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A Short History Of San Diego's Jewish People | Peter Rowe May 03, 2019

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For Jews, San Diego County can seem to be one of the Promised Land’s happier suburbs. In 1850, a German immigrant named Louis Rose became the area’s first known Jewish settler. His long resume is full of honorary appointments and political posts: grand jury member, Old Town postmaster, county supervisor, president of the board of trustees, the latter a 19th century precursor to the San Diego city council. “He was elected to all these public offices,” said Don Harrison, co-publisher of San Diego Jewish World and Rose’s biographer. “Clearly, there wasn’t any organized opposition to him.” Nearly 170 years later, the region still welcomes adherents to this ancient faith. “It’s a good place to be Jewish,” said Rabbi Devorah Marcus, senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Del Cerro. “It’s wonderful here.” Except, as Marcus and others note, when it’s not. The region’s history also includes campaigns to exclude Jews and other minorities from exclusive neighborhoods; anti-Semitic white supremacist groups; and a large number of hate crimes, including last weekend’s attack on Chabad of Poway, which left one dead and three wounded.

SDSU Religion Class Studies Evil | Gary Robbins May 02, 2019

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She wants her course to be timely. But Angela Feres had a pained look Wednesday when she stepped before her students at San Diego State University to talk about the nature of evil. “This is another sad day,” said Feres, a religious studies professor. “There have been so many lately.” She was alluding to Saturday’s terrorist attack at a synagogue in Poway, which killed one person and wounded three others, and Tuesday’s shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where two students were killed and four people were injured. The campus was already a bit on edge from earlier attacks nationally and globally. Police have been urging the school’s 35,000 students to take an online tutorial on active campus shooters.

Anti-Semetic Hate Crimes Are On The Rise | Lauryn Schroeder May 01, 2019

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There were more than 1,500 hate crimes reported in the United States in 2017, according to the FBI, and anti-Semitic crimes like Saturday’s synagogue shooting in Poway made up nearly two-thirds of that total — more than any other religion-based hate crime. The FBI was charged with tracking such crime statistics in 1990 when Congress passed the Hate Crime Statistics Act, which requires the attorney general to collect data about “crimes that manifest evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.”

Chabad Poway Says Farewell To Lori Kaye | Pam Kragen Apr 30, 2019

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Two days after a mass shooting at Chabad Poway, the congregation said farewell to the woman who was killed. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein believes Lori Kaye saved his life. Features reporter Pam Kragen attended the funeral, and discusses how the community is healing after this act of hate.

SPECIAL EPISODE: Everything We Know About The Chabad Shooting In Poway Apr 29, 2019

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The worshippers at Chabad of Poway were nearing the end of Passover, a sacred Jewish celebration steeped in ancient freedom, when a modern terror walked in the door. A man armed with an assault-type rifle opened fire Saturday, killing one woman and injuring three other people, including an 8-year-old girl, in what authorities described as a hate crime. The alleged shooter, John T. Earnest of Rancho Penasquitos, 19, was arrested after fleeing the synagogue amid a hail of bullets from a security guard. Earnest is the apparent author of a long, anti-Semitic “open letter” detailing his “disgust” for Jews and his admiration for the perpetrators of other mass shootings, including the gunman who killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue six months ago to the day. Our full coverage: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2019-04-27/reports-of-several-people-shot-at-poway-synagogue https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/la-me-ln-rabbi-poway-california-synagogue-shooting-20190428-story.html https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/religion/story/2019-04-27/poway-shooting-comes-amid-rise-in-anti-semitic-hate-crimes https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/religion/story/2019-04-27/interfaith-vigil-grapples-with-disheartening-devastating-event-yearns-for-peace https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2019-04-27/who-is-john-earnest-the-suspect-in-the-poway-synagogue-shooting https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/la-me-john-earnest-poway-synagogue-shooting-20190428-story.html

As "Say Anything" Turns 30, "Almost Famous" Gets A Musical | Karla Peterson Apr 27, 2019

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Crowe’s directorial debut, the 1989 romantic comedy starring John Cusack and Ione Skye, gets a gala screening at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York next week

Encinitas Lawmaker Introduces Short Term Rental Legislation | Lori Weisberg Apr 26, 2019

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Amid the increasingly pitched battle over who can and cannot rent out homes for short-term stays, a state legislator from Encinitas is wading in with a plan she believes will settle the debate — and in the process help ease California's worsening housing crisis. Her first test case is San Diego County, where coastal cities from Carlsbad to Coronado already have taken widely varying approaches, from permissive policies with few limitations on how often homes can be used as vacation rentals to outright bans. On Monday, a committee in Sacramento will weigh in on Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner Horvath's pitch for regulating the burgeoning home sharing industry in the county's coastal communities. She's authored a bill that would effectively outlaw the short-term rental of second homes and investor properties listed on home-sharing sites while also placing sharp limits on how many days out of the year an online platform like Airbnb can make available whole-home rentals when the primary resident is away.

San Diego Drafts First Regulations For Scooters | Joshua Emerson Smith Apr 25, 2019

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The San Diego City Council approved on Tuesday long-awaited rules for governing the app-rented bike and scooter companies that over the last year have flooded city streets with the motorized vehicles. Following several hours of heated testimony from community members, the City Council unanimously approved an ordinance that establishes a permitting process for operators, limits speeds in designated areas and requires all devices to scan a valid driver’s license before they can be used. The new rules go into effect in June, after the council takes its final vote. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2019-04-23/san-diego-approvals-rules-for-dockless-scooters-as-angry-residents-crowd-city-hall

San Diego County Begins Rethinking Its Child Welfare System | Morgan Cook Apr 24, 2019

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San Diego County is starting to take a more detailed look into how its child welfare system can better serve children in need. For several months, U-T Watchdog reporter Morgan Cook has been questioning the efficacy of the region’s child welfare system, writing stories about abuse and neglect in the foster care and voluntary services program. The Board of Supervisors’ report raised more concerns, primarily on how more social workers are needed to handle complicated family problems.

San Diego County's Inmate Welfare Fund Called Into Question | Jeff McDonald Apr 23, 2019

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San Diego County inmates and their families spend millions of dollars a year on telephone calls and merchandise from jail commissaries. Breakfast gift packs are $14.99. A See’s Candies peanut butter egg goes for $6.99. A 15-minute phone call runs almost $5. Last year more than $6 million in profit was raised through these phone calls and commissary sales at the county’s seven detention centers. The profits go into a special “inmate welfare” fund created to improve the quality of life behind bars, help rehabilitate inmates and keep them from returning to jail after release. Records show that millions of those dollars also pay for county staff and jail operations, and millions more is saved in a reserve fund that has grown to almost double the amount raised from inmates each year. When an audit recommended changes to how the inmate welfare fund is implemented, the sheriff’s office balked at a suggestion meant to increase public input. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/story/2019-04-21/money-meant-for-inmate-welfare-spent-on-staff-sheriffs-expenses

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