joe Biden as well as the prime ministers of the U.K. and Australia convened here to announce a submarine security pact. But another, often-overlooked region of the world is also on the White House’s radar

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Hebrew Day School Student Wins Invitation to State Science Fair

Imagine that you built a bridge out of Jengo blocks, and you wanted to see who could more accurately and more quickly replicate your bridge.  Would it be students between the ages of 7 and 13 who watched a 20-second video of you building the bridge, step by step?  Or would it be students of the same age range who simply viewed the bridge for 20 seconds and then, after it was removed from view, started building a copy from memory? [Donald H. Harrison]

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