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Bravos for Matathias and Stanislovsky

By Eileen Wingard SAN DIEGO — With rhythmic incisiveness, virtuosic flair and technique to burn, Asi Matathias, violin and Victor Stanislovsky, piano, performed a riveting violin-piano recital last Thursday evening at the Lyceum Theatre. The America-Israel Cultural Foundation co-sponsored the evening, part of the Lipinsky Jewish Arts Festival. All proceeds went to the America-Israel Cultural […]

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Eileen Wingard, San Diego County

Orthodox school celebrates women of Judaism

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Soille San Diego Hebrew Day School, celebrating its 51st anniversary two nights before Erev Shavuot, paid tribute to two women of the Bible and to three women who have been essential to the school’s own success. Bobbe Reitman, the school nurse, was honored as volunteer of the year.

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish Religion, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

The snake is a creature of many metaphors

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson JERUSALEM — Snakes Alive! The setting was a club for retired people in one of Jerusalem’s more prosperous and prestigious neighbourhoods. Most of its members are ladies of a certain age or more, well-dressed, well-coiffed and well-preserved, with a sprinkling of elderly gents. They spend their spare time engaging in activities which

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Science, Medicine, & Education

Humoring the Headlines: May 30, 2014

  By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Eric Shinseki tendered his resignation after weeks of revelations about lengthy waits for appointments at VA hospitals for returning veterans, some of whom died before they could be seen. The problem was discovered when insurance actuarial tables revealed that the mortality rate for injured soldiers in Afghanistan was lower than for

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire

Jerusalem Day celebrated at international gathering

By Donald H. Harrison CHULA VISTA, California –Christians and Jews from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday evening, May 28, celebrated the reunification of Jerusalem with songs about the City of Gold, an interpretive dance, some enthusiastic shofar blowing, and a hora around the meeting room of the Restoration Ministry on the grounds

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Donald H. Harrison, International, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Jewish audience enjoys concert in a Protestant church

By Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — A performance of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem by my local choir, the Mevasseret Choir, in which several of my friends and neighbours sing, was more than enough to entice me to attend their recent concert, which was given in the Augusta Victoria church. The imposing church-hospital complex, which is

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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Middle East

Holocaust biography looks at child’s new American life

Steven L. Richards, Sitting on Top of the World, © 2014 Create Space Independent Publishing, ISBN 978-1-49492-541-3, 516 large print pages. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO—Holocaust memoirs and titles like Sitting on Top of the World seem to contradict each other until one remembers that they are written about people who survived the Shoah.

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Donald H. Harrison, Jewish History

Humoring the Headlines: May 23, 2014

By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO-Governor Bill Haslam of Tennessee signed legislation authorizing the use of the electric chair if lethal injections are not available for implementing the death sentence.  He assured critics of electrocution that the procedure will be administered in a progressive manner employing green energy sources and wireless technology and permitting the condemned

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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire