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Movies at sea enhance the cruise

July 26, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the 21st 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, […]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Yochanan Sebastian Winston ~ Girl from Ipanema

July 25, 2018

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Jewish owner/chef at Tannins Italian Restaurant

July 24, 2018

By Oliver B. Pollak SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, California — At the entrance a combo of 60-year-old musicians played 1970s music and younger people sipped their wine and drank their beer. The six of us, three couples, were ushered to the much quieter and conversation inducing ‘wine cellar,’ a room on the main floor with walls

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Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

Bob Dylan ~ Forever Young

July 24, 2018

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Prague’s Alte-Neue Synagogue has memorable history

July 23, 2018

By Garry Fabian PRAGUE, Czech Republic –Next to my own 147-year-old St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne, Australia, the synagogue to which I am most attached is the Alt Neue Shule here in Prague. It is nearly 900 years old, My family arrived in Prague in September 1938 after that part of Czechoslovakia called Sudentland

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food

Mischa Elman ~ Preghiera in the style of Padre Martini

July 23, 2018

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DZ Akin’s to celebrate National Deli Month

July 23, 2018

NEW YORK (Press Release) — If there was ever a time to explore the world of New York-style delicatessens or just nosh over memories of them, August is it when the third annual, nationwide National Deli Month returns to communities across the country. Founded in 2016 through a collaboration of Kenny & Ziggy’s New York

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Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, Travel and Food, USA

Liberace and Jack Benny in a duet

July 22, 2018

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San Francisco cookbooks reflect city’s diversity

July 22, 2018

By Oliver B. Pollak SAN FRANCISCO — Erica Peters, author of San Francisco, A Food Biography (2013) and Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century (2012), gave a presentation at San Francisco’s three-year-old, gorgeously designed, American Bookbinders Museum in the Yerba Buena district, wedged in between Clementina and Folsom

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

Choosing our role models and mentors

July 20, 2018

By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — We identify role models in the family, high school, college, graduate school, law school, synagogue, and in our chosen professions. As we meet new people they may join the pantheon; when some fall from grace, we may be forgiving but they are no longer role models. Someone said, ‘when you

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Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

Sati, a tone poem conducted by Avlana Eisenberg

July 19, 2018

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Dance, carvings, geysers high points of Maori village

July 19, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the 20th 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,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food

Book, wine collections stir, comfort the soul

July 18, 2018

By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — I started writing this in 2010 on the occasion of my 67th birthday about the unpredictable nature of what we give away and then need in the future. Retiring from Nebraska to California in 2016 only enlarged the scale of this conundrum. Now almost 75 I think this

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food, USA

Changing — or not — with the technology around us

July 16, 2018

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Frank entered my apartment and was surprised to find me writing this column long hand. “I can’t believe you’re not using the computer,” he said, looking puzzled and disapproving. I suddenly felt like a dinosaur, falling back to the stone age in one big swoop. “I write

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Travel and Food

Movies at sea enhance the cruise

Yochanan Sebastian Winston ~ Girl from Ipanema

Jewish owner/chef at Tannins Italian Restaurant

Bob Dylan ~ Forever Young

Prague’s Alte-Neue Synagogue has memorable history

Mischa Elman ~ Preghiera in the style of Padre Martini

DZ Akin’s to celebrate National Deli Month

Liberace and Jack Benny in a duet

San Francisco cookbooks reflect city’s diversity

Choosing our role models and mentors

Sati, a tone poem conducted by Avlana Eisenberg

Dance, carvings, geysers high points of Maori village

Book, wine collections stir, comfort the soul

Changing — or not — with the technology around us

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