Ale Brider ~ Elizabeth Schwartz, Yale Strom & Hot Pstromi
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Marilyn Monroe, other Jews, recalled in Coronado
By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Three years after she converted to Judaism, actress Marilyn Monroe made the Billy Wilder comedy Some Like it Hot in 1959 with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. Now, almost 60 years later, this city across the bay from San Diego still remembers her vividly. The Hotel del Coronado, where
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodShe’s not lazy, she’s conserving energy
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Something was amiss. The next morning the White Sands bus was leaving at 9 a.m. to visit the Carlsbad desalinization plant. I always sign up for such trips and always look forward to new adventures, except this time I didn’t. I don’t feel like going, called a
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AJC seeks court reversal of decision against anti-BDS law The American Jewish Committee (AJC) in an amicus brief, is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse a lower court’s decision blocking implementation of an Arizona law barring the state from contracting with participants in a boycott of Israel. “Arizona
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Travel and FoodAdventures of an Orthodox Jewish bond trader
Editor’s Note: This is the 37th 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, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USAJews of the U.S. military honored at Veterans Museum
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A famous U.S. Navy admiral, two U.S. Air Force officers, and a U.S. Army major currently are being saluted in a display sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans of San Diego at the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center in Balboa Park. Honored are Admiral Hyman J. Rickover, Army
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USAA novel of ancient Sumer and pre- Partition Israel
The Age of Exodus by Gavin Scott; Titan Books © 2018; ISBN 9781783-297849; 399 pages, $14.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The “Exodus” in this mystery novel is not the meandering one in which Moses led his fellow Hebrews through the Sinai, but rather a reference to the ship that stirred the conscience of
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