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 the […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA
By Steve Kramer TEL AVIV — In the first part of this series, we toured Jerusalem with my brother Charles, who was visiting from America. Next, we traveled with him to Tel Aviv. What was very special about Charles’ trip was the timing. As we entered Tel Aviv in the early afternoon, we were
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By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel– How can a visitor experience the real Israel in seven days? If you’re my brother Charles, all you need do is hang out with us Kramers for a week. That just happened when my brother came to help Michal and me celebrate my birthday. Charles arrived on a Friday,
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LA JOLLA, California (Press Release) — J* Company Youth Theatre launches its final production of Season 22 with the brilliant musical classic, West Side Story. Music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents. Directed by Joey Landwehr, West Side Story is the award-winning adaptation of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. Transported to
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By Gary Rotto SAN DIEGO –Under a sun drenched sky with a mild breeze, San Diego celebrated Israel. Or at least a few hundred people celebrated Israel. The attendance was significantly below the numbers of years gone by. Rather than any drop off in support for Israel, the likely factor is the stripped down version
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Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The scenario seems quite feasible. A Muslim political party gains enough votes in the general election in a democratic European country to serve as the key element in the new government. At the same time massive Saudi-Arabian funding is channeled into the greatly depleted coffers of the country’s leading
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By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO–Pinocchio, the Golem… age old stories. Can mortal man make creations in their own image and breathe life into them? Actual robotics is experimenting with robots that have humanoid faces that can express emotion, but don’t really “feel” those emotions. Then again, haven’t we all faked our way through an
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Travel and FoodThe Mountains of Israel – A Taste of Heaven by Britt Lode and Rabbi Yitschak Naki, Gefen Publishing House, 2015 By Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — This is quite simply – a beautiful book. The silky pages are filled with photographs in full color of the mountains and hills of Israel. Opposite each picture are
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Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California–We all follow more or less predictable patterns of responding to our environment. Wanting to be significant and wanting to matter are common wishes for many people. Is being significant important to you? If so, how do you achieve that? Some people like to be visible, upfront, counted. Others
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