By Jack Rosen NEW YORK — All politics are local, goes the famous axiom. What affects us most personally closely shapes how we vote. While American Jews live in every state in the nation, the tragedy in Pittsburgh, in which 11 worshippers were killed in the Tree of Life Synagogue by an anti-Semite just days […]
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Editor’s Note: This is the 37th 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, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes art dictates life. When I interviewed Perry Chen and his mom, Dr. Zhu Shen on Wednesday, I felt that art and life inform each other, with one or the other alternatively taking the lead. It has been six years since I met
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Eva Trieger, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Janice Weinman NEW YORK — Anti-Semitism has been called the oldest form of hatred. In America, we are now witnessing a horrifying escalation of anti-Semitic violence, such as cemetery desecration, vandalization of Jewish schools and synagogues and inflammatory anti-Zionist rhetoric on college campuses. This week, CBS News reported the existence of a prom night
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Arkady Mamaysky TARRYTOWN, New York — The word Jewish is associated with a person whose religion is Judaism. But what about individuals who are atheists but trace their ethnicity to the original Hebrew tribes? Traditionally, the following groups of people are united under the term Jewish: -descendants of the original ethnic Hebrew tribes whose religion is Judaism; -descendants
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Arkady Mamaysky, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A famous U.S. Navy admiral, two U.S. Air Force officers, and a U.S. Army major currently are being saluted in a display sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans of San Diego at the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center in Balboa Park. Honored are Admiral Hyman J. Rickover, Army
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA
State Department designates son of Hizballah’s Nasrallah as a terrorist The U.S. Department of State has designated Jawad Nasrallah and Al-Mujahidin Brigades (AMB) as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, which imposes sanctions on foreign persons who have committed, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA(Please hover with your cursor to find links) By Michael Jeser and Brian Tauber SAN DIEGO — The past week has been a difficult one up and down our State. Communities in Northern and Southern California are literally burning and need our help. Three major fires have devastated entire communities, leaving people displaced and homeless. Our
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Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee died Monday. As a memorial to him, here’s an excerpt from an article I wrote in 2003 about the first X-Men movie: The creators of the X-Men comic book series belong to the generation of American-born Jews who sought acceptance and social mobility through assimilation.
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Lawrence Baron, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Reform rabbis to gather at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek protection for refugees This week, Reform rabbis from across the country will lead a pilgrimage to the U.S. border with Mexico to call attention to three ongoing crises near the border: The asylum seekers languishing on the El Paso-Juarez bridge, teenagers confined to a tent
Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 12, 2018 (3 items) Read More »
International, Jewish Religion, USA
A Tragic Fate: Law and Ethics in the Battle Over Nazi-Looted Art (2017) by Nicholas M. O’Donnell By Herbert I. Lazerow SAN DIEGO — This is a terrific book that everyone should read. Nicholas O’Donnell’s book begins by describing as the paradigm case Camille Pissarro’s Rue St. Honore, apres-midi, effet de pluie, sold by the German
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — October 30 was Israel’s local election day. More than six million people were eligible to vote, and the government provided a free day, with public services closed down. That meant that a large percentage of the population would be on holiday, after, perhaps, a few minutes waiting in line at
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USA
Non-Israelis may sue in Israeli court those who harm them because they are Jews Judge Moshe Drori has ruled in Jerusalem Court that non-Israelis who are harmed because they are Jewish have the standing to sue their attackers in Israeli courts. The ruling came in a case brought by the Shurat HaDin Law Center on
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Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In honor of the centennial of the Armistice that ended World War I, members and friends of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club on Veteran’s Day Sunday hoisted a fresh American flag up the flagpole, pledged allegiance, sang “God Bless America” (composed by Jewish immigrant Irving
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USA