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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International, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
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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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
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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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
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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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County
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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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
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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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and Food
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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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USA
By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Her patience sorely tested, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson warned President Trump’s former campaign aide Roger Stone that he will get no more chances if he violates a court order to remain mum about his upcoming trial in which he is accused of lying to Congress regarding
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Rabbi Joshua Dorsch SAN DIEGO — In our Torah portion this week, Ki Tisa, Moses comes down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. When he saw that the Israelites had built a golden calf in his absence, out of anger, he throws the tablets down to the ground smashing them into many pieces. But
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Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jews from South Africa have played an important role in the development and maintenance of the overall San Diego Jewish community, says Pamela Nathan, president of the South African Jewish American Community (SAJAC). Yet, she said, their story, which began in such Eastern European countries as Lithuania and
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – President Trump has nominated a replacement for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. He is Jeffrey Rosen, who currently serves as Deputy Transportation Secretary under Secretary Elaine Chao, the wife of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. .. Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn are persons of interest
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
SAN DIEGO — Our license plate maven, Melanie Rubin, spotted another license plate demonstrating Jewish pride. This one, we know, belongs to a Chabad rabbi.
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Melanie Rubin, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL– President Donald Trump, echoing comments by Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham of South Carolina, said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein engaged in “illegal and treasonous activity” when, according to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, he questioned whether there would be enough Cabinet officers willing to remove President Trump
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USA