Donald H. Harrison

Book takes unblinking look at Jewish Vilna’s destruction by the Nazis and others

 Stronger Than Iron by Mendel Balberyszski; Gefen Publishing  House; 331 pages; no price listed.  By Norman Manson         SAN DIEGO —  In utterly excruciating detail, this memoir tells the complete story of the destruction of one of the world’s great Jewish communities  –  Vilna, known as “The Jerusalem of Lithuania” for at least two centuries […]

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Bad news for Palestinians: Israel and U.S. focused on other matters

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two items are front and center in the Israeli media. One is American and one Israeli. Both are important in their own right, and may spill over to what had been the principal issue of the peace process.  Palestinians should be worrying that Americans are concerned with their dirty laundry,

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

‘Tin’ has comforting message for elementary school students

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California– Grossmont College Theatre Arts Prof. Jerry Hager wrote and directed Tin, an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s short story “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” that will be taken on tour at local elementary schools from now through Dec. 9.   Like many fairy tales, it has an important lesson. Previewed

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Donald H. Harrison

WikiLeaks disclosures prompt questions about kind of USA does Peres want Israel to support

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Two questions come to mind on reading about the latest release of secret material by WikiLeaks:  Will this provide the same push to anti-war activists as the Pentagon Papers in 1971? and will anyone notice that the ugliness associated with the Americans and their allies dwarfs the charges levied against

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East

Joan Rivers to solo in San Diego Jan. 15

 SAN DIEGO (Press Release) — “An Evening with Joan Rivers”  will be presented at the Balboa Theatre downtown on Saturday, January 15  at 8 p.m.    Considered  one of the hardest-working celebrities in the world,  she’s an internationally renowned comedienne, Emmy-winning television talk show host, Tony®-nominated actress, best-selling author, playwright, screenwriter, motion picture director, columnist, lecturer,

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Palestinian negotiating tactics: give nothing, insist on everything

By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel–A reader asks: “You wrote, `But if Israel defined it’s final boundaries before negotiations, the Palestinian Authority [says it] would return to the talks. Israel won’t do that, of course.’ Why is that `of course’”? I first joked that it was because the article was getting to be too long. In

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