By Melanie Ruth Gorelick and Tammy Gilden NEW YORK — Last week, we traveled to both San Diego and Tijuana to learn firsthand about our nation’s immigration crisis as part of a Jewish Leadership Border Mission, led by HIAS and ADL. Participants on the mission met with the Mexican Consul General, immigration lawyers and advocates,
Jewish groups disturbed by U.S. – Mexico border visit Read More »
International, Travel and Food, USA
Congressional Gold Medal honors memory of Anwar Sadat’s peace-making with Israel History was made in the US Senate when it unanimously passed a bill to honor former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with the Congressional Gold Medal. S.266 is a bill, co-sponsored by 71 Senators, is a bipartisan legislation that was introduced by Senator Orrin Hatch
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Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USABy Bruce F. Lowitt ZOLFO SPRINGS, Florida – There’s a bit of the Middle East in the middle of Florida, where pomegranates – one of the seven fruits named in Deuteronomy as representing the bounty of Israel – grow in abundance. It’s called Green Sea Farms, 31 acres, six devoted to 130 varieties of pomegranates,
Will High Holy Day Rimon soon be grown in Florida? Read More »
Bruce F. Lowitt, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France — One of the first things we encountered when we came to France was the prevalence of do-it-yourself (DIY) shops. Actually, shops would hardly be the right term, as they’re more something of an emporium. On that first visit Yigal thought he had died and gone to heaven. All there was
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Travel and Food
Editor’s Note: This is the 25th 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, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Travel and Food
By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — In July we vacationed in Oceanside and visited relatives and friends living near the coast. We sat with my cousin Rob and his wife Ande in their Carlsbad living room on chairs and couches within arms-reach of a stunning coffee table acquired over 50 years ago by his
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food
By Oliver B. Pollak OXNARD, California–Take note dear readers. Tomorrow (Saturday) is the liveliest day of our Jewish lives. No day is to be ignored but on this day the concatenation of 8 and double chai will not come again until 2118. The last time it showed up was 8/18/1918. The Great War, soon to
It’s 8 Chai Chai on Saturday. L’Chaim! Read More »
Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food
By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California. –Some sixty or more years ago my parents facilitated my sex education by leaving Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron, illustrated in 1949 by Rockwell Kent, on the coffee table. Adolescent curiosity took care of the rest. Kent introduced me to pornography or erotica before Playboy. From the late 1950s the Book
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food
Editor’s Note: This is the 24th 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, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food