By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — Whimsy was a theme of Grossmont College’s two-day festival celebrating its 50th anniversary. An old-fashioned sock hop in the college’s gymnasium on Friday, April 13, looked back to the college’s founding in 1962, and students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends gave the “old college try” on […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Stanley Schwartz, president of the Jewish Historical Society since 1994, and long-time member of the Congress of History of San Diego and Imperial Counties, has received the coveted Award of Distinction from the Congress of History. At the ceremony held in March at the at the Congress of History’s 47th Annual History Conference,
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Jewish HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Marriage Told Southwestern Jewish Press, December 14, 1956, Page 2 Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Smollar announce the marriage of their daughter, Judith Sandra, to David Edward Honig, son of Mrs. Mary Honig, of Phoenix, Arizona. Judy was a student at S.D. State College, affiliated with Pi Alpha Lambda
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Schulman & Ornstein Accept 1957 Campaign Leadership; Greatest Campaign Since 1948 Southwestern Jewish Press, December 14, 1956, Pages 1, 6 Victor Schulman and Dr. Walter Ornstein have accepted the co-chairmanship of the 1957 United Jewish Fund campaign. The announcement at the Fund’s 23rd Annual Dinner Meeting last
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, November 30, 1956, Page 11 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Living with Advertising It may seem far-fetched for Psychology to be interested in big business, even though it takes psychological factors to make a business big. However, when we
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– Hadassah’s centennial in the San Diego area was celebrated at a special Shabbat service on Friday, Feb. 24, at Congregation Beth El. Highlights of Hadassah’s achievements through each decade were shared with the congregation, including more than half of Israel’s hospital medical research and the rescue of thousands of children
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SAN DIEGO–Michael Naiman recently was looking through some old family albums when he came across a photo that his grandmother, Edith Naiman, had meticulously labeled. It was a photo of the B’nai B’rith Auxiliary taken on May 22, 1939. The auxiliary later became the Birdie Stodel Chapter of B’nai B’rith. The photo and its caption
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By Joel A Moskowitz, M D LA JOLLA, California– Survivors, trauma, psychological effects, memories, depressive disorder, OCD (obsessive compulsive), bitterness, deniers, and more recently PTSD (a term which is much overused) and rarely victory” These words have been associated with victims of the Holocaust. On assignment recently to cover the Seacrest Village gala for San
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International, Jewish HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff As the Psychologist Sees You Southwestern Jewish Press, November 15, 1956, Page 7 By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant Mental Retardation– As this issue comes from the presses, and if we are the ordinary individuals who are exposed to the radio, television, billboards, and the newspapers, we shall
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff With The Guardians Southwestern Jewish Press, November 16, 1956, page 6 By Morrie Pomeranz Hi-Lites of the November 1st meeting — excellent turnout — enthusiastically presided over by prexy Sammy Addleson who is at his parliamentary best when the crowds are larger — guests included Norman Smith hosted
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Temple Beth Israel To Hold Workshop Southwestern Jewish Press, November 16, 1956, Page 4 Richard F. Lustig, Vice-President, announces that on November 20th at 8 p.m. Temple Beth Israel will hold its first Temple Workshop. Major topics to be discussed are 1. Dues and Finances. 2. Temple problems.
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Adventures in SD History, Jewish HistoryBy Adina Wollner SAN DIEGO — I attended on Thursday, February 2, an Alternate Focus, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee screening of the film Israel vs. Israel a documentary directed by Terje Carlsson. The film highlights four Jewish Israelis who are working to bring an end to the “40 year occupation of the West Bank”. There were approximately thirty
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By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACH, Florida– My father, Jacob “Yankel” Lurie and my mother, Ida “Hayele” Lurie, made aliya from Brooklyn to Haifa in 1929 a few months before the crash on Wall Street. My father, the owner of several ready-to-wear women’s fashion stores, was 54. My mother at 50 had brought up six sons and
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Jewish History, Middle EastBy Joel and Arlene Moskowitz LA JOLLA, California–Adolph Eichmann is a name that is likely to be unfamiliar to present generations of young Jews and even more so to young gentiles. Eichmann’s End, a film about an evil man who effected the annihilation of the Jews and other peoples despised by the Nazis over six decades ago
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