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Below are the names of writers who are currently active.  For others, living and deceased, please type their name into the search box above the masthead on our home page, www.sdjewishworld.com

Israeli rain barrel system on trial at 3 schools

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Fifth graders at the Benjamin Franklin STEAM Magnet Elementary School on Monday, Feb. 1, helped to explain to the news media how a low-tech Israeli invention will help their school conserve rainwater, and may prove to be an important tool in California’s fight against periodic droughts. STEAM is […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Book review: ‘The Myth of the Cultural Jew’

The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition by Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, Oxford University Press, New York;  ISBN 978-0-19-537370-7 ©2015, $34.95, p. 297, plus index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — If you’ve ever heard a new employee at work say something like, “We didn’t do it that way when I

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

SDJW thanks 43 whose works appeared in January

SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — San Diego Jewish World expresses its appreciation to the 43 writers and photographers whose works appeared during January 2016.  These individuals included: David Amos Eitan Arom Kenneth Bandler Laurie Baron Amber Bartlett Ronnie Blair Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Stephen Bryen Cynthia Citron Richard L. Cravatts Judy Friedel Michael Freund Donald H. Harrison Natasha

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Barry Shaw, Cynthia Citron, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shoshana Bryen, Steve Kramer

Holocaust quandary: At what cost survival?

Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriet Savit, Random House Children’s Books, ©2016; fiction; ISBN 978-0-553-51334-9; 230 pages; $17.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Here is a fictional story that is both fascinating and improbable.  A 7-year-old Jewish girl in Poland is left alone after the Nazis take away her father, a professor

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

A new translation of Shadal’s comments on Exodus

Daniel Klein (editor and trans.) and Samuel David Luzzato,  Shadal on Exodus: Samuel David Luzzatto’s Interpretation of the Book of Shemot; Kodesh Press, 2015; ISBN-13: 978-0692522066. Price: $29.95. Rating ***** By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — One of the most remarkable modern day exegetes of the 19th century was the Italian biblical commentator,

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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi

I-8 Jewish Travel: 4 family business stories

-41st in a Series– Exit 13B, Jackson Drive, La Mesa ~ Grossmont Center, The Legacies of Adolph Levi, Nathan Straus, Isaias Hellman, and Joseph Sherwood By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California – When you see the large “Grossmont Center” sign on the hillside above Jackson Drive, what images come to mind?  How about the signs

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA