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Knotty Barrel, 13211 Black Mountain Road, San Diego, California 92129 By Sandi Masori SAN DIEGO — I went to meet a friend the other day, and by accident, we stumbled into Knotty Barrel for what turned out to be their first lunch after their soft opening the week before. While the Rancho Penasquitos location […]
Noshing with Sandi: Knotty Barrel Read More »
Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Sandi Masori, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Longtime San Diego residents Robert and Helaine Baum were doing some Spring cleaning and found hundreds of pins and patches that they had collected over the years, then put away, and forgot. Their wide-ranging collection included memorabilia from the worlds of politics, sports, broadcasting, the labor movement, local
Jewish pins and a badge help document our past Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Latin is a dead language. This is defined as “one that has no native speakers.” Jana Mazurkiewicz Meisarosh is on a mission to make sure that Yiddish never goes the way of Latin. And she’s succeeding. Two years ago, the doctoral candidate from the Slavic Languages Department at the
Yiddish play (with English subtitles) examines power Read More »
Eva Trieger, Jewish History, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Jerry Klinger BOYNTON BEACH, Florida — For most, Memorial Day is another day off. Another excuse not to go to work and grill hamburgers, or go to the beach and kvetch about politics and the decline of American society. However, Memorial Day is really a day to stop and assess the meaning of
Proposal to honor American liberators of Buchenwald Read More »
International, Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, USABy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida –Many religious people of all faiths accept the Five Books of Moses, the Torah, as a divine document. They see that the Torah has many stories and are convinced that they understand the stories which teach them lessons. The truth is different. While the Torah relates
Puzzling an obscure Biblical passage Read More »
Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion
SAN DIEGO — Editor Donald H. Harrison spotted this license plate. The 27th Psalm, attributed to David, begins: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? “When the wicked came against me to eat up my
Jewish- interest license plate: 27 PSM Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & SatireWhat Trump Was Thinking By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Trump outdid himself this week by making comments that were so patently false they would turn Pinocchio’s nose into a Redwood, but they all were true if we could hear what he was thinking immediately after making them. * I don’t do cover-ups (especially when I am
Humoring the headlines: May 24, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; graphic adaptation by Wayne Vansant, © 2019 published by Dead Reckoning, ISBN9781682-474601, 170 pages, $24.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – If I suddenly had universal authority, I would order every world leader, every man or woman capable of summoning an army to fight
‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ now in graphic format Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, InternationalBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — America’s Memorial Day is to remember those who “gave their last full measure of devotion” to our country and our cause. Brave men and women fought and died from Bunker Hill to New Orleans to Buena Vista to Shiloh and Cold Harbor to Chateau-Thierry to Cape Esperance and Kasserine
Memorial Day and the beliefs we hold dear Read More »
International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – You set up a donor advised fund at the Jewish Community Foundation, find a worthy charitable project, recommend to the foundation that it grant money from your fund to that project, and then, poof, is the donated money then gone, its one-time purpose achieved? It doesn’t have to
JCF donors invest in high- impact social programs Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
SAN DIEGO — The license plate belongs to a mother who lives in San Diego. Following in the footsteps of license plate maven Melanie Rubin, San Diego Jewish World editor Donald H. Harrison couldn’t resist photographing this one!
Jewish- interest license plate: SD EMA Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Melanie Rubin, San Diego County, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Lawrence Baron SAN DIEGO — Janet Brody Esser died early morning May 22 from cancer and injuries related to a recent auto accident. Born and raised in Brooklyn, she received her BA from the University of Iowa, MA in art history with an emphasis on anthropology and archeology from California State University, Long Beach,
Funeral May 23 for Prof. Janet Brody Esser Read More »
International, Lawrence Baron, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — There are remarkable similarities between the biblical story of the flood and the more ancient version of Gilgamesh. The Babylonian epic Gilgamesh was written on twelve tablets around 2000 BCE and has survived in several versions. It was discovered in 1839 among the ruins of a
The floods of Gilgamesh and the Bible Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish Religion, Middle EastBy Dorothea shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Actually, the one-woman show of the above title that I saw last week has very little to do with the subject of the title, namely, mothers-in-law. I am one such, and even an ex-one in one case, but not a step one, or not yet, at least (and I hope never).
Play review: ‘My Ex- Step- Mother- in- Law’ Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast