By Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — Al Schwimmer, an American citizen, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1917, a hero of Israel’s War of Independence, died on June 10, 2011, his 94th birthday, at central Israel’s Tel Hashomer Hospital. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister, described Schwimmer’s activities during 1947-48 as “the Diaspora’s single most
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Travel and FoodA Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz, Harcourt, Inc., 2003 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — Is it fair to write a review of a book after having read only 55 out of a total of 358 pages? Probably, not. And, yet, that is exactly what I am going to do. Amos Oz is
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesBy Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Peter Gould has lived in Vermont for over 45 years and his new novel Marly is about Vermonters, climate issues and wind turbines, among other things. Growing up Jewish, Gould — who calls himself a “non-observant Goddess-worshipping American Jew — said it was his parents who were “intellectual,
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Books, Poetry & Short StoriesBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — There are gestures belonging to another time that we don’t use anymore. There were ways of functioning on a daily basis that would seem foreign today. We relied on objects which are now obsolete. We all have our lists of nostalgia. I remember those wire baskets for
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Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron MARGATE, New Jersey‒ Right-wing groups are furious over Starbucks red and green holiday cup because it lacks any Christmas symbols. For them, it is just another sign of the war on Christmas. The outcry would have been much worse if Starbucks went ahead with its original plan to make the cups blue
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Back in the days when J. Edgar Hoover was the fabled director of the FBI, there were basically two types of applicants the national law enforcement agency considered qualified to become special agents: attorneys and accountants. That’s not the case anymore, Eric Birnbaum, the special agent in
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyIsraeli father and son, ages 40 and 18, killed in shooting attack near Hebron (JNS.org) In the latest fatal attack during the current terror wave in Israel, a Jewish father and son—ages 40 and 18—were shot dead Friday near the Judea and Samaria community of Othniel in the southern Hebron hills while driving with five
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Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If you want to bring a gleam to the eyes of David Siegel, Israel’s Consul General based in Los Angeles, ask him about the prospects for high-tech cooperation in the fields of water management and cyber-security between Israel and various American cities and states. During an interview Thursday,
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Kenneth Bandler NEW YORK — The American Jewish Committee, together with the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations and the Chaim Herzog Public Council, sponsored a major event at the UN on Wednesday, Nov. 11, marking the 40th anniversary of the historic speech by Israeli Ambassador to the UN Chaim Herzog’s denouncing the
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International, Middle East, USA
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — The Men’s Club of Beth Israel of San Diego hosts Fern Siegel as its featured speaker at a Nov. 18 Dinner Forum. Siegel’s presentation will focus on the subject of mental illness in the Jewish Community, including her personal experience of living with a daughter diagnosed with schizophrenia. Mental illness
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky SAN DIEGO — This column is prompted by a note I received from an Internet friend who chided me for minimizing the threats of Barack Obama, John Kerry, and BDS. He thinks like Caroline Glick, whose columns express the view that if things aren’t optimal, they are terrible. Glick has a substantial
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastKansas Jewish sites shooter sentenced to death OVERLAND PARK, Kansas (JNS.org) Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. was sentenced to death on Wednesday for his April 2014 shootings near the Jewish Community Center and the Village Shalom retirement facility in Overland Park, Kansas. Johnson County District Judge Kelly Ryan followed the recommendation of a jury that in
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USAIsraeli defense minister to discuss ‘smart’ fence on Gaza border (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was expected to discuss a plan to build specialized barriers as part of a “smart” fence system to protect Gaza-border communities on Thursday. The proposal is set to be presented for Israeli National Security Council approval
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Middle East
–30th in a series– Exit 10, College Avenue, San Diego ~Jewish Historical Society of San Diego By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Room 363 of the Love Library at San Diego State University is the home of the Jewish Historical Society of San Diego, which lovingly preserves the written records and photographs of this county’s Jewish
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food