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SDJW thanks 43 whose works appeared in January

February 1, 2016

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — San Diego Jewish World expresses its appreciation to the 43 writers and photographers whose works appeared during January 2016. These individuals included: David Amos Eitan Arom Kenneth Bandler Laurie Baron Amber Bartlett Ronnie Blair Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Stephen Bryen Cynthia Citron Richard L. Cravatts Judy Friedel Michael Freund Donald H. Harrison Natasha […]

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Barry Shaw, Cynthia Citron, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shoshana Bryen, Steve Kramer

A political tour of the Middle East

February 1, 2016

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Iran’s President Rouhani was feted in Italy on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, of all days. (It’s sickening how many Europeans don’t even mention Jews when speechifying on the Holocaust.) Classic, “erotic” artwork in Rouhani’s line of sight was hidden, wine was eschewed at banquets, and Rouhani was invited

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

JFS dedicates its Jacobs Family Campus

January 31, 2016

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jewish Family Service on Sunday, Jan. 31, dedicated a reconfigured and re-imagined campus intended to architecturally incorporate Jewish values and principles within its buildings and on its grounds. At a ceremony to affix a mezuzah to a property at 8788 Balboa Avenue and to honor lead donors Joan

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

Film Festival Preview: ‘A Blind Hero’

January 31, 2016

A Blind Hero: The Love of Otto Weidt; directed by Kai Christiansen; Germany; 2014; 90 minutes in German with English Subtitles; Drama; to be shown three times during the San Diego Jewish Film Festival, at 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 6 at the Carlsbad Village Theatre, 2822 State St., Carlsbad and at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Feb.

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

‘Love fellow Jew as yourself’ — Do we observe this?

January 31, 2016

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — What lesson have we not learned from one of the most basic principles in Judaism, “Love your fellow Jew as yourself”? It’s preached on pulpit after pulpit, regardless of the sex of the rabbi, the color of the rabbi’s talit, whether the rabbi wears a kippah or

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell

Anachnu: Joe Gandelman

January 30, 2016

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – It would be difficult to say whether ventriloquist Joe Gandelman spends more time in his San Diego condominium or in his car driving to gigs at schools, fairs, senior homes, and private parties across the United States. On one national tour that stretched over eight months, he and

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Donald H. Harrison, Joe Gandelman, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Anachnu: Ed Cherlin

January 29, 2016

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Sitting across a table from Ed Cherlin, you notice that he is a man with patience who doesn’t show even a flicker of annoyance when an interviewer changes the topic, or interrupts his answer. This probably is because Cherlin also is a man with patients – psychiatric ones, with

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Holocaust quandary: At what cost survival?

January 28, 2016

Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriet Savit, Random House Children’s Books, ©2016; fiction; ISBN 978-0-553-51334-9; 230 pages; $17.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Here is a fictional story that is both fascinating and improbable. A 7-year-old Jewish girl in Poland is left alone after the Nazis take away her father, a professor

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

A new translation of Shadal’s comments on Exodus

January 28, 2016

Daniel Klein (editor and trans.) and Samuel David Luzzato, Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Interpretation of the Book of Shemot; Kodesh Press, 2015; ISBN-13: 978-0692522066. Price: $29.95. Rating ***** By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most remarkable modern day exegetes of the 19th century was the Italian biblical commentator,

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Humoring the Headlines: January 28, 2016

January 28, 2016

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ A recent Pew Poll revealed that Americans would be 37 % less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who had an extramarital affair, 31 % less likely to vote for one who had Washington experience, 26 % less likely to vote for someone who was gay, and 10 %

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

I-8 Jewish Travel: 4 family business stories

January 28, 2016

-41st in a Series– Exit 13B, Jackson Drive, La Mesa ~ Grossmont Center, The Legacies of Adolph Levi, Nathan Straus, Isaias Hellman, and Joseph Sherwood By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California – When you see the large “Grossmont Center” sign on the hillside above Jackson Drive, what images come to mind? How about the signs

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

Film Festival Preview: ‘The Prime Ministers’

January 27, 2016

The Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers directed by Richard Trask; Moriah Films; USA; 2015; 114 minutes; English, Hebrew; English Subtitles, Documentary; Southern California Films; to be shown twice at the Reading Cinemas 14, at 4665 Clairemont Drive, San Diego, at 5 p.m., Sunday February 7, and at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11; and once the

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Perlman and Ax played like musical siblings

January 27, 2016

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — As Itzhak Perlman entered the stage, seated on a motorized scooter, steering with one hand and holding his violin and bow with the other, I recalled the cherub-faced 12-year-old Israeli prodigy when he first appeared in the USA on the Ed Sullivan show. I have followed his career ever

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Bikur Cholim — The importance of a visit or a phone call

January 27, 2016

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A few days ago I received an unusual email. It came from someone I had never met, but whom I knew was the person who was looking after an old friend from long ago. In the mail I was informed that Inge was bedridden, near to death, unable to

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Obituaries & memorials, USA

SDJW thanks 43 whose works appeared in January

A political tour of the Middle East

JFS dedicates its Jacobs Family Campus

Film Festival Preview: ‘A Blind Hero’

‘Love fellow Jew as yourself’ — Do we observe this?

Anachnu: Joe Gandelman

Anachnu: Ed Cherlin

Holocaust quandary: At what cost survival?

A new translation of Shadal’s comments on Exodus

Humoring the Headlines: January 28, 2016

I-8 Jewish Travel: 4 family business stories

Film Festival Preview: ‘The Prime Ministers’

Perlman and Ax played like musical siblings

Bikur Cholim — The importance of a visit or a phone call

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