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Category Archives: California
Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
My favorite part of this biography by Hellman’s great-great-granddaughter Frances Dinkelspiel came on page 181. It describes how affluent German Jews in the San Francisco Bay Area reacted with ambivalent feelings to the arrival of Russian Jewish immigrants. Why were … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, California, Charity, Jews
Tagged ambivalent feelings, german jews, government bureaucracy, government welfare, jewish immigrant, russian jewish immigrants
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A Lesson From Smokey
Rabbi Avi Shafran writes: Which brings us back to more recent flames, those of the unprecedented California fires – which fire-management experts have dubbed “mega-fires,” since they are ten times larger and more intense than wildfires of a mere decade … Continue reading
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Paradise Lost
Luke at Stanford gay rights sculpture May 9 Another Stanford Taboo Cheeky At Albion Luke at CA/OR border May 10 Another Another Battle Creek, OR May 11 Another Another Luke at Angwin, CA May 13, the home I lived in … Continue reading
Posted in Adventist, California, Personal, PUC
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