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News companies agree to 3-month trial trading

April 3, 2018

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) – Agreement was reached Tuesday, April 3, between San Diego Jewish World and WorldMediaNetworks for a trial three-month period for the trade of news content. Under the agreement, signed by principals Donald H. Harrison of San Diego Jewish World and Daniel Ajzen of WorldMediaNetworks, specified bylined articles that appear on San Diego […]

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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County

Yes, there are Jews in Fallbrook

April 3, 2018

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori FALLBROOK, California – They say there are not many of our fellow Jews in this northern San Diego County town, but my grandson Shor and I recently met two interesting ones who are living alongside the Pala Mesa Resort golf course. Gordon and Phyllis Molloff

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, Travel and Food

It takes ten to tango

April 2, 2018

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The ad in the paper for the show entitled “Tango in the Shadows” caught my eye, and since Yigal and I have long been aficionados of the tango in every shape and form we decided to buy tickets for the performance in Jerusalem. The fact that the event fell exactly on

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Valley Center days

April 2, 2018

Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Shor M. Masori VALLEY CENTER, California – Not being an incorporated city, Valley Center is not so well known as neighboring Escondido, located about nine miles to its southwest. But, perhaps surprisingly, this rural town has lots of Jewish history—and U.S. presidential history as well. The Lilac Ranch,

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Shor M. Masori, USA

To Life, To Life, L’Chaim

April 1, 2018

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — A Jewish young man was seeing a psychologist for an eating and sleeping disorder. “I am so obsessed with my mother… As soon as I go to sleep, I start dreaming, and everyone in my dream turns into my mother. I wake up in such a state, all

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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Travel and Food

Humoring the headlines: April 1, 2018

April 1, 2018

Search On Mueller (Melody: Go Down Moses) By Laurie Baron When the Donald ran for President. Putin helped him win. Junior was not hesitant. To commit this sin. Search on Mueller Go find the smoking gun. Tell the Donald That his term is done. One day he’ll drag Trump into Court And won’t let him go.

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Once an immigrant, JFS’s Daniel now helps refugees

April 1, 2018

Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of stories about Jewish Family Service of San Diego’s centennial celebration, and eight women who will be honored at the organization’s gala on April 21. To see previous stories please click on the number in the series: 1, 2. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO

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Donald H. Harrison, International, San Diego County

The Bible and sex

April 1, 2018

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Anyone who really knows the Bible, probably knows that it is a book that is full of sexual themes—from one end of Tanakh to the other. Lot sleeps with his daughters; Reuben’s affair with his stepmother Bilhah, and the biblical version of Romeo and Juliet are

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

The best question of the Pesach seder

March 29, 2018

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Children have an unusual ability when it comes to confronting our spiritual hypocrisy as parents and as adults; very often they get to the essence of the problem as they perceive things. Frequently, as parents we often fail to hear the questions our young people ask

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish

March 29, 2018

By Jerry Klinger LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Max Henry Aronson was born March 21, 1880 at 813 Center Street, in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was known as Max, sometimes, Gilbert, and not so often Henry, for a little more than twenty years of his life. Until he died in 1971, at 91,

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

The Jewish victims in an Australian tragedy

March 29, 2018

This is the fourth in a series of stories developed during Don & Nancy’s golden anniversary trip to Australia and cruise back to San Diego. To read previous stories in the series, please click on their corresponding number: 1, 2, 3. By Donald H. Harrison SYDNEY, Australia – There are a number of fascinating places

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History

OpEd: In response to a columnist on gun control

March 28, 2018

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – San Diego Jewish World likes to present a broad spectrum of opinion, and for that reason we published a column today by Michael Hayutin in which he takes issue with protesters, including those students who have been organizing marches around the country to demand serious efforts be made

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Simone Veil’s memoir provides inspiration for all

March 26, 2018

Une Vie (One Life) by Simone Veil, (c) 2017, Stock, France. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — On the cover of Simone Veil’s autobiography, written in 2007, we read that she is a member of the Academie Francaise, though this is not mentioned in the book. It would seem that after a long and

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History

Science meets art at the Natural History Museum

March 26, 2018

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Jonas Salk, the discoverer of the polio vaccine, was fond of paraphrasing the mathematician Jacob Bronowski on the possible beneficial results from an interrelationship between the sciences and the arts. Bronowski, who became known to millions of Americans through the PBS television series The Ascent of Man, suggested

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education

News companies agree to 3-month trial trading

Yes, there are Jews in Fallbrook

It takes ten to tango

Eleanor Roosevelt’s Valley Center days

To Life, To Life, L’Chaim

Humoring the headlines: April 1, 2018

Once an immigrant, JFS’s Daniel now helps refugees

The Bible and sex

The best question of the Pesach seder

Bronco Billy, movies’ first cowboy hero, was Jewish

The Jewish victims in an Australian tragedy

OpEd: In response to a columnist on gun control

Simone Veil’s memoir provides inspiration for all

Science meets art at the Natural History Museum

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