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Below are the names of writers who are currently active.  For others, living and deceased, please type their name into the search box above the masthead on our home page, www.sdjewishworld.com

Another season of Jewish poetry planned at JCC

By Eileen Wingard LA JOLLA, California — A committee is now soliciting entries from Jewish poets for the fifth season of “Jewish Poets-Jewish Voices” to be presented in the Lawrence Family JCC’s Astor Judaica Library. I have the privilege of serving on that committtee along with moderator Joy Heitzman, Michael Horvitz,  Bonnie Baron and staff […]

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Eileen Wingard, Marcia Tatz Wollner

SDJW columnist, defending his bubbe’s honor, challenges his editor’s wife to a juried mandelbread tasting contest

By Bruce Kesler ENCINITAS, California — San Diego Jewish World‘s Editor/ Publisher Don Harrison is proud (or else must go on a diet, which Don’s supporters know he is incapable of) of his wife Nancy’s mandelbread, but ensured a favorable verdict by using his family – under the eye of Nancy – to taste Papa Ben’s Kitchen

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Donald H. Harrison

On the trail of Ernest Bloch

By Eileen Wingard PORTLAND, Oregon–Swiss-born composer, Ernest Bloch, is considered to be the greatest 20th century figure to incorporate Jewish motifs into his music.  One may safely say that every recognized violinist, today, knows his Baal Shem Suite; every violist has studied the Suite Hebraique; and every cello soloist includes Bloch’s inspiring Shelomo in his

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Eileen Wingard

Iran not close to a bomb? That’s what CIA said about Russia

By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C–Jerusalem and the resettlement of Palestinian refugees disappeared from the Democratic Party platform; language that characterized Hamas as unacceptable to the United States — not only to Israel — disappeared. Jerusalem is back. But the crucial part of the Democratic Party Platform for Israel is related only tangentially to Israel. It

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

God and Jerusalem returned to platform on fortuitous date

By Rabbi Yeruchem Eilfort CARLSBAD, California — Over the past two weeks we have again witnessed some of the great machinery of American Democracy at work; the conventions of the Republican and Democratic Parties. The conventions have certainly become highly entertaining, and frankly, fun to follow. The festive and positive atmospheres, which are buoyed by

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USA, Yeruchem Eilfort-Rabbi

Dempsey is ‘complicit’ in downgrading U.S.-Israel relations

 By Shoshana Bryen WASHINGTON, D.C. –“I don’t want to be complicit if they (Israelis) choose to do it (attack Iran’s nuclear program),” said Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey. News flash, General Dempsey: You are complicit in the way that counts; you are trapped: the Iranian leadership does not care what we say — or what

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Middle East, Shoshana Bryen

Something not kosher about DNC Jerusalem fiasco

By Rabbi Michael Leo Samuel JERUSALEM — Let me begin with the good news first. The Democratic Party platform reinstated the importance of Jerusalem to our country’s values and principles—along with God too! Now comes the bad news. Although the section of Jerusalem was reinstated, the sections pertaining to the Palestinian refugees and the terrorist

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Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, USA