Donald H. Harrison

Another guilty plea in Modesto synagogue and church vandalism

FRESNO, California (Press Release) – Andrew Kerber, 22, of Chico, Calif., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill in Fresno, Calif., to violating the civil rights of congregants of Congregation Beth Shalom, a synagogue in Modesto, Calif. According to court documents, on or about Feb. 2, 2006, Kerber and two other men, Abel Mark

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USA

Peres on Egypt: Elections are only the first step toward democracy

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM– What Shimon Peres said to Angela Merkel on Tuesday, I heard from Jim Lederman the night before. The German Chancellor was paying a visit to Israel’s President as part of her brief stay in the country. She brought many members of her cabinet to Jerusalem for another joint session with her

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Middle East

Commentary: Brooklyn College reinstates pro-Gaza professor as Mideast seminar leader

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California –Brooklyn College President Karen Gould today announced the re-hire of Kristofer Petersen. His appointment to teach a graduate course on the Politics of the Middle East had been rescinded last week, after a furor over his avid pro-Gaza writings, activism and slanted syllabus was brought to light. In her patently ridiculous

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USA

Gov. Haley Barbour to be escorted to Israel by Republican Jewish Coalition

WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 1, 2011) — The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) announced on Tuesday that it will host the upcoming visit of Governor and Mrs. Haley Barbour of Mississippi to Israel, February 5-9, 2011. This will be the second time that the RJC hasescorted Governor Barbour to Israel. The organization also hosted him in 1994, when

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Middle East

Video: GOP Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee tours Israel for 13th time

Mike Huckabee Visits Israeli Knesset JERUSALEM (WJC) — World Jewish Congress Secretary General-Designate Dan Diker has called on Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and one of the candidates who in 2008 sought the Republican Party’s nomination for the US presidency, to lend his support to an international campaign for the referral of the

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Middle East

Software will show plastic surgery patients what they will look like after the operation

TEL AVIV (Press Release) ― For some plastic surgery patients, expectations are unrealistically high.  Basing their hopes on the before-and-after albums offered in surgeons’ offices, they expect to achieve a perfect body or to look just like a favorite celeb.  But those albums only show how someone else’s liposuction, breast augmentation, or Beyonce bum enhancement turned

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Science, Medicine, & Education

Adventures in San Diego Jewish History, September 30, 1955, Part 2

Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff The New Secularism (Editorial) Southwestern Jewish Press, September 30, 1955, Page 3 There has been much discussion during the past month about Will Herberg’s new book “Protestant-Catholic-Jew.”  Mr. Herberg’s thesis is that religion in this country has become synonymous with Americanism, and not to be a member of

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Adventures in SD History, San Diego County

Book teaches people how to prepare for and cope with death

 Saying Goodbye by Someone You Love by Norine Dresser and Fredda Wasserman, Demos Medical Publishing, 2010, ISBN 978-1-932603-85-9, 210 pages including index, $16.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Folklorist Norine Dresser suffered the loss of her longtime husband, Harold.  Fredda Wasserman is a grief counselor.  They became friends, which eventually led to their

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Donald H. Harrison

Poets share at Lawrence Family JCC … and on our website!

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California–The third year of “Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices” at the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC opened Tuesday evening, January 18, and featured Judith Rubenstein, Howard Rubenstein and  Ron Horvitz. Each of the featured poets read 15 to 20 minutes from their original works. Judith Rubenstein played selections of

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Eileen Wingard

‘Tijuana Jews’ filmmakers turn their sights to frontier Jews north of the border

SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Award winning filmmakers, Isaac and Jude Artenstein are readying production in San Diego for the first professional documentary spotlighting the Jewish Experience in the Southwest. The overall goal of Frontier Jews is to provide new insight into a part of American Jewish history that is an important missing piece of the

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Travel and Food