Donald H. Harrison

Commentary: Filner chooses lives of pigs over those of Marines

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –Congressman Bob Filner, together with PETA, wants to replace with simulators military Corpsmen’s “live tissue trauma training” on pigs. Filner’s proposal is a “pig in a poke”, experience and science does not support his drastic change in military training. But, Filner is running for mayor of San Diego and this […]

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Travel and Food

Free speech vs. religious sensibility at issue in Pennsylvania case

  By Rabbi Michael Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Last Halloween, two atheists decided to poke some adolescent fun at the expense of Catholicism and Islam. One person dressed up as “Zombie Pope” and the other dressed up as “Zombie Mohammed.” Their behavior was outrageous. This is what happened afterwards. A Muslim man named Talaag Elbayomy

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

Israel, U.S. must find common ground on Iran’s nuclear threat

By James Colbert WASHINGTON, D.C. — Israel, the United States, and Europe share grave concern over the Iranian theocracy’s politics and its serial use of violence in pursuit of its goals. The Islamic Republic formally declared war on the west and is the major state sponsor, funder, and trainer of terrorism, including plotting terror in

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Middle East

‘In the Wake’ or The Girl Who Wants It All

By Carol Davis        SAN DIEGO—Lisa Kron is a political animal. I can identify with that. When her leading character, Ellen, smartly played by Aubrey Saverino, is glued to CNN and/or MSNBC to catch all the political talking heads speaking her language, I get it. And it becomes abundantly clear, as the projections of the still

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Carol Davis, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Sami delegation from Norway visits Israel to learn how to revive an ancient language

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Representatives of the Sami minority in Norway came to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem earlier this month to learn how Hebrew is taught to students from around the world. Their goal is to apply similar teaching methods to revitalize the endangered Sami languages so they can pass them on to future generations.

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Science, Medicine, & Education

UNRWA sacrifices life, truth, to anti-Israel political goals

By David Bedein JERUSALEM — Flashback to 1976. I was then escorted with a delegation of social work professionals to visit UNRWA facilities in Gaza. There, Dr. Eli Lasch,then the head of the Israel Civil Administration’s Gaza health department, explained that his life’s mission was to eradicate infant mortality in the teeming UNRWA Gaza facilities

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Middle East

Netanyahu likely to circumvent court ruling on military exemptions for haredim

By Rabbi Dow Marmur Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –Unfortunately, it’s not as exciting as it’s being presented in the media.Israel’s Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision may have made an historic ruling when it refused to allow the extension of the law that exempts ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jews from military service. However, in order not to

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