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Movies at sea enhance the cruise
Editor’s Note: This is the 21st 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,
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodJewish owner/chef at Tannins Italian Restaurant
By Oliver B. Pollak SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, California — At the entrance a combo of 60-year-old musicians played 1970s music and younger people sipped their wine and drank their beer. The six of us, three couples, were ushered to the much quieter and conversation inducing ‘wine cellar,’ a room on the main floor with walls
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Oliver Pollak, Travel and FoodPrague’s Alte-Neue Synagogue has memorable history
By Garry Fabian PRAGUE, Czech Republic –Next to my own 147-year-old St. Kilda Hebrew Congregation in Melbourne, Australia, the synagogue to which I am most attached is the Alt Neue Shule here in Prague. It is nearly 900 years old, My family arrived in Prague in September 1938 after that part of Czechoslovakia called Sudentland
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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Travel and FoodDZ Akin’s to celebrate National Deli Month
NEW YORK (Press Release) — If there was ever a time to explore the world of New York-style delicatessens or just nosh over memories of them, August is it when the third annual, nationwide National Deli Month returns to communities across the country. Founded in 2016 through a collaboration of Kenny & Ziggy’s New York
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Jewish History, San Diego Calendar, Travel and Food, USASan Francisco cookbooks reflect city’s diversity
By Oliver B. Pollak SAN FRANCISCO — Erica Peters, author of San Francisco, A Food Biography (2013) and Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam Food and Drink in the Long Nineteenth Century (2012), gave a presentation at San Francisco’s three-year-old, gorgeously designed, American Bookbinders Museum in the Yerba Buena district, wedged in between Clementina and Folsom
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and FoodChoosing our role models and mentors
By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — We identify role models in the family, high school, college, graduate school, law school, synagogue, and in our chosen professions. As we meet new people they may join the pantheon; when some fall from grace, we may be forgiving but they are no longer role models. Someone said, ‘when you
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Oliver Pollak, Travel and FoodDance, carvings, geysers high points of Maori village
Editor’s Note: This is the 20th 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,
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and FoodBook, wine collections stir, comfort the soul
By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — I started writing this in 2010 on the occasion of my 67th birthday about the unpredictable nature of what we give away and then need in the future. Retiring from Nebraska to California in 2016 only enlarged the scale of this conundrum. Now almost 75 I think this
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food, USAChanging — or not — with the technology around us
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Frank entered my apartment and was surprised to find me writing this column long hand. “I can’t believe you’re not using the computer,” he said, looking puzzled and disapproving. I suddenly felt like a dinosaur, falling back to the stone age in one big swoop. “I write
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Travel and Food‘Fattitude’ tells the plight of heavy-body people
By Sheldon F. Merel ENCINITAS, California –I recently watched the documentary film Fattitude at the ArcLight Theatre in La Jolla. The film is by Lindsey Averill and Viridiana Lieberman, and sponsored by the Women’s Museum in San Diego. It is a graphic portrayal how fat people are ridiculed in our society. It exposes how pop
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and FoodHelping others out of an emotional cave
By Chaya Andrusier SAN DIEGO — There was something about the boys in Thailand that capitavated the world. The young boys (sons, brothers, grandsons…) with their future at stake had the whole world holding their breath– would the dangerous journey be successful or not? The world held hands. I found myself checking and praying. I
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International, Travel and FoodAll you need to know about financial planning
By Sheryl Rowling SAN DIEGO — Before I begin, I must start with a disclaimer: I think everyone should have a comprehensive financial plan. After all, if you don’t have a coordinated plan to reach your goals, how will you get there? A comprehensive financial plan is appropriate at any stage of life. It is
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Sheryl Rowling, Travel and FoodName changes helped kiwifruit growers, architect
Editor’s Note: This is the 19th 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
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