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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

I-8 Jewish Travel: The rabbi and the monsignor

-Seventh in a series- Exit 2: Morena Boulevard ~USD campus By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Rabbi Wayne Dosick received a telephone call in 1988 from Richard Stern, an activist in the Jewish Chattaqua Society, which was formed in the previous century to spread among diverse audiences knowledge about the Jewish religion.  Stern wanted to know […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA

Book review: ‘Memoirs of a Jewish Gypsy’

Memoirs of a Jewish Gypsy by Jenny Graubart, with Lea Tenenbaum © 2014, ISBN 978-1-939758-88-0, 73 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As a family keepsake encapsulating Jenny Graubart’s childhood memories along with photos of herself, parents and sister, this slim volume will have enduring value. However, the book does not extend itself

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Book Review: ‘Chabad’s Secret’

Chabad’s Secret: Inside the World’s Most Successful Jewish Organization by Chaim Dalfin, Jewish Enrichment Press, Brooklyn, NY;  ISBN 978-0-9889580-7-4 ©2015, $35.00, p. 190, plus appendices, bibliography, glossary, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D.   WINCHESTER, California — Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, universally known as the Baal Shem Tov, is considered the founder of Chassidism, when in

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

SDJW thanks its May contributors

SAN DIEGO (SDJW)—San Diego Jewish World acknowledges and thanks those writers and photographers whose bylines appeared during the month of May on its website. They were: David Amos Laurie Baron Caren Besner Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Stephen Bryen Garry Fabian Abraham Foxman Donald H. Harrison Natasha Josefowitz Rabbi Ben Kamin Tony Klug Steve Kramer Lloyd

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Barry Shaw, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eric George Tauber, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Melanie Rubin, Michael Ordman, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shoshana Bryen, Steve Kramer

Finding one’s roots can be bitter and sweet

Out of the Shoebox, an Autobiographical Mystery Historical Novel by Yaron Reshef, translated from the Hebrew by Nina R. Davis and Shira E. Davis, Amazon, 2014 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel– Yaron Reshef begins his book, which has been expertly translated by Nina and Shira Davis, with a declaration regarding the sequence of chance

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish History

I-8 Jewish Travel: A ceremony at the Immaculata

-Sixth in a series- Exit 2: Morena Boulevard, Immaculata Church By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — That such a man should be knighted by the Pope was not surprising.  The retired colonel had donated substantial sums of money not only to the Catholic-run University of San Diego, but also to other universities founded under religious auspices, including

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

Humoring the headlines: May 26, 2015

Lesser Known Summer Blockbusters Part 2 By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Mad Blacks: Fury Road:  Heavily-armed figures prowl the apocalyptic landscape of ruins and rubble in strange-looking armored vehicles shooting at anyone who threatens them.  No wonder the residents of the African American neighborhoods of Baltimore, Cleveland, and Ferguson view them as the enemy. *

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Humoring the headlines: May 23, 2015

Summer Blockbusters By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Summer is upon us, and, so are summer blockbusters.  Here’s a preview of some independent films that contain less special effects and receive less publicity. * Holdergeist   Although officially retired, the spirit of Eric Holder continues to haunt congressional Republicans.  It features lots of chills and thrills as

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire