Story and Photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — While the political situation for asylum seekers who come to the United States’ southern border seemingly changes day by day, Mimi Pollack, 65, and Paula Sassi, 71, are among the few constants. Twice a week since last July, the two women have driven […]
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By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Abraham Goldfaden’s beautiful melody, Rozhinkes Mit Mandlen, opened the Jewish Poets of the Past program, in an arrangement for violin and viola, in which my daughter Myla Wingard played violin, and I played the viola. This presentation, March 5, at the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Before the opening of the Panama Canal in 1915, Australia, from a nautical standpoint, was approximately 3,500 miles closer to California than New York was. Goods brought by ship from the American East Coast had to travel a longer route, all the way down the eastern coast of
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USABy Eva M. Trieger SAN DIEGO — This city is home to a few Jewish day schools and each one has a special niche. I only recently became aware of the incredible aspects of Torah High, the only girls-only Jewish high school available to the community. What makes this school unique? In his office crowded
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Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Once again, July Galper is the local empresario bringing two outstanding young Israeli musicians to perform in San Diego, Tal First, violin and Ilya Laskin, piano. Their program will take place in the sanctuary of Congregation Beth El in La Jolla on Sunday evening, March 10, 7:00 p.m.
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – There’s a secret that I feel it’s my duty to divulge to other grandparents and parents of high school students. High school sophomores can get a jump on their college educations—maybe even save their parents a bundle of money —by applying to Grossmont Middle College High School
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Sushi Ota, 4529 Mission Bay Dr, San Diego, California By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — If you didn’t know better, you would easily drive past San Diego’s best Sushi spot and never know it. Unlike the bigger, louder restaurants of the area with the neon signs proclaiming the cuisine, Sushi Ota is quietly tucked between
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodBy Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — I think one can learn a lot by being exposed to other cultures and ideas. It is good to be inclusive rather than exclusive. We need bridges of understanding, not walls. The San Diego Latino Film Festival, now in its 26th year, offers a wide variety of films from
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By Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel SOLANA BEACH, California — Last December I reviewed the movie Guernsey Literary Potato Peel Society on this website. It took place on England’s Guernsey and Channel islands just off the coast of France during World War II . I learned then that Winston Churchill considered these islands indefensible and removed
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By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO –– Although we hear it only near the end of Hershey Felder, Beethoven, the letter Beethoven wrote to his younger brother, Johann, at the age of 31, known as the Heiligenstadt Testament, summarized his struggles with handicaps and tragedy that drove the composer to consider giving up on life. His
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By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Emma Lazarus’ words on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty take
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No Forgotten Fronts: From Classrooms to Combat by Lisa K. Shapiro; Naval Institute Press, © 2018, ISBN 9781682-472729; 348 pages plus appendices, notes, bibliography and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – During World War II, many people turned to The Washington Post for their news. On the other hand, G.I.’s who were former
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Alforon, 5965 El Cajon Boulevard, San Diego, California 92115 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — A block from the intersection of College Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard, you’ll find a charming Lebanese restaurant nestled between a smoke shop and a Japanese restaurant. Alforon is what the Middle East should be if we could set aside politics
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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – U.S. Rep. Mike Levin accompanied by fellow Democratic Congressmen Steny Hoyer, Juan Vargas and Scott Peters visited the San Diego-Tijuana border, with Levin telling the San Diego Union-Tribune, “I see no crisis other than the crisis the president is manufacturing.” Meanwhile The New York Times reported that U.S.
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