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Snippets from ‘Show Up on Shabbat’ weekend

SDJW staff report SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – In synagogues in San Diego and across the country, Jews and their friends answered the call of the American Jewish Committee to “Show Up for Shabbat” to demonstrate just one week after the Pittsburgh massacre that people of good conscience will not be intimidated. Contributors to San Diego […]

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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, Eileen Wingard, Eva Trieger, Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Sheryl Rowling

‘BeteBrune’ novel filled with hateful stereotypes

BêteBrune (Brown Beast): The Saga of Judith Sanders by Kim Hester, Kim Hester LLC, © 2018, ISBN 9781543-939330; 241 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This was a truly difficult book to read.  Not stylistically; the author has a clear and concise style.  The book’s content was severely off-putting, so filled is this

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

A medical evacuation from the Maasdam

Editor’s Note: This is the 35th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 By Donald H.

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Bucharest Diary: Tale of a Jewish American ambassador

Bucharest Diary: Romania’s Journey from Darkness to Light by Alfred H. Moses; Brookings Institution Press © 2018; ISBN 9780815-732723; 394 pages including index and glossary of people and places. By Donald H. Harrison   SAN DIEGO – Formerly national president of the American Jewish Committee, trial attorney Alfred H. Moses had successfully lobbied the Communist

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, USA

U.S. must pursue interests, not emotions, in Middle East

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Now that the first blast of hot air is gone, it may be possible to discuss l’Affaire Kashoggi rationally. First, the stipulations: Jamal Kashoggi should not have been killed. Period. In the longer form, that stipulation reads that no one should be killed by governments that disapprove of what

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International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA

Halakhah through the ages examined

Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law by Chaim N. Saiman, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, © 2018, ISBN 978-0-691-15211-0, p. 248 plus appendices and index, $29.95. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Halakhah is derived from the Hebrew root letters meaning to walk or to go when used as a verb, and path or way as

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Words alone do not trigger anti- Semitic outrages

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The recent tragic events in Pittsburgh took my thoughts to Professor Robert Wistrich’s seminal study of anti-Semitism. Coining the phrase ‘the longest hatred’ to denote the phenomenon, and making it the title of his book, Wistrich describes the longstanding and widespread occurrence of anti-Semitism. In a subsequent tome, A

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, USA

Vigil for Pittsburgh 11 overflows in San Diego

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The distance between San Diego, California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is 2,450 miles, but the psychological distance between the two American cities was zero as representatives of many faiths filled Congregation Beth Israel’s sanctuary and synagogue to overflowing Monday evening, Oct. 29,  in a vigil to express solidarity with the

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

Jews threatened by extreme right AND extreme left

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Anti-Semitism is one of the world’s most enduring social diseases that we as Jews have known throughout our history. With the murder of eleven Jews at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue, the Jewish community awoke from its slumber only to realize that anti-Semitism is still alive

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Jewish History, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA

Jewish world reacts to Pittsburgh synagogue murders

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — As news of the deadly assault on the Tree of Life/ Or L’Shalom Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh were broadcast and cablecast around the country, various Jewish organizations issued statements in response. At last report, there were at least 11 people killed and six others wounded, including four

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

Of Hawaiian judges, royalty, Jews, and Torah

Editor’s Note: This is the 34th in a series of stories researched during Don and Nancy Harrison’s 50th Wedding Anniversary cruise from Sydney, Australia, to San Diego.  Previous installments of the series, which runs every Thursday, may be found by tapping the number of the installment:   1, 2,3,4, 5, 6, 7,8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14,15, 16, 17, 18,19,20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 By Donald H.

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