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“Lofty” has long been a word that traditionally describes academia. Yet a more apt word, to be nice, is “bizarre” when an Asian leader fulminates about Jews at a respected university and a so-called academic program rewrites Middle East history.
Fighting academic anti-Semitism Read More »
AAA-Writers and photographers, Bruce Ticker, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
Items in today’s column include: *How various public schools named for Jews rank academically *Archaeology in Israel will be subject of day-long colloquium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography *Political Bytes *Honorable Menschen *Passages By Donald H. Harrison How various public schools named for Jews rank academically SAN DIEGO — Voice of San Diego recently published “A
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 28, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
The Golden Deceiver tried to persuade the landlords of the white dog house where he currently lives to extend his lease, but a good old dog named JoJo who didn’t suffer from distemper hoped the landlords would offer him the opportunity to live there. (To read more, please click on headline)
Hounding the Headlines: September 27, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron
Friday, September 20, 2019, in the Tuskegee City Municipal Center, the 13-marker Tuskegee Civil Rights and Historic Trail was dedicated. The Trail was the ten-year dream of Tuskegee University History professor and Archivist Dana Chandler. The Trail will be included in the U.S. Park Service’s Civil Rights trails. The Trail came to be because of a biracial, multi-religious partnership in Tuskegee, Alabama.
It had been a long-frustrated dream because Dr. Chandler was unable to find funding to create the system. Grant monies did not come through. State and local funding did not happen. Private funding seemed impossible, until, with indomitable persistence he spoke with the President of the Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation, Jerry Klinger, about his idea. (To read more, please click on headline.)
Tuskegee Civil Rights Trail is dedicated Read More »
Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
Items in this column include:
*Gun Show this weekend and next year seem a legal certainty
*Political dots and dashes
*Jewish community conundrum: safety vs. welcoming the stranger
*Laura Walcher shares lighter memories of the ate George Mitrovich
*A speaking engagement at Congregation Beth Israel
*As we enter the Jewish New Year
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 27, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County
Items in today’s column include:
*Scripps Institution of Oceanography grad now in space
*Jewish Community Fundraisers
*Demanding the ‘perfect’ may impede progress
*Political Dots and Dashes
*Sports
*World War II collector auctioning Hitler memorabilia
* Mazel tov! Mazel tov!
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 26, 2019 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions
Parasha Nitzavim By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — This week’s Torah portion Nitzavim, is always read on the Shabbat before Rosh Hashana. It asks us where we stand as we enter the new year. The parasha teaches that G-d tells us, “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the
D’var Torah for September 28, 2019 Read More »
Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell
Excerpt: I chose this book by Rebecca Cantrell because it promised to describe what life was like in Berlin in the early 1930s. I was not disappointed. Apart from the somewhat lurid plot of the novel, the book contains a vivid account of the way Berliners lived and loved at that time, the rising political power and physical presence of the Nazi party and – in a particularly sensational way – the life of the homosexual community there. (To read more, please click on the headline)
‘A Trace of Smoke’ set in pre-war Berlin Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
Items in this column include:
*A few of Bern Schwartz’s works now at Museum of Photographic Arts
*Jewish Federation’s Men’s Event Dec. 8 to feature comedian Modi Rosenfeld
*Political Dots and Dashes
*Cohn Group of Restaurants to temporarily manage four more eateries
*Mazel tov! Mazel tov!
Our Shtetl San Diego County: September 25, 2019 Read More »
Business & Finance, Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food
Please impeach him for all his sins.
I’ve grown tired of his “wins.”
Nancy waited much too long
To avoid offending MAGA throngs.
Humoring the Headlines: September 25, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Making It All Work: A Practical Guide to Hashkafah & Halacha in the Workplace by Avi Wasserman and Miryam Wasserman; Philipp Feldheim publisher; ISBN-10: 16802-50310; 538 pages; Price $25.00 By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The authors of Making It All Work present the Orthodox Jewish community with an interesting book about some
An Orthodox guide to workplace behavior Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Lifestyles, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin JERUSALEM — Judaism Reclaimed: Philosophy and Theology in the Torah by Shmuel Phillips, a rabbi and lawyer with a law degree from the University of London, is a book filled with interesting information inspired by his understanding of the views of Maimonides and Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. The book has
Rabbi Phillips authors tome on Jewish philosophy and theology Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
By Eileen Wingard CORONADO, California — This past weekend, a new music festival was initiated at the Coronado Library, and concert pianist, Gerald Robbins, brother of longtime Coronado resident, Bonnie Fox, helped launch the concerts by participating in two of them. At 1 p.m. Saturday, September 21, Robbins performed a solo recital on the Coronado
Gerald Robbins masterful at new Coronado music festival Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
Mohammad Ali Hammadi has been arrested by Greek police. It was only a short story in the Daily Mail of Britain — and barely in the American papers at all, except, naturally, Navy Times.
Think back.
U.S. Navy diver Robert Dean Stethem was aboard TWA Flight 847 on June 14, 1985, scheduled to fly from Cairo to San Diego with intermediate stops. It never made it. The plane was hijacked after a stop in Athens by Shi’ite Hezbollah terrorists who first looked for passengers with Israeli passports. Finding none, they brutally murdered Stethem on a stop in Beirut and threw his body out on the tarmac. (Please click headline to read more)
Terrorist murderer of U.S. Navy sailor eludes extradition Read More »
International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA