AAA-Writers and photographers

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

Humoring the headlines: December 6, 2017

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO -New Words from the First Year of the Trump Presidency * Excoaliate: Opening protected wilderness areas to mining operations. * Mooreonic: Endorsing an alleged pedophile for Senate because he supports your political agenda. * Adfibbing: Improvising lies to exonerate yourself. * Meception: Believing your own lies. * Twescalation: Exacerbating problems […]

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Dueling poems by Josefowitz, Zahn, charm

He Writes, She Writes: A Dialogue of Contrasting Views Written in Verse by Natasha Josefowitz and Irwin Zahn; © 2017 Createspace; ISBN 9781975-785055; 79 pages plus introductory material; $7 on Amazon. By Donald H. Harrison   SAN DIEGO – After reading this collaboration by Natasha Josefowitz and Irwin Zahn, three descriptive words came immediately to

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Natasha Josefowitz

Fun, food, and visits to Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Mexico

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Aboard the cruise ship Carnival Dream, a veritable floating city, we shared the fourteen decks with some 4,000 other passengers Our route took us from New Orleans, down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and several Caribbean islands. From conversations with some of our fellow-passengers we learned that

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Travel and Food

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