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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—California Attorney General Kamala Harris already has announced her candidacy to succeed Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) who announced she won’t run for reelection in 2016. Among most talked about possible Democratic primary opponents (now that Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom has taken himself out of contention) is hedge fund manager and

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The seventh season of “Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices” opened with three provocative poets. Michael Mark’s poems reflected his unique take on life and his sharp sense of humor. He is a published poet who has been nominated for the 2015 prestigious Pushcart Award. Here are two examples of his work: Dangers

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — There’s a newsroom term for typos that Spell-Checker cannot “see” since Spell-Checker is not a human and sometimes doesn’t know its toe from its elbow. And I’m here to tell you that there’s actually a newsroom term for these pesky little line sitters — I mean line critters — and

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Americans are accustomed to reading headlines about the military might and victories of the Israel Defense Force.  Like all armies, however, its day-to-day operations are less about combat and more about bureaucracy, discipline, and tedium.  Zero Motivation humorously capitalizes on the interpersonal tensions among an administrative unit of women soldiers

By Dan Bloom CHIAYI CITY, Taiwan — I’m on the email line with Len Brown in Texas and he’s telling me about his work on the “Mars Attacks!” novelty card series for Topps back in the day. It was the early 1960s and Brown was working a dream job that combined work and play. “I

Netanyahu joins Paris demonstrations (JNS.org) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday visited Hyper Cacher, the kosher supermarket in Paris where Muslim terrorist Amedy Coulibaly took nearly 20 shoppers hostage and killed four of the hostages. Netanyahu met with Celine Shreki, one of the surviving hostages. “A direct line leads between the attacks of extremist Islam

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) led the House of Representatives in a moment of silence on Thursday, Jan. 8, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the mass shooting in Tucson that left 6 people dead and injured 13 others, including then-Congresswoman Gabby Giffords (D-Arizona). She also released this

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – Celebrating the San Diego Jewish Film Festival’s 25th Silver Anniversary, presented by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, JACOBS FAMILY CAMPUS, will run February 5-15, 2015.  Sponsored by the Leichtag Foundation. The San Diego Jewish Film Festival showcases 96 films of the