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Real Tasmanian Devil unlike Warner Bros’ ‘Tazzy’

May 3, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the ninth 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 By Donald H. Harrison […]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Jews and the culinary revolution

May 2, 2018

Andrew Friedman, Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll, How Food Lover, Free Spirits, Misfits and Wanderers Created a New American Profession, Ecco, $27.99, 464 pages © Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — Andrew Friedman gave a reading at San Francisco’s Omnivore Bookstore. After the talk I asked the author if the book has some Jewish content.

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

Snippet of ‘Power’ performed at YAAANA

May 2, 2018

By Ren Feldman SAN DIEGO — This past Sunday, a group of bubbies, babies, and everyone in between gathered to celebrate the one year anniversary of YAAANA, Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America hosted by the group’s founder, Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh. The intergenerational gala kicked off with a schmoozy cocktail hour, mingling among

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Link found between longevity and shul attendance

April 29, 2018

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Here’s yet another finding in the ancient question about how to live longer. Attend synagogue regularly. That’s it. Simple isn’t it? Now before you assume the study backing up this recommendation was funded by a religious organization, think again. After all, this isn’t some medical study backed

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Travel and Food

Iran the focus in U.S. – Israel talks

April 29, 2018

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Following is the text of comments made by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a joint news conference on Sunday, April 29: PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU: Good afternoon. Secretary Pompeo, Mike, it’s wonderful to welcome you. This is your first visit to Israel as Secretary

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Travel and Food

How to get rid of unneeded stuff in your house

April 21, 2018

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — Even though I have often written about downsizing, I confess to my inability to actually do it. I feel forever guilty looking around at my “too much stuff.” That is until now. I just read a book by Marie Kondo, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up—The Japanese

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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food

Australia celebrates Jewish general’s memory

April 19, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the seventh 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 By Donald H. Harrison

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Travel and Food

The monster is in your car

April 17, 2018

Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — I was recently in Beverly Hills. All right, I thought that might be the problem. But when I had the same experience in La Mesa, well, I thought something’s really wrong with what I was seeing. In both cases, I was following a beautiful SUV’s, one a Lincoln and

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Michael Mantell, Travel and Food

An insider’s view from French Hill, Jerusalem

April 15, 2018

By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — For more than 26 years I’ve been thinking about what’s near and far while looking east from our balcony. At first, we could see a bit of the Dead Sea, but the builders of Isaweea have gone skyward and cut off our view. Isaweea is the congestion off to

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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, Travel and Food

Shining my wife’s shoes

April 12, 2018

(c) Oliver B. Pollak RICHMOND, California — I wanted to do something nice for my wife. That’s the Jewish part of this story. She went to the doctor and to exercise. Her cordovan Dansko clogs were mighty scuffed. I would put life into them. A Caymus Winery wood box held rags, brushes, Kiwi black, brown, and

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Oliver Pollak, Travel and Food

Hakas and Challahs on a Dutch ship

April 12, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the sixth in a series of stories from Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th wedding anniversary trip to Sydney, Australia, and cruise back to their home in San Diego. Previous stories in the chronological series may be accessed by clicking on their corresponding number: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. By Donald H.

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food

A clamor in the winds for justice

April 9, 2018

By Natasha Josefowitz LA JOLLA, California — Something amazing is happening right now, right here, right under our noses: A change in value systems. What is right and wrong is different today from just one or two generations ago. There is a clamor in the winds of the world for a new kind of justice,

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Natasha Josefowitz, Travel and Food, USA

Unsavory guests at Australia’s Hydro Majestic

April 5, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the fifth 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. By Donald H. Harrison MEDLOW BATH,

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food

Yes, there are Jews in Fallbrook

April 3, 2018

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori FALLBROOK, California – They say there are not many of our fellow Jews in this northern San Diego County town, but my grandson Shor and I recently met two interesting ones who are living alongside the Pala Mesa Resort golf course. Gordon and Phyllis Molloff

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, Travel and Food