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Times of San Diego profiles SDJW’s Laurie Baron

August 5, 2014

By Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO–Lawrence “Laurie” Baron is professor emeritus of modern Jewish history at San Diego State. He has a doctorate in modern European intellectual history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He’s an expert on Holocaust films. So what’s a nice Jewish teacher doing writing one-liners like these? […]

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, Ken Stone, Lawrence Baron, San Diego County

Jews and Blackfeet Indians: plenty in common

August 5, 2014

-Sixteenth in a Series– By Donald H. Harrison BROWNING, Montana – More than half-way between our previous night’s stop in Lethbridge, Alberta, and our evening’s destination of Kalispell, Montana, grandson Shor and I decided to stretch our legs in Browning, Montana, which is located on the sprawling Blackfeet Indian Reservation. We browsed the Blackfeet

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Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA

How sweet the Torah at Beth Shalom

August 3, 2014

By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California — Congregant Luz Guadarrama of Temple Beth Shalom baked up a surprise for Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel: a cake shaped to look like a Torah. The Conservative rabbi turns 61 on August 6th. Arlene LaGary, the president of Temple Beth Shalom, was joined by Jorge Bernal in making the

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Donald H. Harrison, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, San Diego County

A Yiddish literature expert in western Canada

August 3, 2014

-Fifteenth in a Series- By Donald H. Harrison LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, Canada – It’s a matter of happy circumstance that Lethbridge is the first Canadian city of moderate size that a traveler from U.S. Interstate 15 will connect with after crossing the U.S.-Canada border. My grandson Shor and I, making a trip from the bottom of

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Travel and Food

Humoring the headlines: August 2, 2014

August 2, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Hamas broke the 3 day cease fire with Israel shortly after it began. Its spokesmen claimed that its fighters inadvertently used a stopwatch instead of a clock to time the cessation of hostilities or that the word “cease” was accidentally deleted from the email informing them of the armistice. *

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Makeovers inside, outside, and throughout

August 2, 2014

By Eva Trieger SOLANA BEACH, California- In the words of George Eliot, “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” What was she telling us? Mary Anne Evans was petitioning women to become their authentic selves and though she penned these words before the turn of the century, they are no

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County

War is no time for a course in digital detoxing

August 1, 2014

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson DOMEYROT, France –I saw the article in one of the glossy weekend supplements that comes with the French newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ which I try to read while I’m on vacation in France. The photography is beautiful, the articles intelligent, and it’s good for my French (I read it with the aid of

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East

World must intervene to help M.E. Christians

August 1, 2014

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Maimonides raises a relevant question about the nature of repentance in his famous halachic tract, The Laws of Penitence, “How do we know whether a person has truly achieved repentance? If a person finds himself in the same situation where he now has the ability to

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East

Civilian casualties? Blame Hamas

August 1, 2014

By Steve Kramer ALPHE MENASHE, Israel — We hear a lot about “disproportionate force” these days, aimed chiefly at Israel’s incursion into Gaza as part of its Operation Protective Edge. Various world luminaries have explained how Israel is running roughshod over the “poor Palestinians”: “U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon leveled his strongest criticism yet of Israel’s

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Middle East, Steve Kramer

In the footsteps of Lewis and Clark

August 1, 2014

-Fourteenth in a series- By Donald H. Harrison GREAT FALLS, Montana – There are numerous eye-catching exhibits at the Lewis & Clark National Historic Interpretive Center here, including a life-size display showing how the early 19th century American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had to drag their boats around the five cascades of Great

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Donald H. Harrison, USA

The non- religious origins of U.S. democracy

July 30, 2014

Nature’s God, The Heretical Origins of the American Republic by Matthew Stewart, Norton & Co., New York; ISBN 978-0-393-06454-4 ©2014, $28.95, p. 435, plus Notes and Index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — When I first read the title of Matthew Stewart’s newest book, Nature’s God, The Heretical Origins of the American Republic, I

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Fred Reiss, EdD, USA

Jewish presence diminishes in Butte, Montana

July 30, 2014

-Thirteenth in a series- By Donald H. Harrison BUTTE, Montana – In this old west city where the very first mayor was Jewish, Montana’s oldest synagogue may be on the verge of dying. Meanwhile, at the city’s annual Montana Folk Festival, the klezmer music of Yiddish-speaking Eastern European Jews is periodically reincarnated. Thus summer visitors

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, USA

‘Lisette’s List’ teaches as it entertains

July 29, 2014

Susan Vreeland, Lisette’s List, 2014, Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6817-3, $27 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO –Have you ever watched an artist at his or her canvas? While you might be impatient to see how the painting will turn out, the artist may spend what you feel is an inordinate amount of time making sure

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison

Hamas leaders get rich as Gazans suffer

July 28, 2014

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — Yasser Arafat’s estate was worth almost one billion dollars by the time he had died.[1] It wasn’t because he was an enterprising capitalist. However, he did manage to take a substantial cut of money from the billions of dollars that the Western countries of Europe and

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Middle East

Times of San Diego profiles SDJW’s Laurie Baron

Jews and Blackfeet Indians: plenty in common

How sweet the Torah at Beth Shalom

A Yiddish literature expert in western Canada

Humoring the headlines: August 2, 2014

Makeovers inside, outside, and throughout

War is no time for a course in digital detoxing

World must intervene to help M.E. Christians

Civilian casualties? Blame Hamas

In the footsteps of Lewis and Clark

The non- religious origins of U.S. democracy

Jewish presence diminishes in Butte, Montana

‘Lisette’s List’ teaches as it entertains

Hamas leaders get rich as Gazans suffer

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