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Our Shtetl San Diego County: Solidarity Ride Marked 100 Days Israelis Held Hostage by Hamas – San Diego Jewish World
SOLANA BEACH, California (SDJW) –Former San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, former Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman, and Jeffrey Essakow, a founder of the Challenged Athletes Foundation, were among 100 cyclists who were gathered by word of mouth Sunday, Jan 14, to ride in solidarity with the Israeli hostages who have been held captive by Hamas for 100 days.
Faulconer, now running for a seat on the County Board of Supervisors, commented, “It is a privilege today to ride with 100 others in strong solidarity with Israel and our Jewish community in San Diego.” Zimmerman said, “Today is the 100th day since the brutal Hamas attack and for the hostages still in captivity. They must be all be safely returned now. We pedal in solidarity with our sister city Sha’ar Hanegev and all of Israel.” Essakow pointed out that the riders were of all faiths, who pray for the safe return of approximately 130 hostages.
Most of the cyclists rode at a leisurely 2 1/2 -hour pace on a roundtrip route that covered between 32 and 33 miles and which climbed 1,352 feet, according to Zimmerman. The route started at Fletcher Cove in Solana Beach, dipped south, then east to Olivenhain, and then north to La Costa, before returning to Fletcher Cove.
Initially, the cyclists thought they simply would pedal from Solana Beach up the coast to Oceanside Harbor and back, but they changed their plans once they learned that runners in the Carlsbad Marathon would cover much the same route. Some cyclists who had children with them, or were riding tandem, opted to skip the hilly inland portions of the solidarity bike ride, and more or less followed the coast.
Zimmerman said the cyclists were greeted with friendly honks by passing motorists, waves from pedestrians, and shouts of support for Israel. She said they did not hear a single negative comment.
Some of the cyclists donned made-to-order Israel jackets for the occasion. In fact, those in one group wearing the Israeli garb only received it via Fedex the morning of the ride, Zimmerman said.
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The Leichtag Foundation in Encinitas and Impact Cubed are sponsoring a webinar on the needs of IDF families at 10 a.m., Thursday, January 18. Speakers will be Rachel Azaria and Sapir Bluzer. Charlene Seidle, executive vice president of the Leichtag Foundation, explained that “with more than 350,000 reservists and soldiers deployed, many families are suddenly without a parent or key family member. This places extreme stress on the spouse to balance childcare, household duties, financial struggles, and more all while enduring fears about their family member at war.”
Azaria is a former member of Israel’s Knesset and a Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem. She wrote in Hebrew The Guide to Revolution, which teaches techniques for social change. She also chairs Life and Environment, an umbrella organization of 130 environmental groups, and is a trustee of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Bluzer is a senior consultant on economic reforms to Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry. A former CEO of Israel’s National Student Association, she founded and is leading “The Reservist Wives Forum.” She is a former officer in the intelligence branch of the Israeli Air Force.
One hundred percent of the funds that are raised in the campaign “will go to real-time urgent needs for Israelis who have had their lives torn apart – evacuation of families and support for the evacuated; protective equipment; massive triage and logistics; crisis intervention trauma support; and resources to fund funerals and related expenses will be the first priorities,” according to organizers.
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Rabbi Moishe Leider of Chabad of University City will celebrate his birthday with a musical Melava Malka (a festive meal in honor of the departure of the ‘Sabbath Queen’) on 7:30 p.m., Saturday evening, Jan. 13 at his home near the synagogue. “Rachel & Ami” will perform.
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Marking the Jan. 14 birthday of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, San Diego’s klezmer musician Yale Strom related that he had an opportunity to perform with Rabbi Carlebach on his first visit to Poland in 1988. Strom said that “ I was working on my film At the Crossroads: Jews in Eastern Europe Today (with Oren Rudavsky) when we saw him visiting the famous Krakow Jewish Cemetery. He saw me with my violin and said to follow him into the famous REMUH Synagogue. He asked me to take out the violin and listen. The synagogue was packed with people. Every few minutes Rabbi Carlebach asked me if I could hear the strains of the melody. First, I didn’t understand what he meant but then I realized he was composing a song at that very moment while being spiritually infused as he stood on the very bima Rabbi Moses Issreles stood and prayed. Slowly I could hear a discernable melody coming from Rabbi Carlebach. An hour later everybody in the shul was singing the “Cracower Nign” which Rabbi Carlebach wrote at that moment. Now the melody is sung all over the world often on erev shabes. That evening I joined the rabbi on stage for his concert in the opera house. Both experiences I will never forget.”
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Micah Parzen, CEO of the Museum of Us, is supporting the San Diego Public Library’s efforts to encourage more people to read books. Anyone who shows a library card, with matching photo identification, will be admitted to the museum for free on Saturday, January 27, between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. During the first hour of that event, museum goers are invited to “bring a gently used book that deserves a new home and leave with a new-to-you book of your own.” Participants wrap their books and write a brief description of its contents, then “engage in facilitated discussion about your book – while keeping the title a surprise!” They then choose a wrapped book to take home.
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SDJA staff report
This is the first installment in a series of stories on the history of dining out in La Jolla, how it’s changed and how it continues to evolve.
It’s hard to imagine La Jolla without its restaurants, from the lines stretching down the block at The Taco Stand to the iconic views at George’s at the Cove.
But the way La Jollans eat and where has changed dramatically since the area’s founding in the 1800s.
In this first part of the new month-long series “Dining Out,” the La Jolla Light looks at local restaurants from the 1880s (when La Jolla was first developed and settled) to the early 1920s.
“La Jolla had very few people at that time,” according to local historian Carol Olten. “There weren’t a lot of restaurants, as far as we know.”
Olten said she gets information about La Jolla’s earliest days from the diaries of local pioneer Anson Mills.
“He kept track of where he went and what he did … but he did a lot of home cooking,” she said. “So when they went to a restaurant for dinner, it was a big occasion. It was something people mainly did on holidays or … a social occasion.”
One restaurant Mills would go to — believed to be one of the first in La Jolla — was Montezuma Cottage. Olten said it is believed to have opened in 1895 near the intersection of Prospect and Jenner streets.
Mills described the restaurant as a popular eating and gathering spot for locals and tourists, Olten said. He wrote an entry about a Thanksgiving dinner there with about 60 people.
Montezuma Cottage later became known as the Seaside Inn and Ocean View restaurant. It was torn down in 1931.
Culturally, eating at a restaurant was a more formal occasion at the time, Olten said.
“You didn’t go to a restaurant just to hang out with friends like you would today. It was purposeful then,” she said.
Around 1900, a restaurant known as the White Rabbit opened near the corner of Girard Avenue and Prospect Street. In addition to a rooftop garden, it featured a tea room, joining a national trend.
“Tea rooms went with the suffragette movement because in those days, [women] didn’t have a place to gather without an escort, so tea rooms started opening in hotels and women could go there and sit down and have a social tea or lunch,” Olten said. “La Jolla got in on the tail end of that thanks to [Green Dragon Colony founder] Anna Held and [La Jolla philanthropist] Ellen Browning Scripps.”
One of them, called The Cricket, opened in the early 1900s with white tablecloths. Olten said it was near what it is now Eddie V’s restaurant.
“It was originally part of the Green Dragon Colony … and was sold to a British woman named Daisy Mitchell,” she said. “It stayed a tea room for many years, and she kept a guest book that was decorated with reds and greens and had a medieval theme. So it was very British.”
Joining a trend toward more upscale dining, one of La Jolla’s “most well-established and well-known restaurants” opened in 1912 at 1227 Prospect St. The Brown Bear had “stylish, fashionable service and a menu to please the gods,” Olten said.
A house specialty was Welsh rabbit served in a silver chafing dish. The restaurant was in operation until 1941.
Several restaurants opened around 1915, about the same time as the Panama-California Exposition, a world’s fair-type event held in 1915-16 that brought 3.7 million people to San Diego.
One of La Jolla’s new restaurants, the Spindrift Inn, opened in 1916 and was considered a “last stop” out of town.
“Most restaurants at that time were located in the immediate Village area,” Olten said. “The one that was astray would have been the Spindrift Inn [in La Jolla Shores]. This was in the very early days of automobiles, so not very many people had cars, but those that did would … drive their cars and the last stop before you got out of town was Spindrift Inn.”
The Spindrift Inn later became The Marine Room, which still stands.
Olten said the restaurant was operated by the Hannay family for about 20 years. Their “rambunctious” fox terrier, Jiggs, would roam the dining room.
Another Expo-era restaurant was the Dining Car, which operated in an old trolley car parked near Goldfish Point. Dinner was $2 per person. It burned down on Halloween night in 1923.
Next installment: With new hotels being built in La Jolla in the 1920s came new hotel restaurants. But later, World War II would have an impact on La Jollans and San Diegans in general and on where and how they ate. ♦
Stammen challenged a safe call at second base — one that led to the Washington Nationals tying the game. Fernando Tatis Jr. threw
The Nats had chances to win last night, but they came up short. Some of the weaknesses at the back end of their roster showed up, and they lost 7-5 in a bullpen battle. Now they will look to bounce back at home against a tough Padres team.
Blake Butera has made some peculiar changes to the lineup. Clearly, he wants to go lefty heavy. The struggling Jorbit Vivas will start over Curtis Mead. Jose Tena will also be starting at DH. That means James Wood will go to right field and Dylan Crews will slide to center. Drew Millas will also be back behind the plate. Foster Griffin will be on the bump.
The Padres have a very similar lineup to last night. Rodolfo Duran will replace Freddy Fermin behind the plate. Otherwise, it is the same personnel. We saw Jackson Merrill and Fernando Tatis start to wake up, so hopefully that does not continue. Blake Butera’s college teammate, Michael King, will be on the mound.
The Nats will look to avoid going under .500 in this one. Michael King will be a good test, but this lineup has been resilient. Hopefully Foster Griffin can build on his strong outing against the Braves. If they don’t win today, those narratives about the poor home record will re-appear. Follow along in the comments down below and let’s go Nats!
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