By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – If you want to know if a fish you see at the Birch Aquarium is kosher, look carefully. Does it have fins? Does it have scales? If the answer to both these questions is “yes,” then probably it is a kosher fish. That doesn’t mean, however, that […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Travel and Food, USA
Why Are We Still Afraid? by Mark Lavie; © 2018; ISBN 9781791-797324; 375 pages, available via amazon.com or via MarkLavieAuthor.com By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This self-published book by longtime Israeli journalist Mark Lavie starts off with controversy, then subsides into informative and reliable travel journalism, depicting the byways and quirks of Israeli
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Have you ever had the frustrating experience of being in an environment where no one speaks your language? You know the feeling that there are too many people invading your personal space, but you’ve no way to communicate that to them? What about the times when you sincerely want
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Eva Trieger, Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Three years ago, we lost my darling wife, Jackie Tauber to cancer. The loss of such a precious, loving soul was devastating. She was the type of person who could take tears of pain and turn them into laughter. Around her, people felt the freedom to be creative
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Eric George Tauber, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
California awards $3.6 million for support of impoverished Holocaust survivors in state The California Department of Social Services awarded $3.6 million in grants to six Jewish Family Service agencies across California to provide support for elderly Holocaust Survivors struggling to live out their days in dignity. Last year, the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, led by
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Tammi Rossman-Benjamin SANTA CRUZ, California — Opponents of an academic boycott of Israel owe John Cheney-Lippold and Daniel Segal a debt of gratitude. Cheney-Lippold is the University of Michigan professor who agreed to write a letter of recommendation for one of his students last fall and then reneged after realizing it was for study
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Federal court in Arkansas upholds anti-BDS legislation A federal court in Arkansas upheld the constitutionality of statewide anti-BDS legislation, striking a blow to BDS activists and constitutional challenges that such laws violate the First Amendment right of free expression on January 23, 2019. The American Civil Liberties Union in behalf of the Arkansas Times, LP,
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International, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Official release for Fanny Krasner Lebovits’ Holocaust memoir Tuesday, Jan. 22, was the official release date for Memories, Miracles & Meaning — Insights of a Holocaust Survivor by San Diegan Fanny Krasner Lebovits. Congregation Beth El, 8660 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, will host a book sale and signing for the 96-year-old author at 6 p.m.,
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TICO to combine for concerts with Jewish Men’s Choir and pianist Jessie Chang The Jewish Men’s Choir, directed by Ruth Weber, will share a “Piano and Voice” program with pianist Jessie Chang, who will perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto #3 at two concerts with the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra. The first will be held at 4
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Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
By Mo Bailey POWAY, California – Dan’s Place is a restaurant that celebrates the spirit of the late Dan Green and local community, while giving opportunities to people with disabilities who are often underestimated and marginalized. Many things make Dan’s Place a unique and holistic experience that patrons seem to ‘eat up’ (pun half-intended). Each
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food(c) By Edwin Black WASHINGTON, D.C. — Organized disruptors—both students and non-students—who shut down a pro-Israel gathering at University of California Los Angeles in May 2018 might not be prosecuted, according to information from LA City Attorney Mike Feuer’s office. Instead, they will be called to a confidential but mandatory proceeding called a “City Attorney
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Edwin Black, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Story and Photos by Donald H. Harrison Additional Photos by Bob Lauritzen SAN DIEGO –Quite a bit of information overlaps in the exhibits on San Diego’s water supply, conservation, and runoff at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and the San Diego Museum of Natural History, two museums that face each other in Balboa
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
U.S. Secretary of State condemns Iran missile launch Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo issued the following statement on Tuesday: “In continued defiance of the international community and UN Security Council Resolution 2231, the Iranian regime fired off a space launch vehicle today. Such vehicles incorporate technologies that are virtually identical and interchangeable with those
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USAFinding the Right School in the Era of BDS and Intersectionality: A Jewish Parents’ Guide to Colleges 2018-19 Academic Year by Jerome Ostrov, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform © 2018, ISBN 978-1721925872, p. 429 plus appendices, $18.95. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – The letters BDS, an acronym for the words boycott, divestment, and sanctions, is a
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