Donald H. Harrison

Joyce Forum to celebrate short subject movies at San Diego Jewish Film Festival

LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– The 21st  Anniversary San Diego Jewish Film Festival, Feb. 10-20, will  once again feature the Joyce Forum, a celebration of both emerging and seasoned filmmakers on Mon., February 14, at the Clairemont Reading Cinemas 14 beginning at 3:00 p.m.  The Joyce Forum presents outstanding Jewish-themed short-subject, documentary and feature films from […]

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Travel and Food

Sha’ar Hanegev—partnership region of San Diego’s Jewish Federation—ponders an economic mystery

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – There is a big mystery in Sha’ar Hanegev, Israel, that has its ranking officials scratching their heads – with pleasure. Notwithstanding that the municipality is located adjacent to the Gaza Strip, from which Kassam rockets are fired indiscriminately at Israel’s agricultural villages, and despite ever-present rumors that there

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San Diego Calendar, San Diego County

Did Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei put out a hit on Lebanon’s Rafiq Hariri?

BEIRUT (WJC) — Daniel Bellemare, the prosecutor of the UN Special Tribunal investigating the 2005 murder of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, has submitted a confidential indictment reportedly naming senior leaders of Hezbollah and the Iranian regime as masterminds of the assassination. Hariri – the father of the current Lebanese PM Saad Hariri whose

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Travel and Food

How Palestinian Authority manipulates Western news media to carry its propaganda

  By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel  (Press Release)–How incredibly bad is media coverage of Israel-Palestinian issues and of the Middle East in general? Here’s an example. CNN has just run a report on how wonderfully moderate the Palestinian Authority (PA) is. They are firing imams of West Bank mosques who are spewing out incitement against

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Middle East, USA

Christian pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen head for rally in Jerusalem to support Israel

HOUSTON (Press Release) — In a show of solidarity with the nation of Israel and the Jewish people, Joel and Victoria Osteen will travel to Israel to hold “A Historic Night of Hope” at the Jerusalem Theater on Thursday, February 3, at 7:00 p.m. The event will be broadcast around the world by the Trinity Broadcasting

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Jewish Religion

On-line yeshiva organizes free day of learning to aid cancer patient in Poland

 JERUSALEM (Press Release)– WebYeshiva.org, an interactive online Torah studies program, has announced that the “virtual” Yeshiva will become “live” with Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Chaim Brovender, traveling to remote northern Swiecie, Poland to be with one of his online students. WebYeshiva.org will offer a day of free Torah courses on Sunday,m January 23, that will be

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Travel and Food

Israelis develop system to let you see who’s tracking you on Facebook

TEL AVIV (Press Release)—Privacy in the digital age is a sensitive issue for both governments and individuals, as recent news about WikiLeaks and Facebook proved. A new research project at Tel Aviv University may better educate citizens of the virtual world about their privacy ― and even help Facebook users avoid truly embarrassing moments. It’s

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Science, Medicine, & Education

ADL welcomes ‘retirement’ of Helen Thomas lifetime achievement award

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed the vote of the board of directors of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) to permanently “retire” the Helen Thomas Award for Lifetime Achievement. The award will be retired with Thomas’s name attached, meaning no lifetime achievement award will be given in the future, according to the

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Travel and Food

Survivors’ son charts their road to Holocaust recovery

An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life in Canada by Robert Eli Rubinstein, Urim Publications, Israel, and Lambda Publishers, Brooklyn, 2010, ISBN 978-965-524-044-3, 177 pages including appendices and endnotes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Perhaps the author and publishers were a bit too clever in titling this family memoir.  Although a portion of the action

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Candye Kane stars in autobiographical ‘Toughest Girl Alive’

By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— Candye Kane doesn’t know it but I have a lovely portrait, in oils, of her hanging in my home. Funny thing is, I had never heard her sing until I saw her musical autobiography The Toughest Girl Alive now at Moxie Theatre. It is in a world premiere production and

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

ZOA endorses economic sanctions against Palestinian Authority

Boycott Israel Ad On Palestinian TV Backed By Spain * NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) is supporting the call of Israel’s Minister of National Infrastructure, Uzi Landau, for a review of past Israeli agreements signed with Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority (PA) as a result of recent PA efforts promoting foreign economic

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Middle East