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By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — There is a good reason why politics and religion may be compared to the mixture of meat and milk. Milk by itself is a very nutritious food. Meat by itself is also a source of protein and vitamins, yet when we mix the two together, they […]
Disagreeing with rabbi who rewrote prayer for U.S.A. Read More »
Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East, USA
By Mimi Pollack LEMON GROVE, California — In her 80 years, Janet Gastil has worn many hats and is a true renaissance woman. She has been a wife and mother, teacher, musician, realtor, and politician to name the most important ones. Janet Manly Gastil was born in 1936 in Long Island, but moved to San
Dor v’dor: From Janet to George Gastil Read More »
Mimi Pollack, San Diego CountyBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The ninth season of Jewish Poets–Jewish Voices, opened Tuesday, January 17, in the Astor Judaica Library of the Lawrence Family JCC, with a stellar trio of local poets who came from three different regions of the world and shared poetry in Hebrew, English and Yiddish. Israeli poet, Ilana
Poems remember previous generations Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, San Diego CountyBLaurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Press Secretary Sean Spicer lashed out at the press for underestimating the size of the crowd that attended Trump’s inauguration. After numerous newspapers used aerial photos to prove that fewer people attended Trump’s inauguration than Obama’s first inauguration, Kellyanne Conway contended that Spicer was merely presenting “alternative facts.” Alternative facts are to
Humoring the Headlines: January 24. 2017 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — This past Friday, the world witnessed a peaceful transition of power in our country. Indeed, it is the kind of event we ought to be celebrating regardless how we may feel about the new President being elected. In North Korea, Muslim theocracies, and in other totalitarian
Missed religious opportunity at the Inaugural Read More »
Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — In The Great Tchaikowsky, Hershey Felder’s latest piece, which is breaking sales records at the Lyceum Theatre in downtown San Diego, Felder does Tikun Olam, working to repair the world, by sensitizing us to the suffering of the gay Russian composer and casting a light on the persecution of the
Hershey Felder brings to life composer Piotr Tchaikowsky Read More »
Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Story by Donald H. Harrison; photos by Sky M. Masori SAN DIEGO – LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya has solved one of Balboa Park’s greatest problems: how to see as much as possible in an hour or so. With 18 museums of varying size and subject matter to tempt them, San Diegans know that it takes
LEGO exhibit like visiting several museums at once Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, San Diego County, USABy Donald H. Harrison POWAY, California –Temple Adat Shalom has decided to prohibit three types of groups from utilizing its facilities. They are groups that: *Endorse or promote anti-Semitism, other forms of bigotry, violence or other extremist views; *Actively seek to proselytize Jews away from Judaism; or, *Advocate for or endorse, undermining the legitimacy of
Temple Adat Shalom bans BDS groups Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego CountyThe Ignomination By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−An inauguration turns into an ignomination when: The new president is more corrupt than the opponent he derided as crooked. The new president can’t resist telling his predecessor that he’s fired. The new president strings together his “best” tweets rather than writing an inauguration speech. The new president offers
Humoring the headlines: January 18, 2017 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USA
By Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO — High school photographers from throughout San Diego convened recently at San Diego City College where they practiced lighting techniques, working with models, developing photos the old-fashioned way in the dark room, and finding beauty in small objects. Being a student at Patrick Henry High School, I was privileged
High school photogs have a field day Read More »
San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. MasoriBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – On both the local and national levels, I feel that someone ought to speak up for keeping calm. Yes, the Chargers have moved to Los Angeles after 56 years in this market place. For so many loyal fans, it is sad, disappointing, but hardly the end of the world. Relax
Let’s all calm down about Chargers, Trump Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Sports & Competitions, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO−Outraged about the allegations about compromising information the Russians may have on him, Donald Trump vehemently denied the unsubstantiated charge that Russia has a video of him watching prostitutes urinate on his hotel bed in Moscow by reminding reporters that he is a germaphobe. What seems verifiable, however, is that he
Humoring the headlines: January 13, 2017 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Eva Trieger OCEANSIDE, California — College students and their parents, often look forward to the start of the new school year, the moving of grown children out of the house and into their dorms, the structure of a day with classes and homework, no logy teenager sleeping until noon, nor having that interminably empty stomach
Bishop presides over classy MiraCosta theater program Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, the recently retired UC Santa Cruz Hebrew and Jewish Studies professor who heads the national AMCHA Initiative, said Monday that she fears that Jewish students across the country may bear the brunt of a lot of anger now that they are returning from winter break to
Jewish college students may return to more harassment Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA