Donald H. Harrison

Junior high girl prepares for Anne Frank role

April 17, 2019

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A line formed after Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, spoke recently at Chabad of Poway. When it was the turn of 15-year-old Bryn Williams to kneel next to the chair of the 90-year-old Schloss, they had a particularly animated discussion. Williams, a veteran of the Pickwick Players

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Passover Haroset’s mysterious origin

April 17, 2019

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Many Jewish practices are not as old as people think and many had no religious significance when first introduced. We do not even know how or when most Jewish practices began and why they began. We can only guess. And in many instances our guesses reveal

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food

Who compiled the Haggadah, and why?

April 17, 2019

By Moshe Dann JERUSALEM — Although Jews have been retelling the story of the Exodus from Egypt at the Pesach Seder for millennia, the Haggadah as we know it was compiled during the Gaonic period (8th-9th century CE) in Babylon, with additional songs written by Jews probably during the Middle Ages. Based on Torah, Mishna

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Jewish Religion, Middle East

Rube Goldberg style Pesach ~ Technion students

April 17, 2019

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Travel and Food

Reach for the stars and hit a glass ceiling

April 17, 2019

‘They Promised Her the Moon’ at the Old Globe in Balboa Park through May 12. By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Possibly every American has heard the names Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, John Glenn and Chuck Yeager. They were the men with the right stuff: the smarts, courage and ambition to fly fighter jets

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Eric George Tauber, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Sometimes, “It’s Hard to Be a Jew”

April 16, 2019

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — As Jews are observing the Passover holiday this coming weekend, recalling a time when our ancestors left Egypt, the land of their oppression, we are witnessing a new kind of Exodus taking place today: Jews are leaving France in record numbers amidst the rising anti-Semitic attacks that have

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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Pesach during the Holocaust

April 16, 2019

By Simmy Allen JERUSALEM — The Pesach holiday – which marks the Jewish people’s exodus from enslavement in ancient Egypt – was never more reminiscent in modern times as during the Holocaust. In the Pesach Haggadah, which recounts the miraculous story, Jews are told to proclaim: “This year we are here; next year we will

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion

Are animals inherently our moral equals?

April 16, 2019

“Cursed be that mortal inter-indebtedness which will not do away with ledgers. I would be free as air; and I’m down in the whole world’s books. I am so rich… and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with” (Moby Dick, chapter cviii). By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — In standard

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Sam Ben-Meir, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Passover recipes ~ Mayim Bialik

April 16, 2019

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Travel and Food

Blue and White coalition with Likud would be best

April 16, 2019

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Had the leaders of Israel’s political parties with seats in the next Knesset been committed to the good of the country and all its citizens – rather than their own interests and the advancement of their party – they’d recommend to the president a government led by the two

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Middle East

Habit voting aided Netanyahu despite all

April 16, 2019

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–Now that the actual elections (though not the coalition-building process) are behind us we can stop and think about what we have all just been through here in Israel, and what awaits us in the near future. Apparently this election campaign was the nastiest in living memory, which isn’t saying

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Middle East

Book review: ‘The Limits of the World’

April 16, 2019

The Limits of the World by Jennifer Acker; Delphinium Books © 2019; ISBN 9781883-285777; 300 pages, $25.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Immigrants from India found themselves distrusted by both sides of the racial divide in colonial Kenya. As far as black Africans were concerned, the brown-skinned Asians were part of the ruling

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Book Review: ‘In Good Faith’

April 15, 2019

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Often the greatest critics of religion offer us a series of criticism about the depth of our faith; they confront us with our hypocrisy. They challenge us to reexamine what it means to “believe.” As a young teenager, I remember hiding Raphael Patai’s book, Hebrew Myths in

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Six actors, six plays = North Coast Rep hit

April 15, 2019

By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel SOLANA BEACH, California — All in the Timing is a hit with six clever funny plays, six outstanding actors ,and precise direction by David Ellerstein. If your timing is good I recommend you catch the show before it closes on May 5th. You will laugh your way through the evening,

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Junior high girl prepares for Anne Frank role

Passover Haroset’s mysterious origin

Who compiled the Haggadah, and why?

Rube Goldberg style Pesach ~ Technion students

Reach for the stars and hit a glass ceiling

Sometimes, “It’s Hard to Be a Jew”

Pesach during the Holocaust

Are animals inherently our moral equals?

Passover recipes ~ Mayim Bialik

Blue and White coalition with Likud would be best

Habit voting aided Netanyahu despite all

Book review: ‘The Limits of the World’

Book Review: ‘In Good Faith’

Six actors, six plays = North Coast Rep hit

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