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

In this memoir, pork is a gateway to assimilation

Treyf: My Quest for Identity in a Forbidden World by Elissa Altman; New American Library; 2016; ISBN 9780425-277812; 283 pages; $26. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – What is not kosher is treyf, literally meaning “torn” but generally meaning “forbidden” and one might anticipate that in Elissa Altman’s memoir, subtitled “My Quest for Identity […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Amigos Del REP showcases Latino talent

By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — It is not always easy being a Latino or Hispanic performer in the entertainment community. Many times the roles that are offered to actors are limited, as are jobs for directors, producers, stagehands, and technicians. Amigos Del REP founding members Herbert Siguenza, John Padilla, and Dave Rivas wanted to

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Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA

Israeli cuisine? It includes foods of many immigrants

By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — Isn’t Israeli food characterized by falafel, hummus and tehina?  If you are drooling, licking your lips and nodding in eager anticipation of spicy, fried chickpeas with heady spices, think again!  Film Director Roger Sherman has created a mind-blowing, gut busting culinary travelogue for the 27th San Diego Jewish Film

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Eva Trieger, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food

Israelis, Americans tour Southern California attractions

Editor’s Note:  San Diego Jewish World’s staff photographer Shor M. Masori, a teenager himself, joined Israeli and American teens on a whirlwind 10-day tour of Southern California attractions; the program an offshoot of the ongoing cooperation between the San Diego Zoo and the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo.  The Israeli teens were all Jerusalem Zoo volunteers, while

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori, Travel and Food, USA

I-8 Jewish Travel: Desert View Tower

-70th and Final Installment in a Series- Exit 77 In-Ko-Pah Park Road, San Diego-Imperial County Line, California By Donald H. Harrison JACUMBA HOT SPRINGS, California — The dogs that greet visitors at the entrance to the venerable Desert View Tower are alive, if sleepy in the hot sun, but there are many other animals nearby

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

Israeli artist helps Sudanese refugees

  By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — I walked into the exhibit at the New Americans Museum at Liberty Station with no intention of writing a story. I was just there as a guest at the opening reception of Project Vision. However, the exhibit moved me so much that I changed my mind. As an ESL teacher

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International, Middle East, Mimi Pollack, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Jewish trivia quiz: Brazil’s First Jews

By Mark D. Zimmerman   MELVILLE, New York — The Summer Olympic Games have begun in Brazil, which is the site of the oldest synagogue in the western hemisphere, founded in Recife, Brazil in 1636. The synagogue, Kahal Tzur Yisrael (Sinagoga Zur Israel in Portuguese), was founded by Spanish and Portuguese Jews who came to Brazil

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International, Mark D. Zimmerman, Travel and Food, Trivia, Humor & Satire