Below are the names of writers who are currently active. For others, living and deceased, please type their name into the search box above the masthead on our home page, www.sdjewishworld.com
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California- I became aware of a program recently that actually made me wish I could roll back the clock and experience the angst, pressure and confusion of being a high school junior all over again. Not because I loved that stress-packed year of SATs, college apps, peer pressure, and road […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eva Trieger
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyle; Random House Children’s Books/ David Fickling Books (c) 2016; ISBN 978-0-385-75107-0; 218 pages including discussion questions; $17.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This novel is being brought back after a decade; its impact on its intended audience of young readers likely to be sad,
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — When I covered San Diego Civic Dance Arts, I took notice of Aaron Schueler, a young hoofer with “very busy feet” who reminded me of “a little Fred Astaire.” (https://www.sdjewishworld.com/2016/02/17/67511/) Aaron is twelve years old and a sixth grader attending Albert Einstein Academy, taking classes at SDCDA after
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
-46th in a Series- Exit 15, El Cajon Boulevard, El Cajon ~ Lankershim, Chase & Knox By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — In the early history of the City of El Cajon, two names are particularly well known — Levi Chase, for whom Chase Avenue and the Chase Avenue Elementary School are
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USAThe Dream of Zion: The Story of the First Zionist Congress by Lawrence J. Epstein, Rowman & Littlefield, New York; ISBN 978-1-4422-5466-5 ©2016, $36.00, p. 137, plus chronology and references. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Professor emeritus Lawrence Epstein in his newest book The Dream of Zion, argues that the nineteenth-century European Enlightenment’s
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, International, Jewish History, Middle East
The Chameleon That Saved Noah’s Ark by Yael Molchadsky with illustrations by Orit Bergman; Penguin Young Readers Group/ Nancy Paulsen Books (c) 2015; ISBN 978-1-100-99676-8; 28 pages, 16.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –You could call this Israeli-written and illustrated book a fable, or a midrash, that utilizes the well-known biblical story of Noah
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It’s one of the best-kept secrets of British journalism that the Life and Arts section of the Financial Times’ weekend edition contains some of the best-written and most stimulating articles and reviews. So as we were leaving the airport of our almost next-door neighbor of Cyprus for
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish HistorySAN DIEGO — This publication would like to thank and express appreciation to the writers and photographers whose works appeared during February 2016 in San Diego Jewish World. They include: Judy Lash Balint Kenneth Bandler Laurie Baron Boaz Bismuth Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Stephen Bryen Cynthia Citron Richard L. Cravtts Jack Forman Donald H. Harrison
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Barry Shaw, Cynthia Citron, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eric George Tauber, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Melanie Rubin, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Sheryl Rowling, Shoshana Bryen, Steve Kramer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke and Jennifer Armstrong; Penguin Random House/ Ember; (c) 1999, 2015; ISBN 978-0-679-99181-6; 278 pages including appendices, $10.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This publication has reviewed, and will continue to review, numerous memoirs by Holocaust survivors. What makes this memoir different
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryBy Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Emmanuel Lubezki won the Oscar for Best Cinematography for the film The Revenant. Lubezki, a Jewish-Mexican with family roots in Bolshevik Russia, has now won this award three years in a row (having previously won for Gravity and Birdman). When Leo DiCaprio won the Best Actor award
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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Terry Miller is a teacher at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in the Paradise Hills neighborhood of San Diego. I first met Terry when she was the drama teacher at Pershing Middle School and I was a grad student at SDSU. She allowed me to workshop
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Eric George Tauber, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Meant To Be by Rabbi Marvin Hier; Toby Press, LLC; © 2015; ISBN 978-1-59264-389-9; 342 pages including photo sections and index; $29.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –This memoir tells the story of the founding of the Yeshiva University of Los Angeles, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, Moriah Pictures, and the Museums of Tolerance in
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — I’ve been doing research lately on the Oscars. Although I have my favorite films, I realize that my criteria differ from the members of the Academy who not only respond to the merits of the films themselves, but to publicity campaigns waged by the studios, sentimental sympathies for popular
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Lawrence Baron, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ After his victory in the Nevada caucuses Donald Trump gloated over winning almost every demographic group including the poorly educated. Echoing James Carville’s strategy from the 1992 Clinton campaign, Trump’s campaign manager proclaimed, “It’s the stupid, stupid.” * In a surprise move Chris Christie endorsed Donald Trump for president. The
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire