By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–A day after the House of Israel’s grand reopening, board member Arnold Flick opened up the Balboa Park cottage again on Monday, June 13, to permit visiting Israeli veterinarian Yonatan Peres to take a look. Peres, whose father is President Shimon Peres of Israel, expressed pleasure over […]
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Donald H. HarrisonENCINITAS, California (Press Release) — Over 300 donors and supporters of Seacrest Village Retirement Communities visited The Leichtag Family Foundation Campus in Encinitas on Sunday, June 5, for a Dedication & Celebration of the newly expanded campus. The dedication marked the opening of the newest features to Seacrest Village Retirement Communities: Arthur & Sophie Brody
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San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Congressman Brad Sherman has announced from his Washington office that he has introduced legislation that would preclude San Francisco and other municipalities from banning the practice of circumcision within their municipal boundaries. The Jewish Democrat, who represents a portion of Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley, said in a
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Donald H. Harrison, USASAN DIEGO (Press Release)– The New Children’s Museum and the Anti-Defamation League invite children and families to “dig our differences” at Diversity Day on Sunday June 26, from 10 a.m.–4 p.m.. Offering free admission, the community is encouraged to celebrate the region’s diversity, including the many races, religions, national origins, genders, and sexual orientations that thrive
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San Diego CalendarBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Last weekend the Egyptian government announced that it had arrested an agent of the Mossad who had been sent to Cairo to provoke demonstrations against the regime. The culprit is Ilan Grapel, since featured in a number of media reports. Descriptions by those who knew him are of an
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – There are two photos of Jewish members of the U.S. Congress in the news . One we’d like to see a lot more of; the other a lot less. The first, of course, is that of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who has been in physical rehabilitation ever since January
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By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO–It wasn’t exactly news when sources back in my hometown of Cincinnati announced that the wrecking ball would finally bring down our venerable, exhilarating, dangerous, and soul-defining Woodward High School—a churning microcosm of America from which we graduated in 1970. For some time, the school had stood ready for imminent
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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — For more than 60 years, the United Nations has worked mightily to prevent the Arabs from paying the price of their rejection of the independence of Israel in 1948 and to stoke the fires of Palestinian irredentism: denying resettlement to Arabs who fled the Arab war against Israel; five
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
Editor’s Note This article focusing on Honduras is the fifth in the World-At-Home series, in which we posit that it’s possible to “travel” around the world without leaving San Diego County, through visits to local venues and interviews with San Diegans involved in diverse foreign projects. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When Tamar
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The lead story in Monday’s Ha’aretz carries the headline, “U.S. pressuring Netanyahu to accept Obama’s peace plan; Israeli source says Americans frustrated with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for hampering U.S. efforts to stop Palestinians trying UN route to statehood in September” It is not clear if this is coming
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The House of Israel’s membership on Sunday celebrated the Balboa Park institution’s transformation from what some had called an “embarrassment” to what City Councilman Todd Gloria described as the “best” of the national cottages that comprise the 75-year-old House of Pacific Relations. The House of
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES–Bakersfield Mist is a brilliant new play written and directed by Stephen Sachs and starring the husband and wife team of Jenny O’Hara and Nick Ullett at the always-wonderful Fountain Theatre. The play is based on a true story, and Sachs has raised it to a fine art, literally. A foul-mouthed ex-bartender
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Cynthia CitronBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Three family members of different ages and interests decided to tour four art museums in counterclockwise direction in Balboa Park—the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Timken Art Gallery, the San Diego Museum of Art, and the Mingei International Museum. One family member, my grandson, Shor, 10, loves to
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Donald H. HarrisonNEW YORK (Press Release) –The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday urged the international governing body for basketball to reverse its decision prohibiting an orthodox Jewish athlete from wearing a T-shirt under her jersey during an upcoming tournament. To abide with Jewish rules of modesty for women, Israeli national team player Naama Shafir normally wears a
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