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Adieu, Scott Pruitt By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Back in April, I wrote this parody of Michael Jackson’s Beat It. While I don’t claim responsibility for Scott Pruitt’s resignation, there are rumors that Jared tipped him off there was a song about him in a Jewish publication. So here’s an encore version with a new ending. […]
Humoring the headlines: July 5, 2018 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Editor’s Note: This is the 18th 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
John McCormick: A Kiwi friend of Israel Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, John McCormick, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — It was heartwarming to read on the front page of the San Diego Union-Tribune today (July 4) about members of the military who were born in other countries becoming U.S. citizens in a ceremony yesterday aboard the museum ship USS Midway. I particularly was pleased by the comment
Editor’s personal blog: Welcome immigrants Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA
Celebrate, Commemorate: The History and Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community, editor Joellyn Zollman, San Diego History Center, ISBN 8780918-740090, 91 pages including acknowledgments and room for personal remembrances. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The recent exhibition at the San Diego History Center about our local Jewish community contained more information than most
S.D. Jewish history book helpful exhibition souvenir Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –I’m sure that many Jews of my so-called “Baby Boomer” generation will recognize the way in which my late mother Alice would have reacted to two stories in Tuesday’s San Diego Union-Tribune. One story told about how movie mogul Harvey Weinstein may be facing life imprisonment for rape and
Editor’s personal blog: What mom would have thought! Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA
By Steve Kramer KFAR SAVA, Israel —Rabbi Ken Spiro’s new book, Destiny, successfully guides the reader through the central themes of Judaism: the impact of Jewish values on civilization, Jewish determination, the disproportionate impact of the Jewish people, anti-Semitism and its message, the Jewish vision of history and conception of time, and [even] mankind’s ultimate
Rabbi- historian examines the destiny of the Jews Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Steve Kramer
By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California — How often do you catch yourself humming a tune, or singing along with lyrics, when you suddenly experience that moment of clarity as you realize the song’s message? The instant when you learned that “Ring Around the Rosie” was about Black Plague or that U2 was singing about
‘American Socialist,’ story of Debs, debuts July 4 Read More »
Eva Trieger, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new Middle East “peace plan” is gestating and, according to the Trump administration itself, nearly ready to hatch. It is easy to be cynical. Peace plans have been produced by various administrations and yet, there is no peace. On the other hand, the Trump administration — as it has
Trump’s peace plan is coming Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Perhaps it is my bias, but sometimes I think that rabbis should often talk about the lessons drawn from their own lives and not only about the morals we should glean from the legends of such rabbis of old as Shammai, Hillel, and Tarfon. This is not to
Personal blog: The joy of Jewish reading Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, USABy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — For his final season as Music Director of the La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, before handing over the director’s reins to the brilliant Israeli pianist, Inon Barnatan, violinist Cho-Liang Lin has assembled an outstanding group of artists to perform at sixteen concerts. Each concert includes a Prelude Lecture or
Music stars in La Jolla Music Society’s summer nights Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, Roz Rothstein was galvanized into responding to the anti-Jewish violence of the Second Intifada and especially to the mutilation murders discovered on May 8, 2001 of teenagers Koby Mandell, 13, and Yosef Ishran, 14. The boys had hiked in the Judean Desert
Holocaust Survivor’s daughter leads StandWithUs Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The recent furore over Donald Trump’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents and placing them in enclosures that have been likened to cages, seems in the end to have brought out the best in American society. After all, virtually all Americans, Trump included, can trace their roots
Bravo, Americans, for standing up for the children! Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – At the Asian Film Festival in New York, there is a Hong Kong-produced film titled Operation Red Sea. Always interested in stories about waterways near Israel, I requested and received a screener for review purposes. It’s a well-done, riveting war film—on the order of Dunkirk or Saving Private
Clumsy propaganda diminishes Chinese war movie Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Editor’s Note: This is the 17th 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 By
Those special touches on a cruise ship Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food