By Sheryl Rowling DEL MAR, California — As you know, I’m not a food critic – at least not a published one. Yet, I got invited to the San Diego County Fair’s media night last Friday. So, I feel obliged to write about it! What can a financial person do with this subject? I can […]
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San Diego County, Sheryl RowlingBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School celebrated its 50th anniversary on Sunday night, June 2, at a banquet featuring recollections of two of the school’s pioneer board presidents and a tribute to the late philanthropists Morrie and Barbara Steiman who helped the Orthodox Jewish school surmount some tough financial
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Donald H. Harrison
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson TEL AVIV–Going to gala concerts isn’t really our thing, but when the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra announced that in honor of its return to the refurbished Heichal Hatarbut (Palace of Culture), its home in Tel Aviv, it would be performing Mahler’s fifth symphony, along with Beethoven’s violin concerto (with Itzhak Perlman as soloist)
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Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–Things have never been better for many of us. Europeans are quarreling rather than killing one another. Jews are capable of reaching the top of virtually all professions, with decent housing and no worry about gentlemen’s agreements or restrictive covenants, and safe from plunder and pogroms. Life expectancy and other good stuff
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
By Rabbi Ben Kamin ENCINITAS, California–As even the Supreme Court takes up the issue of same-sex marriage, and the issue finally appears to have captured the heart of humanity in every sense, some folks are again presuming the mantle of Dr. Martin Luther King in the name of something he actually never addressed. If one
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By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California — Will a large number of the San Diego County Fair’s expected 1.5 million visitors this year want to take a break from carnival games, cotton candy, and this year’s bacon specialties to see a 42-poster exhibit detailing the Holocaust from its origins to its conclusion? Leaders of
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Donald H. Harrison
By Della Elliott EL CAJON, California–Conscripted into the Israeli military at 18 and assigned to a unit specializing in clearing mine fields, Nir Shtern knows a thing a or two about performing under pressure. Now a 22-year-old Grossmont College student, the San Diego resident remembers the practically overnight transition from carefree teen to combat soldier
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