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Plight of Sderot pupils subject of upcoming lecture

By Eva Trieger Update, March 2, 2014–Due to unforeseen events, Michael Snyder and Brandy Gold have had to postpone the showing of Shelter Me Sderot.  Further information will follow with a new date when it is scheduled. * SAN DIEGO — “Mom,” your daughter whines “My English teacher says I need a new composition book.”  […]

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Eva Trieger, San Diego County

Chesed Home: safety, yiddishkeit for mentally ill

By Donald H. Harrison ESCONDIDO, California –Now six months into operation, Chesed Home at Hope Village currently serves three residents with mental illnesses and has room for three more. Until recently there were five residents in the Home but two recently “graduated” to independent living units on the same residential property operated by Hope Village,

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Donald H. Harrison

Mega-Church emphasizes love of Scripture, Israel

By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California—The senior pastor whose  mega-church includes architectural homages to the Holy Land recently was joined in marriage by a Christian Zionist leader from the San Francisco area with ties to the family of Holocaust rescuer Oskar Schindler.  Now, the Rev. Jim Garlow and his bride, Rosemary Schindler Garlow, are

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Donald H. Harrison

Humoring the Headlines: February 10, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Spectators were dazzled by the pyrotechnics, luminescent colors, and special effects of the opening ceremony at the Sochi Winter Olympics.  Although Russia claimed it cost a fortune to produce and featured thousands of Russians, conspiracy theorists suspect it was merely a holographic projection of scenes from Avatar and Tron. * Under

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Book Review: ‘Unexpected Gifts’

Azriela Jaffe, Unexpected Gifts: A Novel, Menucha Publishers, (c) 2013, ISBN 978-161465-132-1,                     255 pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– “Everybody’s got tzuris,” my late father, Martin B. Harrison, liked to point out.  Were he alive to have read this book, he’d have tapped it authoritatively, and said, “What did I tell you?” Some

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Donald H. Harrison

‘My Promised Land,’ well written but uneven

By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel–Avi Shavit is a native-born Israeli Zionist and peace activist. He is also a respected columnist for Ha’aretz newspaper, Israel’s most left wing newspaper. A leading Israeli author, Shavit published his best-selling My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel in 2013. It has become a bestseller. Here’s an

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Middle East, Steve Kramer