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‘The Hidden Saint:’ Delving Into Demons and Jewish Fantasy

“The Hidden Saint,” by Mark Levenson; Level Best Books (February 2022); Paperback ISBN 978-1-68512-023-8, $17.95; eBook ISBN 978-1-68512-024-5, $5.95; 312 pages. By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The popular best-selling author Jonathan Kellerman is right to call The Hidden Saint “ingenious” and “compelling.” Many ancient Jews and non-Jews, as well as many […]

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Cantor’s Archive Led to Book on Philippine Rescue of European Jews

Enthralled by the stories Cysner told, Harris immediately asked the UC Santa Barbara History Department if she could change her dissertation subject so that it could be based upon Cysner’s experiences, both in Poland, where he was a prisoner of the Nazis, and in the Philippines, where he later became a prisoner of the Japanese. The department agreed, even though this meant changing Harris’ academic advisor and the schedule of courses to which she would commute from her home in San Diego. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Schlepping and Schmoozing Along the Interstate 5: Chapter 9

Even with the major portion of the old saltworks being repurposed, one still can see how salt is processed from sea water. A three-step process occurs within shallow ponds with levees around them. In the first pond, seawater evaporates to the point that it becomes brine. That is moved to a second shallow pond for further evaporation, and finally into a third pond where the salt crystallizes. From here the salt is dredged out of the pond and made into salt mounds, which quickly crust over, protecting the salt inside the mounds. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Freedman, Cooney, Morisett Pioneereed Children’s Educational Television

In an interview with the Archive of American Television, Cooney recalled that Freedman talked at that dinner party about the great educational potential of television.  “He was a stunning man, mesmerizing,” she said. “He could have been a revival minister, an Elmer Gantry. He was just stunning. He talked about how the potential had not been tapped for education in television. Well, something clicked in Lloyd’s mind because Carnegie was financing research in the educational development of children—how they learn.” [Donald H. Harrison]

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Torah-Science Expert to Uncover ‘Hidden Meaning in Everything’ on Biblical Nature Walk

By Jacob Kamaras LA JOLLA, California — As Dr. Jon Greenberg views Jewish history, “Anything terrible that happened, it’s going to become dessert.” The Passover Seder’s haroset symbolizes the cement that the Jews used to build pyramids while enslaved in Egypt. In different Jewish communities around the world, essentially every part of the Purim story

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Loews Coronado Bay Resort: A Tisch Family Outpost

The 440-room Loews Coronado Bay Resort was opened in 1991 on a 15-acre spur of land jutting into San Diego Bay. Like other Loews Properties around the United States, it is owned by the Tisch Family, which operates the hotel business and other subsidiaries through Loews Corporation, a holding company. Tracing the Tisch family’s enterprises is an interesting study in how a family grows its wealth [Donald H. Harrison]

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Survey: Israeli Innovation is the ‘Iron Dome’ of Israel’s Image

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Vibe Israel, experts in branding and marketing Israel to the next generation, has published its annual survey on global perceptions of Israel among the next generation. The survey focused on the potential change in perception of Israel by millennials, ages 25-44, following the three significant events of the past year

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New Book Provides Up-Close Look at North American Jewish Day Schools

(Press Release) — Readers get an up-close look at nine different Jewish day schools across North America — including two in California — in a new book, Inside Jewish Day Schools: Leadership, Learning, and Community, co-authored by Alex Pomson, PhD, Principal and Managing Director at Rosov Consulting, and Jack Wertheimer, PhD, the Joseph and Martha Mendelson Professor of

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JCC, Arc of San Diego Partner to Bring Coffee and Inclusion as The Bean Reopens

LA JOLLA (Press Release) — After being closed for 20 months due to the pandemic, the JCC is thrilled to announce that the JCC’s coffee shop, The Bean, is once again open for business. And it’s not just business as usual. The Bean now features premium small batch coffee through a partnership with another local

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Carl Lutz: The Mystery Savior

By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which falls out on January 27, permit me to share with you the remarkable story of Charles Lutz. A friend visiting Jerusalem’s Neve Yaakov community was walking on Charles Lutz Street. The street sign mentioned that Lutz was among the Chasidei Umot Ha’olam

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Entrepreneur Tells of Taking 2 Companies Public and the Deal He Made for the San Diego Jewish Academy

This memoir tells of a man bouncing on the exceedingly rough seas of entrepreneurship and finding emotional safe harbor again and again in the warmth of his family.  It is not your standard how-I-made-a-bundle-and-you-can-too motivational book; it is a very intimate autobiographical portrait of Del Mar resident Richard Jaffe, which he wrote with the assistance of his daughter Charly.  [Donald H. Harrison]

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