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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A branch of a large, free-standing menorah in front of the Chabad House at San Diego State University was torn off early Friday morning by young men–probably students– who were using the religious symbol to do pull-ups, according to Chabad Rabbi Chalom Boudjnah and two witnesses. The rabbi said […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyMarch Sadness By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Though overshadowed by the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, the real competition to watch this month is what is going on in Washington, DC. The number one seed, the Trump Travesties, is facing stiffer competition than expected. This makes it difficult for spectators to fill in their brackets as the
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The parent of a preschooler saw a man on Monday, March 20, attempt to set fire to a mezuzah near the entrance of Tifereth Israel Synagogue.The man could not enter the synagogue because of security locks. The parent reported the intruder to the synagogue staff, who called police.
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Can you imagine shrinking to a tiny size and being able to walk through the pages of an interactive book? You stop on one page and you see photographs of Jewish pioneers, quotations from newspaper accounts about them, and perhaps a caption summarizing the high points of their
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego CountyBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — The so-called “two-state solution,” to subdivide the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea between independent Israel and independent Palestine, fails the tests of logic and history. And it ignores the Kingdom of Jordan – whose participation is required for any stable, long-term arrangement. There are presently three
Two states? One state? How about a federation? Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana BryenWhat Trump Really Thinks about his Budget Blueprint By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Mick Mulvaney, who plays Mr. Burns on The Simpsons, unveiled President Trump’s budget blueprint shortly before St. Patrick’s Day so that most Americans would be drunk when they read it the first time. Since Obama bequeathed his successor a desk that secretly functions
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — As we approach the Passover holiday, when helping others is customary, it’s instructive to see how a few volunteers are having a considerable impact on Netanya’s Ethiopian Israeli community… The Forgotten People Fund (FPF), a strictly volunteer organization in Netanya, Israel, was founded in 1998 by two couples, Anne
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Steve KramerThe Obama Conspiracy against Trump By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump was visiting Jared and Ivanka. As he walked past the bedroom of his granddaughter, he overheard Ivanka reading The Borrowers to his granddaughter. He immediately tweeted, “Just found out that Obama dispatched tiny people to live in the walls and under the floors of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USAThe American Wealth Care Act By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−The Congressional Budget Office projects that 14,000,000 people currently covered under Obamacare will lose their health care under the American Health Care Act by 2018. Given the priorities of Paul Ryan and his House colleagues who crafted the bill, this is a good thing. After all,
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO — It was no accident that the “Celebrate San Diego! The History & Heritage of San Diego’s Jewish Community” exhibition in Balboa Park’s San Diego History Center opened on Erev Purim. Curator Joellyn Zollman explained to an opening evening crowd on Saturday, March
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego County, Shor M. MasoriBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Tucked away in a quiet Jerusalem side-street is the Leo Baeck Institute, where activities associated with the man himself and various aspects of his heritage are held, its official purpose being ‘the study of German and Central European Jewry.’ Sister institutes are to be found in cities elsewhere
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History, Jewish Religion
By Mimi Pollack Reprinted with permission from L’Chaim Magazine SAN DIEGO — Here in “America’s Finest City,” the weather is nice year round while rentals are very high, and many families live paycheck to paycheck. This situation is also the reason why there are so many homeless people in San Diego and worse yet- homeless
JFS, Dreams for Change team up to help homeless Read More »
Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, USATrump’s Ten Commandments By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO− I am the President who liberated you from Obama and brought you out of the house of losing. * You shall neither worship the President before me nor like the new host of the “Apprentice.” * You shall not take my name in vain because I am
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireTextual Tapestries: Explorations of the Five Megillot by Gabriel H Cohn (Translated from the Hebrew by David Strauss), Maggid Books, New Milford, CT, © 2016, ISBN 978-1-59264-398-1, p. 433, $29.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – The Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, is divided into three broad sections: Torah, the Five Books of Moses; Nevi’im, the prophets;
Five megillot are examined in ‘Textual Tapestries’ Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion