Shabechi Yerushalayim
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9 strategies for managing a frantic life
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Many of us are overworked, overstressed, overcommitted, overbooked, and often under-appreciated. If you have both a family and a career, you will have two constant companions by your side a good part of your life: guilt and exhaustion. So how are we going to manage our frantic lives?
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food‘Wings of Eagles’ airlift from Yemen retold by aviator
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – To fellow aviators, perhaps, Elgen M. Long is best known as the man who in 1971 first flew around the world over both the North and South Poles. Additionally, he is admired for his research into the disappearance of aviators Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USAUnusual collection at Del Mar Fair: Toilet paper
By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California – Whenever I go to the San Diego County Fair, I like to head for the area where they display hobbies. My pleasure is to find bits of Judaica in the various collections on display. Two years ago, for example, I found miniature books of tehillim in a
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USAHannover to Terezin, roundtrip please
By Oliver B. Pollak HANNOVER, Germany and TEREZIN, Czech Republic — Our roots trip has dispersed with cousins going separate ways to Berlin, Munich, and Rome. My party of five headed to Hannover and Theresienstadt, a path my grandfather took in 1942 and in reverse in 1945. Grandfather, Dr. Felix Bachmann, with his new English
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International, Jewish History, Obituaries & memorials, Oliver Pollak, Travel and FoodDel Mar Fair through eyes (and stomach) of Sky, 11
By Sandi Masori DEL MAR, California — We went on Friday to the media night/ opening night of the San Diego County Fair, (which I can’t help myself, but it will always be the Del Mar Fair to me). This year my youngest, Sky, age 11, came with us and had a great time tasting his
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San Diego County, Travel and Food, USAComedy Shmomedy
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Route to New Zealand was a sound decision
Editor’s Note: This is the 13th 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 By Donald
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodCologne’s amazing Jewish culture
By Oliver B. Pollak COLOGNE, Germany — In 1933 Cologne counted 20,000 Jews. In 1989 it had 1,358 Jews. Today the city of over a million, with the influx of Jews from the Former Soviet Union, has about 4,600 Jews.The Holocaust produced catastrophic trauma. Post-war Germany maintains a leading position in rescuing people from persecution in their homelands, many from majority Moslem
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International, Jewish History, Oliver Pollak, Travel and FoodThe Wind and the Breeze blows in circles
By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO–Sam (aka Sam-I-Am) is the State Street Bridge Troll of Rockford, Illinois, just south of Chicago. Sam claims his spot with a lawn chair, braving the bitter winds of February. This is where he waxes philosophically and conducts business. It’s never really clear what that is, but he seems to
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Eric George Tauber, Travel and FoodTraveling in our Parents’ Footsteps
© Oliver B. Pollak FRANKFURT, Germany — Flying in a jet for three hours or more, reading above the clouds, I encounter new and old ideas. I mark my books, take notes and write at 33,000 feet. Completely unmoored from landform and architecture, floating or hurtling at 560 to 615 miles per hour, is exhilarating. Karen
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