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Below are the names of writers who are currently active.  For others, living and deceased, please type their name into the search box above the masthead on our home page, www.sdjewishworld.com

Passover: An Antidote for Anxiety

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Who says our children are nervous? Just because our youngsters may have anxiety about school shootings, separating from parents, are fearful of animals or blood or heights, have panic attacks,  can’t stop touching things or thinking about things, are painfully shy, are terrified of speaking in public, or freeze […]

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Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food

Book of Mann offers wisdom of God

Eternally Yours, God’s Greatest Gift to Mankind: Exodus by Rabbi Reuven Mann, Observant Artists Community Circle, Inc. Hewlett, New York, © 2017, ISBN 978-0692991329, p. 197, plus glossary, $12.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California –  From the perspective of Rabbi Reuven Mann, long-time teacher and pulpit rabbi, and presently a teacher at the Masoret

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Friday nights with the grand children

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — “What is your favorite sound?” was one of the questions that the legendary French interviewer and literary figure, Bernard Pivo, used to ask his interviewees. The answers were usually interesting but not very original. “The sounds of nature,” “A champagne cork popping,” “The harmonious cacophony of the orchestra tuning

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East, Travel and Food

Judaism and positive mental health

By Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO –Ever since the 1950’s when Albert Ellis, Ph.D., my teacher and mentor, developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy/Coaching (the foundation to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy/Coaching), the mental health field has not been the same. Instead of spending months and years gazing inward and backward with no real behavior change, folks

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Michael Mantell

Hand Up Pantry pioneers among JFS gala honorees

First in a series By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – They are of different generations and live on different coasts of the United States, but one can’t help but think of Marsha Berkson and Estee Einhorn as close colleagues who helped to establish Jewish Family Service’s Hand Up Pantry, which offers hungry and homeless

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food

How to protect yourself from almost everything

Rossen to the Rescue; Secrets to Avoiding Scams, Everyday Dangers, and Major Catastrophes by Jeff Rossen; Flatiron Books (c) 2017; ISBN 9781250-119438; 234 pages plus acknowledgments and index. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson  MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — How can you make sure that neither you nor your near and dear ones are subjected to any of the

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Museum examines war bravery, Holocaust brutality

    Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of stories based on editor Donald Harrison’s 50th anniversary cruise with his wife Nancy from Sydney, Australia, back to San Diego, and the people they met and places they visited along the way. By Donald H. Harrison SYDNEY, Australia – Dedicated as the Maccabean

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Travel and Food

Community says farewell to Gussie Zaks, z”l

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—At a packed funeral service Tuesday, March 13,  at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, the community bade a final farewell to San Diego’s First Lady of Holocaust Survivors, Gussie Zaks. The longtime lecturer, organizer, and educator—who had told her story of survival countless times to students, club members, law enforcement, and

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, San Diego County