By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–This article is about a new line of mandelbread, but as background let me share with you some sage advice I heard while covering an effort by San Diego State University, the local Hansen Institute for World Peace and Israel’s Peres Peace Center to broker an arrangement between Palestinian […]
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Donald H. Harrison
SAN DIEGO — Here ae some thoughts in time for Rosh Hashanah from the “Dear Money Maven” column Q: My son is the apple of my eye. I want to set up a Section 529 college savings account for him, but heard that the custodian controls the investments. I’m not an expert, but I’d like
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Travel and Food
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — A petite lady with short dark hair and amazing green eyes called out my name as I entered the café at the Israel Museum where we had agreed to meet, never having set eyes on one another before. “You just looked like someone who would be called Dorothea,” she said
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–Jerusalem and the resettlement of Palestinian refugees disappeared from the Democratic Party platform; language that characterized Hamas as unacceptable to the United States — not only to Israel — disappeared. Jerusalem is back. But the crucial part of the Democratic Party Platform for Israel is related only tangentially to Israel. It
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By Isaac Yetiv , Ph. D. LA JOLLA, California — It used to be a show, a parade of flags and balloons with some tense anticipation of the selection of the nominee. It has become a farce — some called it a circus, a melodrama, a soap opera– a very expensive display of sheer hypocrisy and vile
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USACommentary by Clemens Heni BERLIN — On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the first ever rally favoring circumcision and Jewish (and Muslim) life in Germany was held in Berlin. In May 2012 a Cologne court had ruled against a Muslim circumcision and generalized that the rights of children are threatened by every single circumcision, regardless at
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International
The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin Books, 2012, 360 pages, ISBN 978-1-61620-132-6, $23.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This work of fiction is a compelling story in which the events of three time periods are laced through a single narrative, then tied up together in a literary bow. Novelist Shapiro sustains interest, remarkably
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Donald H. Harrison
By Carol Davis ENCINITAS, California — If anyone ever told me that I would be sitting through a performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and listening to the small group of wandering wanna be actors doo whopping to “Life Could Be a Dream, Shaboom”, I would have called them out for it. And if
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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Rafael Medoff/JNS.org Like American boys and girls, youngsters growing up in British Mandatory Palestine or the new state of Israel experienced thrills through the adventures of Tarzan, the immortal Edgar Rice Burroughs character whose 100th anniversary will be celebrated next month. American Tarzan movies with Hebrew subtitles attracted standing room-only audiences, and Hebrew writers
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USAClinton says U.S. is not setting deadlines for Iran (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The U.S. is “not setting deadlines” for Iran and still considers negotiations to be “by far the best approach” to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told Bloomberg in an interview published Monday. Speaking to
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InternationalBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — The New York Times changes from moment to moment the stories at the top of its portion on my home page. If I had not seen an item on Gaza (“‘Forgotten Neighborhood’ Underscores the Poverty of an Isolated Enclave“) in that prized spot we could have spent this time on
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin SAN DIEGO — Some time ago, I read an analysis of the traffic flow on New York’s Fifth Avenue. Apparently, the average speed (horse-drawn, of course) in 1905 was ten miles per hour. In 1985, polluted by emissions, it was five miles per hour. This reality comes to mind several times
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Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SANTA ANA — Wounded Army National Guard Sgt. Ivan Garcia received a Purple Heart on Saturday, Sept. 8. The day before, Garcia’s civilian colleagues at Waxie Sanitary Supply in Santa Ana gathered to express their heartfelt relief that he had managed to come home to them alive from Afghanistan. Waxie’s
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Donald H. Harrison
By Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California –I have a confession to make. Most people who know me at least fairly well already know that I am conservative in my political leanings. But with that being said I am very proud to be able to call many of my closest friends liberal Democrats. In fact, I
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USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi