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-This story has been updated- By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Three Jewish candidates in California’s June 5 primary election made it into the history books – one to his delight, and two others to their dismay. Delighted was Steve Poizner, who ran as an independent, yet placed first for the upcoming November runoff […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
Good Heart by Alan Newman, Gefen Publishing House, © 2018, ISBN 9789652-299550; 251 pages including acknowledgments, glossary, and author’s biography, $15.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –An interesting aspect of this multi-generational, multi-ethnic, and dual religious novel is that love, rather than conflict, pulls the plot along. Among the central characters in this ode
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−ABC canceled Rosanne Barr’s show for degrading the network’s reputation by tweeting outrageous conspiracy theories and racist insults. Can the American people cancel Donald Trump’s term for degrading the presidency by doing the same thing? * A week ago President Trump abruptly called off his summit with Kim Jong-un to
Humoring the headlines: June 2, 2018 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – To fellow aviators, perhaps, Elgen M. Long is best known as the man who in 1971 first flew around the world over both the North and South Poles. Additionally, he is admired for his research into the disappearance of aviators Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937
‘Wings of Eagles’ airlift from Yemen retold by aviator Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
By Donald H. Harrison DEL MAR, California – Whenever I go to the San Diego County Fair, I like to head for the area where they display hobbies. My pleasure is to find bits of Judaica in the various collections on display. Two years ago, for example, I found miniature books of tehillim in a
Unusual collection at Del Mar Fair: Toilet paper Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSARET ZION, Israel — It was one of those weird coincidences that sometimes makes me wonder what is going on in the world, or at least in my own little world. One evening last week we went to see the Swiss film, The Divine Order, because it had been recommended by a
Media focuses on women’s rights in Switzerland, Egypt Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastJerusalem: The Experiential Guidebook by Tali Kaplinski Tarlow, ScaVentures, Jerusalem, © 2018, p. 198, plus supplemental material, NIS 150, about $42.00. By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Jerusalem is surely a must-see by anyone visiting Israel, and author Tali K. Tarlow gives us an unusual twist to an epic visit – a scavenger hunt to
Book offers new ways to tour Jerusalem Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Middle East
Editor’s Note: This is the 13th 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 By Donald
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodBy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — Nathan Gunn is one of America’s greatest and most versatile baritones, as he amply proves in the HersheyFelder produced and directed one-man show, Nathan Gunn, Flying Solo, A Musical Story about Family, Love, and the Wild World of Music. Now showing, until June 10 at the Lyceum Stage, this virtuoso
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The AMC in La Jolla and the Angelika Film Center in the Carmel Mountain area will begin screening on Friday, June 1, the suspenseful Hungarian film 1945 in which the arrival on a train immediately after the Holocaust on an elderly Orthodox Jewish man and his son throws
It’s ‘1945’ and two Jews come to a Hungarian village … Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –When Ronald Reagan proposed the “Zero-Zero Option” for no intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe, the pundits – and the Europeans – said, “The Russians will never agree to that.” They demanded that Reagan put forward what the Russians could accept – or not aggravate the Russians by putting U.S. Pershing missiles
U.S. is not afraid to upset Iran’s mullahs Read More »
International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−President Donald Trump cancelled his upcoming summit with North Korea in reaction to the “tremendous anger and open hostility” it displayed in a recent statement. Of course, President Trump has never done this in his tweets or public pronouncements. Within an hour, Trump was nominated for a Nobel Cease Prize. * Could
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — As befits an English woman living abroad, I watched the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on television, and reveled in the pomp and circumstance of each shot and every angle. I loved the sight of the beautiful mixed-race bride, her dress, the bridesmaids and page-boys, the various
Royal wedding invoked Hebrew imagery Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish Religion, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts
Editor’s Note: This is the twelfth 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 By Donald H.
A little bit of Indonesia aboard Dutch ship Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA