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‘Baseball Shabbat’ anticipates MLB’s 2017 season

April 1, 2017

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In anticipation of opening day of the 2017 Major League Baseball season, congregants of Tifereth Israel Synagogue themed their Kabbalat Shabbat services on Friday night, March 31, around the American pastime. Traditional Shabbat evening prayers were mixed with meditations on baseball; a baseball trivia quiz took the place […]

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David Ogul, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions

Israel test for American readers

March 30, 2017

By Steve Kramer ALFEI MENASHE, Israel — All the reports that I read about the dwindling support for Israel by liberal Jews, and other Westerners, stress one thing: ignorance on the part of those who have taken an adversarial stance towards Israel. Of course, readers of my articles are very well acquainted with the facts

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

Ideas abound in playwright Tiger’s world

March 30, 2017

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When San Diego playwright Janet S. Tiger was a grade-schooler, her mother Pauline Schechter used to take her on buses, trains and subways from Bell Harbor, Long Island, into Manhattan for sightseeing. The rides were long and arduous and to young Janet’s way of thinking, “boring.” But her

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Humoring the headlines: March 30, 2017

March 30, 2017

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Donald Trump claims that appointing Ivanka as his assistant and Jared as his senior advisor and head of the new Office of Innovation does not constitute nepotism. The correct term is NePOTUSism. * First, Devin Nunes avoided the substance of James Comey’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee and instead focused

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

A perfect Verdi’s Requiem evokes memories of Eve

March 30, 2017

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — In the many performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass which I have experienced as a performer or a listener, I have never heard this masterpiece with 250 voices in the choir. That was the size of the choral forces for the March 17, 18 and 19 performances in

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

Book stamps through World War II history

March 29, 2017

Fleeing From The Fuhrer: A Postal History of Refugees From the Nazis by Charmian Brinson and William Kaczynski; The History Press; © 2011; 191 pages including index; ISBN 9780752-461953; 17.99 British currency. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – I must acknowledge cousins Herb and Susie Rheingruber’s kind gift of this book to me;

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Mimi’s Ark: Helping children and animals

March 27, 2017

By Mimi Pollack ALPINE, California — Giving back to others is always good, but when you can give back to both animals and children, that is even better! Local humanitarian, Agnes Barrelet, is doing just that by heading up two non-profits, Hands United for Children and Children’s Nature Retreat. The Children’s Nature Retreat in Alpine

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Mimi Pollack, San Diego County, The World We Share

Vandals break branch of SDSU Chabad menorah

March 24, 2017

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 County

Humoring the Headlines: March 24, 2017

March 24, 2017

March 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, USA

Man arrested for attempting to burn Tifereth Israel

March 23, 2017

By 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

S.D. Jewish History an open book

March 21, 2017

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 County

Humoring the Headlines: March 20, 2017

March 20, 2017

What 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 & Satire

Computers for Ethiopian Israeli students

March 20, 2017

By 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 Kramer

Humoring the headlines: March 16, 2017

March 16, 2017

The 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, USA

‘Baseball Shabbat’ anticipates MLB’s 2017 season

Israel test for American readers

Ideas abound in playwright Tiger’s world

Humoring the headlines: March 30, 2017

A perfect Verdi’s Requiem evokes memories of Eve

Book stamps through World War II history

Mimi’s Ark: Helping children and animals

Vandals break branch of SDSU Chabad menorah

Humoring the Headlines: March 24, 2017

Man arrested for attempting to burn Tifereth Israel

S.D. Jewish History an open book

Humoring the Headlines: March 20, 2017

Computers for Ethiopian Israeli students

Humoring the headlines: March 16, 2017

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