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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 Fire Possessed’ tells of Jewish woman who fought the Inquisition

By Fire Possessed: Dona Gracia Nasi by Sandra K. Toro, Santa Fe, N.M.: Gaon Books, 2010, ISBN 978-1-935604-06-8, 209 pages, price not listed By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Set in 16th Century Europe, this historical novel recounts the battle of the House of Mendes, a Jewish shipping, banking and trading company, for safety from […]

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Donald H. Harrison

A bissel this, a bissel that –San Diego Jewish news and chatter

 (column 13, January 27, 2011)     Compiled by Donald H. Harrison _________________ Jewish organizations _________________ * A trialogue among representatives of the Jewish, Muslim and Christian faiths will be conducted 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7, at Temple Adat Shaom, 15905 Pomerado Road, Poway.  Host Rabbi David Castiglione will be joined on a panel by

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

A bissel this, a bissel that–San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 12, January 24, 2011) *  Compiled by Donald H. Harrison   _______________________ Jewish organizations ________________________ Robert Zweiman, past national commander of the Jewish War Veterans, had an article in the January 20 issue of The Forward explaining his organization’s lawsuit against the Christian cross atop Mount Soledad.  http://www.forward.com/articles/134845/ * The Anti-Defamation League’s multi-media Holocaust

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AICF has varied interests, rigorous standards

By Eileen Wingard NEW YORK– A ten-year-old violin prodigy, Mark Karlinsky, a thirteen-year old Israeli-Chinese pianist, Motti Bentov, two male dancers, Joseph Chaikin and Tal Adler-Arieli, the celebrated violin and piano siblings Gil and Orly Shaham, and a Rock Band, Shorashim were part of the eclectic mix at the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Gala Concert last

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Eileen Wingard

San Diego Jewish Film Festival preview: ‘Matchmaker’

Matchmaker, directed by Avi Nesher, Hebrew with Engl.ish subtitles, 112 minutes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Yankale the Matchmaker (Adir Miller) is a Holocaust survivor who can’t persuade Clara (Maya Dagan), who was even more scarred by the Shoah than he, to marry him.  But that doesn’t discourage him from offering his matchmaking

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Survivors’ son charts their road to Holocaust recovery

An Italian Renaissance: Choosing Life in Canada by Robert Eli Rubinstein, Urim Publications, Israel, and Lambda Publishers, Brooklyn, 2010, ISBN 978-965-524-044-3, 177 pages including appendices and endnotes. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Perhaps the author and publishers were a bit too clever in titling this family memoir.  Although a portion of the action

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

A bissel this, a bissel that – San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 10, January 17, 2011) __________ News topics _________ Rethinking American Jewish Education * San Diego Israel Coalition is actively promoting the appearance at Congregation Beth El of Rabbi Daniel Gordis, who will be delivering three lectures Feb. 11-12 as the Scholar in Residence.  On Friday evening following Shabbat Services, Gordis, senior vice president of

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County

‘Battle of the two Talmuds’ looks at an ancient split between Israel and the Diaspora

Battle of the Two Talmuds: Judaism’s Struggle with Power, Glory, & Guilt by Leon H. Charney and Saul Mayzlish, Barricade Books, Fort Lee, NJ; ISBN 978-1-56980-439-1 ©2010, $22.95, p. 224 plus glossary By  Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — One does not need to listen to very many rabbinic sermons before he or she hears the words, “And the

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food

A bissel this, a bissel that…San Diego Jewish news and chatter

(Column 9, January 12, 2011)  By Donald H. Harrison  __________________ Jewish Organizations ___________________ The Center for Jewish Culture is sponsoring a poets’ night at the Samuel & Rebecca Astor Judaica Library at the Lawrence Family JCC. at 7:30 p.m., Jan 18. Heading for the microphone are local poets Ron Horvitz, and husband and wife Howard

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Donald H. Harrison

A bissel this, a bissel that—San Diego Jewish news and chatter

  (Column 8, January 11, 2011)    By Donald H. Harrison   San Diego and Israel Boris Goldenberg, 20, grew up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with his mother and grandmother, knowing very little about his Jewish background.  However, at the age of 17, he started studying Hebrew at a local Jewish community center.  That led to

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County