San Diego altruists

Regarding fasting during Ramadan, I thought observers fast from "sunrise to sunset," not "from sunset to sunup.”
— July 24, 2019 3:24 p.m.

Melissa and Jon Block welcome you to the first Tiny House village in San Diego

Where exactly is this tiny house village? Halfway up Mt. Laguna on Sunrise Highway?
— May 5, 2019 1:07 p.m.

Longtime local business closes on Newport Avenue

Whatever happened to the security officer teams that were supposed to patrol the OB streets? I thought the business merchants contracted with a company last year--or did they decide not to? This problem is not limited to OB; it also is happening to store owners in El Cajon.
— February 17, 2017 10:26 a.m.

Jeff Weinstein flays the Prophet Vegetarian Restaurant

Attached is a picture of the Prophet restaurant business card I kept from the 1970s. The decor of this establishment was amazing. Pictures of all the great mystics and saints adorned the walls, along with numerous plants. It was an "experience" just to enter this place... http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2016/n…
— November 21, 2016 2:31 p.m.

Mission Trails witch’s tale

Interesting Native American folklore! Good article...
— May 24, 2016 6:17 a.m.

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http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2013/j…
— June 13, 2013 6:33 p.m.

Friday Night Shabbat Service -- 02/01/13 at 8691 La Mesa Avenue

This service is located in a storefront in a strip mall in La Mesa. The cross street is Glen. See you there! :)
— January 23, 2013 9:02 a.m.

JDate featured Margarita and Avi in an advertising blitz.

Avi, I think you should've tucked in your jersey for that Reader photo...LOL... : )
— December 27, 2012 2:12 p.m.

We went to Mexico to get ahead. We smuggled cheese to get back.

Regarding living in the Baja area and the mainland, I'd like to know what Gringos do about water...Do they all stick to drinking bottled water or using filter systems? And what about cooking with water and eating in the restaurants? Are there any problems? Back in the 1970s, I did a road trip into interior Mexico and ate some cereal with leche (milk). I got really sick (probably the infamous Montezuma's Revenge). Don't know if anything has changed in the way of sanitation since then... http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/dec/2…
— December 23, 2012 9:54 a.m.

Ner Tamid Synagogue

Regarding Rabbi Cain's comment about what happens after death: Anyone that wants to sell you a picture of what it looks like is a charlatan because once we go there we don’t come back to talk about it. There are thousands of people who have had Near Death Experiences and vividly described what happens and where they have gone. In addition, there now are many websites, books, and documentaries on the subject. Even the Father of Analytical Psychology, Carl Jung, had a Near Death Experience. The following information is from www.near-death.com: In a hospital in Switzerland in 1944, the world-renowned psychiatrist Carl G. Jung, had a heart attack and then a near-death experience. His vivid encounter with the light, plus the intensely meaningful insights led Jung to conclude that his experience came from something real and eternal. Jung's experience is unique in that he saw the Earth from a vantage point of about a thousand miles above it. His incredibly accurate view of the Earth from outer space was described about two decades before astronauts in space first described it. Subsequently, as he reflected on life after death, Jung recalled the meditating Hindu from his near-death experience and read it as a parable of the archetypal Higher Self, the God-image within. Carl Jung, who founded analytical psychology, centered on the archetypes of the collective unconscious. From Carl Jung: It seemed to me that I was high up in space. Far below I saw the globe of the Earth, bathed in a gloriously blue light. I saw the deep blue sea and the continents. Far below my feet lay Ceylon, and in the distance ahead of me the subcontinent of India. My field of vision did not include the whole Earth, but its global shape was plainly distinguishable and its outlines shone with a silvery gleam through that wonderful blue light. In many places the globe seemed colored, or spotted dark green like oxidized silver. Far away to the left lay a broad expanse - the reddish-yellow desert of Arabia; it was as though the silver of the Earth had there assumed a reddish-gold hue. Then came the Red Sea, and far, far back - as if in the upper left of a map - I could just make out a bit of the Mediterranean. My gaze was directed chiefly toward that. Everything else appeared indistinct. I could also see the snow-covered Himalayas, but in that direction it was foggy or cloudy. I did not look to the right at all. I knew that I was on the point of departing from the Earth. To read more, go to: http://www.near-death.com/jung.html
— September 1, 2012 8:25 a.m.