Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriet Savit, Random House Children’s Books, ©2016; fiction; ISBN 978-0-553-51334-9; 230 pages; $17.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Here is a fictional story that is both fascinating and improbable. A 7-year-old Jewish girl in Poland is left alone after the Nazis take away her father, a professor […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonIf I Am Not for Myself, Then You Are Nothing! By Rabbi Yaakov Marks SAN DIEGO — After the Jews had settled peacefully into their wilderness encampment, Yitro, Moshe’s father in law, brought Zipporah, Moshe’s wife and two sons from Midyan, to be reunited with their husband and father. Moshe and all the leaders hosted
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Jewish ReligionDaniel Klein (editor and trans.) and Samuel David Luzzato, Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Interpretation of the Book of Shemot; Kodesh Press, 2015; ISBN-13: 978-0692522066. Price: $29.95. Rating ***** By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most remarkable modern day exegetes of the 19th century was the Italian biblical commentator,
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ A recent Pew Poll revealed that Americans would be 37 % less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who had an extramarital affair, 31 % less likely to vote for one who had Washington experience, 26 % less likely to vote for someone who was gay, and 10 %
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By David Amos SAN DIEGO –The program is titled just that, “A Strictly Classical Concert”. After all, you could hardly have a more conservative program of traditional music which has stood the test of time. By the time Beethoven composed his “Symphony No. 8”, he was famous and well recognized; when publishers approached him for
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Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is sadness along with satisfaction in recent stories of Palestinians captured or killed as a result of their attacks against Jews. A 13 year old girl was shot to death as she charged, with knife raised, against a security guard on the border between a Palestinian town and Jerusalem.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Until I read last Thursday’s column in Ha’aretz by Ari Shavit I tended to nod in approval to the accusation by Zahava Galon, the leader of the Meretz party, that Isaac Herzog, the leader of the Zionist Union, is a caricature of an opposition leader because he seems to side
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Middle EastTel Aviv terrorist Nashat Milhem vows to ‘die’ and ‘kill’ in cellphone videos (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Several hours before going on a killing spree in Tel Aviv on Jan. 1, Arab terrorist Nashat Milhem lost his cell phone in Ramat Aviv. Newly released videos recovered by Israeli police from his phone reveal a strong
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Middle East
-41st in a Series– Exit 13B, Jackson Drive, La Mesa ~ Grossmont Center, The Legacies of Adolph Levi, Nathan Straus, Isaias Hellman, and Joseph Sherwood By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California – When you see the large “Grossmont Center” sign on the hillside above Jackson Drive, what images come to mind? How about the signs
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USAhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Yamin
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Travel and Food
SAN DIEGO– Stacie Bresler Reinstein spotted this license plate belonging to someone who apparently believes in long time good health! Gesunt means ‘health’ or ‘healthy.’ We say ‘long time’ because that gedolah on the license plate frame mean long, as in tekiah gedolah — the long blast on the shofar.
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San Diego Calendar, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers directed by Richard Trask; Moriah Films; USA; 2015; 114 minutes; English, Hebrew; English Subtitles, Documentary; Southern California Films; to be shown twice at the Reading Cinemas 14, at 4665 Clairemont Drive, San Diego, at 5 p.m., Sunday February 7, and at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11; and once the
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
JERUSALEM (WJC)–Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday released several documents, including a handwritten request for clemency from Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann sent to then President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi. Eichmann, one of the masterminds of the Holocaust, was captured by the Mossad in Argentina and sentenced to death by an Israeli court in 1961. At a ceremony in Jerusalem to mark
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International, Jewish History
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — As Itzhak Perlman entered the stage, seated on a motorized scooter, steering with one hand and holding his violin and bow with the other, I recalled the cherub-faced 12-year-old Israeli prodigy when he first appeared in the USA on the Ed Sullivan show. I have followed his career ever
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts