By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –Voting’s tomorrow, Tuesday, April 9th, but it may be more than a month before we know the real results. Sure, in this functioning democracy, we’ll know within 12 hours which parties receive how many seats in the Knesset. But none of them will get a majority. And then there’s the President’s
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East
Tasty Pot, 4698 Convoy Street, Suite 107, San Diego, California 92111 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — Convoy Street in the Kearny Mesa area is known as one of the Asian epi-centers of San Diego. One of my favorite past times is to explore the area and visit its authentic ethnic restaurants. So when my
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and Food
Wanderer: The Ultimate Hippy Trail Journey by F.T. Burke with Steve Reifman, Nightingale Press, © 2018, ISBN 9781945-257278; 461 pages including acknowledgments. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Co-authors F. T Burke and Steve Reifman both backpacked across Europe and Asia as young men, and this novel combines their experiences, and perhaps some imaginary
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — There are two things I have been saying, and then a third item came along and surprised me. I mentioned often that there is no concept of “sin” in the Hebrew Bible as a distorting stain upon the soul that requires a kind of supernatural atonement
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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish ReligionBy Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM –It’s Election Day in Israel on Tuesday. After a long campaign – not devoid of recriminations, fake news and accusations of real or imagined misdemeanors – we’ll finally be able to cast our votes. The country won’t return to normal the day after, because that’s when the horse trading about
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Middle EastBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — “Songs of Home and Exile” is the title of the program Yale Strom will present at Smith Recital Hall, SDSU, Tuesday evening, April 9 at 7 p.m. The multi-talented artist-in-residence at San Diego State University’s Jewish Studies Department, has assembled an outstanding group of singers and instrumentalists for this
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar
Taming Your Guts: A Complete Guide to Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder, Second Edition, by Arnold L. Flick, M.D. © 2018, ISBN 9781797-411767; 188 pages plus diets and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Dr. Arnold Flick, who is a retired clinical professor of gastroenterology at the UC San Diego medical school, takes readers on
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodBy Pamela Pollack Fremd SPOKANE, Washington — If you like food, especially Japanese and Chinese food, you will enjoy this movie. In many of the scenes the preparation or consumption of food is the primary or secondary focus. Ramen Shop directed by Eric Khoo and written by Tan Fong Cheng and Wong Kim Hoh is not
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Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Every morning at breakfast I meet with a group of friends, and we talk about the news, ourselves, or visiting family members. I also meet friends for lunches and dinners, some who live in my retirement community, others who live in town, and some who visit from
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Natasha Josefowitz
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Jordan Gorfinkel, a former DC Comics editor who managed the Batman franchise for nearly a decade, will be at Tifereth Israel Synagogue in San Diego on Wednesday, April 10, for a free-to-the-public discussion of his work, which includes a newly published The Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel that brings the Exodus experience into
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, San Diego CountyLuxury Hotels Beckon (c) Edwin Black TEL AVIV — The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement [BDS] has taken particular aim at Israel’s tourism industry. Tourism accounts for about 11 percent of global GDP and 350 million jobs worldwide—more than ten percent of employment on the planet. In Israel, tourism is more than just sun, seashore,
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Edwin Black, Middle East, Travel and Food