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By Eva Trieger SAN DIEGO — King Solomon may have said it best when he penned “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.” The wisest man […]
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Eva Trieger, Jewish Religion
With G-d At My Side: A Child’s Story of Survival by Menachem Taiblum (with Cyndie Meyer), CreateSpace © 2014; ISBN 978-150-586-2270; 150 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Cantor Menachem Taiblum of Portland, Oregon, recalls his boyhood running from the Nazis in this episodic memoir, which, with the help of writer Cyndie Meyer,
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish HistoryBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ In an interview he gave during his trip to Israel, John Boehner admitted, “I wouldn’t have believed that I would be involved in as much foreign policy as I am today. And it certainly isn’t by choice. It’s just that the world is on fire.” Apparently Boehner hadn’t spoken to
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—The eulogy delivered by Rabbi Philip Graubart about Norman Manson, including the fact that the 86-year-old former writer and San Diego Union-Tribune copy editor was being buried on Friday, April 3, the day of Erev Pesach, most likely would have prompted Manson to ask many searching questions. Graubart, spiritual leader of Congregation
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Donald H. Harrison, Obituaries & memorialsThe Patriot Threat by Steve Berry, © 2015 Minotaur Books, MacMillan Co., ISBN 878-250-05623-8. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Here’s a bit of intrigue. Why does the dollar bill have on its reverse side thirteen stars forming a Magen David? And what does the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution mean when it
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act which permits business owners to discriminate against any customer whose lifestyle offends their religious sensibilities. Although critics believe the law sanctions discrimination against the LGBT community, it already is having unintended consequences with Christian Scientists barring doctors from reading rooms,
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Here is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays by Leslea Newman and illustrated by Susan Gal; Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014, with reinforced binding, ISBN 978-141-971-1855; $18.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — This richly illustrated book, intended to familiarize young Jewish children with the annual cycle of holidays, tells in verse
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionHAIFA (SDJW)– Imaginative students at the Technion in Haifa found a Rube Goldberg way of retelling the Passover story, using various forms of mechanical force to illustrate the highlights that we Jews retell when we read our Haggadahs. Our thanks to our frequent contributor and book reviewer, Dr. Fred Reiss of Winchester, California, for spotting
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ A Knesset member from the Zionist Union has called for the dismissal of Ron Dermer, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States who arranged for Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, as a first-step to improve American-Israeli relations. A Knesset member from the Likud Party reacted by calling for the impeachment of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Like most – if not all – of my friends, I was disappointed by the outcome of Israel’s recent general election. Perhaps I was not quite as disappointed as some of them, as I had been expecting a result along the lines of what actually transpired. I still
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Angered by Bibi Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and late campaign renunciation of support for the Two State solution, President Obama waited until two days after the Israeli election to phone the Prime Minister to congratulate him on his victory. To add insult to injury, it was a collect call. *
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D. SAN DIEGO — Child sex abuse in an Orthodox Jewish community, indeed in any community, is not an easy topic to discuss. It isn’t an easy topic to write about either, especially in a Jewish publication. But when Judy Bloom Friedel called and asked if I would moderate a panel
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education
An Improbable Journey: A True Story of Courage and Survival During World War II by Susan Schenkel, Ph.D; ISBN 978-0-9894377-2-1, 183 pages, $12.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – After her mother’s death, author Susan Schenkel decided to research the lives that her parents, by then both deceased, had led during World War II
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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish HistoryBy Donald H. Harrison The death of the mother of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, the onset of the Iranian New Year, and the approaching deadline for the conclusion of the P5+1 negotiations over Iran’s nucelar aspirations, have prompted President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the State Department to issue several expressions of
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA