Tag: San Diego
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Survivors’ descendants, youth, to carry on Holocaust education
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here is a continuing focus on Holocaust education in the county, with the Lawrence Family JCC and the J Company Youth Theatre announcing a planned “Remembrance Reading” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the JCC,...
Yiddish in der Suke – Yiddish in the Sukkah
To celebrate the festival of Sukkot, YAAANA is teaming up with Urban Kibbutz San Diego to present Yiddish in der Suke (Yiddish in the Sukkah). Come visit a Yiddish Sukkah and learn more about the Urban Kibbutz initiative: https://urbankibbutz.com We will...
Noura and the problems of immigrant families
Jews of Eastern European ancestry are all too familiar with the pogroms that forcibly removed their forebears from their homes in the 1800s and continued through the Holocaust. However, Jews don’t hold the exclusive...
‘Bus Station Project’ migrates across the border
California – After President Donald Trump’s administration began enforcing its “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers, the flow of migrants arriving at the Greyhound Bus Station in downtown San Diego was reduced to...
San Diego-area school holds ‘Blue and White’ day to raise money for Poway victims
Once again, it will be “Blue and White” day this coming Friday at the Bellus Academy in San Diego County.
Students will dress in blue and white, contribute $2 a piece, and tell customers at...
Yale Strom’s composition SONG OF SONGS will premiere with San Diego Ballet
Yale Strom's composition SONG OF SONGS will premiere with San Diego Ballet May 24-26 as part of the San Diego Jewish Arts Festival at the Lyceum Theatre.
Featured musicians are: Elizabeth Schwartz - vocals, Alex...
Four teens win Peter Chortek Leadership Awards
The Peter Chortek Leadership Award (PCLA), facilitated annually by the Jewish Community Foundation, was recently presented to four San Diego County high school students. The 2019 awards went to Aurora de Tagyos, Ilan and...
Who can argue with a $5 million donation to promote civility?
Remember the anguished plea of Rodney King: “Can we all just get along?” The L.A. victim of police brutality spoke those words 27 years ago and they still plead from his grave marker in...
Seeing Israel changed mind of Hispanic opponent
Although Sebastian Parra grew up in Cali, Colombia, with the words of Genesis 12:3 intoned frequently at his Protestant church, anti-Israel propagandists in the United States knew just how to destroy his faith in...
Schwinging start to the Jewish Film Festival
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Quincy Jones, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock… If you’re a jazz fan, you know these names. They are the stars shining in the jazzosphere of Blue Note Records. And...