Humor columnist Laurie Baron says President Trump should heed the advice that can be gleaned from popular songs. He cites the works of Frank Loesser, Bob Dylan, Tim Hardin, PartyNextDoor, and Bon Jovi.
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Lawrence Baron, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Kate Schwartz, a Fallbrook Democrat who will face incumbent Assemblywoman Marie Waldron (R-Escondido) in the Nov. 3 runoff election, said the coronavirus pandemic illustrates the necessity to re-open community and rural hospitals. Furthermore, she said, it is evidence that California should switch from competing private health systems to a unified, single-payer health care system. She said California could set an example for the rest of the nation. [Our Shtetl San Diego County column by Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Lifestyles, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, The World We Share, USAEditor’s Note: Columnist Laurie Baron has been scouring the TV and Internet services for movies of Jewish interest that you can watch at home. Combined with the previous installments of his research, it is quite a collection. Here are links to Parts I, II, III, IV, and V.
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State Assembly candidate Kate Schwartz eared her graduate degree in psychiatric social work, and today as a mental health professional, she serves as one of five members on the Fallbrook Regional Health District Board. As our society experiences the coronavirus pandemic, she says that Americans appear to be moving from the first stage of grief — shock and denial — to the far more dangerous second stage, which is anger. [Our Shtetl San Diego County column by Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Lifestyles, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USAColumnist Laurie Baron has been scouring the TV and Internet services for movies of Jewish interest that you can watch at home. Combined with the previous installments of his research, it is quite a collection. Here are links to Parts I, II, III, and IV. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Editor’s Note: Columnist Laurie Baron has been scouring the TV and Internet services for movies of Jewish interest that you can watch at home. Combined with the previous installments of his research, it is quite a collection. Here are links to Parts I, II, and III.
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Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Gary E. Jacobs, the San Diegan who serves as the national chairman of the JCC Association Board of Directors, declared Wednesday that “the Jewish community has historically overcome the greatest challenges only when we united and work together. This is one of those moments when we in the JCC Community, along with the Federations, summer camps and so many others will collaborate to address this unprecedented crisis.” [Our Shtetl San Diego County column by Donald H. Harrison]
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With in-person classes transferred to Internet learning at UC Berkeley, my grandson, Shor Masori, is back home in San Diego, monitoring his classes via computer. Recently, he and his fellow undergraduates received a notice from Bob Jacobsen, Letters & Science Dean of Undergraduate Studies. It began, “The chair of the Academic Senate has written to explain that for this semester only, the default grades that instructors will give are Pass and No Pass.” [Our Shtetl San Diego County column by Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodHere is another installment of movies of direct Jewish interest that you can watch at home. Links to previous installments may be found here and here. [Laurie Baron, Ph.D]
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Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastWhether Donald Trump holds his daily coronavirus press conferences to calm and inform the public or as a social distance substitute for his campaign rallies, the disinformation he disseminates through them is dangerous. Since he doesn’t read, I am encouraging his closest advisors to have him listen to these cautionary songs before he utters a word. [Satire column by Laurie Baron]
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As the coronavirus is spreading throughout the world, I am social-distancing myself from the rest of the outside world. In quiet but worrisome times like this I enjoy reading literature from history’s most thought-provoking answers—and that is how I decided to re-read Albert Camus’ 1947 short story, The Plague, about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal city of Oran; it is considered to be a classic of twentieth-century literature. [Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiHere are more Jewish-interest films and programming available to watch at home. {Laurie Baron, PhD]
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It’s not every day that Charles Wax, owner of Waxie Sanitary Supply, receives phone calls from mayors, county supervisors, or governors. But these are not everyday times. As the largest privately owned janitorial and sanitary supply company in America, Waxie Sanitary Supply stocks the bathrooms and janitorial supply cabinets of many schools, hospitals, government office buildings, prisons, and other institutions throughout the nine western states. To do so, it has 200 delivery vehicles stationed at 25 regional warehouses. Headquarters for the entire operation is in the Kearny Mesa neighborhood of San Diego. [Our Shtetl San Diego County column by Donald H. Harrison]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyYou’ve got more time on your hands than you have ever had, but also more anxiety about when the coronavirus pandemic will be over. I annually organize a Jewish Film series at my synagogue. Since it has been cancelled, here’s the first installment of Jewish programming you can stream in your home. [Lawrence Baron, Ph.D]
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