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By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — After several days of the government shutdown, Bain Capital has offered to buy the Federal government, downsize and reorganize it, and outsource most of its services. Bears in the National Parks have petitioned Congress to reopen the parks. It reads: “You humans are beastly and unbearable. Please restore […]
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON–It seemed as if the entire Pygmalion audience fell in love with actress Hannah Hedgecock as she threw herself into the part of Eliza Doolittle on Thursday night at Grossmont College’s Stagehouse Theatre. The meaner that co-star Derek San Filippo in the role of Henry Higgins behaved toward Eliza, the
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — As he waited in the wings at the United Nations, President Obama was struck with this sledgehammer from Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff: Tampering… in the affairs of other countries is a breach of international law and is an affront of the principles that must guide the relations among them,
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Shoshana Bryen, USAWe’re Missing the Point: What’s Wrong with the Orthodox Jewish Community and How to Fix It by Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein, OU Press, New York, ISBN 978-01-6028–202-5 ©2012, $25.00, p. 252 By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — Outsiders might wonder what could possibly be wrong within the Orthodox Jewish community. Until the Age of
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Fred Reiss, EdD, Jewish ReligionBy Laurie Baron Guido Barilla, the owner of the largest pasta company in the world, asserted that he would never feature a gay family in his firm’s commercials because he believes that only a woman and a man can form a family. Barilla also announced that he would halt production of large shells and manicotti
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON –Those who would ban books cite inappropriate language or too much sexuality or violence as their motivation for wanting them removed from library shelves. However, often their unspoken motivation is to suppress ideas that may disrupt the established societal order. In observance of National Banned Book Week, a faculty-student
Grossmont College panel tells motivations of book banners Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron The ghost of Dr. Seuss overheard Senator Ted Cruz’s denunciation and responded with the following text message. I do not like Ted Cruz’s scam. His entire speech was just like spam. When health care is in a jam, His filibuster was a sham. Playing loose and playing fast To defund a law
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & SatireRabbi Yosef Bitton, Awesome Creation: A Study of the Thirst Three Verses of the Torah; Gefen Publishing House (2013). ISBN-10: 9652295566. Price: $24. 26. Rating: 3 stars out of 5. By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — As someone who has written on the first three chapters of Genesis, I was interested in seeing
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Jewish Religion, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi
Daily Life in Biblical Times by Liora Ravid, Gefen Publishing House, 2013, ISBN 978-965-229-609-2, 461 pages plus bibliography, $24.95 By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — If Liora Ravid’s book receives the attention I believe it deserves, it will transform the Bible for many readers from a vaguely-understood, often misunderstood, set of documents to one
Easy-to-read book provides deep Biblical insight Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, ISRAEL –Just as Americans remember where they were when Jack Kennedy was assassinated, Israelis remember where they were when the sirens went at 2 p.m. on Saturday, 6th October, 1973. Anyone who is now under forty or had not yet immigrated to Israel and wasn’t there at that crucial time
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Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Jewish HistoryBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — Jewish organizational support for President Obama’s temporary determination to enforce international norms and his own red line on Syrian use of chemical weapons brought out the nasty legions. DavidDuke.com and Blacklistednews.com, among others, were vociferous in their condemnation of Jewish “warmongering.” Even Jewish media outlets — TabletMagazine, The Forward
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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen
By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON–Early Thursday evenings, the Griffin Center on the Grossmont College campus is transformed from a bustling student center to a venue far more mellow. Linen cloths are whisked onto the tables of a small dining room facing Parking Lot 7. Plates and cutlery are carefully arranged. A stand up
Gourmet dinner and jazz at an unbelievably low cost Read More »
Donald H. HarrisonBy Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California — The Wise Men of Chelm have an iconic and legendary status in the history of Jewish storytelling. According to traditions to have emerged from Eastern Poland, the town of Chelm had a dubious reputation for being incredibly foolish. Whenever the townspeople were confronted with any kind
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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USABy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — As the Republican Party tries to broaden its appeal, it has developed more factions: The Defundamentalists: Republicans who oppose any bill that does not defund Obama Care. The limmigrationists: Republicans who oppose any bill that creates a pathway to citizenship. Deficit Attentionists: Republicans who oppose any bill that raises
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire