Travel and Food

Tourists get an inflated welcome to San Diego

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The San Diego International Airport wanted to celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week with some excitement and enthusiasm, but, goodness, not with a bang! That’s why costumed characters such as Matilda the Koala from San Diego Zoo and Max from Legoland gently coaxed children who were among arriving […]

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

I-8 Jewish travel: Valley View Casino Center

Editor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.”  Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Travel and Food

‘Nu, nu, nu, nu’ Nu?

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — Like most people familiar with Yiddish, even people who are second or third or fourth generation non-Yiddish speakers, I know what “nu”means, nu? But it turns out that there’s more to “nu” than I knew. A lot more. Here’s my story for today: I was minding my own

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Travel and Food

SDJW thanks April byliners

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — San Diego Jewish World would like to acknowledge and thank the 40 byline writers who, in April, contributed to our diverse run of stories on a variety of topics here in San Diego County,California;  elsewhere in the United States; and abroad. They were: Rabbi Rafi Andrusier Laurie Baron Caren Besner Edwin Black

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Travel and Food

Port, HTA cut ribbon at bayside info center

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – For reporters and photographers covering groundbreakings and ribbon-cuttings, such events can tend to blur together in that there often is little to differentiate one from the other.  For the participants however, these events can be important milestones marking the beginning of new chapters in their corporate lives

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA