5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (317+ words) By Cailin Acosta in La Mesa, California American Jewish Committee San Diego reports that AJC Regional Director Sara E. Brown, PhD, and Board member Jeff Schindler, along with other members of the San Diego Jewish community, attended the Rosh Hashanah Proclamation…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (793+ words) By Cailin Acosta in San Diego The class began with a creative exercise: participants selected two pictures that represented how they were feeling emotionally. Rather than simply describing their feelings, they were encouraged to meditate on the images and consider…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (265+ words) By Eva Trieger in Ramona, California This year marks the 30th anniversary of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Rent. But before the legendary 1996 debut, this young Jewish suburban New Yorker, had written an autobiographical screenplay entitled Tick Tick….Boom! The…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (140+ words) Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre both for the stage and on…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (315+ words) San Diego Jewish World Rebecca Bauer-Kahan SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – The California Legislature on Monday gave final approval to Assembly Bill 2664, the Safe Worship Zone Act, which creates a 100-foot zone around house of worship entrances where no one…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (110+ words) Shlomo Bentin (August 26, 1946 – July 13, 2012) was an Israeli neuropsychologist and recipient of the 2012 Israel Prize in psychology. Bentin was a professor of psychology and education and a member of the Center for Neural Computation at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [Wikipedia]…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (375+ words) The Best Day: A Memoir of Finding Joy, Inspiration, Resilience, and Hope by Rabbi Joseph H. Krakoff; 182 pages. By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel in Chula Vista, California Krakoff writes from a singular vantage point. For more than two decades he…...