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-63rd in a Series- Exit 51: Buckman Springs Road, Pine Valley, California ~ Camp Lockett By Donald H. Harrison CAMPO, California – Like many Army installations, Camp Lockett was built for utility rather than for beauty. Rare would be the architectural student who would come to marvel at its buildings. But in the nation’s memory, Camp […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, USA
-62nd in a series- Exit 45, Pine Valley, California By Donald H. Harrison PINE VALLEY, California – Although she was raised as a Catholic, Judy Hunter Osterberger felt a certain restlessness about religion as a young woman. “I wanted to get to the genesis of things and read the Bible for myself” she recalled. She investigated
Grandma’s food prep. led her to Judaism Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, The World We Share, Travel and Food
Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photos by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO — Two San Diego City Councilwomen kicked off their shoes at the Copley-Price Family YMCA on Wednesday, June 29, and on the shaded playground turf led a pep rally in which they instructed a multi-ethnic group of young day campers to refrain from
Children urged to remind parents about gun safety Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Shor M. Masori, USAMake America a Golf Course By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ On his visit to Scotland, Donald Trump could not resist showing off his renovated golf course and claiming that if he can fix a golf course, he can fix the United States. Imagine if a microphone caught him unawares while he was elaborating on his
Humoring the headlines: June 28, 2016 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Nehemiah: Statesman and Sage by Dov S. Zakheim; Maggid Books © 2016; ISBN 9781592-643691; 246 pages including appendices; $27.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – From the standpoint of one in whose family there have been several intermarriages in which the children have been raised as Reform Jews, I read this biography of the
Biography of Nehemiah prompts mixed emotions Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Pauline Kael, a renowned, late film critic for the liberal, weekly New Yorker, once said, “How could Nixon have won? Nobody I know voted for him,” referring to George McGovern’s loss to Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential election. Many people in the United Kingdom (UK) and throughout the
Maybe EU will focus now on its own problems Read More »
International, Middle East, Steve KramerBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — My history with Rabbi Shlomo Riskin goes all the way back to 1977. He visited a Hillel Academy in Binghamton, New York, where I taught Talmud many decades ago. At the time, I knew he was already a well-respected rabbi who had brought many Jews back
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiSummer TV Series By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─Now that the regular television season is over, the networks are premiering new series to replace them for the summer. Here are the most promising ones: That Sixties Show: John Lewis reenacts the civil rights sit-ins of the 1960s on the floor of the House of Representatives. After
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireNehalel beChol: Weekday Siddur devised by Michael Haruni; Introduction by Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Nevarech Press, Jerusalem, © 2015, ISBN 978-965-92180-1-1, p. 665 plus Photo and Credits Appendix, $29.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – At first blush, one cannot help but be moved by the attractiveness of the color photographs permeating the Nehalel beChol
Illustrated prayer book follows Ashkenazic tradition Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
-61st in a Series- Exit 47, Sunrise Highway, Mount Laguna, California By Donald H. Harrison MOUNT LAGUNA, California – Jackie Lucas dropped in on the Serra Museum in Presidio Park, San Diego, in 1975, to look around the museum that focuses on early San Diego history. She saw on display a photo of a Kumeyaay woman. She
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The world’s youngest Nobel laureate, Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan, has often been compared to Anne Frank. Both kept diaries in times when rulers subjugated those whom they believed to be racially or religiously inferior. Both Anne and Malala suffered through warfare, their lives constantly threatened, respectively by the
Malala and Anne could have been great friends Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, InternationalBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Even Donald Trump conceded that individuals on the Department of Homeland Security’s No Fly List should not be allowed to purchase guns. Now if could only stop shooting off his mouth about Hillary’s intent to abolish the Second Amendment! * NRA head Wayne LaPierre reiterated his rejection of stricter gun
Firing back at the gun lobby and its allies Read More »
Lawrence Baron, USAThe Psychology of Tzimtzum: Self, Others and God by Mordechai Rotenberg, Maggid Books, New Milford, CT, ©2015, ISBN 978-1-59264-384-4, p. 109, plus appendices, $24.95 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California – The sixteenth century Safed mystics employed the Hebrew word Tzimtzum, meaning contraction, to answer the question: why is there something, rather than nothing. If God’s presence
To help another, reduce yourself Read More »
Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Fred Reiss, EdDBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel–Whether it was by coincidence or not, the supplement that came with the Ha’aretz newspaper last weekend contained a long article about – and interview with – Professor Telma Handler, a psychiatrist, psychologist and international expert on the brain whose most recent research has focused on the mechanism of empathy.
Tel Aviv, Orlando, Birstall, Magnanville … Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East, USA