Cully’s Restaurant, 13252 Poway Rd, Poway, California 92064 By Sandi Masori POWAY, California — My cousin Jessica is studying to be a cosmetologist, so I gave her a ride to her school in Poway. We got there a bit early, so we figured we’d grab a bite to eat in the restaurant next door. Cully’s is a […]
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh, founder of the Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA), says many Americans mistakenly believe that Polish people are anti-Semitic. In fact, she says, Polish people have an obsession with Judaism that leads some to be anti-Semitic and others to be just the
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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego Calendar, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – If you want to know if a fish you see at the Birch Aquarium is kosher, look carefully. Does it have fins? Does it have scales? If the answer to both these questions is “yes,” then probably it is a kosher fish. That doesn’t mean, however, that
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Travel and Food, USA
Why Are We Still Afraid? by Mark Lavie; © 2018; ISBN 9781791-797324; 375 pages, available via amazon.com or via MarkLavieAuthor.com By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This self-published book by longtime Israeli journalist Mark Lavie starts off with controversy, then subsides into informative and reliable travel journalism, depicting the byways and quirks of Israeli
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
Pinto Thai, 2330 Main Street #H, Ramona, California 92065 By Sandi Masori RAMONA, California — If you’re driving along State Route 67 in Ramona, you might not even notice Pinto Thai in the little strip mall. That would be a shame, because surprisingly, this off-of-the-beaten-path restaurant has really good authentic Thai food. It started as
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Sandi Masori, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Among the 40 portraits of “Groundbreaking Girls” on exhibit through April 28 at the Women’s Museum of California are six people who self-identified as Jews or were of Jewish descent. A seventh portrait of particular Jewish interest is of Irena Sendler (1910-2008), who estimated she saved the lives
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — All the talk of the Polar Vortex hitting the Midwest of the USA reminds me of the year my family and I spent in Nebraska, the funnily-shaped State bang in the middle of the United States. People are saying that there hasn’t been a freeze like that for
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food, USA