January 2011

Book teaches people how to prepare for and cope with death

 Saying Goodbye by Someone You Love by Norine Dresser and Fredda Wasserman, Demos Medical Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-932603-85-9, 210 pages including index, $16.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Folklorist Norine Dresser suffered the loss of her longtime husband, Harold.  Fredda Wasserman is a grief counselor.  They became friends, which eventually led to their […]

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Donald H. Harrison

Poets share at Lawrence Family JCC … and on our website!

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California–The third year of “Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices” at the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC opened Tuesday evening, January 18, and featured Judith Rubenstein, Howard Rubenstein and  Ron Horvitz. Each of the featured poets read 15 to 20 minutes from their original works. Judith Rubenstein played selections of

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Eileen Wingard

‘Tijuana Jews’ filmmakers turn their sights to frontier Jews north of the border

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Award winning filmmakers, Isaac and Jude Artenstein are readying production in San Diego for the first professional documentary spotlighting the Jewish Experience in the Southwest. The overall goal of Frontier Jews is to provide new insight into a part of American Jewish history that is an important missing piece of the

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Travel and Food

Hoenlein contends ElBaradei is a ‘stooge’ of Iran

NEW YORK (WJC) — Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice-president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, has accused Egyptian opposition leader Mohammed ElBaradei of covering up Iran’s true nuclear ambitions when he directed the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN nuclear watchdog, in Vienna. “He is a stooge of Iran, and I

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Travel and Food

Paraguay, Cyprus recognize independent Palestine within 1967 borders

RAMALLAH, Palestine Authority (WJC)– Riyad al-Malki, the Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister, has said that the Republic of Cyprus – a member state of the European Union – had recognized a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders. Al-Malki told the French news agency AFP the move had been “formalized” in a letter sent by Cyprus President

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Travel and Food

Mathematical model may encourage bike-sharing for commuters

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — The new environmentally-friendly concept of municipal “bike-sharing” is taking over European cities like Paris, and American cities like New York are also looking into the idea. It allows a subscriber to “borrow” a bike from one of hundreds of locations in the city, use it, and return it to another location

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Science, Medicine, & Education

El Baredei’s coalition with Islamic Brotherhood will make him a pawn

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — As I’ve been warning, Mohamed ElBaradei (also spelled Mohammed al-Baradei), seen as the leading “moderate, pro-democratic” leader in Egypt is negotiating with the Muslim Brotherhood to form a national unity government. That doesn’t mean the negotiations will succeed but it gives a clear glimpse of what a post-Mubarak regime Egypt

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Middle East

A bissel this, a bissel that –San Diego Jewish news and chatter

Column 14, January 31, 2011 Compiled by Donald H. Harrison __________________ Jewish organizations _________________ Seventeen eighth graders, or 75 percent of the 8th grade class, at Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, recently presented science fair projects that were deemed qualified for entry into the Greater San Diego County Science Fair.   Among the winners were

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Gen. Dan Halutz tells Yom Limmud of Israel’s military pragmatism

By Joel A Moskowitz M D LA JOLLA, California—Israeli Lt. General (ret.) Dan Halutz  at Sunday’s Yom Limmud, San Diego’s Jewish  Community Day of Learning, quipped about his decision to join the Kadima Party in Israel:  “In politics, you can be killed many times; in the military, only once.” This veteran and long-time member of the Israel’s Defense

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Middle East, San Diego County

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Shorts in Winter’

By Yvonne Greenberg   LA JOLLA, Caifornia — “They usually run the gamut from things that have family disruption to political themes to musical,”  explained Joyce Axelrod in a phone interview about some of the plots in Shorts in Winter, a free San Diego Jewish Film Festival program on Monday, February 14 at Clairemont Reading

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Travel and Food

Israeli specialist on Egypt says Mohamed ElBaradei the man to watch

  BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release)—  “Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak needs a miracle to survive the presidency,” according to Egypt expert, Yoram Meital, who is Chairman of the Herzog Center for Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. However, he thinks that a victory for the Muslim Brotherhood should not be seen as a

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