AAA-Writers and photographers

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 wildlife advocate impressed by Sea World

Story and photos by Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – A veterinarian who is the immediate past president of Israel’s Lateva Nolad (Born Free) organization, which treats injured birds, mammals and reptiles and sends them back to nature, gave Sea World high marks for its education, rescue, and conservation programs following a behind-the-scenes tour. “Their goals […]

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

I-8 Jewish Travel: CHP officer preaches road safety

-53rd in a series- Exit 20, Greenwood Drive, El Cajon, California ~ CHP El Cajon station By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California — Most of the 31-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Greenfield Drive (Exit 20) and Buckman Springs Road (Exit 51) is known to California Highway Patrol officers like Kevin Pearlstein as Beat

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

Israel need not normalize relations with Turkey

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. – Turkish sources assert that Turkish-Israeli governmental relations are about to come out of the deep freeze. But this is a reflection of Turkey’s regional unpopularity and glides over Turkish demands for Israel to end the blockade of Gaza. To meet Turkey’s condition, Israel would have to abandon the security

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

SWU choice of venue prompts controversy

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Swirling beneath the planned May 4 appearance of Pastor Dumisani Washington, a leading African-American advocate for the State of Israel is controversy over the relationship between the Jewish community and the Christians who seek to convert us.  Washington’s appearance, sponsored by the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs, is scheduled May 4

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Middle East, San Diego Calendar, USA

Whatsapp Baby?

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Some twenty-five years ago our son and his wife presented us with our first grandchild. She was the center of our life and our pride and joy, and over the subsequent fifteen years she was joined by another six grandchildren, three from the same couple and three from

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, The World We Share

Follingstad, TICO please with R’maninoff

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — David Amos and the Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra (TICO) tackled a difficult program when they chose to play an All-Rachmaninoff concert. The post-Romantic music produced by the great Russian composer is complex and challenging.  Still, with an excellent piano soloist, SDSU’s piano faculty head, Karen Follingstad, extra coaching of

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Eileen Wingard, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts

‘Fairy Tales’ tells of family’s Anschluss ordeal, recovery

Fairy Tales (nonfiction) by James Josef Allina; PublishAmerica (c) 2013; ISBN 9781462659692; 182 pages, $13. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO —Fairy Tales is a two-part memoir. The first part, in the voice of the author’s uncle, Josef Benesch, focuses on living conditions for Jews in Vienna after the Anschluss with Nazi Germany  The second

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

Humoring the headlines: April 14, 2016

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Donald Trump’s convention manager Paul Manafort accused Ted Cruz of employing “Gestapo tactics” to recruit delegates to vote for him.  Either Manafort doesn’t know anything about the Gestapo or he doesn’t know anything about the Republican Party’s rules regarding the delegate selection process. * Rabbis in Scotland have approved of

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Three necessary steps for telling Israel’s story

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Israel’s former consul for media affairs in New York City, Shahar Azani, is now the director for the northeastern United States for StandWithUs, meaning his responsibility is to bring a proactive, pro-Israel message to the colleges and high schools of New York, New Jersey, and the New England

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