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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─ Forty-six years ago in August 1968, the Chicago Police Department used excessive force to suppress demonstrators at the Democratic Convention. This week the Ferguson Police Department commemorated the event by reenacting it. * An Arizona high-school math teacher showed up to her class drunk and continued to consume alcohol […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
-Twenty-first in a series– By Donald H. Harrison ROSEBURG, Oregon—Having written a biography of Louis Rose, the first Jewish settler in San Diego, I was anxious to learn about Aaron Rose, for whom this town in southwestern Oregon was named. He and Louis Rose were contemporaries. Furthermore, I was intrigued by the fact that an
Roseburg founder long mistaken for a Jew Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History, Travel and Food, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Even the animals at the Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem have been affected by the fighting between Israel and Gaza over the last month. They have had a far less polyglot human crowd to observe and to be observed by, according to Shai Doron, executive director of the Biblical Zoo,
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─Israel and Hamas honored two 72 hour ceasefires in the past week. In a related development Three Day Suit Broker announced that things were stable enough in the area for it to open branches in Israel and Gaza. * This week the world lost both Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall.
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire
s -Nineteenth in a Series — By Donald H. Harrison THE DALLES, Oregon — Today, there are few Jews living in this city, but it is not surprising that at one point in its history, Jewish merchants found it a very attractive place to do business. “The Dalles” was given its name by French Canadian
Westward- bound Jews often stopped at The Dalles Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USABy Donald H. Harrison CORONADO, California – Over the weekend, I attended a recital featuring an organist, two trumpet players, and a soprano at the First Church of Christ Scientist in this San Diego suburb, allowing me to look around one of the many historic buildings in this metropolitan area designed by San Diego architect
Performing arts and religion: helping each other Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Jewish ReligionBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — I began my previous article with the statement that “Operation Protective Edge appears to be winding down… .” So I’m not completely surprised that the three-day ceasefire was just one of several that Hamas has used to regroup without fear of Israeli interference. The situation Prime Minister Bibi
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Middle East, Steve KramerBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — If you are a senior citizen or a child or grandchild of a senior citizen, you probably know or will know someone in the future coping with Alzheimer’s disease. Indeed, as the baby boomers start entering the ranks of the septuagenarians, the numbers of Americans suffering from dementia will
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Lawrence Baron, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─The NCAA authorized college teams in “power conferences” to develop compensation plans for their student athletes, reasoning that pay for play has worked so well in politics, why not try it in collegiate sports. * For years conservatives have claimed there is a war on Christmas, but with the rise of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right.” –Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, scene 5 By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel (Press Release) — Hamlet expresses so succinctly and poetically what many of us feel as members of the Second Generation when we think about the
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson
-Eighteenth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison SPOKANE, Washington – During an all-too-short visit with grandson Shor to this eastern Washington city, I sensed that the civic leadership of Spokane values the city’s diversity and attempts to promote inter-group harmony. From a vantage point for viewing Spokane Falls, for example, Shor and I noticed
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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA
-Seventeenth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison MOIESE, Montana — In 1908, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, a formidable conservationist, laid aside the National Bison Range to help bring the American bison (often mislabeled as a ‘buffalo’) back from the precipice of extinction. Today, to paraphrase the lyrics of “Home on the Range,” the bison
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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Travel and Food, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO─A recent poll indicated that only 4 % of Americans have a favorable view of Vladimir Putin; whereas 6 % think Congress is doing a good job. According to the pollsters, those queried feel that Congress merely occupies space whereas Putin occupies countries. * Two Americans who contracted Ebola while
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel — Now that Operation Protective Edge appears to be winding down, Secretary of State Kerry again feels the need to reach a “bigger, broader approach to a two-state solution.” One would think that the United States, Israel’s closest ally and the supposed leading Western power, would have learned
‘Two-state’ solution less likely after Gaza War Read More »
Middle East, Steve Kramer