Story and photos by Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — Succot is probably Israel’s favorite Jewish holiday. Many Israelis take advantage of the reduced workweek and school vacation to go abroad. But even more use the time to travel throughout the country, attending the many festivals and entertainment activities. During the “middle days” of the […]
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food
Editor’s Note: This is the 31st 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,
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food
One Happy Divorce by Jennifer Hurvitz Weintraub; © 2017 Warren Publishing, ISBN 9781943-258543, 93 pages, $12.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – “One Happy Divorce” sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? Author Jennifer Hurvitz Weintraub wouldn’t argue that hers was pain-free, or that she hasn’t experienced periods of loneliness in the five years since
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food
Editor’s Note: This is the 30th 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:
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and FoodSAN DIEGO (SDJW) — This city has been commemorating the 40th anniversary of the midair collision between a private plane and a Pacific Southwest Airlines flight on Sept. 25, 1978 that resulted in the deaths of 142 people in the air and on the ground. The late Hal Wingard, husband of our music reviewer Eileen
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County, Travel and Food
German court dismisses appeal against Kuwaiti Airways discriminatory policy A German court in Frankfurt on Tuesday rejected an appeal by an Israeli passenger barred from boarding a Kuwait Airways flight because of the airline’s strict policy of banning all Israelis. The case had been brought by the Israeli, represented by The Lawfare Project, after he
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International, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodAny relation to the Bible story is purely accidental
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