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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-The Conservative Political Action Conference is meeting in Washington D.C. though it is unclear whether it is 2014 or the 1980s since the speakers appear to believe Ronald Reagan is still president. There is so much red meat being served up the conservative base that Omaha Steaks is catering the conference […]
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — In 1915 when Balboa Park officially opened under its new name (previously it had been called City Park), it was the site of a great exposition intended to announce to the world that San Diego County was open for business as an international port and trading center. The
Let’s revive the Balboa Park centennial celebration Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Early Wednesday, March 5, the IDF intercepted a shipment of Syrian-made M-302 rockets with a range of up to 200 kilometers (125 miles). The missiles, which apparently went through Iraqi airspace to Iran and then by ship to the Red Sea, were likely headed to Sudan. From there, they
Iran again proves Israel’s need for missile defense Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –What’s significant about October, 1943? During that month the Danes carried out an unprecedented rescue of Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps. Werner Bachmann recently told a rapt audience at a recent Forgotten People Fund luncheon in Netanya, “I was meant to be one of those murdered by
Denmark’s once-proud history recalled Read More »
International, Jewish History, Steve KramerBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Last year, for various reasons, the annual conference of the Israel Translators Association was not held. Consequently, this year’s event, which was held in Herzliya at the beginning of February, was eagerly awaited. The three-day programme comprised around fifty lectures and workshops, some of them held concurrently, interwoven
Translators often lonely and underpaid Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-VansonBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– Steven Goldberg, a Los Angeles attorney who is national vice chairman of the Zionist Organization of America, claims he has overwhelming support in a straw poll of the ZOA membership to replace Morton A. Klein as the organization’s president. Conducted over a three-day period, and sent to 1,099 members
ZOA challenger Goldberg claims straw poll victory Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
SAN DIEGO –Parents and grandparents know what it is like to introduce our children to a group and kvell when they give a very good account of themselves. But Congressman Scott Peters, D-San Diego, was able to kvell in a different way as the U.S. House of Representatives began a regular session on Tuesday, March
Why Rep. Peters kvelled in Congress Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Jacob Kamaras/JNS.org WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel will fail, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference. “Beyond our traditional trading partners, countries throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, these countries are flocking to Israel” wanting Israeli technology, Netanyahu said. “The BDS
Netanyahu to AIPAC: BDS will fail Read More »
Jacob Kamaras, Middle East, USABy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –President Obama has long made clear his distaste for fighting wars — his or anyone else’s. He has followed through on his belief in diplomacy not necessarily moored to military power, and on his priority issues within the military related to social and group identity issues. Now in his sixth
U.S. gets no respect in world affairs Read More »
Shoshana Bryen, USA
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—My very first job as a young teenager was working as a busboy in a Los Angeles cafeteria called Ontra’s. I was fired after a single shift, with the manager telling me: “We need someone to clean the tables, not to talk with the customers.” I was a schmoozer back
Feeding the hungry on the salt & pepper detail Read More »
Donald H. Harrison
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–As a matter of halacha, Rabbi Victoria Armour-Hileman was always Jewish, as she was born to a Jewish mother But growing up, she followed the ways of her Irish Catholic father, attending Catholic parochial schools, and even working for six years in Hong Kong and Thailand as a Maryknoll Lay
Rabbi found religious inspiration among Mon refugees Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Tea Party celebrated its fifth anniversary. It held its commemorative dinner at McDonald’s to demonstrate the Party’s commitment to fiscal conservatism and opposition to the nanny state. When no one offered to pay the bill, the attendees refused to recognize the authority of the police to force them
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireThe Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice by Yaacob Dweck, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; ISBN 978-0-691-16215-7 ©2011 (paperback edition ©2014), $24.95, p. 235, including appendices, bibliography, and index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California–Kabbalah is the hidden and esoteric theology of Judaism. Kabbalists believe that Moses received this secret wisdom
Book Review: ‘The Scandal of Kabbalah’ Read More »
Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish Religion
Laurel Corona, The Mapmaker’s Daughter, Sourcebooks, (c) 2014, ISBN 978-1-4022-8649-0; 400 pages, $14.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– This novel relates the story of the fictional Amalia Cresque, daughter of a famous Converso mapmaker in 15th Century Spain, who has embraced his new Christian religion, notwithstanding the desire of his wife and daughter to
‘Mapmaker’s Daughter’ reconstructs 15th-century Iberia Read More »
Donald H. Harrison