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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Jeanne Brown of the League of Women Voters of San Diego rapidly analyzed 11 statewide ballot measures and 12 local ballot measures Wednesday evening, Oct. 17, at a meeting of the Beth Israel Men’s Club that was attended by approximately 90 people. Smiling as she faced the mixed […]
Editor’s Note: This is the 33rd 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 By Donald H. Harrison
Waiter, cabin steward tell of their lives at sea Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Travel and FoodCSI-Clueless Saudi Investigator By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The show opens with a gory scene of fifteen bearded men wearing red and white checkered keffiyehs cinched with black ayals. They are dismembering a bloody corpse with a bone saw inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. The camera shifts to the Oval Office of the White House
Humoring the headlines: October 17, 2918 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — It’s a very metaphorical eagle: my latest book, All Quiet on the Midwestern Front; a Tale of Deception, Betrayal and Vindication, which has been two years in the making and has now been published on Amazon and is available as an ebook and a paperback. It is my
My ‘eagle’ has landed Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
By Eva Trieger CARLSBAD, California — We generally view grief as a mitigating factor. Death is a harsh clarion signaling a divide between what was once vibrant and dynamic to something silenced and static. New Village Arts turns this concept on its head with Guadalupe in the Guest Room. This beautiful 90 minute one-act play
A sweet play about two coping with death Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – An Egyptian-born Muslim who today calls himself a proud Zionist, an Ethiopian-Israeli who taught herself to sing as a way to relieve the stress of rocket attacks on her hometown of Sderot, and an 11-year-old girl whose answer to anti-Semitism was to become a strong supporter of Israel,
Diversity of Israel’s support showcased at SWU gala Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The Samuel Project, filmed in San Diego and screened at the San Diego International Film Festival, is a gentle post-Holocaust story starring Hal Linden as Samuel, a Holocaust survivor who is reluctant to talk about what the Nazis did to him and his family. Despite prodding by his
‘Samuel Project’ stars Hal Linden as Holocaust survivor Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, USABy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — This past week, I enjoyed watching some of the scary zombie movies on Hulu and Netflix; it’s a custom I have kept since I was a boy of seven or eight years old. Halloween was always a fun time for me as a child. Watching scary
Judaism and the zombie question Read More »
Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Travel and Food
At Vitoria: a City’s Medieval Promise between Christians and Sephardic Jews by Marcia Riman Selz;© 2016, Archway Publishing; ISBN 9781480-852976; 217 pages plus appendices, $17.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – While the Basque people of Vitoria, Spain, were Christians, like the Jews, they were outsiders, not quite like the other Christians of Castile
Friendship between Basques and Jews fuels novel Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryTrump on the Stump Translations By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−For those who don’t understand Trump Speak, here is what he says and what his base hears. * “It’s a very scary time for young men in America when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of.” This means boys can
Humoring the headlines: October 12, 2018 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
I Survived: My Name is Yitzkhak by Harry A. Butowsky, © 2015 Word Association Publishers, ISBN 9781633-851009; 201 pages including appendices, $18. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – This book came to me “over the transom,” that is, without any previous warning. Even though it is three years old, I’m glad that I
Surviving the Shoah by hook or by crook Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History
By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — When we think about female leading ladies or icons of the screen, names like Meryl Streep, Cher, Jane Fonda, or Glenn Close may spring to mind. Not to detract from these gals, but they’re not dames. Oh, sure. They’re women, and Damon Runyon may have called them dames,
You’re invited to ‘Tea with the Dames’ Oct. 12 Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego CalendarBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The opening program of the eleventh season of Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices will showcase student poets from the San Diego Jewish community. On Tuesday evening, October 16, 7:00 p.m. in the Astor Judaica Library, fourteen young people will read their original poems. English teacher, Elaine Lepow, will be accompanying
Student poets to read their works Oct. 16 Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego Calendar
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The new 16-unit Bellamar Point Loma condominium at the corner of Rosecrans and Byron Streets in the Roseville section of the Point Loma neighborhood gained some additional luster on Tuesday, Oct. 9, when Mayor Kevin Faulconer, City Councilwoman Lorie Zapf, and members of the La Playa Trails
Plaque recalling first Roseville Hotel unveiled Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County