Items in this column include:
*Preventing Gun Violence topic for Yom Kippur
*Political Bytes
*Book ‘Em
Our Shtetl San Diego County: October 1, 2019 Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
Survivors of the Holocaust: True Stories of Six Extraordinary Children, edited by Keith Shackleton, illustrated by Zane Whittingham; Sourcebooks, © 2019; ISBN pending, 96 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This set of six memoirs, illustrated cartoon style, is intended to make the Holocaust accessible to children ages 10 and up. Today living in
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History
Ten Knesset Members of the United Arab List advised the President to select Beny Gantz as the next Prime Minister. Three other MKs of that list refused to select anyone as the next Prime Minister.
What we’re seeing is another element of the Israelization of the Arab citizens of Israel.
And the approach of many other Arabs to support some kind of accommodation with Israel.
Arab support for Gantz a sign Jewish – Arab relations improving? Read More »
Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Items in today’s column include:
*Bry says San Diego can be largest city with 100 percent renewable energy reliance
*Christmas and Chanukah offerings at San Diego Oasis
Our Shtetl San Diego: September 30, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food
Not all members of today’s de Wind family, although all descendants of the Patriarch Issachar, are Jewish.
After a “mini-diaspora” from “Holland” in the late 1800s and early 1900s to places as close as Belgium and Spain and as far as Asia and the Americas, the Levys-de Winds married into other nationalities, ethnicities and religions.
But most have never forgotten their Jewish roots.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorian de Wind, International, Jewish HistoryActress Fran Drescher was born this day (September 30) in 1957.
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Where they live there is no horizon. There is only the dazzling white snow that stretches all around them as far as the eye can see. And then it transforms seamlessly into a sky that is exactly the same color. The white world encloses them like goldfish in a glass bowl.
The film is called Aga, and it was written and directed by Milko Lazarov. It is Bulgaria’s entry into the 2019 Academy Awards competition as Best International Feature Film and it has already won four major awards at European film festivals
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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastJapanese-born artist JUURI is painting a portrait of Hannah Senesh, the Israeli pioneer who parachuted behind Nazi lines to help Hungarian Jews and was captured and killed.
The mural is being installed at the Super Block building at 15th and F and will be the subject of tours from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4, as part of the Women Who Paint Festival. Tours begin at 889 Park Boulevard.
Our Shtetl San Diego: September 29, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
Heather Raffo’s new play, Noura, the Old Globe’s West Coast premiere, unveils the story of a Chaldean couple who are Iraqi refugees. They’ve been in America for seven years, but are celebrating their first Christmas as American citizens. Their new passports sport new American names, Tareq is now Tim, Noura is now Nora, and their son, Yazen has morphed into Alex. While Tim seems happy with this development, Noura is resentful and doesn’t like the adaptation.
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Jews around the world will once again hear the sound of the shofar as Rosh Hashanah is celebrated this week. The shofar is typically made of a ram’s horn, but in Yemenite tradition the horn of a kudu is used. The shofar ceremony comprises two blessings followed by a series of blasts consisting of three different notes: tekiah–one long blast, shevarim–three broken sounds, and teruah–nine staccato notes. The total number of blasts is traditionally 100 for Ashkenazic Jews and 101 for Sephardim, with Yemenite Jews sounding 41 blasts. The shofar has also made appearances in popular movies, songs, and television programs, including which of the following? (To read more, please click the headline)
Jewish Trivia Quiz: The Shofar Read More »
Jewish Religion, Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire“Our Father, Our King,” grant blessings on the Jewish people and all mankind in this Hebrew year of 5780.
Many people, secular and religious, of different cultures and worldviews, have attempted to calculate the age of the world. There is no agreement between them, simply because it is an impossible task. Christians, Muslims, and Jews have tried to do the calculation based on a literal reading of the Bible and have come up with different times. The following shows the impossibility by focusing on the widely used Jewish version.
Actual year of Hebrew calendar quite debatable Read More »
Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
“Lofty” has long been a word that traditionally describes academia. Yet a more apt word, to be nice, is “bizarre” when an Asian leader fulminates about Jews at a respected university and a so-called academic program rewrites Middle East history.
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AAA-Writers and photographers, Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAItems in today’s column include: *How various public schools named for Jews rank academically *Archaeology in Israel will be subject of day-long colloquium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography *Political Bytes *Honorable Menschen *Passages By Donald H. Harrison How various public schools named for Jews rank academically SAN DIEGO — Voice of San Diego recently published “A
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 28, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education