Travel and Food

Moorea, land of Moana and UC field studies

Editor’s Note: This is the 28th 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,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

The composer behind Streisand’s ‘Avinu Malkaynu’

Please click here to hear Cantor Merel sing the Avinu Malkaynu, and click here to see Barbra Streisand’s version, sung at a ceremony in Israel honoring Shimon Peres, z”l, on his 90th birthday. By Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — Barbra Streisand’s  CD , Higher Ground was released in 1997, and included the Hebrew song,   Avinu

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Travel and Food

Home again in Israel

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — As ever, returning to Israel after two months of absence is something of a culture shock, particularly when it comes to driving a car. One is reminded with alarm that rules are no longer rules, the word ‘courtesy’ does not exist in the Hebrew language, and the overall feeling

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Recalling the WWII Seabees on Bora Bora

Editor’s Note: This is the 27th 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,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food

Emory U. to host weekend Israel learning for teens

  ATLANTA, Georgia (Press Release) — The Atlanta-based Center for Israel Education (israeled.org) and the Emory Institute for the Study of Modern Israel  invite Jewish 10th- and 11th-graders to apply to attend the Teen Israel Leadership Institute during the weekend of Oct. 26 to 28. The institute will feature a series of learning activities to

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Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Is your Settlement House Cook Book inscribed?

By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California. — The New York Times Book Review section used to carry “Author Queries” where working researchers and authors would reach out to readers for information. This use of the press has served well. I am now working on a project that will be based on evidence standing on reader’s

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

Maasdam’s captain emphasizes teamwork at sea

Editor’s Note: This is the 26th 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,

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