AAA-Writers and photographers

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

San Diego County: America’s animal capital

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori and Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego County is the animal capital of the United States, and possibly the world. I say this without reservation or qualification after a 10-day vacation period during which my son David and grandchildren Brian, 10 and Sara, […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, The World We Share, Travel and Food

Art Review: Delacroix at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  By Sam Ben-Meir NEW YORK — The current exhibition of Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art – the first of its kind to be mounted in North America – is indeed an extraordinary revelation. Delacroix was one of the great creative minds of the nineteenth century: an artist who embodied

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Sam Ben-Meir, USA

Book Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’

My Brilliant Friend, Book 1: Childhood and Adolescence by Elena Ferrante, Europa Editions, 2018. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — This novel, the first of a quartet, has become an international bestseller and has been widely praised in literary circles. So I was overjoyed when I was able to pick up a copy someone

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International

Humoring the headlines: December 29, 2018

The Year in Review By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−January/February: The San Diego Jewish World was on a publishing hiatus during these months. March Betsy Devos released a music video to support Donald Trump’s plan to arm teachers: School days, school days, they have become such cruel days.  ‘Reading and ‘riting and shoot to kill, collateral

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

LeBron James has much to learn about Jews

–First in a series– By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The “secret” is out. According to the bigots, the Jews control the world! We own the media! Politicians do our bidding! The Jews “control” Wall Street! Have you heard about the old joke concerning two Jews who were dining at a Vienna

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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Sports & Competitions, USA

Book Review: Siddur Avodat HaLev

Siddur Avodat HaLev (Hebrew and English Edition) Hardcover by Rabbinical Council of America; Editor: Rabbi Basil Herring, by Koren Publishers Jerusalem, 97896530-19362; 1346 pages By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The brand new Siddur Avodat Halev is a fabulous new commentary on the traditional siddur, but unlike most commentaries you have read, the writers of this project

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Yes, Virginia, there are Jews there too

By Mimi Pollack LA JOLLA, California — As an ESL teacher who has worked for 35 years with people from all over the world, I was very interested in going to see the presentation at the Gotthelf Gallery at the JCC last Monday evening on December 17th. First, there was the presentation by civil rights attorney

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International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County