By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA– Perhaps it was their futile attempt at humor. Eight students at the University of California Irvine passed up their chance to answer university charges that they disrupted a speech presented by Israeli Ambassador Michael B. Oren last Feb. 8, a UCI administrator stated in a letter. Instead, they invoked their “Fifth […]
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SAN DIEGO — Sandi Masori of Balloon Utopia spotted this license plate– which in Hebrew means one redhead. Judging by the license plate frame, it’s one redhead with bladder trouble. The plate has been added to SD Jewish World’s online collection of license plates. If you see or have one you’d like to include, please
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Travel and FoodHAIFA (Press Release)–Israel’s and one of the world’s first scholarly journals on the Holocaust, published in conjunction with the University of Haifa’s Institute for Holocaust Research since 1979, is now being published in English as well as the original Hebrew. Dapim: Studies on the Shoah, The Journal of the David and Fela Shapell Family Foundation
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Cosmopolitan Hotel with 10 boutique hotel rooms in Old Town San Diego Historic State Park was rededicated on Saturday with cannon fire, a parade including a present day Marine color guard, historic Buffalo Soldiers re-enactors, costumed Old Town docents, and representatives of various faith groups that
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By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–At the same moment that Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan was being chided by the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee for having clerked for the suddenly demonic “activist judge,” Thurgood Marshall, Marshall himself, in the person of actor Laurence Fishburne, was enthralling audiences in a dynamic nearly two-hour monologue at
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Cynthia CitronCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Double Talk Southwestern Jewish Press, September 3, 1954, page 5 By Janet and Susan Solof Now that vacation is almost at an end And school is just around the bend, “twas a lovely summer,” everyone said, So we sight and look ahead. Eileen Rivers got a superb send-off
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Adventures in SD HistoryCompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Personals Southwestern Jewish Press, September 3, 1954, Page 3 Home From Abroad—Nelson Olf, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Olf, has ended his midshipman summer training in European waters aboard the USS Wisconsin, and is expected home. He will have just a few days with his parents before
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Yes, it’s possible to make yourself happy even when you’re not feeling it. Some things you should know: • Contrary to popular opinion, satisfaction with life increases with advancing age. • On average, men and women experience emotions similarly, even though women have more fluctuations between positive and negative
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Natasha JosefowitzSAN DIEGO (Staff Report)–Erez Strasburg, former Israeli shaliach assigned to the Jewish Federation offices in San Diego, is now offering personalized tours of Israel for English speakers. He can be reached through his “Personal Tourism” company website. * Congressman Bob Filner, whose own political career began when he decided to run for the San Diego City
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Travel and FoodBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –President Obama dragged out some really dated stereotypes while demeaning both Jews and Israelis in an interview with Israel’s Channel 2 Television. Confronted with the “anxiety” (as the reporter put it) that some Israelis feel about his relationship toward Israel, Mr. Obama bluntly blamed the Jews: “This is the
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USACompiled by San Diego Jewish World staff Jewish Community Mourns Passing of George Neumann Southwestern Jewish Press, September 3, 1954, page 1 George Neumann, prominent San Diego resident since 1918, died on Aug. 24 at age 69. Mr. Neumann was associated with many local and national organizations and played an active part in philanthropy in
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Adventures in SD History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–As expected, the White House meeting between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu was an occasion for mutual admiration and pledges of cooperation. It was much different from the image conveyed by their previous meeting, when the White House had blasted the timing of an Israeli planning committee’s announcement about
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –Violinist Asi Matathias and pianist Victor Stanislavsky presented an exciting recital on June 17 at the Dove Library in Carlsbad. This concert was part of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture’s Music Series and was underwritten by the Leichtag Foundation. The two young Israeli artists shared their formidable talents
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By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO—Way back in 2007 The Old Globe Theatre, as part of its season, brought the Tony Award winning (Book of a musical and original score) musical, “Avenue Q” to San Diego in its West Coast Premiere. At that time Executive Producer of the Old Globe Lou Spisto said that “Avenue Q”
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