International

‘Intelligent Lives’ tracks 3 adults with mental disabilities

Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib, scheduled for release September 21. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib about the high potential of people with mental disabilities, is scheduled for New York City release Sept. 21 and around the country thereafter.  Narrated by Chris Cooper, whose son […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

High marks for Spike Lee film probing Klan

By Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee ‘s recently released film, covers  the early years  of the Black Power Movement in the 1970s , and  most importantly exposes  the Klu KLux Klan’s  insidious  agenda  of racism,  and Anti-Semitism in America. BlacKkKlansman is  based  on the life of  Ron Stallworth who served as 

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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: September 17, 2018 (4 items)

Terrorist victim Ari Fuld mourned The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America had expressed its great sadness over the death of Ari Fuld zk”l, a U.S.-Israeli citizen who was killed over the weekend in Israel by a Palestinian terrorist. Fuld, 45, was attacked Sunday morning by a terrorist wielding a knife outside a shopping

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: September 14, 2018 (3 items)

World Jewish Congress condemns Neo-Nazi attack on Jewish restaurant The World Jewish Congress vehemently condemns the reprehensible antisemitic attack that took place recently on the sidelines of a neo-Nazi protest in the east German city of Chemnitz, in which masked assailants hurled rocks and bottles at a Jewish restaurant, injuring one person. “It is inconceivable

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Talented artist Kusama overcomes prejudice

“Not only was she a woman, but she was Japanese” – Glenn Scott Wright, director, Victoria Miro Gallery By Heather Z. Rothstain LOS ANGELES – I wasn’t interested in her work, then I watched this documentary.  Move over Warhol, stand back Claes Oldenburg, Kusama’s time is now! Kusama Infinity – The Life and Art of

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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

1985 novel by Simone Signoret still captivates

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The name of the author, the actress Simone Signoret, caught my eye and I bought Adieu Volodia for 50 cents (521 pages, hardback) last summer while browsing the stalls at a village brocante, a kind of flea-market in rural France where the locals bring out the items they wish

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Netanyahu alienates Jews around the world

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — “The State of Israel against the Jews” is the provocative title of an article in Friday’s Ha’aretz Magazine by Eva Illuz, professor of sociology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and author of many important books and articles on current affairs. She bases her contention on the highly publicized encounters

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International, Middle East, USA

Failing economy dampens Turkey’s Balkan influence

By Alon Ben-Meir and Arbana Xharra   NEW YORK — As Turkey’s President Erdogan runs out of money, he is now, more than any time before, using religion to exploit the Balkans, especially the states that are more susceptible to Islamic influence. Bosnia is at the fore of Erdogan’s ambitious Islamic agenda, where he is

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Alon Ben-Meir, International, Middle East

Moorea, land of Moana and UC field studies

Editor’s Note: This is the 28th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food