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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. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―The warm weather at the Sochi Olympics has made the snow too slushy for many of the outside events. Facing the prospect of global warming affecting future winter games, the International Olympic Committee has voted to give the local organizers permission to switch skiing events into water skiing events if the
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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. HarrisonBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO― The death of Shirley Temple Black reminded Americans of how much the country has changed since her years as a child star in the 1930s. Would anyone really mourn if Honey Boo Boo passed away? * This week network news broadcasts have spent an average of ten minutes per broadcast
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Leslie Weening, a 30-year employee at the Jewish Federation of San Diego who rose to the position of assistant to the executive director, was memorialized Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the sanctuary of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, where she had been a longtime member. Weening had died of a heart
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Donald H. HarrisonSAN DIEGO –Three outstanding published poets will be reading and singing their works at the next “Jewish Poets—Jewish Voices” evening, Tuesday, February 18, at 7 p.m. at the Astor Judaica Library, Lawrence Family JCC. Thea Iberall, Penni Rubin and Rae Rose, featured poets, have all had their works published in poetry publications and in
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Eileen Wingard, San Diego CountyBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO– I hope Mayor-elect Kevin Faulconer and his fellow City Council member, David Alvarez, will sit down soon to a nice private lunch, enjoy a few tales about their respective campaigns, and restore the cordiality that previously had marked their relationship. I’d like to see them have a joint press
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Donald H. HarrisonBy Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. — It has been said that Jordan is the only Arab country in which Palestinians have “full citizenship.” That is less than a complete truth. As Secretary of State John Kerry pursues his plan for a “two state solution,” the insecurity of Palestinian legal status in Jordan is emerging. Israel’s
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Middle East, Shoshana BryenBy 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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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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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–For those who stayed for the chicken and vegetables buffet—no dairy—following Saturday morning Shabbat services, Feb. 8, at Temple Emanu-El, there was an interesting discussion led by Rabbi Devorah Marcus and Joseph Bendah, a Karaite Jew, about his small, Jewish sect’s full acceptance of the Torah and its rejection of
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–Congregation Beth Israel was involved in a sacred trade this Shabbat weekend. It donated a Torah for a new synagogue in the Sha’ar Hanegev region of Israel, and Rabbi Michael Marmur, provost of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, came here to lecture on Rabbi Abraham Joshua
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Donald H. HarrisonBy 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 KramerBy Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO―Archeologists have discovered a network of prehistoric limestone dwellings under Miami Beach. While some of them speculate that the 2,000 year old structures were inhabited by the Tequesta Indians; others believe that they were originally built by one of the lost tribes of Israel because an inscription found in one of
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Lawrence Baron, Trivia, Humor & Satire