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Israel’s foreign relations improving, SWU gala told

    By Donald H Harrison SAN DIEGO – Amid growing indignation over aggressive Palestinian tactics at universities throughout the Diaspora, Dore Gold, former director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, provided a note of optimism at a StandWithUs banquet Saturday night attended by over 500 Israel supporters. Interviewed on stage by Waxie Sanitary Supply Chairman […]

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

Music fans, fellow Jews lay George Fogelman to rest

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Fellow Jews and fellow musicians joined forces on Wednesday, Nov. 27, to pay last tribute to George Alan Fogelman, 72, who died of cancer on Nov. 22 while under hospice care, leaving his wife Gail, two children, three grandchildren, nieces and nephews and many friends. Rabbis Joshua Dorsch

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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County

Rabbi Michael Samuel injured by car while crossing street

CHULA VISTA, California (SDJW) — Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel, spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom, was hospitalized Monday night after being struck by a car as he was crossing a street towards his Conservative synagogue.  According to Arlene LaGary, an active member of the congregation, the rabbi suffered two broken wrists and facial bruises. “When

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, San Diego County

Trip took her here, there, and almost everywhere

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Six weeks, eleven flights, six states, one one-week cruise and four countries (not including the USA). That is feeble compared with the Beatles’ tour of the USA in 1965 (twenty-five cities in thirty days), but they were much younger than we are (and probably flew first class). One

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food

Humoring the headlines: November 24, 2017

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Ads for New Cyber Monday Websites: * Racebook.com:  Shopping around for derogatory epithets, memes, and slurs about your ethnic, racial, or religious inferiors.   Look no further than Racebook.com.  For the price of an annual subscription, you’ll always have the perfect caricature, stereotype, and term to demean your enemies.  Our slogan is-How

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

‘Dollmaker’ is a Holocaust story with a fictional twist

The Dollmaker of Krakow by R.M. Romero; Delacorte Press, 2017, ISBN 97815247-15403; 316 pages plus notes; $16.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — R.M. Romero has written a fairy tale that couldn’t possibly have a happy ending. Written for students in the middle school grades, The Dollmaker of Krakow is set in Poland during

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Humoring the headlines: November 20, 2017

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−First, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it had lifted an Obama-era ban on importing sport-hunted trophies of elephants from Zimbabwe and Zambia.  President Trump initially agreed with the new policy but changed his mind because at first he thought the Obama policy banned the importation of trophy wives from Eastern

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Book’s 70 chapters provide picture of U.S. Jewish life

77 Miles of Jewish Stories; History, Anecdotes and Tales of Travel Along I-8 by Donald H. Harrison; Create Space, 2017, 338 pages including index, $19.95.   By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson SAN DIEGO — The 70 chapters of this book appeared originally as individual articles in various editions of  San Diego Jewish World, the website edited by

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Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, San Diego County, USA

Humoring the headlines: November 16, 2017

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Advisors to President Trump have come up with a way that the President can disavow Judge Roy Moore without implicating himself in similar scandals.  He’ll condemn pedophilia as long as it didn’t happen during a Miss Teen USA pageant. * Many evangelical pastors defended Judge Moore believing his denial of multiple

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire