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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – It would be difficult to say whether ventriloquist Joe Gandelman spends more time in his San Diego condominium or in his car driving to gigs at schools, fairs, senior homes, and private parties across the United States. On one national tour that stretched over eight months, he and […]
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Donald H. Harrison, Joe Gandelman, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Sitting across a table from Ed Cherlin, you notice that he is a man with patience who doesn’t show even a flicker of annoyance when an interviewer changes the topic, or interrupts his answer. This probably is because Cherlin also is a man with patients – psychiatric ones, with
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
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. HarrisonDaniel 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-RabbiBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ A recent Pew Poll revealed that Americans would be 37 % less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who had an extramarital affair, 31 % less likely to vote for one who had Washington experience, 26 % less likely to vote for someone who was gay, and 10 %
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
-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, USAThe Prime Ministers: Soldiers and Peacemakers directed by Richard Trask; Moriah Films; USA; 2015; 114 minutes; English, Hebrew; English Subtitles, Documentary; Southern California Films; to be shown twice at the Reading Cinemas 14, at 4665 Clairemont Drive, San Diego, at 5 p.m., Sunday February 7, and at 1 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11; and once the
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USA
By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — As Itzhak Perlman entered the stage, seated on a motorized scooter, steering with one hand and holding his violin and bow with the other, I recalled the cherub-faced 12-year-old Israeli prodigy when he first appeared in the USA on the Ed Sullivan show. I have followed his career ever
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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual ArtsBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A few days ago I received an unusual email. It came from someone I had never met, but whom I knew was the person who was looking after an old friend from long ago. In the mail I was informed that Inge was bedridden, near to death, unable to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Obituaries & memorials, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a pattern emerging on the Iran deal: we got and they got. That’s how it’s supposed to work — something for something — right? Okay. We got: Iranian ballistic missile tests in violation of UN resolutions; Missiles fired near a U.S. aircraft carrier sailing in international waters;
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenNatasha directed by David Bermozgis/ Russia/ 2015/93 minutes/ Russian and English/ Drama/ San Diego Premiere, playing Saturday, Feb. 6, at 9 p.m., at the Reading Cinemas 14, 4665 Clairemont Drive, San Diego. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When people immigrate from one country to the next, it often is to get away
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Dr. Bill Friedel is a modest, self-deprecating, “aw shucks” kind of guy. You recognize that trait not very long into a conversation with him about his career. Why did he become a doctor? He says he thought about being a civil engineer, but what if a bridge he built collapsed? Realizing that
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — The gathering for Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices, last Tuesday evening, was intimate, but the quality of the readings was high. Simon Menkes, a new transplant to North County, read from his poetry. Later, during open mic, he read a page from his novel. Below is an example of his
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Eileen Wingard, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Valencia and Meyer Etz were enthusiastically adopted by the children of the Abraham and Anne Ratner Torah School at Tifereth Israel Synagogue on Sunday, Jan. 24, the day of Erev Tu B’Shevat. Tending to the needs of the Etzes, the children brought them food and water and even
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County