By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO, April 5 – There’s a commercial on television that has been drawing chuckles about a hapless bride and groom. You hear an off-camera voice ask whether the groom takes the bride for his lawfully wedded wife, but there’s no person to whom the groom can direct his answer – […]
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By Bruce Kesler LA JOLLA, California –At college campuses across the US, student organizations that attack Israel have become more and more active, and obnoxious, over the past decade. The members are drawn from some of the Moslem students and their far leftist companions. Most students are there to get an education, or at least
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San Diego CalendarCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Happy New Year! Southwestern Jewish Press, January 6, 1956, Page 5 With the Christmas and New Year holidays in the past, we have nothing else to contemplate except another year. Let’s look around and see what happened in 1955 in our community. “ Ne new Synagogues were built,
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By Carol Davis VISTA, California.– It isn’t often my memory takes me back to 1959 when my late husband, Gerry, and I motored across the country from Massachusetts to California in our then Valiant. We had our TripTik from the Automobile Club routed so we could see some of the southern most country on the
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – Grossmont College has been revisiting the Civil Rights Movement, bringing to campus former Freedom Riders like Robert and Helen Singleton and Congressman Bob Filner. The Singletons appeared at a March 17 event introducing Breach of Peace, a photo and follow-up book by Eric Etheridge on what happened
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CalendarBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–If the snuggly laced corsets, tightly wound up sexual repressions, and freely bouncing bustles tied on to the rear ends of our nineteenth century Victorian sisters conjure up a contradiction in your mind’s eye, so then the apparatus in the good doctor’s home will do the same. It looks like a
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By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — “Sing Out!” San Diego Jewish Choir Festival with two distinct programs Sunday, April 3 at 1:00 and at 4:00 at the Lawrence Family JCC will bring together nine choirs with directors of outstanding backgrounds and accomplishments. The final combined choirs will be directed by David Amos, the San
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Editor’s Note–Send us a notice about your Jewish community event and we’ll carry it for free, as a public service, in this column until the date has passed. Send it via email to gail.umeham@sdjewishworld.com This calendar is presented in chronological order. Ongoing Events may be found at the end of the chronological listings. Compiled
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff USO-JWB Southwestern Jewish Press, January 6, 1956, Page 3 Now hear this: “Would you believe it – we’re proud of you!” thusly ran the letter of invitation sent to Junior Hostesses of the USO-Jewish Welfare Board for their many hours of service to USO, for a dinner in
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Adventures in SD HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Lasker Lodge B.B. To Hold Installation January 15 Southwestern Jewish Press, January 6, 1956, Page 1 On Sunday, January 15, the Lasker Lodge No. 370 B’nai B’rith will hold their annual installation of officers for the year 1956. The affair will be held at the Mission Valley Country
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Adventures in SD History(Column 29, March 24, 2011) Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Events (In Chronological Order) On his 204th birthday, San Diego’s first Jewish settler, Louis Rose, will have a point of land officially dedicated for him at 10 a.m. today (Thursday, March 24) at the foot of Womble Road at the Boat Channel. City and school
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy Linda Sax Snaid SAN DIEGO –Professor Ghada Osman has been invited repeatedly by the Agency for Jewish Education (AJE) to lecture on “Encounters Between Islam and Judaism.” Her most recent presentation at the Dove Library in Carlsbad on February 28, 2011, is part of the AJE ‘Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies.’ I was extremely
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Andrea Oster, left, and Elaine Galinson SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–“We Are. We Can. We Do.” That was the theme on March 15 as nearly 100 women gathered to celebrate Women’s Philanthropy of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County at the Scripps Seaside Forum in La Jolla Shores. This year’s event was co-chaired by Jessica
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San Diego CalendarBy Carol Davis SAN DIEGO–Several months ago I wrote about a documentary that was being shown as part of the Jewish Film Festival called The Wrong Side of the Bus. It was about a noted professor of psychiatry who was born, grew up and went to school in South Africa during the days of Apartheid.
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