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(Melody: Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead) By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Jack Smith indicted him. Donald Trump, excuses slim. Trump’s not above the law. Charged him for his crimes. Took files lied many times. Hid them from the FBI. Trump’s not above the law. He’s going where the guilty dread. No White House, […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Heidi Gantwerk SAN DIEGO — Our last day of the CommUNITY Trip to Israel found us at Anu, The Museum of the Jewish People. This incredible museum shares the story of the Jewish people over thousands of years and celebrates a remarkably rich and diverse tapestry of modern Jewish life. To walk into a
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Heidi Gantwerk, Israel, Opinion, San Diego County
By Steve Kramer KFAR SABA, Israel — Michal and I have been traveling through Israel while enjoying this spring’s excellent weather. My last article described touring through parts of the Tuscan-esque Lower Galilee near Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee). On the way home from Zippori that day, we made just one stop, in Zichron
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Israel, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food
Jews of the Wild West, which ran Wednesday night on KPBS2, was a video quilt with each patch telling the story of 19th or early 20th century Jews who made an indelible contribution to their times. [Donald H. Harrison]
‘Jews of the Wild West’ Entertains and Informs Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Israeli conductor, composer, and teacher Yoav Talmi’s 80th birthday was celebrated not only in his native Israel on April 28 at Tel Aviv University’s Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, where he heads the conducting department; but he was also feted the following month in Quebec City, Canada, where
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Eileen Wingard, Israel, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — In the book “Miriam’s Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World” (1988), edited by Prof. Howard Schwartz, Miriam’s drum had magical abilities. Taken from a 19th-century Eastern European folktale, Schwartz writes that the music from Miriam’s drum drove off serpents and kept Miriam herself in eternal life. Today’s drumming
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Lifestyles, Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Attending a concert recently in Jerusalem, I suddenly found myself surrounded by ghosts. In the row in front of me sat an elderly woman whose face I recognized but whose name I had forgotten. When I had last seen her, about twenty years ago, she and I were
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Israel, Lifestyles, Opinion
By Gedaliah Borvick JERUSALEM — A couple of weeks ago, I drove my daughter to her apartment on Yoni Netanyahu Street in Givat Shmuel. Gazing at the street sign hearkened me back to July 4, 1976, when we heard the miraculous news of the daring Operation Entebbe in which over 100 hostages were rescued. Sadly,
Feeling Very Far Away Read More »
Gedaliah Borvick, Israel, Jewish History, Travel and Food
This is a third-person memoir written for children so they can understand the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that some of them and author Shankman share. It starts off with a boy named Peter getting in trouble for the umpteenth time in his classroom for telling a joke instead of reciting an answer to a question. [Donald H. Harrison]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education
Pittsburgh’s Jewish community is currently forced to relive the murders of 11 members of three congregations who gathered to worship at Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, and the experience is obviously most traumatic for surviving victims who testified at the alleged gunman’s trial. [Bruce S. Ticker]
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Bruce Ticker, Jewish History, USA
Young Israel of San Diego has progressed from renter to landlord in the small shopping center diagonally across from the trailhead of Cowles Mountain in the San Carlos neighborhood. Rabbi Eddie Rosenberg says the turnaround in the small Orthodox congregation’s fortunes was “miraculous.” [Donald H. Harrison]
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Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — This week’s Torah reading, Behaalotecha, appears to be the basis of one of my mother’s oft-repeated sayings, “Keep complaining and I’ll really give you something to complain about.” Seems the Israelites grew tired of their monotonous diet of manna, pining for the fish and other foods they
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
Spike, the alligator, was discovered 32 years ago in Los Angeles in someone’s bathtub. If an alligator is discovered in the wild, and in need of rescue because of an injury, it is released back to the wild after being nursed to health. However, in the case of alligators found illegally in domestic settings, they are taken to live permanently at rescue centers because the circumstances of their breeding are unknown. Alligators that are in-bred by unscrupulous breeders may carry defective genes that should not be released into the wild alligator gene pool, Kerschner explained. [Donald H. Harrison]
Rescued Animals Help Children Learn about Conservation at SeaWorld Read More »
California, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori, The World We Share, Travel and Food
By Sam Ben-Meir TOPEKA, Kansas — Dancing Waters is a new exhibition at Topeka’s Mulvane Art Museum, curated by museum director Connie Gibbons, and featuring the work of Rita Blitt, who has been making art consistently and diligently for over sixty years. In that time, Blitt has created a body of work of immense breadth
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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA