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 Food
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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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food
By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Salute, an Italian restaurant in Marina Bay, lost its lease under parlous circumstances and closed. On the last two days they prepared hundreds of free last suppers. It was crowded. The valet parking area was overwhelmed. Our table seated five Jews and one son of a Nazi. All
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food, USA
By Donald H. Harrison ANGELUS OAKS, California—Along with a few other San Diegans, I visited Camp Mountain Chai in the San Bernardino Mountains last week. On arrival, I saw a Baer. It turned out that Dan Baer is the director of the camp, located 134 miles from the parking lot of the Jewish Federation of
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA
By Oliver Pollak SAN FRANCISCO — The Contemporary Jewish Museum just celebrated its 10th anniversary. The celebration coincided with an exhibit on cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg, curated by Goldberg’s granddaughter, Jennifer George. Initially that exhibit had opened in Seattle, then came to San Francisco from Canadian, Texas, and goes next to Portland, Maine. It
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Travel and Food
From The Israel Philatelist FOXBOROUGH, Massachusetts –Students and faculty leaders at the Foxborough Regional Charter School have completed 18 collages made with donated postage stamps and celebrated with an open house. The 18 signify Chai (Life). They have collected over 11 million stamps for the 6 million Jews and 5 million others murdered
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Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA
By Sheldon F. Merel ENCINITAS, California — You’re sitting around chatting with a group of friends, and someone says ,” I just bought a new Honda.” Quick as a flash….another person immediately chimes in , “ Well, my friend bought a Cadillac.!”, OR , at another time, a person says, “My cousin went to Miami,….”
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Travel and FoodTasting the Past, The Science of Flavor & the Search for the Original Wine Grapes by Kevin Begos. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, ISBN 9781616-205775, 277 pages, $26.95 By Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant in Berkeley was the 2nd stop on a three-week, nine-event book tour traversing Florida, California and New York.
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and FoodBy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — In the weekly meditation class here at White Sands, our teacher Elizabeth Hamilton talks about an existential crisis, like a fork in the road. Something within us is calling out for attention—old certainties fall away; things we’ve believed in or lived by no longer provide the comfort they
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food
Editor’s Note: This is the 17th 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 By
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food
Poland revises its law on Holocaust responsibility The American Jewish Committee has welcomed the action by the Polish Parliament to remove the criminal penalties provision of the country’s controversial Holocaust responsibility law. “As long-time friends of Poland, correcting this counterproductive measure is an important step to restore confidence and advance ties among Poland, the Jewish
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA
Supreme Court’s 5-4 ‘Travel Ban’ decision saw Jewish justices in the minority In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s Executive Order Number One which the administration describes as a ban of travel from countries which have insufficient vetting procedures against terrorists, and which opponents describe as a “Muslim ban,” as most
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Editor’s Note: This is the 16th 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 By Donald
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USABy Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — My cousin Steve was picking me up to go out for lunch and said, “My son is in the car.” I was puzzled as I knew he did not have a son. He was talking about his dog, Diego. Sadly, Diego died recently. I have written much
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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food