Travel and Food

Scripps College, circa 1940: A wonderful education

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — After a long interlude, I am resuming where I left off regarding my life story… In the summer of 1944, I gave the graduation speech at Beverly Hills High School about coming to America as a refugee four years earlier, not speaking a word of English. In September

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Natasha Josefowitz, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Israel’s Tourism Triumph, Part IV

To read previous installments, please click on the number desired:1,2,3  The Religious Lure © Edwin Black JERUSALEM — When the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement [BDS] mounted a campaign against Israel, it targeted more than Israel’s economy, including tourism—which has nonetheless flourished beyond any expectation. The “D” in BDS really stands for delegitimize. So the

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Edwin Black, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Travel and Food, USA

Beer and Torah? To this, they say ‘L’chaim!’

  By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California  — “What’ll it be, sir?” “I’ll have a beer and where’s that Torah discussion group?” “Over there, sir.  And here’s our beer menu.” Once a month, members of Tifereth Israel Synagogue sample the selections at one of San Diego County’s burgeoning microbrewery industry’s locations, where they socialize,

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Historic marker ceremony honors Lucy F. Covington

  By Jerry Klinger CHENEY, Washington — The Great Drum was rhythmically beaten by ten Native American Salish Singers seated about it. Their Song drifted over the Palouse Prairie as it had before for untold years. Hundreds gathered on the high ridge above Eastern Washington University, below the white colored water tower with the school’s

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA