San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will hold a half-hour-long Product Gallery Walk on Monday, Nov. 4, beginning at 8:45 a.m. SDJA high school students will walk 3rd grade students through the gallery to highlight how products are conceptualized and designed. [Press Release)
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Press Release, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Technology
Of the original four student members at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, only the cellist, 75-year-old András Fejér, remains. But the uncanny melding of their instrumental voices into a unified whole continues to characterize their playing … [Eileen Wingard]
50-Year-Old Takács String Quartet Performs Here with One Original Member Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors
Seacrest Foundation hosted over 100 golfers, tennis players, pickleball players and spa goers at Monday’s event at the Park Hyatt Aviara Resort and Golf Club in Carlsbad, as well as dozens of additional attendees for the reception and awards ceremony. [Press Release]
Seacrest Foundation Golf, Tennis, Pickleball and Spa Day Raises over $160,000 Read More »
Philanthropy & Volunteerism, Press Release, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions
My thoughts: people who don’t vote and complain about the outcome really have no say. If you voted, then you did the best you could. We can just hope for the best and pray it is the outcome we Jews need in Israel and in the states. Whoever you vote for, you have a voice and if you voted, it was heard. [Cailin Acosta]
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Cailin Acosta, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
City Attorney Mara W. Elliott’s office has announced that “we do not intend to file criminal charges against the 64 people arrested” at the anti-Israel encampment on the UC San Diego campus last May. According to a statement, the decision was made “after a months-long review” of “substantial body-worn camera footage and all other available evidence.” [Donald H. Harrison]
Members of the New Life Holocaust Survivor group in San Diego gathered with Jonny Daniel, a London-born Israeli activist, to dedicate to their loved ones a letter in a Torah undergoing restoration. [Sandra Scheller]
Holocaust Survivors Help Restore a Desecrated Torah Read More »
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why I admire fellow Grossmont College teacher and friend, Ilene/Idonna Kruger, who also teaches K-12. Her humor shines through with her students, her friends, and in her life. As she says, “she finds the ‘funny’ in life.” (Mimi Pollack)
Podcasting Mom Finds Humor in Daily Life Read More »
Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Rabbi Yanklowitz spoke with San Diego Jewish World about the roles compassion and civility can play in people’s personal interactions, in the run-up toward America’s Nov. 5 presidential election, and in the ongoing war between Israel and Iran and Iranian proxies. [Donald H. Harrison]
Compassion and Civility Keys to Improving the World, Says Activist Rabbi Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Israel, Jewish Religion, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA
I am disgusted by the rhetoric at the Trump rally in New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday and alarmed that such major news organizations as The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times have decided to make no endorsements in the presidential race. I was mulling endorsements before, but now I feel the time is imperative to take a stand, even though I know that whichever way I decide, I’ll disappoint some of our readers. [Donald H. Harrison]
Editorial: Kamala Harris for President and a Democratic Slate for Congress Read More »
Antisemitism, California, Donald H. Harrison, Holocaust, Israel, Opinion, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USAAs the World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees is upon us, I was surprised to learn that no active players on either team are Jewish. [Cailin Acosta]
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Cailin Acosta, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA
Numerous international cottages of Balboa Park’s House of Pacific Relations were shuttered Saturday, Oct. 26, as police and the FBI investigated a suspicious package that had been hoisted on the flagpole of the House of Israel. [Donald H. Harrison and Miriam Gershenson]
Suspicious Device, Not a Bomb, Forces Evacuation of International Cottages Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Israel, Miriam Gershenson, Philanthropy & Volunteerism, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USA
The inaugural cohort of San Diego’s Jewish Community Emergency Response Team (JCERT) is now prepared to respond in the aftermath of local antisemitic incidents to help strengthen individual recovery and community resilience. [Press Release]
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Antisemitism, Press Release, San Diego County, USARecently I was reading that in Halakhah (Jewish law), animals are to be fed before humans. I had to laugh since if I tried to make my coffee before giving my angora rabbit, Freckles, a snack, she is right there with her paws on my legs and letting me know, she comes first. [Cailin Acosta]
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Cailin Acosta, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, The World We Share
Ax is a no-nonsense player, performing flawlessly, with elegance and grace. There were no histrionics, no dramatic gestures, there was just honest perfection. And the orchestra, with reduced strings, one timpani, one flute and pairs of oboes, bassoons, trumpets and horns, provided beautiful, nuanced support under Raphael Payare s direction. [Eileen Wingard]
Emanuel Ax Flawlessly Performs Mozart in San Diego Symphony Concert Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors