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By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) — Google “president disengaged” and 1,290,000 entries pop up. Okay, fair enough. Google is not the best way to take the measure of President Obama’s active engagement in the workings of the world. So note that today, Friday, Aug. 15, is the funeral of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, […]
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USABy 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
Humoring the headlines: August 15, 2014 Read More »
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,
Israel-Gaza War impacts the Biblical Zoo Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — In two sets of remarks, President Obama shared his concerns about what happens between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. He worries about the people of Gaza: “Long term, there has to be a recognition that Gaza cannot sustain itself permanently closed off from the world and incapable
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Shoshana BryenBy 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.
Humoring the Headlines: August 13, 2014 Read More »
Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Hamas resumed rocketing Israel on Friday, August 8, one surety was that Israel’s office of “Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip)” [COGAT] would continue operating as it has through gruesome acts of terror against Jews, “intifadas,” rocket attacks and kidnappings through tunnels.
Gazans’ economic well-being requires peace Read More »
Middle East, Shoshana Bryen, USA
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
Ceasefires play into Hamas’s hands Read More »
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
The novel our columnist had to write Read More »
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
Inter- group harmony a Spokane priority Read More »
Donald H. Harrison, Travel and Food, USA