San Diego Jewish World to Offer Free Obituary Publications

www.sdjewishworld.com (619) 265-0808 donald.harrison@sdjewishworld.com

Dear residents of the San Diego Jewish community,

San Diego Jewish World joins with your relatives and friends in offering you condolences on the passing of your loved one. We know what a difficult time this is for you, and with the assistance of your rabbi, we would like to make this hard time a little easier.

If you would like, and it will provide you comfort, we will publish free of charge on San Diego Jewish World (www.sdjewishworld.com) the eulogy that your rabbi delivers, as well as those given by any other participants in the funeral service, so that you can send it by email to anyone you desire anywhere in the world.

Please send us a note giving permission to run the eulogy, stating your name and that of the deceased, and your relationship. Additionally, if you desire, send to us a jpg image of your loved one. These communications may be sent via donald.harrison@sdjewishworld.com. We will include the photo with the eulogy. We will provide space as well for people to send in their tributes, which will be published in the space below the eulogies.

The eulogies will remain on the web permanently so that people searching via Google or other search engines will be able to find the eulogies in the future. This will be particularly helpful to the genealogists in your extended family and to historians.

Why are we doing this? We know how very expensive it is to place an obituary notice in the major news media. A lengthy piece can actually run into the thousands of dollars. With all the other funeral expenses that you have, we would like to do what we can to ease the burden on our fellow Jews.

The San Diego Jewish community is a warm, caring community, and we appreciate the opportunity to be able to give back in a meaningful way. If you require more information please contact me via the email above.

May you be comforted in this time of grief!

Very sincerely,

Donald H. Harrison, editor

Kol HaKavod | Two Outstanding Teens | Friendship Circle SD

Chloe Dahan and Jamie Zimmerman. Below: Children with special needs work on their art.

The Federation would like to extend a sincere yishar koach (way to go) to two of San Diego's outstanding young Jewish women--Chloe Dahan and Jamie Zimmerman. The two teens spent an entire summer planning a performing-arts program for Jewish girls and teens with special needs, a Friendship Circle program dubbed "Shooting Stars," which launched last year and has since gained national attention.

Due to Chloe and Jamie's leadership, dedication to Jewish community, and popularity of the program itself, Tzivos Hashem: Jewish Children’s International announced the two young women as winners of their annual "Power of Jewish Children" contest.

"The Jewish Federation of San Diego County applauds Chloe Dahan and Jamie Zimmerman for their excellent work and for receiving this esteemed award," said Michael Sonduck, President and CEO of Federation. "The leadership, innovation, and dedication to philanthropy and Jewish community demonstrated by these two young women, falls in direct alignment with  Federation's mission and its Community Teen program."

To read the full article published by Chabad Lubavitch World HQ on Jan. 28 and to learn more about the program, click here.

Petition for Communities Against Cultural Boycott of Israel

Dear Communities,

With your support, the Israel Action Network (IAN) continues to successfully organize and counter national campaigns of delegitimization targeted against Israel. In this regard, our attention must now turn to the realm of cultural boycotts of Israel.

IAN is working in close coordination with the Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), which has alerted us that nearly 16,000 cultural boycott proponents have signed a petition targeting jazz artists scheduled to perform at Israel’s International Red Sea Jazz Festival next month. It urges artists to cancel their planned performances by making disturbing claims that Israel is using their music to whitewash genocide, apartheid, and the deaths of Palestinian children.

These cannot be the only messages that artists hear. Therefore, in response, we urge you to sign and circulate CCFP’s Anti-Boycott Petition. It boasts over 26,000 signatures and is shown to every artist scheduled to perform in Israel.


CCFP, which works to counter cultural boycotts, is comprised of prominent members of the entertainment industry who believe that music and the arts promote peace, oppose cultural boycotts that single out Israel, and encourage all artists to experience and see Israel for themselves. It utilizes behind-the-scenes relationships to speak with artists and their reps on a one-on-one basis to introduce them to Israel and reveal the true aims of the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, in order to prevent show cancellations.

It is now extremely urgent that our communities sign CCFP’s Anti-Boycott Petition for two key reasons:

1. Jazz musicians represent a group that is most vulnerable to boycott propaganda, often leading to multiple, domino-effect cancellations. Even artists who do not support BDS may cancel due to threats and concerns for their personal safety based on a parroting of misinformation.

2. The pro-BDS petition distorts the truth and paints a factually and morally inaccurate picture of Israel to 16,000 people. Prior similar petitions have never even raised half of this number, which BDS proponents will surely publicize to lend legitimacy to their cause.

Please alert your communities to this troubling threat and ask them to sign CCFP’s petition and share it widely, via email and social media. We must work together to neutralize this pro-boycott petition effort, and ensure that music and artistry is used to promote peace, rather than divisively tear it down.

Thank you,


Noam


Noam Gilboord
Director of Community Strategy
JFNA/JCPA Israel Action Network

The Cancer Mirror a Tribute to Jan Tuttleman z"l | February 9

Former Federation Board Chair and beloved philanthropist, Jan Tuttleman z"l is remembered in a new film premiering at Jewish Film Festival, on February 9th. Click here to learn more about Jan and the film created and directed by her daughter, Sophie Tuttleman,

The event, sponsored by Jewish Community Foundation and Jewish Women's Foundation, will feature Sophie Tuttleman as a guest speaker. Please join us to honor an irreplaceable leader of the San Diego Jewish community. 

The Cancer Mirror, Film Short Premiere

Sponsored by the Jewish Women's Foundation

Sophie Tuttleman, Director

Monday, February 9, 5:00 pm

Lawrence Family JCC, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS

 David & Dorothea Garfield Theatre

4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla 92037

Find out more about the film here and purchase tickets here 

(scroll down to Program #9).

Women's Philanthropy Presents: Little White Lie | February 14

AFA Presents Melanie Philips | February 17

Melanie Phillips 

Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Location: Temple Beth Israel 9001 Towne Centre Drive, San Diego, 92122
Admission: $10.00
No RSVP necessary 

For Information call: AFA at 310-444-3085 or Local AFA Board Member at 858-481-0798

Or go to
http://www.americanfreedomalliance.org/conference-upsidedown.jsp

Parking: Gateway parking structure adjacent to synagogue; preferred entrance at 9171 Towne Center Dr. to avoid congestion

About the Speaker:

Melanie Phillips is world renowned for her work as a British journalist, News Editor of the Guardian, broadcaster,  and author. Her weekly column, which is currently appearing in The Times, has appeared over the years in the Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, and Daily Mail. She has a weekly radio show on Voice of Israel, is a regular panelist on BBC Radio's The Moral Maze and appears frequently on BBC TV's signature political shows Question Time and The Daily Politics. She also writes regularly for the Jewish Chronicle and the Jerusalem Post, and has spoken to great acclaim on public platforms throughout the English-speaking world.

Her best-selling book Londonistan, about the British establishment's capitulation to Islamist aggression, was published in 2006 by Encounter, New York. She followed this in 2010 with The World Turned Upside Down: the Global Battle over God, Truth and Power, with a foreword by Broadway and Hollywood screenwriter David Mamet and also published by Encounter. Guardian Angel, the memoir of her personal and political journey from being the darling of the left to the iconic defender of Israel and the west, was published in 2013 by emBooks.

You can follow Melanie’s work at http://www.melaniephillips.com , on Facebook at  www.facebook.com/MelanieLatest or on Twitter at @MelanieLatest. Her radio show can be heard at www.voiceofisrael.com.

Cosponsored by: 

Temple Solel | Purim Carnival | March 8

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