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Trump’s Diary: “How I Brought Peace to Asia” By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−I, the President, have just returned from my trip to Japan and Korea. I was supposed to practice diplomacy, but I’m so good at it, I don’t have to practice. I treated it like a reunion with great friends like MBS, Xi Jinping, […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison JUNEAU, Alaska – Getting ready for rafting down the Mendenhall River is almost as exciting as the ride itself. “T,” a guide for Alaska Travel Adventures who says his Japanese name sometimes is too difficult for western tongues to pronounce, had our eight family members pull rubber trousers over
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USABy Sergio Carmona Florida Jewish Journal Jerry Klinger of Boynton Beach [Florida] is on a mission to make sure that American liberators of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald are honored with a memorial. Buchenwald, a Nazi camp established on Ettersberg Hill near Weimar, Germany, was liberated by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s United States Third
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International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USA
Rei Do Gado,939 4th Avenue, San Diego, California 92101 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — Right across from Horton Plaza is a family owned churrascaria, or Brazilian Steakhouse, called the Rei do Gado (King of Cattle). It’s a cute all-you-can eat restaurant featuring meats that are barbecued on the spit in the Brazilian style, using salt,
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San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the Democratic candidates running for President is Cory Booker, the former Newark mayor who later was elected to the U.S. Senate. Booker has had a long relationship with the Jewish community. He once headed Jewish student societies while a student at the University at
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USA
By Donald H. Harrison KETCHIKAN, Alaska – A lot of Americans find themselves seemingly rooting for a Canadian team against an American one, and vice versa, during the “competition” at the Great Alaskan Lumberjack Show, but it’s all in fun with no real assault on national pride actually intended. Audience members on the right side
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Donald H. Harrison, Sports & Competitions, Travel and FoodBy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — I recently attended the first day of a two day ‘Law & War’ conference in Jerusalem held by Shurat HaDin, a terrific organization that fights Israel’s battles by legal means, using court systems around the world to go on the offensive against Israel’s enemies. Its motto: “Bankrupting Terrorism
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International, Middle East, Steve Kramer, USADebates Updates By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−On the first night, Beto O’Rourke, Julián Castro, and Cory Booker briefly spoke in Spanish to woo Latino voters. On the second night, moderator José Díaz-Balart posed his question to Pete Buttigieg in Spanish who replied in kind. This threw Pete off his initial plan to answer one question
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Confessions of a Yiddish Writer and Other Essays by Chava Rosenfarb, McGill-Queens University Press © 2019, 282 pages including appendix and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Chava Rosenfarb was recognized as a novelist and essayist of substance by those of the post-Holocaust, shrinking, Yiddish-speaking world, but it remained for her daughter,
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It pains me to write this, but there seems to be a straight line between the rejection of the UN Partition Plan by the Arab countries in 1947 and the Palestinian Authority’s current refusal to attend the Bahrain workshop arranged by the USA in an attempt to move
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, USABy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The story of Peter Abelard (1079-1142) and Heloise (1095-1163) is considered a great medieval love story. We have still today Abelard’s autobiography and letters between the parties, so we know much but not all of the love story. James Burge’s Heloise and Abelard is an interesting
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr.
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I am happy to announce the publication of my fifth book, with the sixth very soon to follow. Just published on Amazon as well as Barnes and Noble is Volume 1 of Schlepping and Schmoozing through San Diego County, which is drawn from over three decades of my
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
Thailicious, 19 S. Stephanie Street, Suite 160 , Henderson, Nevada, 89012 By Sandi Masori HENDERSON, Nevada — While in the Las Vegas area for a conference, I went out with a group of friends for dinner. One of the group has a custom of trying Thai food everywhere that he goes, so he suggested we
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Sandi Masori, Travel and Food