By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A New York Times review of a recent book about Obama’s “blackness” pretty much sums up what we’ve known since he came on the stage a decade ago. He isn’t all that black. He’s no Jesse Jackson. He’s a non-threatening African American, moreso than Americans whose ancestors came centuries ago, insofar […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison Alan Goldenberg SAN DIEGO — Alan Goldenberg joined the Navy, served eight years, and he still gets to see the world in various civilian jobs that were an outgrowth of his Navy service. The skills he learned as an electronics technician led to positions with a variety of land-based companies that
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
“Leba” is a Yiddish name meaning “beloved.” It could refer to the car or the driver, or possibly to both. Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, spotted it.
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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Two black South African students who traveled to Israel to learn if South African BDS advocates were telling the truth about “apartheid” in the Jewish state say the apartheid charge is bogus. Furthermore, said Miyelani Pinini, former president of the Student Representative Council at the University of Cape
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, USA
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Authority (Press Release) — U.S. Ambassador Daniel Sepulveda, deputy assistant secretary and U.S. coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, on Thursday, Feb. 4, hailed an agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority for the provision of 3G mobile phone services within the latter’s territory. Following is a transcript of his remarks delivered at
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Middle East, USABy Rabbi Jeffrey Lipschultz ROCK ISLAND, Illinois –Thoughts this week fill my mind as we come to our new Parshah on Mishpatim that deals with the laws of the Torah and the command to adhere to all aspects of law, both small and large, to stand righteously with God. The laws are a sort of
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Jewish Religion, Sports & Competitions, USA
-42nd in a Series– Exit 13A, Jackson Drive, La Mesa ~ Chabad of East County By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California – If I were to ask you what a pioneer looks like, perhaps you would describe him as a man wearing a coonskin hat, a buckskin jacket and pants, and moccasins. Maybe you
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
Ghosts: Images of War by Carrie Zeidman; © 2015 Swiss Creek Publications; ISBN 978-0970227652; 71 pages; $40. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This is an unusual book of photo essays touring venues of the American Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II and the Holocaust. Photojournalist Carrie Zeidman visits these places
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Ben Kamin OCEANSIDE, California — There was a point in one of those debates when Sen. Marco Rubio (who gave a victory speech last night after losing in Iowa) was asked, more or less, if he considered himself the savior of the Republican Party. His underwhelming, cloying, and thoroughly contrived response was that Jesus
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Fifth graders at the Benjamin Franklin STEAM Magnet Elementary School on Monday, Feb. 1, helped to explain to the news media how a low-tech Israeli invention will help their school conserve rainwater, and may prove to be an important tool in California’s fight against periodic droughts. STEAM is
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Joe Spier CALGARY, Alberta, Canada — Long before Teddy Kollek became mayor of Jerusalem, he was a gunrunner for the Yishuv, the Jewish community of pre-State Israel. When it became clear that the British would withdraw from Palestine and a war between the Jews and Arabs over Israel’s independence was inevitable, the Jews would need
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Jewish History, Middle East, USA
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
-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, USAThe 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