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Endorsing a compassionate Congressional delegation

October 7, 2020

Compassion illustrated by bill providing meals for needy military dependents By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Two members of the San Diego County congressional delegation — Democrats Susan Davis and Mike Levin — have introduced legislation to help enlisted military families assure their children are well fed. This is reflective of an ongoing effort

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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, USA

Campa-Najjar for Congress; Nader for Judge

October 6, 2020

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I remember many years ago when I was a student at UCLA (1962-66), we occasionally would debate which is a better metaphor for the United States: Is our country a “melting pot” or a “chef’s salad?” The difference is that the former metaphor envisions melting all the individual

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Does disgraced rabbi owe $2m in property taxes?

October 5, 2020

By Sheryl Rowling and Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — The news of the tax fraud scheme perpetrated by Chabad of Poway’s Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein has shocked the country. Ancillary questions beyond the income tax fraud have arisen related to: Why was Goldstein permitted to meet with the U.S. president even though the FBI was

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Two Republicans for the S.D. City Council

October 5, 2020

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — I take it as a maxim that no political party should take Jewish voters for granted, nor should any political party write Jewish voters off. Overwhelmingly, Jewish voters have preferred Democratic candidates because they more closely align with Judaism’s teaching of tikkun olam — repair of the world — than many

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Israel’s Consul-General aids in Covid fight

October 4, 2020

Other items in this column include: Political bytes By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Hillel Newman, the South African-born, Israeli consul general in Los Angeles, has practiced highly confidential private diplomacy as the former Israeli ambassador to the Muslim countries of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Now, notwithstanding coronavirus restrictions, he is engaged in highly public

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Karen Parry takes helm at Hillel of San Diego

October 3, 2020

Other items in today’s column include: *Political bytes By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Seated in a sukkah on her second day on the job, Karen Parry introduced herself to a Zoom audience as the new director of Hillel of San Diego. Among her priorities, she said, will be to monitor the activities

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Where are the Lines?

October 2, 2020

By Ira Spector SAN DIEGO — Why is it, sometimes, that the same item is called one thing in one place and another name somewhere else? What we Yanks call a cigarette, or cig, the Brits call smokes, a fag, or faggot. What we call underpants, they call knickers. Every vacuum cleaner to them is

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We endorse Barbara Bry for S.D. Mayor

October 2, 2020

Other items in today’s column include *Susan Davis honors Justice Ginsburg in Congressional Record *Jewish organizations By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — It wasn’t all that long ago that the City of San Diego had a City Manager form of government. That meant that the mayor was like a super councilmember, who had a

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Soille returns temporarily to distance learning

October 1, 2020

Other items in this column include: *Ethnic Studies *Political Bytes *San Diego Jewish World news *In memoriam By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, now observing a nine-day holiday for Sukkot, will delay the resumption of its in-person classes until Wednesday, Oct. 14, two days after the holiday period’s

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$2.3 million worth of COVID-19 assistance

October 1, 2020

By Beth Sirull SAN DIEGO — It has been more than six months since the original “shelter in place” order. Back in March, many of us thought we would be working at home for a few weeks or months and then things would return to “normal.” But here we are still largely at home, with

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Lifestyles, San Diego County

We join in the outrage over the vandalism at two churches

September 27, 2020

On behalf of San Diego Jewish World, I would like to offer sincere sympathy to the parishioners and clergy of St. Peter Chaldean Catholic Church in Rancho San Diego and Our Mother of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in El Cajon, on whose houses of worship swastikas and hateful slogans were discovered on Saturday morning. [Donald H. Harrison, ‘Our Shtetl San Diego County’]

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SDJW Endorses Sean Elo-Rivera for City Council District 9

September 25, 2020

Conflict of interest allegations and failure to report contributions in a timely manner militate against Barrios’ candidacy. He needs to get his own house in order before he can become a steward of the people’s. Luckily for the voters, Sean Elo-Rivera, a trustee of the San Diego Community College District, is also a candidate in the 9th Council District, which Gomez is vacating to run for Congress. [Donald H. Harrison, “Our Shtetl San Diego County”]

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GI Film Festival spotlights a Jewish violinist

September 24, 2020

When Enlisted Man Stuart Canin boarded a European-bound U.S. Army transport ship near the end of World War II, he carried with him his barracks bag, rifle, and a violin. Challenged by an officer about what he thought he’d need a violin for, Canin, then a teenager, replied “You Never Know.” He was so right. [Donald H. Harrison, “Our Shtetl San Diego County.”

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Study underway of S.D.’s South African Jews

September 22, 2020

The South African Jewish American Community, better known as SAJAC, has issued its annual magazine for 2020, reporting that San Diego State University Prof. David B. Cline is conducting oral history interviews with community members. The magazine’s writers also offer suggestions on coping with COVID19, and Alzheimer’s Disease, and additionally they profile young entrepreneurs, visual artists, and poets, among other articles. [Donald H. Harrison, “Our Shtetl San Diego County”

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