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Didi's Magic Keys, a play in Hebrew, to be performed December 10 at SDJA

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–Didi’s Magic Keys, a play for children ages 3-8, tells an engaging story while teaching valuable lessons about creative problem solving.  The performance has been touring the United States this year with stops on the East Coast in New Jersey and Chicago, moving on to Las Vegas and landing in California for […]

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Canadian Jerome Summers leads successful exchange concert

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Jerome Summers hales from Ontario, Canada, where he is Music Director of the Stratford Symphony Orchestra and, across the border, conducts the International Symphony Orchestra of Sarnia/Port Huron, Michigan.  Summers was in San Diego recently to guest conduct TICO. For several days prior to TICO’s opening concerts November 15

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'The Peddlers Tale' and other holiday stories to be read Dec. 14 in Write Out Loud production

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) —Write Out Loud, San Diego’s only live dramatic short story reading company, presents The Peddler’s Gift by Maxine Rose Schur in its annual holiday program, “Giving Season,” on December 14 at 7pm at the Old Town Theatre, 4040 Twiggs Street, San Diego, 92110.  Tickets cost $12 for adults, $10 for seniors, and$5 for

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At 104, Laura Simon worries for her aging children

LAURA SIMON—She’s 104 on Thanksgiving Day ___________________________________________________ By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Among the celebrants of November birthdays at The Patrician senior residence in the University Towne Center area yesterday was Laura Simon, the oldest of them all.  Today, Thanksgiving, she turns 104. Simon smiled when Milica Todorivic, a member of the dining room staff,

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Block named to Joint Committee on Master Plan for Higher Education

SAN DIEGO- Assemblymember Marty Block (Democrat, San Diego) announced on Monday  that he has been appointed to the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education. “My appointment allows for San Diego, and Chula Vista in particular, to have a critical voice in how the Master Plan for Higher Education can be improved and

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Boxer bill for S.D. gang and drug crime unit advances

WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)—Senator Barbara Boxer (Democrat-San Diego) is alerting California constituents that the U.S. Senate recently passed the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill, “which includes several of my priority projects for California.” Boxer, a member of the Jewish community, stated that “as part of the bill, I requested funding for the San Diego DA

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This blind taste test is not to compare foods, but to build our compassion

By Sara Appel-Lennon SAN DIEGO–Picture yourself wearing a blindfold while eating. A blind person is challenged with eating in darkness at each meal. In 1999 Jane Clifton and Dave Ward from the Hillcrest Mission Valley Lion’s Club were invited to eat lunch blindfolded while Blind Center students cooked and served them. This experience prompted the couple

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History~December 25, 1953, Part III

Compiled by Gail Umeham * Lionel Van Deerlin Moderates Panel for Nat’l. Council of Jewish Women  Southwestern Jewish Press December 25, 1953 Page 5 On Tuesday, January 5th, 12 o’clock noon at Temple Center, the National Council of Jewish Women will hold their regular monthly meeting.  In observance of the forthcoming Brotherhood Week a round-table

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Manny Farber exhibit begins Dec. 14 at Gotthelf Art Gallery

  SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – “Manny Farber: Four Decades of Painting and Drawing” will be exhibited December 14 through February 24 in the Gotthelf Art Gallery, part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS. A free opening night reception with a keynote speaker

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Adventures in San Diego Jewish History~December 25, 1953

Compiled from the Southwestern Jewish Press by Gail Umeham U.J. Fund Winds Up Year’s Activity; Honors Founders Southwestern Jewish Press December 25, 1953 Page 1 Helen Schulman was announced as the “volunteer of the year” by the United Jewish Fund at the 20th Anniversary  celebration held in the San Diego Hotel. Mrs. Schulman, mother of

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Ongoing American Jewish commitment seen as key to Israel’s long-term prospects

_____________________________________________________________ By Jack Forman LA JOLLA, California — Peace will come only when Arabs love their children more than they hate our children” –Golda Meir In a November 9 talk at the San Diego Jewish Book Fair based on his most recent book Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May

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