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Below are the names of writers who are currently active.  For others, living and deceased, please type their name into the search box above the masthead on our home page, www.sdjewishworld.com

Beer and Torah? To this, they say ‘L’chaim!’

  By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California  — “What’ll it be, sir?” “I’ll have a beer and where’s that Torah discussion group?” “Over there, sir.  And here’s our beer menu.” Once a month, members of Tifereth Israel Synagogue sample the selections at one of San Diego County’s burgeoning microbrewery industry’s locations, where they socialize, […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Physicians in ancient times warned against over- eating

A Mother’s Day Tip  By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — The Greek Hippocrates (about 460–about 377 BCE) is the most famous of all physicians and is considered the father of medicine. Many people of his age, as well as for a long time after his death, considered medicine a part of religion,

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Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education

Historic marker ceremony honors Lucy F. Covington

  By Jerry Klinger CHENEY, Washington — The Great Drum was rhythmically beaten by ten Native American Salish Singers seated about it. Their Song drifted over the Palouse Prairie as it had before for untold years. Hundreds gathered on the high ridge above Eastern Washington University, below the white colored water tower with the school’s

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Food, song, reflections mark TIS Yom Ha’ atzma’ ut

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Tifereth Israel Synagogue celebrated Yom Ha’atzma’ut, Israeli independence day, on Thursday night, May 9, with songs, four American perspectives on Israel, and the kind of dairy dinner you might be served in Tel Aviv. Oscar and Olga Worm own Bekker’s Catering, which typically serves non-kosher food.  But the

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

JCC poetry program features compassion and whimsy

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The Exhibit on Aging served as a fitting backdrop to the Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices program, held in the Gotthelf Gallery of the Lawrence Family JCC Thursday, May 2. The forty plus people who gathered were well-rewarded with inspiring poems by three senior citizens. Janice Alper and Dr. Irvin

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, Irv Jacobs, MD, San Diego County

Shelter helps legal migrants reach their sponsors

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I have had the privilege over the years of interviewing many Survivors about their experiences during the Holocaust.  After doing a number of these interviews, I noticed a pattern.  When they were recounting for me all the horrible things that had happened to them and their families

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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA

Humoring the headlines: May 9, 2019

The Trump-Putin Phone Call By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Since the CIA surveils communications between American citizens engaged in suspicious activities with Russian officials it intercepted President Trump’s conversation with Vladimir Putin last week.  That prompted me to tweet: “Federal phone tappers, if you’re listening, I hope you are able to release the transcript of that

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Review: ‘A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir’

By Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin BOCA RATON, Florida — Rabbi Dr. Marc D. Angel’s A New World: An American Sephardic Memoir reads like an engrossing novel. It describes the transition of the Angel family from an immigrant Sephardic community into an Americanized group over several generations. In the process, it “reminisces” about the immigrant generation,

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Israel Drazin-Rabbi Dr., Jewish History, Jewish Religion