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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Ethiopian Israelis clashed with Israeli police to protest the beating of an Ethiopian Israeli soldier by the police. The demonstrators carried signs saying, “If we wanted to be treated like this, we would have moved to Baltimore” and “Black Jewish lives matter.” * When the news that American Pharoah won […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM–Whether by coincidence or design (probably the latter), Jerusalem’s YMCA building is currently showing an exhibition of exquisite Armenian ceramic work produced by one of the many workshops situated in the Old City. No mention is made of the slaughter of over a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire exactly one hundred
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Israel just celebrated its 67th birthday, according to the Hebrew calendar. What’s the prognosis for our nation and its people? By one announcement, Israelis are thriving. That report is the World Happiness Report, a measure of happiness published by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. Which countries are
Israel high on world happiness list Read More »
Middle East, Steve KramerProphecies and Providence: A Biblical Approach to Modern Jewish History by Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer, Devorah Publishing, New York; ISBN 978-1-93444-059-9 ©2015, $24.95, p. 218, plus appendices By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Apocalyptic literature tells of the events that will occur at the end-of-days, such as Armageddon and the struggle between Gog and Magog. For fundamentalist Christians those
Rabbi helps decipher biblical prophecies Read More »
Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – For reporters and photographers covering groundbreakings and ribbon-cuttings, such events can tend to blur together in that there often is little to differentiate one from the other. For the participants however, these events can be important milestones marking the beginning of new chapters in their corporate lives
Port, HTA cut ribbon at bayside info center Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Muslim groups welcomed the announcement by Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Renald Luzier that he will no longer draw the prophet Muhammad. They apparently didn’t read the end of his statement saying he was now trying to figure out how to depict Allah. In a related story many authors who belong to
Humoring the headlines: April 30, 2015 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Editor’s Note: In my quest to find Jewish stories wherever I go, I decided there is no place like home to illustrate the concept that “there is a Jewish story everywhere.” Interstate 8 roughly follows the traditional route that settlers took in their covered wagons in the mid-19th century to get to San Diego from the
I-8 Jewish Travel ~ Bahia Hotel, San Diego Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USABy Eva Trieger LA JOLLA, California — You don’t need to be a theater buff or even a minor stage devotee to know that the “Green Room,” replete with lighted vanity behind the starred door, is where actors await their cues. While that way station may be adequate for Hollywood or Broadway, it cannot begin to
How JCompany actors prepare for West Side Story roles Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego Calendar
By Steve Kramer TEL AVIV — In the first part of this series, we toured Jerusalem with my brother Charles, who was visiting from America. Next, we traveled with him to Tel Aviv. What was very special about Charles’ trip was the timing. As we entered Tel Aviv in the early afternoon, we were
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, Travel and FoodBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Jeb Bush revealed that he is on the Paleolithic diet to lose weight. To one-up Bush, Ted Cruz disclosed that he is on the Neanderthal diet and only eats raw meat from animals he has shot himself while exercising his second amendment rights. * Russian hackers not only broke into
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel– How can a visitor experience the real Israel in seven days? If you’re my brother Charles, all you need do is hang out with us Kramers for a week. That just happened when my brother came to help Michal and me celebrate my birthday. Charles arrived on a Friday,
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Middle East, Steve Kramer, Travel and Food
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Although invocations by Rabbi Michael Berk of Congregation Beth Israel and Monsignor Richard Duncanson of Mission San Diego de Alcala came in reverse chronological order as far as San Diego history was concerned, they were in correct historical order from the standpoint of world history. Jews were first on the
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – The California state senator who heads the first-in-the-nation Jewish legislative caucus says it’s time for Jews in the U.S. Congress to form a caucus too, and adds that U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the Florida congresswoman who chairs the national Democratic party, agrees with him “100 percent.” State Sen.
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Turkey continues to deny that the genocide occurred. Doctors from the World Health Organization have dispatched a research team to Turkey to study the cause of collective amnesia. * Political pundits are abuzz that Marco Rubio is leading among the Republican
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire