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Mimi’s Ark: ‘Siberian Cupcakes’ in East S.D. County

  By Mimi Pollack SANTA YSABEL, California — There are five luscious Siberian cupcakes residing near this town in San Diego’s east county. What are Siberian cupcakes? They are domesticated Russian foxes. The co-founder of the Judith A Bassett Canid Education and Conservation Center, Amy Bassett, came up with the clever name. She and her […]

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Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, The World We Share

Creative students design, build JFS sukkah

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The temporary structures, or sukkahs, in which Jews celebrate the holiday of Sukkot typically are thrown up by Jewish families or congregations to partake in celebratory communal meals and to welcome strangers to our community. However, the sukkah just recently built at the Jewish Family Service (JFS) campus

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

The Dodge Star and Jewish history

  By Jerry Klinger Roseburg, Oregon, is a city that logging money built. Far from the main urban center of Portland, rich with money and poor on cultural resources, Roseburg’s 19th and 20th century patricians deployed their monies to create a cultural oasis of music, theater, education and social optimism in the remoteness. Today, Roseburg

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International, Jerry Klinger, Middle East, Travel and Food, USA

Trump’s Side Story

By Laurie Baron (Melody: “America” from West Side Story) Puerto Rico, You ravaged island , Island of Cat 4 destruction. Bad place to build my casinos. Since most people there are Latinos. * Puerto Rico, You crippled island. Island without any power. Always the hurricanes blowing, Always the devastation growing. And the debts you’re owing,

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA

Anatomy of a gang of spies

Stalin’s Englishman: the Lives of Guy Burgess by Andrew Lownie (published by Hodder and Stoughton, 2015) By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The defection to the USSR of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean in 1951 remained prominent in the British press for almost a decade. Their defection was followed  a few years later by that of

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

The Mt. Soledad cross case in retrospect

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Morris Casuto, the retired executive director of the San Diego Region’s Anti-Defamation League, suggests that in retrospect San Diego’s quarter-century-long battle over the Mt. Soledad Cross was a win for civil government. Originally, the large Latin cross atop Mount Soledad was upon public property.  Several levels of courts declared that

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

Support for Israel dropping in the U.S.

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Divisions between Jews are wide, as are divisions between many other groups of people all over the globe. In Israel, among the Jews there are four basic groupings: secular, traditional, religious, haredi (ultra-Orthodox). There is friction among them, especially between the Reform and Conservative movements and the haredi political

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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA

#Parasha like a one-to-one discussion

#Parasha: Weekly Insights from a Leading Israeli Journalist by Sivan Rahav-Meir, Menorah Books, Jerusalem, © 2017, ISBN 978-1-59264-480-3, p. 321, plus glossary of Names, $24.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – Sivan Rahav-Meir, the author of #Parasha, is an anchorwoman on Israeli Channel 2, a columnist for Yediot Aḥaronot, Israel’s largest newspaper, and a weekly radio

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

Unique calendar can tell yahrzeits far into the future

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Former high school physics teacher Fred Reiss has liked series of numbers since he was a little boy.  He recalls that he was approximately six years old when he would stand on the front porch of his aunt’s house in South Philadelphia and count the number of students

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

An Evening with the Author of  ‘Woman in Gold’

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — When I heard that Anne-Marie O’Connor would be speaking at the Tower of David Museum in a dialogue with fellow-author Ora Ahimeir I jumped at the opportunity to see and hear the author of the monumental book Woman in Gold in person. As readers are doubtless aware, the book relates the saga

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson

Humoring the headlines: September 17, 2017

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The World Clowns Association has picketed screenings of the movie It carrying signs that read: “Black, white, and red faces matter.” * Both houses of Congress passed a congressional resolution condemning the white nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia.  President Trump signed it despite his continuing insistence that the anti-racist protesters were equally

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire