Donald H. Harrison

Body camera didn’t record Chicago cop’s fatal shooting of teen in back

CHICAGO — The body camera of a Chicago police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager on the South Side last week was not recording when he opened fire, police officials said Monday. Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the department is investigating why the equipment didn’t capture the shooting of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal, who […]

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USA

If some of the great art masters painted Jewish scenes

Converted Masters: World Famous Masterpieces with a Jewish Twist Artwork by Esty Frankel-Fersel and edited by Barbara Bensoussan. Menorah Books Ltd., West Hills, CA, ©2016, ISBN 978-1-940516-45-5, p. 150, plus artists credits, $44.95   By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –  What would happen if we took some of the world’s greatest Christian artists, gave them

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Fund established for family of slain SD Police Officer

By Miriam Raftery East County Magazine SAN DIEGO— A fund to help the widow and children of San Diego Police Officer Jonathan.”JD” DeGuzman has been set up by the San Diego Police Officers Association (SDPOA). DeGuzman was fatally shot during a late-night traffic stop July 28.  DeGuzman previously survived a stabbing 13 year ago during

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Miriam Raftery, San Diego County

Khamenei: Israel- Saudi warming a ‘stab in the back’

TEHRAN (WJC) — Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a harsh rebuke of Saudi Arabia on Monday for allegedly seeking better relations with Israel. “Revelation of Saudi government’s relations with Zionist regime was stab in the back of Islamic Ummah,” Khamenei posted on his Twitter account. In another message, he wrote: “Today, #Saudi government is in

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Middle East

Reflections on a somber interview with Elie Wiesel

    By Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall SAN MARCOS, California — In 2007, I received an unexpected invitation: interviewing Elie Wiesel for a program at the Carlsbad Library (California). The city has an annual program in which residents discuss a common book; that year, it was Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir Night. To culminate the program, the city

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International, Jewish History, San Diego County

Humoring the headlines: August 1, 2016

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Criticizing President Obama’s characterization of Donald Trump as a “homegrown demagogue,” Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Mike Pence indignantly asserted, “I don’t think name calling has any place in public life.”  Either Pence doesn’t consider Trump’s epithets for rivals like crazy Bernie, crooked Hillary, lyin’ Ted, little Marco, low-energy Jeb, 1 for

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Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

2016 Olympics: 7 Jewish American Olympians to watch in Rio

There are athletes, and then there are Olympic athletes. And then there are Jewish Olympic athletes. When the 2016 Summer Olympics open Friday, we’ll of course be cheering the American athletes — all 555 of them — and we’ll be rooting for Israel, too, which this year is sending its largest ever cohort to Rio.

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International, Sports & Competitions, USA

Jewish Trivia Quiz: Hillary and Hippy

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — In her acceptance speech at last week’s Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton made reference to HIPPY. What is HIPPY? A. HIPPY stands for Health Insurance Program for Parents and Youth, an Israeli program designed to provide health insurance coverage for low income families, and it was the basis for the CHIP program (Children’s Health Insurance

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire