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Jewish Trivia Quiz: Trump on religious liberty

July 18, 2016

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — Leading up to this week’s Republican Convention in Cleveland, the Republican Platform Committee under RNC Chair Reince Priebus has been finalizing details of the official party platform, covering such issues as reforming government, women in combat, coal as a clean energy source, and religious liberty. According to Michele Bachmann, […]

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IS the BDS movement winning?

July 16, 2016

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — The BDS movement is a matter of great concern for Israelis. It grew from the misnamed and UN-sponsored “World Conference against Racism,” held in Durban, South Africa in 2001. This NGO hatefest against Israel developed the strategy to use “soft power” against Israel, perhaps because numerous military actions

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Conversion by Rabbi Lookstein should be honored

July 14, 2016

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of my favorite concepts in logic is the reductio ad absurdum (Latin: “reduction to the absurd”) argument, which is a logical method of argument that proves the falsity of a premise by following its implications to a logical but absurd conclusion. The latest news regards the nullification

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

Humoring the Headlines: July 14, 2016

July 14, 2016

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Although Bernie Sanders finally endorsed Hillary Clinton, some of Bernie’s diehard supporters say they will vote for Trump rather than Clinton. My advice to them: after you have felt the Bern; you’re far safer feeling the lukewarm than playing with fire. * Next week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland will

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

I-8 Jewish Travel: The Pacific Crest Trail

July 14, 2016

-65th in a Series- Exit 54, Kitchen Creek Road, Cleveland National Forest, California By Donald H. Harrison CLEVELAND NATIONAL FOREST, California – The Pacific Crest Trail intersects with Kitchen Creek Road about 30 miles from where the trail begins on the U.S.-Mexican border and about 2,620 miles from where it ends on the U.S-Canada border.

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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA

Artist Charlotte Salomon’s life told in free verse

July 12, 2016

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Life is full of strange coincidences. I first encountered the story of Charlotte Salomon about twenty years ago, when an exhibition of her work, a series of paintings with captions describing her life and entitled Life? Or Theatre? was held at the Royal Academy in London. It made

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History

In memory of a fallen hero from Exodus-47

July 12, 2016

By Jerry Klinger July 18, 1947, in international waters off the coast of Sinai, a shadowing British battle fleet attacked an unarmed American Chesapeake Bay steamer, the President Warfield. They had been shadowing the lumbering vessel since she left Sete in France. A warning to stop and submit to boarding came from the light cruiser

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Middle East, Obituaries & memorials, USA

Detective, romance story based on Salem Witch Trials

July 11, 2016

How to Hang A Witch by Adriana Mather; Alfred A. Knopf; © 2016; ISBN 978055-3539479; 358 pages including author’s notes; $17.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Adriana Mather is the author and Samantha Mather is the fictional protagonist of this mystery-romance-supernatural novel for young adults that draws upon the Salem Witch Trials for

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Jewish Trivia Quiz: A Jewish matador

July 11, 2016

By Mark D. Zimmerman MELVILLE, New York — A Spanish matador was fatally gored this week in Spain, the first time this has happened since 1985. Though not widely known, there was a gay Jewish man who was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn in 1903 who went on to become a matador. He fought in

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Mark D. Zimmerman, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Jewish interest license plate: Safta Loves 6

July 10, 2016

SAN DIEGO — License plate maven Melanie Rubin has come through again, finding this Jewish interest license plate indicating that a grandmother (Safta in Hebrew) loves 6 grandchildren. Mazel tov to her! And mazel tov to Melanie for spotting this gem.

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Melanie Rubin, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Humoring the headlines: July 10, 2016

July 10, 2016

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ In the wake of a series of mass shootings in the United States, the governments of Bahrain, the Bahamas, and United Arab Emirates have issued advisories to their citizens about the dangers of traveling in the United States. The NRA considers this a great achievement. * Donald Trump denounced the

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

‘Days of Awe’ tells of recovery from a close friend’s death

July 9, 2016

Days of Awe by Lauren Fox; Penguin Random House Vantage Books: © 2015; ISBN 978030-7388278; 256 pages; $16 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Isabelle’s life is ruined after her best friend and fellow school teacher, Josie, died when her car plunged off an icy road. She was so devastated by the loss that her marriage

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Maestro: Music, mysticism of Leonard Bernstein

July 8, 2016

By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — One man and a piano. For most, this would be a scene in a hotel lounge with patrons coming and going. But not for virtuoso Hershey Felder who completes this year’s Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival playing at the Lyceum Theatre. Hershey Felder is well known

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Eric George Tauber, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

U.S. government should welcome Islamic reformers

July 7, 2016

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Reformations are good for the soul. They keep the religious leaders and faiths in check. In the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, people began to read the Bible critically for the first time without having the local priest spoon-feed it to them while they sat on

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International, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USA

Jewish Trivia Quiz: Trump on religious liberty

IS the BDS movement winning?

Conversion by Rabbi Lookstein should be honored

Humoring the Headlines: July 14, 2016

I-8 Jewish Travel: The Pacific Crest Trail

Artist Charlotte Salomon’s life told in free verse

In memory of a fallen hero from Exodus-47

Detective, romance story based on Salem Witch Trials

Jewish Trivia Quiz: A Jewish matador

Jewish interest license plate: Safta Loves 6

Humoring the headlines: July 10, 2016

‘Days of Awe’ tells of recovery from a close friend’s death

Maestro: Music, mysticism of Leonard Bernstein

U.S. government should welcome Islamic reformers

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