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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

Biographers can be inspired by Fumiko Ishioka

Karen Levine, Hana’s Suitcase: The Quest to Solve a Holocaust Mystery; © 20r Te02, 2012; Random House Children’s Books; ISBN 978-1-101-93349-7; 135 pages, $9.99. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Perhaps because I’m in the process of researching a local biography, I’m all the more impressed by the resourcefulness and stick-to-it-iveness of Fumiko Ishioka, […]

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

The Paris massacre as seen from Israel

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — So now ‘radical Islamist’ terror has spread to Paris, the center of culture, civilization and enlightenment. Last January Paris was subjected to a similar heinous attack, but that was confined to targets that could be – and were – dismissed or defined as ‘appropriate,’ i.e., the offices of a satirical magazine

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East

I-8 Jewish Travel: The synagogue that once was

-38th in a series– Exit 11, 70th Street, San Diego ~ Former Congregation Beth Tefilah By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Today the structure at 69th and Mohawk Streets houses the Skyline Fellowship Korean Church but when it was constructed in 1971 it was the home of Congregation Beth Tefilah (House of Prayer), a Conservative

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Travel and Food

Take from Bible what’s best, leave the rest

I Don’t Know What to Believe: Making Spiritual Peace With Your Religion by Rabbi Ben Kamin; Central Recovery Press, © 2016; ISBN 878-1-942094-04-3; 224 pages; $16.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Rabbi Kamin’s columns appear regularly on San Diego Jewish World. In fairness to those reading this review, it should be noted that we

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

SDJW thanks its December 2015 writers

San Diego Jewish World thanks and acknowledges the wonderful contributions of the following writers whose works appeared on our pages in December, 2015: Stephen Baird Kenneth Bandler Laurie Baron Michal Beruven Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Richard L. Cravatts Jonathan Greenblatt Toby Klein Greenwald Ryan M. Greiss Donald H. Harrison Natasha Josefowitz Rabbi Ben Kamin Morton

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Barry Shaw, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eric George Tauber, Eva Trieger, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, San Diego County, Sheryl Rowling, Shoshana Bryen, Steve Kramer

I-8 Jewish Travel: D.Z. Akin’s, a long way from Abu Kabir

–37th in a series — Exit 11: Lake Murray/ 70th Street Exit, San Diego/ La Mesa, California ~ D.Z. Akin’s Deli By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Thanks to a  chopped liver recipe and some bold flirting, San Diego has in D.Z. Akin’s one of the county’s most popular Jewish delis.  Created in 1980 by Zvika

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

‘There’s a Jewish story every where’: Clarion, Utah

The Jewish Farming Settlement of Clarion, Utah: The Possible, Impossible dream (Editor’s Note: The following historical article is reprinted with permission from the Winter 2016 edition of Western States Jewish Quarterly.) By Jerry Klinger CLARION, Utah — European anti-Semitism had not improved by the latter half of the 19th century. If anything it became more vicious. “What

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Jerry Klinger, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Did Holocaust survivor love or just use her protector?

Love in a World of Sorrow by Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, Gefen Publishing House © 2015, ISBN 9780965-229-839-3l 252 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –There are many authors like Fanya Gottesfeld Heller who tell their survival stories from the Holocaust at school assemblies and other forums.  In San Diego County, the names of Gussie

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