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In Every Generation
By Deborah Vietor You are invited to take a magic carpet ride through the ages and into the future with ...
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COVER STORY
In Every Generation
By Deborah Vietor You are invited to take a magic carpet ride through the ages and into the future with “In Every Generation.” ...
May 2022
1000 Words: Mia Raskin
By Howard Blas, JNS.org For Mia Raskin, basketball and Judaism are essential parts of life. Her deep and simultaneous commitment to her favorite ...
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Acovado Layer Salad
By Jennifer Stempel, @thecubanreuben A Los Angeles native, Jennifer Stempel is a St. Louis-based storyteller, whose work has been featured by Woman’s Day, ...
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La Jolla’s Adat Yeshurun keen on communal growth
By Jacob Kamaras Emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic with renewed energy, Congregation Adat Yeshurun of La Jolla this month will host “Breath of ...
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Honor for Heros
By Sheldon Kleiman Memorial Day is dedicated to commemorating the loss of all lives of our military in the service of our nation. ...
May 2022
Mazel & Mishagoss: Will the Real Jewish Mother Please Stand Up?
By Stephanie Lewis That’s the name of a new Mother’s Day gameshow I was on, and one you’ll never watch (If I have ...
May 2022
Prayers & Passages: Counting the Omer
The Torah instructs us (in Leviticus 23:15-16) to perform the nightly ritual of counting the Omer, beginning on the second night of Pesach ...
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Providing Humanitarian Services to Ukrainian Refugees
By Donald H. Harrison Jewish San Diegans have been involved in providing humanitarian services to Ukrainian refugees almost every step of their frightened ...
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The Last of Kin
By Lynne Feldman On Mount Herzl in Israel, a monument which looks a bit like a broken home commemorates 167 Holocaust survivors who ...
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COVID-19 and the Jewish elderly
Nursing-home administrators keep up the battle against the coronavirus, as they work to improve their in-house responses and close care ...
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April 2022
Chag Pesach Sameach!
By Deborah Vietor Aliza Kline is the Co-Founder and CEO of OneTable, a national organization that engages tens of thousands of Jewish young ...
April 2022
Almond Marzipan Cookies
The Sephardic Spice Girls, Sharon Gomperts and Rachel Emquies Sheff, have been friends since high school. They are passionate about healthy food and ...
April 2022
Going A Capella for the Period Of Jewish Mourning
By Dovid Zaklikowski, JNS.org When comedian Mendy Pellin posted on Twitter that “Sefira music is the audio equivalents of Pesach cereal,” he was ...
April 2022
PJ Library offers new family-friendly stories and resources for Passover
By JNS staff In the United States alone, more than 240,000 children are receiving age-appropriate books related to Passover, courtesy of PJ Library. ...
April 2022
Jewish Family Service to “Play It Forward Together” at 2022 Heart & Soul Gala
Jewish Family Service’s annual Heart & Soul Gala returns to the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine on Saturday, April 30. This benefit ...
April 2022
Fashion to Create the Life you Want
By Sharon Rapoport Eight years ago, Linda Waisbord dolled herself up -as only she can do- and walked into the Fashion Valley Nordstrom. ...
April 2022
Oy, its Fish!
Singer, actor, musician and songwriter, Lisa Fishman, will be coming to Yiddishland California in La Jolla to present a ‘Jewish Musical Cabaret’ on ...
April 2022
Healing strangers in the Middle of a War Zone
By Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c via JNS.org For a moment, Yoel Har-Even was distracted. He was speaking via Zoom from Israel’s “Shining Star” ...
April 2022
Mazel & Mishagoss: Strike That, Reverse It!
By Stephanie Lewis After our long absence during Covid, most of us are back to running errands, keeping appointments, and visiting public venues. ...
April 2022
Prayers & Passages: Song Of Songs and Other Passover Traditions
By Rabbi-Cantor Cheri Weiss Once a year in Ashkenazi synagogues, on the Shabbat of Pesach (Passover), we read the book of the Bible ...