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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Republican Steve Scalise, the Majority Whip in the House of Representatives, claims he was unaware that David Duke’s European-American Unity and Rights Organization was a racist group when he delivered a speech at its annual conference in 2002. Critics wonder how he could have overlooked that the dress code for […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
Sleeping Truth by Martin Vesole, Shalom Rav Publishing © 2013, ISBN 978-1937416027, 355 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Mary Poppins was the Disney character who sang about a spoonful of sugar helping the medicine to go down. Presenting this story of a fictional debate between a Christian evangelical and a Reform-leaning Reconstructionist rabbi, who perhaps
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Saudi Arabia does not control the price of oil, but it is trying to manipulate the current, temporary, price decline for its own purposes — and it should be careful. The price of oil, like any commodity, is subject to immutable laws of supply and demand. The addition of
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International, Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy Laurie Baron January –The Russian police have alerted spectators at the Sochi Olympics to be on the outlook for several “Black Widow Terrorists, women from Dagestan whose husbands were killed by Russian anti-terrorist squads. There are posters throughout the Olympic venues informing spectators how to identify these women: If you meet a woman on
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson ZIKHRON YA’AKOV, Israel –The tragic and sudden death in a traffic accident of our daughter’s father-in-law, Eli Goldstein, brought an abrupt and untimely stop to the life of a man who was born on the land and worked the land throughout his life. His funeral, which was attended by what seemed to
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle EastBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –What is Palestinianism? According to journalist Ben Cohen, anti-Semitism has become less a political phenomenon, and more a social movement, with what he calls “Palestinianism” as its key ideology: “Palestinian Arabs have assumed the status of iconic, transcendental victims, as the Jews did for a brief period after World
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International, Middle East, Steve KramerBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ North Korea has accused the government of the United States of involvement in the making of The Interview because Hollywood would never voluntarily make a tasteless comedy with Seth Rogen and James Franco. Moreover, North Korea denied it had anything to do with the hacking of SONY Pictures and threatened
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — They arrest you for having any opinion that isn’t theirs. They arrest you for demanding elections; the last thing they want is to know you want different leadership. They arrest you for having a Facebook page that is out of step, or you don’t have Facebook at all.
U.S., Europe ignore repression by Cuba, P.A. Read More »
International, Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — A cousin, Liz Halpern, sent to us “Candles,” the first video made by musician Erez Cohen, and we’ve been playing it from the bottom of the San Diego Jewish World home page since the early days of Chanukah. You can also access by touching your cursor here. With two
The making of a Chanukah video Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison LA MESA, California –Did you hear the one about the rabbi, the congresswoman and the mayor who walked into a shopping center during the middle of the December holiday season and lit a giant menorah fashioned from balloons? No, it’s not a joke! It happened on Sunday, Dec. 21, the sixth
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—I’ve had the pleasure of being a journalist for more than 52 years, ever since my first byline appeared in the UCLA Daily Bruin in 1962. Over those years, I’ve interviewed more people than I can count and I long ago lost track of all the stories I’ve written. But
On being on the other side of the interview Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ One of the proportionate responses to North Korea’s hacking of Sony Pictures that President Obama is considering is taking Dennis Rodman hostage and locking him in a cell with Dick Cheney who relishes the opportunity to wire his defibrillator to Rodman’s body if North Korea ever attempts another cyberattack on
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Are we going to have to cut ourselves off from the news and other media, in order to hold on to our mental equanimity? This week has been particularly hard for consumers of the news media, like myself. Many people thought that the evil that threatened the world had
Islamic terrorism strikes not only in Israel Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, International, Middle East
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Although San Diego City Councilman Todd Gloria didn’t identify them by religion, the people who inspired him to go into politics were members of the San Diego Jewish community. And the man who made him think about quitting politics in despair also was Jewish. The latter was former
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County