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By Donald H. Harrison -Second in a Series– ESCONDIDO, California –This city’s downtown Grape Day Park is easily identifiable by a play area which features a children’s slide coursing through a large sculpture depicting a bunch of grapes. Large “vines” nearby provide more places for children to climb and frolic. Along one side of […]
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Donald H. Harrison, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Torah lessons: Deuteronomy XIX: 21 “And your eye shall not pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.” In other words, you can’t kill someone for a murder or murders he or she did not commit. Deuteronomy XXV: 1-2: “If there be
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireBy Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D SAN DIEGO — “Shluff, now, mamellah.” My mother and grandmother used to say that to me after a few urgings to “Gai shluffen” or, more commonly, “gai shluffie.” How’d you shluff last night? For about 70 million Americans, yes, even readers of the wonderful, positive, life-enhancing San Diego Jewish World,
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Jewish Religion, Michael Mantell, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California –Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1924-2014) died on July 3rd this past week. The world has lost of one its greatest and most imaginative modern Rebbes of modern times. In the early sixties, he and Shlomo Carlbach were among the earliest followers of Rabbi Schneersohn and their success set the
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-RabbiBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel –One hesitates to write anything about what has been happening in Israel over the last few weeks, and what is still happening. The situation is volatile, in every sense of the word, and what is true at one moment may not be the next. But things have happened, and
Jewish mobs no better than Arab ones Read More »
Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East
–First in a Series — By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Qualcomm Stadium, as it called in its third incarnation since opening in 1967, is a massive concrete structure described as “modernist” by some architects, “brutalist” by others. Either way it is a celebration of structural forms and building materials. Its massive slabs of
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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Travel and Food, USA
Ira T. Berkowitz, A Wolf in the Soul, Leviathan Press, ISBN: 978-1-881927-13-6, 461 pages, $19.99 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – My father, who would have been 104 years old today, July 4, loved to play this trick with Tank, our pet dog who was half Boxer, half German Shepherd. Dad would get a
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By Steve Kramer ALFE MENASHE, Israel –On my recent visit to America, good friends asked me to explain why Israel continues to build settlements, “when peace is so close.” Fundamental to understanding why Israel continues to build homes in “settlements,” (communities located beyond the 1949 Armistice Line), is this reality: there will be no peace
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Middle East, Steve KramerMemo to San Diego Jewish World readers From Donald H. Harrison, publisher SAN DIEGO–Summer time, it seems, is when much of the Jewish world goes on vacation. We know that many of our news sources plan to be off to other places between now and Rosh Hashanah. A lot of our readers are planning vacations
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Donald H. HarrisonHumoring the Headlines By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO- ISIS declared that one objective of the Islamic State it has established is to overthrow Barack Obama. John Boehner and Mitch McConnell have contacted ISIS about coordinating their efforts. * Customers have complained about Walmart selling posters of the infamous Dachau gate which bore the slogan
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire1177 B.C., the Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ; ISBN 978-0-691-14089-6 ©2014, $29.95, p. 176, plus Appendix, Notes, Bibliography, and Index By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, Calilfornia — The Late Bronze Age is prominent for its unprecedented financial, political, and social interconnectedness, along with the generation of great wealth
The year that ancient civilization collapsed Read More »
Fred Reiss, EdD, International, Jewish HistoryBy Laurie Baron The New Inscription for the Statue of Liberty (with apologies to Emma Lazarus) Unlike the harbor Lady with upright flame, Extending arms to seekers of haven. Pandering politicians willingly cave in, Turn children back without shame. Excuse themselves and find others to blame. To get elected and then block any change. Douse
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire, USABy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — Our memory is one of our most precious and valued faculties. I’m always full of admiration for people who remember dates, phone numbers, addresses, how to get to places, and above all people’s names, without having to write everything down. When I was younger I think I had
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―In a unanimous decision the Supreme Court ruled that police cannot routinely confiscate cell phones and use the information found on them as evidence in criminal cases without first obtaining a search warrant. Law enforcement officials have denounced the decision even though the NSA has assured them it already has a
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire