Singing and Dancing Counter Anti-Israel Protest By Yiftach Levy SAN DIEGO – An intense week of preparations involving scores of emails and phone calls all over San Diego County and beyond culminated in the gathering in Balboa Park of hundreds of pro-Israel activists – Israelis, Jews, and non-Jews alike. They came to sing, wave Israeli and American flags, […]
Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Happy New Year (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, September 16, 1955, Page 13-14 It seems to us that the spirit of the High Holy Days – the sense of solemnity and awe with which we approach the beginning of the New Year – is one of the most constructive
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff This Can Happen Only In America: The Methodist “Guardian of Israel” Southwestern Jewish Press, September 16, 1955, Page 7 By Harry Golden In a small town in the deep South, the Jewish community, about twenty-five families, organized a congregation and made plans to build a Temple. The Christians
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Adventures in SD History, San Diego CountyCompiled by San Diego Jewish World Staff Bay City Women Present Calendars Southwestern Jewish Press, September 16, 1955, Page 4 The San Diego Bay City Women are presenting to Dr. Malcolm Love of State College 100 school calendars. Mrs. Jack Meyers, Chairman of the ADL program, through whom these calendars are sponsored, advises that the
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(Column 6, January 8, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison The Education Beat * Send your kid to preschool and he or she is less likely to become a criminal. So said District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis and Republican State Sen. Mark Wyland on a tour of the David & Jillian Gilmour Early Education Campus. According
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County(Column 5, January 7, 2011) Mount Soledad Controversy By Donald H. Harrison Two local Republican members of Congress- Brian Bilbray and Duncan Hunter—have written a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Attorney General Eric Holder urging them to defend the Mount Soledad cross as a “secular” monument and work to overturn a ruling by
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy Carol Davis LAS VEGAS, Nevada—-I had the good fortune to make my last trip of this past year to Las Vegas to visit dear friends. That said I never pass up an opportunity to see as many shows as possible that I can squeeze in-between my compulsive gambling spirit. It’s all about winning the
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast(Column 4, January 6, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison San Diego and Israel Monica Bauer Federman, spokeswoman for the Anti-Defamation League, which always works closely with law enforcement agencies, says there will be a San Diego Police Department presence at the dueling Middle East rallies on Sunday afternoon in Balboa Park to make certain
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As speakers at his funeral told stories on Wednesday, Jan. 5, of Jonas Feurzeig’s seemingly magical abilities, more than a few attendees looked at his simple pine casket waiting to be lowered into a grave in the King David section of Greenwood Cemetery. It would have been shocking,
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County(January 5, 2011, Column 3) By Donald H. Harrison San Diego and Israel Invitations are going out on Facebook from Tibi Zohar and other active members of the Jewish community to the Balboa Park demonstration planned by Israel advocates to counter another one planned by Palestinians and leftists in behalf of the
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(Column No. 2, January 4, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison MAYORAL SPECULATION — Gary Rotto suggests the possibility of an all-Jewish runoff election for mayor of San Diego, with Congressman Bob Filner, a Democrat, facing District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, a Republican, in the 2012 officially non-partisan race to succeed incumbent Mayor Jerry Sanders. Of the
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego CountyCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Mayor of San Diego Sends Greetings Southwestern Jewish Press, September 16, 1955, Page 1 The Southwestern Jewish Press has long been active in civic affairs, striving at all times for the betterment of this community. As the only Anglo-Jewish newspaper serving San Diego County, you have been
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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County(Column No. 1, January 3, 2011) By Donald H. Harrison COUNTER MIDDLE EAST RALLIES–The Middle East conflict is coming to Balboa Park. Palestinian and leftist organizations are planning a rally making Israel out to be the bad guys and the Hamas government in Gaza the good guys this coming Sunday. But the intended media blitz
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, VideosCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Yo-Ma-Cos Plans Sixth Annual Yom Kippur Nite Dance at Mission valley Country Club Southwestern Jewish Press, September 2, 1955, Page 4 Milton Kossy, Chairman of the 6th Annual Yom Kippur Nite Dance, to be held Monday Eve., Sept 26th, at the Mission Valley Country Club, has completed arrangements
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