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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

‘Between Gaza and Berlin’ prompts one to reflect

MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Between Gaza and Berlin Those two place names signify so many different views, concepts and even worlds, seeming to encapsulate the distinct worldviews that are so much a part of our life, here in Israel. In a local and very provincial sense these are the names of two roads in Rechavia, the Jerusalem […]

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

Schlepping book prompts a challenge to its author

Schlepping Through the American West: There is a Jewish Story Everywhere by Donald H. Harrison, The Harrison Enterprises, San Diego, CA; ISBN 978-0-5024-9401-6 ©2014, $13.97 paperback/7.99 kindle, p. 220 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D WINCHESTER, California — Jack Kerouac did it. John Steinbeck did it, and now we can add Don Harrison to the list of authors who traveled

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion, USA

7,500 in county had Shabbat dinner Friday, Oct. 24

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Selwyn Isakow, a private investor who helped organize last weekend’s Shabbat San Diego events, said attendance statistics were impressive but the true test of the events that brought so many Jews together is whether it will spur many people to seek deeper levels of involvement with the Jewish community. Isakow told

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County

Emergencies spur innovative surgeries at Hadassah

By Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Tragedies, however horrific, have a way of teaching trauma doctors at the Hadassah Hospital at Ein Kerem in Jerusalem new medical facts and procedures, its chief orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Rami  Mosheiff, on Sunday, Oct. 26, told a Southern California gathering of the Hadassah support organization at the Hotel del Coronado.

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Rabbi Tokayer chronicles the many Jews of Asia

Pepper, Silk & Ivory By Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and Ellen Rodman, PhD, © 2014, Gefen Publishing House, ISBN 978-965-229-647-4; 316 pages including index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –When friends question me about whether I really think “There is a Jewish Story Everywhere,” as the motto of San Diego Jewish World insists, I shall

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History

Baron to teach at Richard Stockton College

SAN DIEGO  (SDJW)– Prof. Lawrence “Laurie” Baron, emeritus professor of history at San Diego State University and a regular contributor to San Diego Jewish World,  has been appointed the Ida E. King Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies by the Richard Stockton College in Galloway, New Jersey. In the fall semester of 2015 at the college

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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & Education

Book ‘finds’ Leah, the lost matriarch

The Lost Matriarch: Finding Leah in the Bible and Midrash by Jerry Rabow, Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia; ISBN 978-0-8276-1207-5 ©2014, $22.95, p. 193, plus Index and several appendices By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Tradition maintains that each word of the Five Books of Moses contains multiple interpretations. Bible stories such as Noah and the flood, Joseph

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion

Black churches: From whence Israel’s help may come

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Holocaust Survivor Lou Dunst and Christian Zionist preacher Rev. Dumisani Washington of Stockton, Calif., are four decades apart in age, yet hearing one and then the other speak, gave me reassurance that Washington’s message partially fulfills the intent of Dunst’s agonized rhetorical cry of pain: “And the Free World

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA