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Horowitz claim of SDSU anti- Semitism disputed

February 27, 2015

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — As the former director of the Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University for 18 years and holder of the Nasatir Chair in Modern Jewish History there for 24 years, I was outraged by the Horowitz Center designation of SDSU as one of the top ten anti-Semitic universities in the United States. […]

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Holocaust education for computer savvy kids

February 26, 2015

By Donald H. Harrison LA JOLLA, California – How do you teach about the Holocaust to young people, whom, on the one hand we’d like to protect from learning how brutal the world can be, and whom, on the other hand, we know have to be prepared to live in a world where once again

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Novel probes recesses of a surgical service

February 25, 2015

Memoirs of a Comatose Brain Surgeon by Dr. Charles Benedict Lewison; © 2013, ISBN 978-148-4880-272; 605 pages By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—My wife Nancy likes police detective shows and hospital dramas. In the latter category, I can remember sitting with her watching episode after episode of Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, ER, Macus Welby MD,

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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education

Yale scholar produces biography of Vilna Gaon

February 25, 2015

The Genius: Eliyahu of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism by Eliyahu Stern, Yale University Press, New Haven; ISBN 978-0-300-20592-3 ©2013, $27, p. 171, plus notes, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The eighteenth century rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman Kremer held the moniker “the Genius of Vilna,” or simply the “Vilna Gaon,” for

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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish History

Humoring the headlines: February 24, 2015

February 24, 2015

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ First, it was Brian Williams lying about his experiences in Iraq. Next it was revealed that Bill O’Reilly hadn’t reported from a combat zone during the Falklands War. Now Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has admitted that he did not serve in the Special Forces as he once claimed. Doctors

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Netanyahu – Obama feud will blow over

February 24, 2015

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Many Israelis and others are worried that Prime Minister Netanyahu has created a crisis in relations with the American president, and by extension, with the United States. But disagreements between Israel and its chief ally have been common ever since Israel declared its independence in 1948. It can

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Middle East, Steve Kramer, USA

P.A., P.L.O lose multi- million dollar terror case

February 23, 2015

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison A U.S. District Court jury in New York City on Monday, Feb. 23, awarded ten American families in an Anti-Terrorism suit $218.5 million in damages against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organization for their roles in terror attacks in Israel between 2002 and 2004. That amount could triple

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Donald H. Harrison

SDJW critics loved ‘Ida’ before the Oscars

February 23, 2015

SAN DIEGO (SDJW)– The Polish film Ida that won an Academy Award on Sunday, Feb. 22, as the best foreign language film was the subject of two different reviews by San Diego Jewish World, one by Laurie Baron and another by Cynthia Citron. Here are links to the two reviews: Laurie Baron, May 29, 2014 Cynthia

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Cynthia Citron, Lawrence Baron

Humoring the headlines: February 22, 2015

February 22, 2015

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─Pop Quiz: Who authored the following? “We … declare that these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.” A.Thomas Jefferson B. A radical anti-colonialist C. Barack Obama D. A and B. Answer: D. * Clarifying his assertion that he is his own man and

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Walking visitors through the Old City of Jerusalem

February 22, 2015

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — The visit to Israel of friends from abroad provided us with the opportunity to walk through the Old City of Jerusalem and show them just a few of the tourist attractions in which that relatively small area abounds. One of our visitors had been to Israel several times in the last

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

Tales of ancient Jewish exiles

February 22, 2015

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — We recently enjoyed the new exhibit at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, across from the Israel Museum. Entitled “By the Rivers of Babylon,” the exhibit displays: “original artifacts dating to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile [586 BCE], including clay tablets [over 100 cuneiform tablets that

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Jewish History, Middle East, Steve Kramer

Obama, Kerry, Rice forge anti- ISIS coalition

February 21, 2015

By Donald H. Harrison In association with President Obama’s Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, there was a round of diplomatic consultations in Washington D.C. with various envoys from Middle Eastern countries, including Israel. Additionally the administration made two announcements of note. One of those announcements was a memorandum signed by President Obama on Friday, Feb.

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, USA

Book for children tells tales of Jewish merchants

February 20, 2015

Jews in the Wild West, written and illustrated by Kay Miller; Paint Horse Press © 2012, ISBN 978-0-615-55388-7; 29 pages, $9.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Although this book for juvenile readers was published in 2012, I know from lecturing about Jews in the West that the story it tells so very well is hardly

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, USA

Cohen, Yarmuth, others seek to postpone Netanyahu

February 20, 2015

Compiled by Donald H. Harrison Twenty-three Democrats including Jewish Reps. Steve Cohen of Tennessee and John Yarmuth of Kentucky, have signed a letter requesting Speaker of the House John Boehner to postpone Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled March 3 speech to a Joint Session of Congress. Other signers included Keith Ellison (D-MN), Maxine Waters (D-CA)

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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, USA

Horowitz claim of SDSU anti- Semitism disputed

Holocaust education for computer savvy kids

Novel probes recesses of a surgical service

Yale scholar produces biography of Vilna Gaon

Humoring the headlines: February 24, 2015

Netanyahu – Obama feud will blow over

P.A., P.L.O lose multi- million dollar terror case

SDJW critics loved ‘Ida’ before the Oscars

Humoring the headlines: February 22, 2015

Walking visitors through the Old City of Jerusalem

Tales of ancient Jewish exiles

Obama, Kerry, Rice forge anti- ISIS coalition

Book for children tells tales of Jewish merchants

Cohen, Yarmuth, others seek to postpone Netanyahu

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