Religion
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BROKEN WORD: Poet to speak about conquering her eating disorder at Jewish Community Center in La Jolla/San Diego
She was molested for more than a year in high school. She was raped her first month of college — the week before her younger brother was hit by a car and killed. She suffered from an eating disorder for the greater part of a decade. The show that Caroline Rothstein performs at Lawrence Family Jewish...
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ALTAR-ATION: La Jolla's St. James Church to dedicate James Hubble installation to late bishop Wolsterstorff
A new, James Hubble-designed altar frontage at St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, 724 Prospect St., will be dedicated to late church rector Robert Wolsterstorff on March 24.“He was a very kind man,” Hubble said of Wolsterstorff, who commissioned Hubble to create the stained-glass windows of...
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DEACON OF HOPE: Meet Jim Vargas of Father Joe's Villages and La Jolla
Editor’s Note: La Jolla Light’s “People in Your Neighborhood” series shines a spotlight on notable locals we all wish we knew more about! Light staff is out on the town talking to familiar, friendly faces to bring you their stories. If you know someone you’d like us to profile, send the lead via...
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'We want to give hope': La Jolla Presbyterian Church to host its first mental-health summit
Registration is now open for the La Jolla Presbyterian Church’s inaugural mental health summit, themed “Sunrise of Hope,” 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 9 on the church grounds at 7715 Draper Ave. The event features keynote speakers, “breakout” topics with professionals, food and more.
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San Diego Jewish International Film Festival rides again: 32 films to screen, Feb. 7-17
It's back! Now in its 29th year, the San Diego Jewish International Film Festival will be showcasing the diversity of Jewish experience, Feb. 7-17, 2019 with 32 feature films from 18 different countries. Introduced by filmmakers and guest speakers, they will screen in four venues around the county:...
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Chabad of La Jolla ushers in Hanukkah at The LOT
Christmas may define December in the minds of most La Jollans. But on the patio outside The LOT at 5:20 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 2 — just two hours after the La Jolla Christmas Parade marched to a close — Chabad of La Jolla offered a public reminder that it also belongs to Hannukah.
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PEOPLE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Denise Jackson revs up Prince Chapel
Rev. Denise Jackson is only the second female pastor in Prince Chapel’s history. The first was her mom, Annie Watson, who preached on the same pulpit 20 years ago.
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Judge gives Hillel Center in La Jolla green-light
The Center will serve as a “center for Jewish life and Jewish students at UCSD” with a three-building, 6,479 square-foot on a triangular parcel of land at the corner of Torrey Pines Road at La Jolla Village Drive.
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La Jolla Country Day students create 2,000 ceramic butterflies for Holocaust remembrance project
For the first time, the entirety of La Jolla Country Day School participated in a commemoration and remembrance of children lost in the Holocaust, through The Butterfly Project, Nov. 9 on its campus at 9490 Genesee Ave. The event included speakers, concerts, readings and painting sessions — and...
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For La Jollan Gary Rectenwald, charity REALLY begins at home
People in Your La Jolla Neighborhood: As in many homes, the photos on Gary Rectenwald’s mantel display children engaged in proud-parent moments: high-school sports, graduations, proms. But the children in Rectenwald’s photos aren’t his — at least they weren’t initially. Rectenwald, 68, adopted...
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St. James by-the-Sea Episcopal Church to offer free, musical Compline-by-Candlelight series in La Jolla
St. James by-the-Sea will become the first church in San Diego to offer a regular Compline-by-Candlelight service as an opportunity for anyone in the community to spend half an hour in quiet contemplation set to choral singing. The 7 p.m. Sunday series begins Nov. 4, 2018 and will continue Feb....
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Local Jewish community reacts to Pittsburgh massacre at La Jolla/San Diego gathering of thousands
Nearly 2,500 people jammed University City’s Congregation Beth Israel on Monday evening, Oct. 29, to express outrage and grief at the deadliest attack on the Jewish people in U.S. history — the slaughter of 11 innocent Sabbath worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Temple two days earlier.
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La Jolla Presbyterian sets 5 concerts for Season 57: Art Walk featured in Oct. 14 Young Artists opener
The first concert of the season is 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14 at the 7715 Draper Ave. With it, there will be an art walk with pieces inspired by the performance. The Young Artists Showcase features three young Musical Merit Foundation scholarship winners
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Mary, Star of the Sea rings in the old at La Jolla church
Mary, Star of the Sea, at 7713 Girard Ave., got its bell fixed. Two cracks were repaired by North County Custom Builders of Encinitas, who removed and then re-situated the brass ringer in its belfry. The bell is believed to be original to La Jolla’s oldest Catholic Church, built in 1937. But it...
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At one of San Diego's oldest strip clubs, the Rock Church takes over
Before enthusiastic congregants and skeptical neighbors, the Rock Church on Thursday morning took over one of San Diego’s oldest strip clubs. “We’d definitely love to use this to help reverse the pain that this building has caused,” said Miles McPherson, the Rock’s senior pastor, addressing a crowd...
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Bell Captain: Chiming in with Walter DuMelle of St. James by-the-Sea Church in La Jolla
Walter DuMelle is a part-time opera singer and the full-time administration director of St. James by-the-Sea, where his duties include tending to the 90-year-old bell tower.
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ON A MISSION: Rediscovering the original El Camino Real through La Jolla
A mission to a long-abandoned slab of California's original road, El Camino Real, leads to a journey of discovery about life.
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At Warwick's, fine stationery makes every occasion special: Popular La Jolla store carries books, stationery, gifts, office supplies and more
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: "There was something very comfortable in having plenty of stationery." — Charles Dickens There are times when an e-mail just doesn't have quite the effect as the printed word. Imagine if the Declaration of Independence had been delivered via e-mail. It would have gone into King...
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Millennial reverend revs up La Jolla's oldest congregation
In September, just after learning that he landed the job as the Congregational Church of La Jolla’s new pastor, Reverend Tim Seery took a stroll around the Village of La Jolla to explore his new community and introduce himself. Inside the Norma Kay gift shop, he was immediately summoned to the...
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'Israeli Springsteen' David Broza to bring all-star band to Jewish Community Center in La Jolla, Dec. 20
David Broza may not be a familiar name to local music-lovers, but he's an Israeli superstar with an international following, currently celebrating the 40th anniversary of his biggest hit, the peace anthem "Yihye Tov," with a coast-to-coast "Broza & Friends" tour. Variously translated as "Things...
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How SIO's Dr. Ram talks science to religious leaders
Through the windows of his corner office at Scripps Institution of Oceanography — the office he inherited from Sally Ride after she moved back to the UC San Diego physics department in the early 2000s — Dr. Veerabhadran Ramanathan has yet to see any of the disastrous effects of global warming predicted...
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San Diego City Council unanimously approves Hillel Center project for La Jolla
After more than two hours of debate and public testimony — and 17 years of processing — the Glickman Hillel Center for Jewish Life was unanimously approved in San Diego City Council chambers on Oct. 3. District 1 City Council member Barbara Bry made the motion to support staff recommendations to...
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La Jolla's Jewish Community Center holds rally to 'stand up to hate'
The Leichtag Foundation hosted a rally titled, “Our San Diego Jewish Community Stands Up Against Hate,” Aug. 15 at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center
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La Jolla United Methodist Church welcomes new pastor
La Jolla United Methodist Church members on July 1 bid a fond farewell to the Rev. Dr. Walter Dilg after eight years of ministry and welcomed a new pastor, the Rev. Dr. Philip Bartalo Wood. Pastor Phil comes to La Jolla from Fullerton United Methodist Church. His pastoral service has included United...
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Police investigates new bomb threat to La Jolla's Jewish Community Center; Suspect arrested in connection to previous threats
The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Ceter (JCC) in La Jolla received a fourth bomb threat on Wednesday, March 8, as the San Diego Police Department confirmed. No evacuations resulted of the threat, which was determined "not credible." Juan Thompson, a 31-year-old former reporter, was arrested...