SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Jewish Federation of San Diego County will host its second FEDTalks speaker series at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 30, at Scripps Research Institute (10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, 92121). The FEDTalks series is modeled after the wildly successful TEDTalks in which speakers are challenged to give the talk of their lives […]
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release) — Beth Israel of San Diego Men’s Club will welcome Lou Israel Dunst, Holocaust survivor, as its guest speaker at the October 22nd Dinner Forum. Dunst will share his experience and tales of survival living through five concentration and labor camps and how he eluded certain death in two different Gas Chambers in Auschwitz
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Jewish History, San Diego Calendar
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– San Diego Superintendent of Schools Cindy Marten will discuss the current state of public education in San Diego during a Sept. 18 forum sponsored by Congregation Beth Israel’s Social Action Committee, Men’s Club, and Religious School in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Marten, who once taught at the Beth Israel
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Jeff Deverett, a board Member and parent at San Diego Jewish Academy in Carmel Valley, will appear with his identical twin brother, Larry, at their book launch being held at SDJA on Monday, August 18, 2014 at 7:00 pm. In their book – Play or Pray – Jeff & Larry compare
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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Three professionals for the organized Jewish community will discuss their work, and how others might also build Jewish careers, on a breakfast panel scheduled from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Wednesday, Sept 10, at the Melvin Garb Hillel Center at 5717 Lindo Paseo, adjacent to the SDSU campus. Sponsored by JPro, the
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San Diego CalendarSAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Rabbi Michael Berk, who was traveling in Israel with an AIPAC delegation at the time of the Gaza War outbreak, will discuss his observations and experiences during a dinner meeting of Congregation Beth Israel’s Men’s Club, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Wedneday, Aug. 20, at the congregation’s campus at 9001 Towne
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Members of Ohr Shalom Synagogue and Tifereth Israel Synagogue will gather at the latter congregation, 6660 Cowles Mountain Blvd., at 8 p.m. for Tisha B’Av services during which the Book of Lamentations will be read and host Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal will explore the topic: “Is the Modern State of Israel
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Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Temple Emanu-El plans two special Shabbat celebrations in August, to which the public is invited. First, on Friday, August 15, at 6 p.m. a Shabbat service in the temple’s sanctuary (6299 Capri Drive) will be followed by free hot dogs and s’mores in the courtyard. The event caters to new and prospective
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Jewish Religion, San Diego CalendarLA MESA, California (Press Release) — Barnes & Noble in Grossmont Center and Chabad of East County’s Rabbi Rafi Andrusier are partnering for a June 12 discussion on the groundbreaking new biography, Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History. Rabbi Andrusier will lead the discussion and
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Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– A member of the Abayudaya Jewish community of Uganda, Gidongo Armstrong, will be the dinner guest at a meeting of the Men’s Club of Congregation Beth Israel at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 18. A resident of Mbale in eastern Uganda, the 26-year-old Armstrong will tell a story “which is one of
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International, San Diego CalendarLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) – A diverse assortment of used books will be available during the Annual Used Book Sale to benefit the Samuel and Rebecca Astor Judaica Library, which will be held from June 11-15 at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, Jacobs Family Campus, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037. There will
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San Diego CalendarLA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — Authors Cinda Johnson and her daughter Linea will be featured speakers at a luncheon of the Behavioral Health Committee of Jewish Family Service of San Diego at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, May 13, at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla. Cinda wrote the book Perfect Chaos: A Daughter’s Journey to Survive
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San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — He’s still a political science student at the Open University in Jerusalem, but Amotz Eyal, 27, has a tremendous list of accomplishments to his credit — including the founding of the Tazpit News Agency, Israel’s only wire service. Eyal will give a free lecture on the news media of Israel
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Men’s Club and Caring Committee of Beth Israel of San Diego are co-sponsoring on May 21st at 6:30 pm a presentation by Kelli Denton RN, director of Seacrest at Home, a new program being offered through Seacrest Village Retirement Community.Joining Denton will be one of her associates, Jon Schwartz, the community liaison
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