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Trumpy Bear Replaces Smokey the Bear By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-This week a television advertising campaign started to run on Fox News for Trumpy Bear, a stuffed Grizzly bear who sports a Donald Trump hairpiece and contains an American flag inside his zippered pouch. But this is no toy! After touring the sites of the […]
Humoring the headlines: November 18, 2018 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Holocaust Survivor to Harvard Dean: Memoirs of a Refugee’s Progress by Michael Shinagel © 2016, Xlibris, ISBN 9781524-509606; 150 pages plus Index; Available on Amazon. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Having served for nearly four decades as dean of the Harvard Extension School – the longest known deanship in Harvard’s history – author
This life in academia makes for pleasant reading Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education
All Quiet on the Midwestern Plains by Dorothea Shefer-Vanson © 2018, ISBN9781723-871801, 399 pages plus acknowledgements, available on Amazon. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – My colleague, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, has written a novel based in part upon the time that she and her husband Yigal had come to the American Midwest together while he
Vicious politics, betrayal, divide fictional college faculty Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
Editor’s Note: This is the 37th 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, 35, 36
Adventures of an Orthodox Jewish bond trader Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — Sometimes art imitates life, and sometimes art dictates life. When I interviewed Perry Chen and his mom, Dr. Zhu Shen on Wednesday, I felt that art and life inform each other, with one or the other alternatively taking the lead. It has been six years since I met
Holocaust filmmaker’s animated doc in Oscar hunt Read More »
Eva Trieger, International, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A famous U.S. Navy admiral, two U.S. Air Force officers, and a U.S. Army major currently are being saluted in a display sponsored by the Jewish War Veterans of San Diego at the Veterans Museum and Memorial Center in Balboa Park. Honored are Admiral Hyman J. Rickover, Army
Jews of the U.S. military honored at Veterans Museum Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USABy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — Although many composers in the past have imitated the sounds of water in their music, such as Vivaldi in The Four Seasons, Beethoven in the Pastorale Symphony, Mendelssohn in the Fingal’s Cave Overture and Respighi in the Fountains of Rome, never has a basin of water been incorporated
The music of water Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego CountyBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Marvel Comics founder Stan Lee died Monday. As a memorial to him, here’s an excerpt from an article I wrote in 2003 about the first X-Men movie: The creators of the X-Men comic book series belong to the generation of American-born Jews who sought acceptance and social mobility through assimilation.
Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, the Holocaust and X-Men Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
Non-Israelis may sue in Israeli court those who harm them because they are Jews Judge Moshe Drori has ruled in Jerusalem Court that non-Israelis who are harmed because they are Jewish have the standing to sue their attackers in Israeli courts. The ruling came in a case brought by the Shurat HaDin Law Center on
Editor’s E-Mail Box: November 11, 2018 (6 items) Read More »
Jewish Religion, Lawrence Baron, Middle East, San Diego County, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In honor of the centennial of the Armistice that ended World War I, members and friends of the Tifereth Israel Synagogue Men’s Club on Veteran’s Day Sunday hoisted a fresh American flag up the flagpole, pledged allegiance, sang “God Bless America” (composed by Jewish immigrant Irving
Synagogue members hold Veterans Day ceremony Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, USABy Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel — The vaunted two-state solution is defunct, because the Palestinian Arabs want to annihilate Israel, not “live alongside of Israel in peace.” The one-state solution has its own insurmountable problems. So, what is the best alternative other than continuing the status quo? Jordan as the State of Palestine. When
Should a democratic Jordan become the real Palestine? Read More »
Middle East, Steve Kramer
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –In some cases, sculptures are grouped to tell a story, but at other times their storytelling groupings are accidental. You’ll find both sets of circumstances outside the San Diego Museum of Art. For example, two Jewish artists who immigrated to the United States from the Czarist Russian Empire have
Variety of form, materials in SDMA outdoor sculptures Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Shor M. MasoriTrump Speak By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO −“Discount” means invalidate absentee and provisional ballots cast in predominantly Democratic precincts. * “Very close to complete victory” means Republicans won the Senate despite receiving 12,000,000 less votes than the Democrats and lost over 30 seats to the Democrats in the House. * “Accosted” means CNN correspondent Jim
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –The Matt Tyrnauer documentary Studio 54 tells of the meteoric rise of two Jewish business partners, their spectacular fall, and their efforts to reclaim their lives, one successfully, the other cut short by AIDS. Their names: Steve Rubell and Ian Shrager. They met at Syracuse University. Rubell was extroverted
The rise and fall of Studio 54 Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast