Our Shtetl San Diego: September 1, 2019
Items in today’s column
* Responding to Hate Crimes
* Remembering Binnie Brooks, z”l
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USAInternational
My world turned upside down 80 years ago today
By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM — Today (Sept 1) is the 80th anniversary of my becoming a displaced person. That’s how I described the day in my memoir Six Lives: On September 1, 1939, my world collapsed. I mark the date every year as the anniversary of my anxiety neurosis. It was the day Nazi
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International, Jewish History, Middle EastRemembering Allen Weinstein
Archivist and author Allen Weinstein, considered an expert on the Alger Hiss case, was born this date (September 1) in 1937,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, USATensions ratchet up between Israel, neighbors
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM –It’s getting more dicey. There have been attacks, attributed to Israel, on Iranian locations in Iraq and Syria, as well as Hezbollah locations in Syria and Lebanon. And in Gaza. As well as action searching for attackers in the West Bank. And there’s an election in about three weeks. Polls suggest
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastNote to President Trump: We Jews love to argue
By Rabbi Michael Berk Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — Lately I have taken umbrage at President Trump’s intrusion into an aspect of Jewish culture that is not well understood outside the Jewish community, and at the same time is a key to Jewish persistence throughout history. Since Jewish survival is a mystery, and
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Jewish Religion, USATrump, Johnson, de Blasio leave Jews vulnerable
By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — President Trump and PM Boris Johnson in particular are nightmares, and Mayor Bill de Blasio, in his quest to advance from the nation’s second toughest to the toughest job, is abandoning his neighboring nine million New Yorkers. The modern threesome are conducting themselves in a matter which could
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Bruce Ticker, International, USA‘Just Kidding’: Trump meets with religious leaders
By Joel H. Cohen NEW YORK — It’s been a dark period for President Trump— his tariff increase on China have backfired…his often-announced plans for building the wall on the U.S. southern border remain stalled… his poll numbers are falling…and he’s even dissed his favorite news outlet for being critical of him (“Fox isn’t working
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International, Joel H. Cohen, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAOur Shtetl San Diego: August 30, 2019
By Donald H. Harrison Helping Holocaust Survivors SAN DIEGO — Meeting the needs of impoverished Holocaust survivors is a new joint initiative of the Jewish Federation of San Diego County and Jewish Family Service in association with the Seed the Dream Foundation and KAVOD Survivors of the Holocaust Emergency Fund (SHEF). In a statement in
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAA rabbi’s questions for Ammar Campa-Najjar
By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –This article responds to an esteemed colleague who weighed in on the congressional candidacy of Ammar Campa-Najjar. Before beginning, I wish to make something clear: It is difficult to take incumbent Congressman Duncan Hunter seriously given his alleged illicit activities while he was in office. Frankly, he
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, San Diego County, USABiography recalls Cantor William Sharlin’s career
By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — The distinguished Rabbi Richard N. Levy paid tribute to his colleague, Cantor William Sharlin in recognition of 30 years as originator and Director of the Department of Music at the Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles. “William, you taught me the difference between davening and singing, between
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USAOur Shtetl San Diego: August 29, 2019
Bullet holes at Temple Emanu-El cause for deep concern By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The report of the discovery of two bullet holes in a wall of Temple Emanu-El, apparently fired from College Avenue, has prompted the regional chapter of the Anti-Defamation League to offer a $3,000 reward for information leading to the
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, USAEight Bad Dates: Near Missus
Editor’s Note: In this eight-part series, Eva Trieger shares with us some of the perils of dating. -First in a series- By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — After the demise of my 18-year relationship to my husband, I began to grow up. I found myself on the opposite side of the country, nearly 3,000
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Eva Trieger, Lifestyles, San Diego County, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAAlhambra Sephardic Music Ensemble here Sept 15
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The name, Alhambra Sephardic Music Ensemble, evokes visions of the Moorish citadel, the Alhambra, which still stands in all its radiant glory in Granada, Spain. There, In the 11th century, the Jewish Talmudic scholar, poet and statesman, Samuel Hanagid served for thirty years as minister to the Berber
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Eileen Wingard, International, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsA visit to Rashi’s home town
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson TROYES, France — Several years ago I was told that I really ought to visit the French town of Troyes (pronounced ‘Trois,’ like the number three in French), since it is a charming medieval town. It is also the birthplace of Rashi, the great twelfth century commentator on the Bible and the
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish Religion