-Fifteenth in a Series- By Donald H. Harrison LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Canada – It’s a matter of happy circumstance that Lethbridge is the first Canadian city of moderate size that a traveler from U.S. Interstate 15 will connect with after crossing the U.S.-Canada border. My grandson Shor and I, making a trip from the bottom of […]
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and FoodBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO– In 930 CE, on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, in the city of Tiberias, a scholar, Aaron Ben-Asher, and a scribe, Shlomo Ben-Buya’a, took upon themselves the daunting task of creating the “most perfect copy” of the twenty-four books of the Hebrew Bible. What they produced is
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Pam Jenoff, The Winter Guest, Harlequin Books, ISBN 978-0-7783-1596-4, 341 pages, $14.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The setting: a mountain village outside of Krakow, Poland. The time World War II. Twin sisters of marriageable age are raising their three siblings together. Their father is dead. Their mother, a patient in a mental
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron This is the first anniversary of my writing this column. Since I am not being inundated by fan mail, I’ve compiled a list of quips from each month of the past year to remind subscribers to the San Diego Jewish World why they read my column or ignore it. * August
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Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO– It has been ten years since Zach Braff’s directorial debut, the critically acclaimed Garden State. In the interim he has acted in a number of feature films and televisions series, becoming best known for his role as J.D. on the television sitcom Scrubs. When his brother Adam and he pitched
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Travel and FoodFive fallen IDF soldiers laid to rest (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Five Israeli soldiers who were killed by terrorists near the Gaza border on Monday were laid to rest on Tuesday, July 29. They were killed when terrorists emerged from a cross-border tunnel about 150 meters inside Israel and fired an anti-tank missile at an
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Travel and FoodBy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — “Congratulations, it’s a boy.” In the traditional view, that single statement determines the course of one’s life. Boys are rambunctious and ambitious, future soldiers and captains of industry. Girls are soft and nurturing, future wives and mothers. But what if your assigned role doesn’t suit you? Well, that’s
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Finis Leavell Beauchamp, The Terrible Beauty of the Evil Man; Kodesh Press (New York, 2014); 396 pages; ISBN-13: 978-0692237885; $14.95 By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Philo of Alexandria once said that every person who has ever become a proselyte walks a similar path that Abraham, our Father, once walked. According to Jewish folklore, Abraham
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-Eleventh in a Series- By Donald H. Harrison SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — As one drives north on the Interstate 15 towards Salt Lake City, a Jew might get the impression of being surrounded by a familiar heritage, and also by one that is altogether new. In Utah, one passes through the northwest corner of
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USAIsrael ranks ‘very high’ on U.N. human development index (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israel ranks 19th in the world in the United Nations’ Human Development Index for 2014, according to the U.N.’s 2014 Human Development Report, released Thursday. Israel is among 49 nations the report ranks as having “very high human development.” The report, titled
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Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In the early 1900s, Constantin Stanislavski—who invented what is known as “method acting”—said that to achieve great acting and great writing one has to know what a fictional character wants and needs. And it is not only our needs for food, shelter, and security, it has to
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Travel and FoodNEW YORK (Press Release) — The decision of the Federal Aviation Administration to permit flights between the United States and Tel Aviv to resume was applauded Thursday, July 24, by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Robert G. Sugarman, Chairman, and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman, said, “We welcome the announcement by
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Middle East, Travel and Food, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France–It’s an occupational hazard of living in Israel. You live your life, make vacation plans, and then there is a crisis. At first you don’t know how long it will continue and what shape or form it will assume. So you carry on as usual, as best you can, and when
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