By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Something was amiss. The next morning the White Sands bus was leaving at 9 a.m. to visit the Carlsbad desalinization plant. I always sign up for such trips and always look forward to new adventures, except this time I didn’t. I don’t feel like going, called a […]
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and FoodAJC seeks court reversal of decision against anti-BDS law The American Jewish Committee (AJC) in an amicus brief, is asking the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reverse a lower court’s decision blocking implementation of an Arizona law barring the state from contracting with participants in a boycott of Israel. “Arizona
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Editor’s Note: This is the 37th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A famous U.S. Navy admiral, two U.S. Air Force officers, and a U.S. Army major currently are being saluted in a display sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans of San Diego at the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center in Balboa Park. Honored are Admiral Hyman J. Rickover, Army
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The Age of Exodus by Gavin Scott; Titan Books © 2018; ISBN 9781783-297849; 399 pages, $14.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The “Exodus” in this mystery novel is not the meandering one in which Moses led his fellow Hebrews through the Sinai, but rather a reference to the ship that stirred the conscience of
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By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — Some people are just born with a smile on their face and a positive outlook on life. Linda-Anne Kahn is one of those people. From the time she was a young woman, she has taken pleasure in bringing beauty and healing into other’s lives. An immigrant success story, Kahn
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Editor’s Note: This is the 36th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
Touring Maasdam’s provision area, kitchen and laundry Read More »
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Story by Mimi Pollack; photos by Paula Sassi SAN DIEGO — Helping others is not political. It is good for the soul. When you help others, you forget about your own problems for awhile, and nobody should make you feel bad about who you decide to help. In July 2018, my friend Paula Sassi, and
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Often you will meet women who either are in their second careers, or have become very proficient at their hobbies, at the Artisan Festival sponsored annually by the Women of Temple Emanu-El. On Sunday, I found that to be the case when I interviewed artist Enid Texler and
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — It is always a treat to come across a new idea, a way of thinking that had never occurred to me before. I don’t mean an aha reaction, which is when something happens that confirms a previously held thought. This is an oh reaction, when a new
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Editor’s Note: This is the 35th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 By Donald H.
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Editor’s Note: This is the 34th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 By Donald H.
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Editor’s Note: This is the 33rd in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego. Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment: 1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,28, 29, 30, 31, 32 By Donald H. Harrison
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By Lazar Wall RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Freddy was five when he saw a paving stone shatter his dad’s storefront in Berlin. Next, also in front of the family, the Nazis beat up his father. Adolf Hitler had made life unbearable to the Glatts already in 1933, forcing them to scramble to Antwerp. In
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