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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Fox News’ reporters are apoplectic about Obama’s Executive Order to defer the deportation of millions of undocumented aliens. They accuse him of permitting potential carriers of Ebola, drug dealers, felons, and terrorists to remain in the country. Meanwhile, the FCC has requested the network to change its slogan from “Fair […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Once again, the Obama administration has become disturbed about Jews building homes, neglecting to pressure Palestinian leaders to stop incitement against Jews and terror attacks on Israelis. The offense: permits were approved to construct less than 100 homes in a Jewish area of Jerusalem which happens to be beyond the
Issue not land, it’s Islamist hatred of Jews Read More »
Middle East, Steve KramerBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Controversial public relations executive Ron Torossian, a pro-Israel activist based in New York City who was once national president of the North American branch of Betar, on Tuesday, Nov. 18, challenged the Leichtag Foundation in San Diego County to explain its contributions to the New Israel Fund, an
Is Leichtag Foundation supporting anti- Israel groups? Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
Peter, Bogey, Mike: A Love Story, A War Story, 1942-1945 by Irvin S. Cooper, ©2014 Capitola Book Company, ISBN-13: 978-0-932319-17-3, 289 pages, retail price not listed. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—I ran into author Irvin S. Cooper, a Los Angeles-based nonagenarian with a remarkable memory of his World War II experiences, at the San
Jewish U.S. Navy pilot shares WWII experiences Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, International, USA
By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – Rabbi Ed Feinstein, in the closing talk Nov. 16 of the San Diego Jewish Book Fair, contrasted the Mesopotamian outlook on life with the “chutzpah” that Judaism teaches. Author of The Chutzpah Imperative, Feinstein differentiated “chutzpah” from the popular definition meaning “colossal nerve,” suggesting that in reality
Feinstein contrasts fatalism with Judaism Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Congressional Republicans are outraged that President Obama plans to issue Executive Orders liberalizing immigration policy during the lame duck period between the elections and the inauguration of the next House and Senate. Obama justifies his actions as an appropriate response to the last two years of a dead duck Congress.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –On 9th November 2014, on the very same day that Berliners and others were celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the wall that had divided their city in two, Jews were marking the seventy-sixth anniversary of the night on which Nazis all over Germany destroyed and vandalized
What terror unchecked can lead to Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle EastBy Sheila Orysiek SAN DIEGO — In setting up and maintaining a library for a Temple, the librarian is faced with a number of choices as to where to place and how to shape the collection on the Holocaust. The following are a few of my thoughts on the matter. While it is important to
The Holocaust and the Temple Library Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish HistoryBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ A new Gallup poll indicated that 42 % of those queried have a favorable view of the Republican Party compared to only 36 % who view the Democratic Party favorability. While many analysts attribute this to President Obama’s mishandling of the ISIS and Ebola crises, others believe it is just
Humoring the Headlines: November 13, 2014 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California—Ari Shavit, the Ha’aretz columnist who seeks a new narrative for Israel in his book My Promised Land, has called on Israel to engage in a “Marshall Plan” for the Gaza Strip, while at the same time dealing with Hamas “very strictly.” The Marshall Plan, named for U.S. Secretary of
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle EastBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Upon stepping off of Air Force One at Beijing Airport, President Obama was besieged by Chinese creditors demanding that he pay off loans they made to the United States. * Breitbart News erroneously alleged that President Obama’s nominee for Attorney General Loretta Lynch had served as the Clintons’ lawyer in
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison ENCINITAS, California – A Pulitzer Prize winning historian told attendees of the Jewish Book Fair at Temple Solel here that Israel’s Mossad was wrong in 1979 to assassinate P.L.O. intelligence chief Ali Hassan Salameh notwithstanding the fact that he was suspected of helping to mastermind the murder of Israeli athletes
Author faults Israel for 1979 killing of CIA asset Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA
Gracie’s Night: A Hanukkah Story by Lynn Taylor Gordon, Illustrated by Laura Brown, © 2013 Cookie & Nudge Books, , ISBN 978-0-9857353-2-6, 30 pages, $8.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—In this beautifully illustrated story, Gracie lives in New York City with her father, who is a hard-working bus driver, and their dog, cat and
Children’s Literature review: ‘Gracie’s Night’ Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion
I am Sophie Tucker: A Fictional Memoir by Susan and Lloyd Ecker, © 2014 Prospecta Press, ISBN 978-1-63226-006-9, 400 pages, $27.50 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – As the back story is told, Susan and Lloyd Ecker went to a Bette Midler concert and heard “The Divine Miss M” pay tribute to her inspiration,
Sophie Tucker ‘memoir’ provides many laughs Read More »
Donald H. Harrison