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Baskerville thrills, chills, and delights

By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO– Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery is pure theatrical delight from start to finish. The comedy-mystery from the award-winning Jewish playwright – based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale The Hound of the Baskervilles – provides nonstop action, laughs and thrills on every level. When famous detective Sherlock Holmes

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I-8 Jewish Travel: ‘Team Davis’

–17th in a series– Exit 6, Texas Street, San Diego ~ District Office of U.S. Rep. Susan Davis By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The distance between this city and Washington D.C. is approximately 2,690 miles, or a five-hour jet plane ride.  Impractical to go back and forth every day between work in Washington and constituents

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Debut mother- daughter novel set in La Jolla

Washing the Dead by Michelle Brafman; Prospect Park Books; ISBN: 978-1-938849-52-7, $16. By Erin Philips SAN DIEGO — Michelle Brafman is a storyteller: an award-winning short fiction writer, essayist, blogger and former documentary filmmaker. A graduate of UCSD, she is currently based in the Washington, DC area, where she teaches creative writing at The Johns Hopkins MA in

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Scholar compares Homer’s Odyssey and tales of Jesus

Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero by Dennis R. MacDonald, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland; ISBN 978-0-7425-5891-5 ©2015, $34.00, p. 143, plus notes, appendix, bibliography, and indices By Fred Reiss, Ed.D.   WINCHESTER, California — Scholars and researchers, mostly Christian, searching for the “true Jesus” since at least the eighteenth century, produced so many volumes with

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