SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner on Monday announced that the Department of Insurance (CDI) has recovered more than $27 million from insurance companies for consumers through its complaint process in the aftermath of the devastating Witch Creek fire in San Diego County that killed two people, destroyed 1,650 structures and burned more than 197,000 […]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– In its continued response to the economic crisis and the increasing unemployment rate in San Diego, Jewish Family Service has launched a new program to serve the many Jewish community members affected with job loss. Building on our already established series of career planning and job search workshops, the Jewish Employment
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San Diego Calendar, USASAN DIEGO–National Adoption Month is the ideal time to learn and discuss the ins and outs of the Adoption process. On Sunday, November 15, Adoption Alliance is hosting Embracing Adoption: A Conference for adoptive families and professionals who work in adoption services. Adoption Alliance of Southern California is a Hague Accredited non-profit adoption agency licensed
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San Diego Calendar, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Waters of Eden, San Diego Community Mikvah and Education Center, hosts its premier event, a multimedia stage production of “The Mikveh Monologues”. Written by best-selling author Anita Diamant (The Red Tent) and director Janet Buchwald, the play is an introspective tour of the ritual bath, redefined for 21st century usage, and
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San Diego Calendar, USA(Articles culled by Gail Umeham from the archives of Southwestern Jewish Press) Col. Irving Salomon Next Forum Speaker Southwestern Jewish Press December 11, 1953 Page 3 Col. Irving Salomon, United Nations representative and prominent Republican leader, will be the next speaker at the Forum Lecture Series, Wednesday, Jan. 6, at the Jewish Community Center, 3227
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Adventures in SD HistoryBy Lynne Thrope SAN DIEGO–Finally, it is one week away. The mother of all food and wine fests in Southern California – the event I patiently wait for each year to taste, savor, and schmooze with local culinary personalities, such as Sam Zien aka Sam the Cooking Guy, San Diego’s Top Chef Brian Malarkey,
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San Diego CalendarBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C.–Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority (West Bank division) has announced that he will not run in the Palestinian election currently scheduled for January 2010. He blames Israeli “intransigence” on the issue of houses for Jewish people east of the 1949 Armistice Line. We offer another perspective. “Strengthening
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Thomas Friedman has written one of his better articles. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08friedman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion As a retired professor still inclined to give grades to everything I hear or read, I’d say about 92, or A-. The major theme is quite good. Friedman recognizes that there is no gas left in the peace process. It
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Ira SharkanskyBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — When 12-year old M. applied to attend the Jews’ Free School, the secondary school that was founded in 1732 and serves London’s Jewish community, he was not accepted. The reason? His mother was not born Jewish and her conversion was in accordance with the progressive, not the orthodox,
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO– In Paris, in 1841, the ballet Giselle was danced for the first time. It was part of an entire repertoire in the various arts which became known as the Romantic Era; dance, literature, poetry and music. This milieu envisioned the female as ephemeral, not quite human; a sylph, a swan,
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San Diego CalendarBy Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — Every once in a while a book comes along that reveals a startling gap in our understanding of the world, our passions and desires, and ourselves. Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle is such a book. One of Start-Up Nation’s authors will discuss it at the San
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Middle East, San Diego CalendarBy Carine Chitayat ABOARD EL AL AIRLINES–I am flying to LAX from Ben Gurion Airport as I write this. I was in Israel for a very short visit on behalf of the Adopt A Family program at Congregation Beth Am. It’s been a fast week, leaving on a Thursday and returning exactly one week later.
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Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USABy Jeanette Friedman ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey — Shari Alter and her oncologist husband Robert have five kids and live in Englewood. You would think that would keep her busy with no time for so much as a bubble bath or “Oprah” break, since everyone knows, five kids means lots of car-pooling, hockey and assorted craziness. So multi-tasking,
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Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM—Allahu Akbar, Praise the Lord, and Hear O Israel elicit the best of sentiments, and something else. A youtube segment from CNN shows radical Muslims, native born Americans, including one who converted from Judaism, who praise Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, call for Osama bin Laden to continue his holy war, and urge
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