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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

San Diego author tells the rest of the story of 'The Odyssey'

Penelope’s Daughter by Laurel Corona, Berkeley Publishing Group, 2010, 358 pages including glossary, afterword and reader’s guide, $15.   By Donald H. Harrison   SAN DIEGO—Readers may be charmed by this story and yet find it controversial.  Prize-winning author Laurel Corona, who often writes book reviews for San Diego Jewish World, has written another novel, Penelope’s Daughter, […]

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Donald H. Harrison

New CD captures cello and piano performance true to Beethoven's genius

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO–Bridge Records, a new  label, has produced some adventurous recordings. In 2007, the company introduced a collection of songs by Sefan Wolpe (1902-1972), an unheralded genius whose lyrics were in German, Yiddish, Hebrew and English. There followed other Wolpe albums such as a children’s puppet show tale, Lazy Andy Ant.  Additional

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Eileen Wingard

Was the Holocaust the legacy of the Church's teachings?

Six Million Crucifixions: How Christians Teachings About Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust by Gabriel Wilensky, Qwerty Publishers, San Diego, CA. ISBN 978-0-984-33467-4, ©2010, $27.95, p. 309, plus appendices. Available in Kindle edition  By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Twenty-two of the highest ranking Nazi Party officials were tried from November 20, 1945 to October 1,

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Fred Reiss, EdD

Rabbi seeks help from other clergy in stopping hate

EDISON, New Jersey. (Press Release)–Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg, pulpit rabbi at Congregation Beth El here, is tired of counting swastikas and hearing antisemitic cat calls when he heads home from synagogue. It happened to him again on Friday night August 20th on Route 27, where Jew-baiting by local teens has become trendy over the last year.

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Bernhard H. Rosenberg-Rabbi, Jewish Religion, USA

Editor Harrison adds college instructor to his portfolio

EL CAJON, California  (Press Release)– Grossmont College has announced that Donald H. Harrison, creator of San Diego Jewish World, an online newspaper, has been selected as a new instructor for the class that produces the student newspaper called The Summit. In addition to a print version of the student newspaper, Harrison says he is planning

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Donald H. Harrison

San Diegans meet poet Gertrude Rubin… and bid her farewell

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—A small crowd gathered in the sanctuary of Temple Emanu-El on Thursday evening, August 12, to meet the poet Gertrude Rubin of Chicago, who was introduced by her daughter and son-in-law, Bonnie and Lawrence Baron. Rabbis Martin Lawson and Lenore Bohm helped make the introductions, with Bohm reading  two of

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Donald H. Harrison

Book review: Combatting jealousy, the monster within us

Benny The Big Shot by Tehilla Deutsch, illustrations by Vitaliy Romanenko, Nanuet, N.Y.: Feldheim Publishers, 2010, 25 pages including glossary, ISBN 978-1-59826-468-5, $12.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — With school soon to go back into session, this is an enjoyable, cautionary, tale about how students must struggle against becoming jealous of each other. 

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Donald H. Harrison

SDSU’s Jewish Studies Program looks ahead to expanded offerings

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—It has been four years since Lawrence Baron was succeeded by Risa Levitt Kohn as head of the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University, but he’ll be back at the helm—temporarily—this upcoming academic year while Kohn takes a sabbatical in Israel where she’ll work with that nation’s antiquities

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Donald H. Harrison

Book Review: The Roman Wars-Was Josephus a Jewish hero or traitor?

Jerusalem’s Traitor: Josephus, Masada, and the Fall of Judea by Desmond Seward, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA; ISBN 978-0-306-81807-3, ©2009, $28.00, p. 275, plus maps, endnotes, and selected bibliography By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Desmond Seward, noted historian and author, in his newest book, Jerusalem’s Traitor provides us with a biography of Joseph

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Fred Reiss, EdD