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By Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – As chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey of New York has much to say about what new projects the government will be granted permission to finance. As for President Trump’s demand for over $5 billion for a border wall, or a compromise proposal for […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – Ronald S. Lauder and Robert Singer, president and executive vice president respectively of the World Jewish Congress, told a European Parliament committee on Thursday “to pick after Jews or go after Jews is not just wrong — it is dangerous for all Europeans. … Anti-Semitism eventually consumes everyone
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Growing up in postwar London I never heard the term ‘Second Generation,’ nor was I aware of it until many years later. In Israel at some point in the 1960s or 1970s there was a discussion, possibly even an argument, as to whether people who had fled Europe before,
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish HistoryFirst the Jews: Combating the World’s Longest-Running Hate Campaign by Rabbi Evan Moffic, Abingdon Press, Nashville © 2019, ISBN 978-1-5018-7083-5, p. 228 plus notes, $22. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan assured us we “Don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing.” In the same vein, we don’t need
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History, Jewish ReligionBy Donald H. Harrison NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL – House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, in a New York Times report, says his committee will be “making sure the policy of the United States is being driven by the national interest, not by any financial entanglement, financial leverage or other form of compromise.” President Trump responded that Schiff
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Donald H. Harrison, Eva Trieger, International, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Obituaries & memorials, San Diego Calendar, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This following column, with a format that is easier to read in a hurry, replaces the Editor’s E-Mail Box. It allows for recognition of members of our community in the diverse roles they play. If you, or a member of the Jewish community whom you know recently did
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, USAThe Uncensored State of the Union Address By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−For the most part, President Trump read off the teleprompter yesterday, but there were zingers he wanted to add to parts of the State of the Union Speech that his advisors told him to omit. Here they are. * “If there is going to
Humoring the headlines: February 6, 2019 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – If you want to know if a fish you see at the Birch Aquarium is kosher, look carefully. Does it have fins? Does it have scales? If the answer to both these questions is “yes,” then probably it is a kosher fish. That doesn’t mean, however, that
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share, Travel and Food, USAHeading Home: The Tale of Team Israel directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger; Ironbound Films; 2018, 87 minutes, to be shown at the San Diego International Jewish Film Festival at 1 p.m., Sunday, February 10, at Edwards San Marcos Stadium 18, 1180 W. San Marcos Boulevard, San Marcos, and at 6 p.m.
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Why Are We Still Afraid? by Mark Lavie; © 2018; ISBN 9781791-797324; 375 pages, available via amazon.com or via MarkLavieAuthor.com By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This self-published book by longtime Israeli journalist Mark Lavie starts off with controversy, then subsides into informative and reliable travel journalism, depicting the byways and quirks of Israeli
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA
Pinto Thai, 2330 Main Street #H, Ramona, California 92065 By Sandi Masori RAMONA, California — If you’re driving along State Route 67 in Ramona, you might not even notice Pinto Thai in the little strip mall. That would be a shame, because surprisingly, this off-of-the-beaten-path restaurant has really good authentic Thai food. It started as
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Sandi Masori, Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Pianist Jessie Chang, the talented wife of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor Emeritus, Jahja Ling, was the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at TICO’s January 27 concert at Tifereth Israel Synagogue. The lovely artist played with musicality and grace. The second movement was particularly lyrical and
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Among the 40 portraits of “Groundbreaking Girls” on exhibit through April 28 at the Women’s Museum of California are six people who self-identified as Jews or were of Jewish descent. A seventh portrait of particular Jewish interest is of Irena Sendler (1910-2008), who estimated she saved the lives
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and FoodBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — All the talk of the Polar Vortex hitting the Midwest of the USA reminds me of the year my family and I spent in Nebraska, the funnily-shaped State bang in the middle of the United States. People are saying that there hasn’t been a freeze like that for
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food, USA