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SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Two Jewish women won endorsements from the San Diego County Democratic Central Committee for offices that will be on the ballot in June. One is an incumbent, Congresswoman Susan Davis, and the other is a lawyer making a bid for a Superior Court judgeship, Carla Keehn. Davis is a familiar name on […]
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego CountyBy Stephen Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — After the latest collapse of negotiations with the Palestinians, Ya’ir Lapid, Israel’s Minister of Finance and leader of the left of Center Yesh Atid (There is a Future) political party, said that the extreme Right prefers to wait for the Messiah instead of reaching a solution. Will it
Many Mideastern scenarios are possible Read More »
Middle East, Steve Kramer
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – When San Diego’s new police chief, Shelley Zimmerman, was growing up in a Jewish family with two brothers and a sister in Beachwood, Ohio, their father, Philip, a trial attorney, instilled in them what he called “The Zimmerman Code.” It sounds very much like the philosophy that
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Donald H. Harrison
Phyllis Chesler, An American Bride in Kabul, Palgrave MacMillan, © 2013, ISBN 9780230342217, 235 pages including index and bibliography, $27 cover price. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Feminist Phyllis Chesler tells of the most formative experience in her life, when as a college student she fell in love with a charming young man
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-A Chinese ship detected pings while combing the Indian Ocean for the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. While some observers believe this will lead to finding the wreckage of the plane, others think that the Chinese also detected an alternating series of pongs emanating from the ship’s game room.
Humoring the headlines: April 9, 2014 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – It was, to his chemistry professor’s surprise, more than just a science project that Jeremy D. Nemetz turned in as classwork. It was a true discovery showing that the higher the gravity, the slower chemicals will react with one another. “Jeremy did an amazingly simple experiment. I
Chemistry class project turns into discovery Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonEditor’s Note: Our correspondent from Mevasseret Zion, Israel, has been visiting the United States and occasionally blogging about what she sees. Here is a report from Richmond, Virginia. By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson RICHMOND, Virginia — For me personally, the principal attraction of Richmond, Virginia is the presence there or in the vicinity of two first cousins
Richmond has history, art and many monuments Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Travel and Food, USA
Richard Crawford, San Diego Yesterday; American Chronicles: A History Press Series, 2013, ISBN 9781609499761, 158 pages, cover price $16.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Anyone who has ever seriously researched San Diego history sooner or later has the pleasure of meeting Richard Crawford, long-time special collections supervisor in the California Room of San Diego’s Central
‘San Diego Yesterday’ filled with fascinating tidbits Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO -Now that the Supreme Court has concluded that money is free speech and there should not be limits on how much money corporations and individuals donate to political campaigns, congressional representatives from both parties are posting their votes on specific bills on EBay and selling them to the highest bidder.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Despite months of relentless and very public diplomacy it looks as though John Kerry is withdrawing from the negotiations (I refuse to call it a “Peace Process”) failing to have achieved an agreement between Israel and the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria (I refuse to call them
Misnamed ‘Peace Process’ thankfully failed Read More »
Middle East, Yeruchem Eilfort-RabbiBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –This past week, I watched the new movie Noah with considerable interest. The newest book of my Genesis commentary deals largely with the story of Noah and the moral questions raised by the Noah narrative. Naturally, whether a person writes a script or a commentary on a biblical story,
‘Noah’ departs in many ways from biblical narrative Read More »
Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
Enrico Lamet, A Gift From the Enemy: A True Story of Escape in War-Time Italy; 2013 revision of 2007 Syracuse University Press , ISBN-12: 9781493646029, 472 pages in proof, including a glossary. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—This book is a love story, written by a man reflecting on his childhood as an Austrian Jewish
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Eva Trieger ENCINITAS, California –The Leichtag Foundation has done it again! The informal gathering at the Hub was exhilarating, inspiring and surprising. There was not one vacant seat at a panel discussion, even though the location was a bit off the beaten path. The evening’s discussion proved how vibrant a Jewish community there is
Leichtag ranch is nursery for innovative Judaism Read More »
Eva Trieger, San Diego CountyBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D SAN DIEGO — The other day I was sitting with my group of morning coffee buddies in what we call “Our Caffeinated Corner” — okay, I’ll give the shop an unnecessary plug: Starbucks — and we were talking about health. Everyone had his or her favorite way of obtaining health
U.S. needs ‘health literacy’ programs Read More »
Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & Education