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Forbidden Night by Joanne Lewis, Soul Attitude Press, (c) 2016; 282 pages; ISBN 9781939-181755. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — At first, I was a bit bewildered by this novel; it alternated several stories in different time periods and I wondered how they would all come together. But they did! One story dealt with […]
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonWINCHESTER, California (Press Release)–The story of the Jewish calendar, which begins with the Exodus from Egypt, is more than 3,500 years old. Over the millennia, the twelve individual Jewish tribes coalesced into the nation of Israel, adopting, adapting, and ultimately developing their own religious calendar, which has withstood the vagaries of the ages. At one
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History, Jewish Religion
Somewhere There Is Still a Sun by Michael Gruenbaum with Todd Hasak-Lowy; Aladdin Books of Simon & Schuster Publishing; (c) 2015; ISBN 9781442-484870; 356 pages plus afterword and appendices; $8.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This is a Holocaust memoir written for children of perhaps middle school age. It is narrated in present
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−President Trump invited House Republicans to the Rose Garden to celebrate their passage of the American Health Care Act. This is like a Major League Baseball team holding a ticker tape parade after winning one game of the World Series. * Despite its promises to combat opioid addition and drug
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBooks of the People: Revisiting Classic Works of Jewish Thought by Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, Editor, Maggid Books, Jerusalem, © 2017, ISBN 978-1-59264-470-4, hardcover, p. 350, including list of contributors, $29.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – The editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, in the early 1950s, basing their judgment on just three simple criteria:
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBy Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — One hundred years ago a bomb shell was dropped on the international community by the British government. It was the Balfour Declaration, a public “letter” which would have greatly cheered Theodor Herzl, the great proponent and leader of the Zionist movement, had he not succumbed to a heart
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Steve KramerBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The sight of officials of United Airlines dragging a helpless passenger down the aisle of an airplane as other passengers scream in shock and protest is not one that I will easily forget. Physical violence of any kind is shocking, and any time the TV news shows a violent
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – There was a thought-provoking moment during a staged reading Wednesday night of Janet Tiger’s one-act play “Caregivers Anonymous” at Ohr Shalom Synagogue. A newcomer ridden with guilt shame facedly admitted to a group of fellow caregivers that the thought had crossed her mind that her troubles would be
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Mimi Pollack SAN DIEGO — How does one live to be 95 and in good shape mentally and physically? Common wisdom tells us to eat well, exercise, stay positive, be part of a community, etc. Of course, it also helps to have good genes. In the case of Deborah Szekely, who turned 95 on
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International, Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and FoodTrump’s Alternative History By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Having perfected the art of fabricating alternative facts, Donald Trump has shifted to inventing alternative history. Now that we have learned that big-hearted Andrew Jackson hated the Civil War (though he was already dead for sixteen years before it broke out) and could have prevented it, what new
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Dream Job: Wacky Adventures of an HR Manager by Janet Garber; lulu.com; (c) 2016; ISBN 9781483-447476; 159 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Melanie is a supervisor in a human relations office at an urban hospital in this work of fiction. What goes on there would be hard for anyone besides author Garber
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. HarrisonTrump’s Fist Hundred Daze By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump considers grading him on his first one 100 days “an artificial barrier,” “not very meaningful,” and a “ridiculous standard.” Nevertheless, he thinks he has “done more than perhaps any president in the first 100 days.” Steve Bannon has advised him to be more of a
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Vive la France! I spend part of my summers in France, I have relatives and friends who live in France and I am a great admirer of France and (almost) all things French. So it was with considerable interest and not a little trepidation that I followed the course
A British ex-pat pulls for Macron in French election Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –David Amos, who is best known to the Jewish community as the conductor of the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra and as a music columnist for San Diego Jewish World, on Thursday evening received a plaque naming an orchestra pit at Patrick Henry High School in his honor, and
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Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County